Noblemen: 1896 (Foursaken Media) - strategy + 3rd person cover based shooter

Some quick clips of in-game action

 

Different lead designers on different games, so there will definitely be recurring themes, UI looks, and similar fonts on certain games This font in particular I believe is similar (but still different) to the War Tortoise font, which is probably what you're referring to.

 

They do stay in somewhat of a formation. We've spent a lot of time on the AI, so they are pretty smart in terms of cover hopping, retreating, etc - hoping it feels like an organic battlefield

In terms of weapons, we've got a wide variety... some are from civil war era, some are hypothetical, some are from WWI era-ish. We've got weapons such as the winchester-like henry rifle, muskets (terrible weapon ), rifles, shotguns, elephant gun, scoped whitworth rifle, and then some theorycrafted weapons like a machine rifle, machine gun, "K-rifle" (armor piercing K rounds that didn't exist until WWI), and others. There is also melee and assault units with sabers, bayonets, and pistols.

 

Our dev process is definitely atypical. We do indeed often have 2 projects being worked on simultaneously.

Thats awesome! Really tried to get out and watch a show actually for research, but missed the chance, sadly >_<

Your hero cannot use a pistol, but he does have a sword/saber. Various units/regiments focus on close combat assaults though with swords, pistols, bayonets.

Re: muskets, taking place in the late 1800s, these muskets in particular are pretty bad bc they are approaching ancient technology, and are still unrifled (for anyone wondering, "rifling" a gun was the first big thing that made "old era" guns more like modern guns, allowing them to shoot with MUCH greater accuracy and range; it basically increased the effective range anywhere from 5-10x). These muskets are also primarily used by the poor and militia, making them even worse!

 

tbh we're still doing a lot of work with the overworld trying to make it as interesting as we can. We're taking a philosophy that both the world map and the 3d battles should be able to stand on their own as great games, independent of eachother... so we're still tweaking things to make sure there is plenty of macro strategy on the map screen.

I probably have my terminology wrong - or rather, should've been more specific about being a smoothbore musket We do indeed have a marksmen Whitworth rifle as well - and our generic rifle is modeled after the Springfield.

There is nothing gameplay related right now to distinguish the different factions. We will likely have different flags and obviously have different colors/uniforms representing the different sides.