Project Wingman - Frontline 59

Hammerschaedel · 1. Juni 2018

Ein Ace Combat ähnliches Spiel, mit einer momentan laufenden Kickstarter Aktion, es soll auch VR Support kriegen. Eine Demoist auch vorhanden, allerdings ist nicht bekannt ob die schon VR kann..

https://rb-d2.itch.io/wingman
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rb-d2/project-wingman/description

SolKutTeR · 15. Januar 2019

Kickstarter Kampagne glücklicherweise bestanden....
Über die Feiertage wurden erste Schritte Richtung VR Implementierung bewerkstelligt, welche recht gut aussehen.

Die derzeitige Demoversion 0.4.5 besitzt leider noch keinen VR-Support.
Wahrscheinlich wir in den nächsten Wochen, eine angepasste Version auf itch.io bereitgestellt werden.

SolKutTeR · 4. Februar 2019

Neues VR-Gameplay Material, alternative zu Ace Combat 7?

Apologies in the delay between major updates for Project Wingman. Things are going well for the development but it is taking slightly longer to do things as we're finding new ways to give you the best experience possible for the eventual release.

We've mostly been working on other things other than Operation Blackout however, we don't want to show too much too keep you surprised on what the campaign entails so here is an uncut gameplay of Operation Blackout in VR.

It's currently running in UE4 Editor itself so the performance and framerate is slightly lower than intended compared to the packaged version. Currently it is running on medium settings.

Hopefully in the future, we can show you a few more things with the game overall improvements which some you may be able to observe in this video, and show more of Conquest mode once we've focused development on that aspect.
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[Edit]
Hier noch das aktuelle Dev-Blog Update 8, mit interessante Einsichten wie z.B. das Wettersystem.

Hier ein kleines Video: Thunderstorm (WIP)

SolKutTeR · 16. Mai 2019

Neues Dev-Blog Update 9 und Steam Storepage (Releasedatum noch unbekannt.)

Hier der VR-Abschnitt aus dem Blog:

VR Woes
VR implementation and development has honestly gone very well except for one aspect. User Interface. The old implementation of User Interface in Project Wingman projects the UI into screenspace of a monitor. Unfortunately this does not play nice when it comes to VR as VR needs things to be rendered in a 3d space in order to render for both eyes (which screenspace cannot do). So the main issue will be to reiterate the User Interface which will take some time in order for it to be compatible with both monitors and VR. It was due for a revamp anyway.
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Und die Steam Angaben:

Project Wingman von Sector D2
Für den VR-Modus dieses Produkts benötigen Sie ein Gamepad oder Tastatur und Maus.

Project Wingman is a combat flight action game with an emphasis on polished and refined gameplay, true-to-its-roots inspirations, and an engaging single player experience. Perfect for those who aren't looking for a simulator experience with the ease of pick up and play, all the way to those who want a fast-paced challenging flight action game.

Dogfight, strike, and fly through combat zones based off an alternate history of Earth. Either over the cold waters of the Bering Strait, attacking tanks in the brutal deserts of the Orient, or diving through the Red Woods to strike targets of opportunity in the Pacific North West, across the oceans, above the scarred lands of the world, this war will take you from exotic battlefield to exotic battlefield, all while going up against odds way above your pay grade.
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Pure Combat Flight Action
Exotic weaponries such as railguns and geothermal-powered armaments will be ready to pluck you out of the sky if you're careless. Whether you are an attack aircraft pilot, skimming the ground with a gatling gun and rocket launchers attached to your wing, or an interceptor with long range, almost sniper-like missiles at your disposal, it will be up to you to prove yourself as an Ace pilot.
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Conquest Mode
In Conquest Mode, fight in an uphill battle against various bosses and ace squadrons in a territory capture game, drawing elements from roguelikes and RPGs. Players will have to earn enough money to not only upgrade their own plane, but build a mercenary army of their own in order to take on waves of increasingly difficult opposition as they struggle to take on a myriad of changing missions.
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Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality headsets will work in-game to put the player in the cockpit of aerial warfare, immersing themselves in head-swiveling combat. Combine this with full compatibility with HOTAS peripherals and custom axis curves, and you will be able to experience the game however you want, using any DirectInput supported peripheral you like.
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Key Features:

Fly in varied and exciting scenarios and locations unlike you've ever seen before

Engaging single player campaign

Over 20 different aircraft and over 40 unique weapons at your disposal

Fight different kinds of adversaries such as giant mechanized fortresses and railgun cannons

Test your skills in Conquest mode and fight against hordes of adversaries

Want a different Conquest experience? - Adjust it with modifiers to your liking

Beautiful 3D Volumetric clouds rendered with TrueSKY

Fully rebindable controls and HOTAS compatibility with DirectInput support

VR Support

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SolKutTeR · 13. Januar 2020

Seit längerem mal wieder ein Lebenszeichen, wenn auch ein recht kurzes.

The day is just getting started.
A teaser of what's more to come.
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Dazu gab es auch zwei neue Devlogs mit neuen Infos bezüglich der VR Implementierung:

UPDATE 10: Flying Faster

UPDATE 11: Crossroads

SolKutTeR · 13. Juni 2020

Endlich wieder ein Lebenszeichen, in Form von einem weiteren Vertrieb im Humble Store.
Dazu auch endlich ein ersten Releasezeitraum; Sommer 2020.

SolKutTeR · 29. August 2020

Neuer Trailer und Verschiebung auf 2021.
Ich muss echt sagen, mit DCS bin ich leider nicht richtig warm geworden, aber auf diesen Arcade Titel hab ich richtig Bock drauf.

Zudem gab es auch ein neues Kickstarterupdate 12 bezüglich Story, Achievements, Soundtrack, neue Screenshot's, Keyart's, Voiceover, Squadrons und einer neuen Closed-Beta VR-Demo, für welche man sich z.B. im Discord oder per Kickstarter qualifizieren kann und in ein paar Wochen dann auch für alle verfügbar sein soll.

UPDATE 12 : Closer to Paradise
Been a bit, and, well, quite frankly it’s a bit inexcusable, so we will make no excuse and say that we’re sorry we haven’t been upfront with providing as much juicy content as you probably deserve. That being said the game is about several pots of coffee from being done, so the long wait is over and your watch will soon be concluded! To hopefully tide you over, here is a jam packed update to hold us over until D-Day (or at least until the next Demo release)!

Though again, sorry for no organized communication, it’s hard to properly gather our thoughts with the pace and ebb of our development especially with the current circumstances of the world. Hopefully what we put out today will make up for some of that time.
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State of the World
2020 has been a wild ride for everyone. Fortunately, I live in the part of the world where it has not affected us that adversely. In fact, for the most part life has returned to normal. That being said it would be a lie if I said it didn't affect me at all. It certainly affected me in a way that I never expected. But physically, I am fine thankfully. Thank you for your kind words and concerns expressed through the comments. I know it hasn't been easy with the extended radio silence we've had. But I hope I can convince you that it will be worth it in the end.

Matt: On my end as producer of Project Wingman, I am thankful enough to have been relatively untouched by coronavirus personally, or, at least, no more than any other suburban North American. Given the nature of working on Project Wingman, I myself didn’t exactly need to change my routine to compensate, however wear a mask folks. I know many of you out there are struggling or out on the frontlines of this new normal, and it’d be a shame if anything would happen to you.
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The Finish Line
Matt: As detailed during the initial kickstarter push, Project Wingman’s state during the Kickstarter campaign was that it was a completed framework with multiple vertical slices to, of course, make our case to you that we could achieve what we would, have been, and will soon complete: a combat flight action videogame with true-to-its-roots gameplay and modes that would pay homage and add to this genre.

Easier said than done, of course, however we have done our best to effect this. This has required time; every single day since that spent building block by block and filling out the whole package to be in line with, not only the standard we put up publicly, but the improvements we’ve made behind the scenes.

Simply put: the further we have gotten away from the base in our building, the more careful we’ve had to be, thus the increased time it’s taken to not only put out anything public, but to also just work on the game. Specifically these reasons range from proper, internal QA (quality assurance), to us preparing the game to be localized to several different languages upon release. These efforts in particular however we have had additional help with.

If you didn’t know, Project Wingman has signed on with the Humble Bundle and its publishing department, Humble Games. You may know them from not only their titular Humble Bundle which has supported far more causes and charities than we could ever list, but also from their direct publishing support of games like A Hat in Time, Temtem, Them’s Fightin’ Herds, and so much more.

They approached us in order to assist in not only publishing Project Wingman, but also in providing us resources to internally QA and localize the game to players throughout the world.

They’ve been nothing but amazing with us, allowing us to pursue Project Wingman with all the same freedom as before, while only providing a helpful hand when we needed it. Because of this, as you might’ve seen, we’ve had appearances at the PC Gaming Show and Gamescom!
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Gold Rush
The hard assets of this game, models, textures, sounds, has been by far the second biggest mountain that we have needed to conquer, second only to making sure everything plays well in the package. Well, rest assured a lot of that has gone gold. Going gold meaning that development of which is, for all intents and purposes, complete. Each little piece we knock out, whether it be a pick-up line from the script or a redone texture for some building panel that 90% probably won’t see, allows us to focus overall on the broader picture; a picture that gets smaller each and every success mind you. So here’s some of those things that we have completed recently:

Funnily enough Conquest has existed as an odd staging place, or skunkworks area, of Project Wingman. Inherently having more of the more “videogamey” aspects of Project Wingman, it has overtime since its last public appearance been shaping up into a rougelite of its own fruition. This is something that’s hard to put into words, but Conquest is being set up as something to be expanded upon even past launch.
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Music
Jose Pavli, our wonderful music composer, and, for me at least, a decade long friend at this point, has gone gold with the music effort of Project Wingman. By which we mean, we have, barring the 1% of last minute touches, as befit an artist like him, we are 99% done with Project Wingman’s soundtrack.

We could go on, but I think we’ll let the results speak for themselves:
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Voiceovers
In speaking of the audio effort to Project Wingman, the literal voice(s) of Project Wingman are similarly done, minus last minute touches. It has taken a several year effort across volunteers and professionals. Those that have filled out the cast range from those who are simply fans of the genre who have found Project Wingman early on and volunteered to act, to those who find themselves rubbing shoulders with industry giants and characters renowned across different fandoms. We’re very lucky that we have had this repertoire of talent and passion, and, more than that, we are fortunate to have the assistance of individuals and the Voice Acting Club (http://www.voiceactingclub.com/). To any would be voice actor, I highly recommend checking out their resources starting out.
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Achievements
A fun note: Steam achievements have been added to the game. Most of them are pretty typical, however, they’ll help you track where you’re at as far as how many hundred kills you’ve accumulated.
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Demo
Project Wingman Discord

We have a demo cooking up for all of you. At the moment we're looking for VR testers specifically to test performance and stability on VR builds of the game. If you are interested, the easiest way to do it is to join our discord and express your interest in the #announcements channel through the testing post. Otherwise messaging us directly through Kickstarter also helps.

Please note that for this test in particular you will be under NDA. However the demo will be open for everyone. Looking forward to see you then
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Ace Squadron Scouts
Ace Squadron Scouts, some of you might’ve been in communication with me fairly recently in finalizing details of your ace squadron and implementation into Conquest. Well, as we finish up the campaign, we are placing these ace squadrons into CQ’s gameplay loop to come in and throw down with the player. The devastation of fighting twenty-two aces in one squadron or the terror of seeing the IFF pop up with a single word “donut” will soon be an experience shared by all. Here are some examples of completed resources for these ace squadrons:
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Key Art
-Now I’m sure your parents told you not to judge a book by its cover. Well in that case just look at our cover and see the glory of Creditian Istani’s work (his portfolio here: (https://www.artstation.com/creditian). Some of you might recognize Creditian underneath a different alias: Mobiusu. Known for stellar fanart and compositions depicting aerial warfare in this genre, we reached out to him to work on our key art and, rest assured, he has delivered.

Note the tasteful explosions and the inward look into the cockpit of a pilot in battle. Truly representative of you, the player, in the middle of it.

Also we don’t have to spend another five weeks deciding which of our personal, favorite aircraft would be the cover art…
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Conclusion
Matt: Well, it’s not that long now until the day comes where we can say “It’s time.” The journey has been difficult, and rough, and we might not have made all the right calls up and down it, but it is without a doubt the honor of my life so far to be a part of creating Project Wingman and whatever me and Arby do down the road. I’ll see you on the Discord.

One last thing I’d personally like to show off before I fully sign off, and that is… well, just a little feature we had kicking around for a bit. May I present you the other Hitman 1: Prez.

If you choose a two seater aircraft, there will be a WSO in your back seat, supporting you with callouts and dialog alongside AWACS Galaxy. Bless her soul in preparation for all the crazy flying all of you will do.

I'd like to thank every single one of you for being patient with us. It has not been an ideal journey but I hope it is worth it in the end. Thank you for providing me the opportunity and I'll see you all in the

-Matt n RB
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SolKutTeR · 10. November 2020

Seit langem mal wieder ein Lebenszeichen, mit interessanten Features und derzeitiger Stand der Entwicklung.

Update: True Colors
How ya doin’ pilots. Coming off of a burst of speed from our recent Gamescom appearance, we’ve kept that momentum going that will, as far as we can see, lead us right into release. (It’s sooner than you think we promise).

But we still have a little time, so we think it’s time for a little update just to let you know where we’re at, and to show off some cool things we’re finishing up behind the scenes.
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AoA Module
AOA, otherwise known as Angle of Attack, is what we’re using as the offhand term for an AOA delimiter. What this means is perhaps more readily explained by example:
Here's a video link!
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Paint Jobs
On a more noticeable content creation side, the paint jobs of our aircraft are all mostly squared away minus last minute applications and touches. Camo, tail-codes, the whole nine yards.

No promises for a speedy release, however there is a pipeline being developed where users can implement their own paint jobs, so that is something in the future we can look forward to, post-launch.
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Modifiers
Project Wingman has four difficulties at launch, ranging from casual play to a truly hardcore, perhaps a little unfair, experience. Furthermore, these difficulties can be changed up by way of the game’s modifier system. Inspired by the skulls in Halo, these will change certain dimensions and aspects of play, ranging from damage scaling to HUD hijinks, all awarding a higher mission score if you’re one to chase after them.

My personal favorite is the gun only modifier, combined with a 2.5x damage increase globally…

Now Project Wingman isn’t intended to be played with them regularly, however, if you want to turn them all on and do a run of the Campaign with them on Mercenary mode, we’d certainly enjoy seeing you try.
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VR Integration
While there's not much to be said on this one. We've received a lot of feedback from testers on how to make it an overall better experience. Mainly UI improvements but it's the little things that make it better for you!
Here's an example of some VR gameplay!
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Overall Progress
All of this spoken about so far is granular, of course, and this close to release the full breadth of what we could actually share with you would “give away the ghost”. However, to simplify it down to percentages:

Campaign: 95%

Conquest: 80%

Assets: 90%

Audio: 90%

Post-Production: 95%

Polishing: 80%

VR Integration Campaign: 95%

VR Integration Conquest: 70%

As you can see a lot of that is pretty close to 100%. So we won’t delay. The time is nigh, and we gotta get right back to work.

However that means another issue that we have to bring up: A demo. Given where we are it would be very difficult to release a demo, seeing as, more likely than not, a demo release would take place no less than a week before the game’s actual launch, and as far as manpower is concerned that is a risk we cannot take. That being said as I’m sure you’re more than aware, there are testers out there in the wild doing their own work on QA for the game as these final days approach. (Which we will be taking more of if there are more interest under NDA of course. Join our Discord to sign up, other testing avenues will come soon closer to release.)

As always follow us on our Twitter, Facebook, and join our Discord if you want to shoot the shizznits with us (RBD2 and FlyAwayNow) while keeping informed with PW news and discussion.

We’ll be seeing you sooner rather than later pilots, stay beautiful, check your six, and all that good stuff.

And as always, Thank you very much for your ongoing support!
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ToM · 10. November 2020

gefällt mir immer besser um ehrlich zu sein

SolKutTeR · 11. November 2020

Der Arcade Aspekt spricht mich auch ungemein an, zumal das ganze bereits sogar am 01. Dezember in den Release gehen soll.

Update: Release Date
Told you you’d see us again sooner rather than later. We have another important piece of information to share with you, so go ahead and take a looksie:

Project Wingman goes live December 1st, and if all goes to plan, development is going gold this week, giving us a rather healthy amount of time to polish off what we can.

In the words of our forebearers: It’s time.

As we get closer to release expect more development updates, intended to get you up to speed with what to expect with Project Wingman’s 1.0.
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As always follow us on our Twitter, Facebook, Steam Group and join our Discord if you want to be informed with PW news and discussion.

More information will be inbound soon, especially for those due keys for the game.
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Project Wingman - Frontline 59

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