[Game] Something you old guys might be glad to hear: Air Buccaneers HD!

[Doobie420]

*BUMP* because the game needs more players

AND-

Some kind of pre-order/alpha-funding is now available. Surely they deserve ten for ye olde ABU alone, but my favourite indie mods turning commercial resulted in disappointments in the past. NS alienated the fans when renouncing early plans and going Steam exclusive (but offered swift refunds), and what happened to Red Orchestra is common knowledge around here.

It's gone alpha, but you can still play for free for a few weeks more I think, see if you like it. It's in desperate need of players/funding, but they are very responsive to feedback, and the game's come along very well in the few updates its had so far. Lot's of ideas back and forth on the forums, you can see if it's going in the right direction. Very playable even at ~200 ping (it's a slow paced game), but the server's in Finland (and I'm in the States), so if we could get a US server going... No bots yet (but that may be a good thing), but there is a (bare bones) tutorial.

ALSO- from their page on indiegogo.com (http://www.indiegogo.com/AirBuccaneers-HD[url]http://www.indiegogo.com/AirBuccaneers-HD[/URL]) -

EXTRA BONUS CHALLENGE!

If we manage to sell at least 50 000 game accounts before the release of the Beta version - which will happen on E3 2012 - we'll give all who purchased before the Beta release following extra in-game content:

• Exclusive Beard that will give a special boost to your character
• Exclusive Peg leg that will give a special boost to your character
• Exclusive Crow that will sit on your character's shoulder and give a special boost to your character
• Exclusive Grog Mug which you can consume once per round and which will give your character a special boost
• Hidden Extra Super Bonus to be revealed later on

But remember, you will only get these if we sell at least 50 000 game accounts before the E3 of 2012. So remember to tell your friends!

 

[Amerikaner]

What's this "special boost"? I hope it's only cosmetic.

 

[Mr. Explosion]

Don't worry, those 50k accounts sold are a precondition that can't be met, realistically.

Decided to throw in 10€ last month, but I'm not able to play it currently.

 

[Amerikaner]

I just played the most recent build and its much more playable than I expected. Its pretty much already at the level of old airbucs gameplay-wise. So much fun.

 

[Amerikaner]

New trailer. This.game.is.awesome. You guys need to play it.

AirBuccaneers HD - Official Gameplay Trailer - YouTube

 

[Gervaise Brook-Hampster]

As there's not much players playing these days, TyrOvC on AirBuccaneers HD forums made an online tool called "Air Buccaneers Is Anybody Online Tool". It will scan the four main servers and report if there's anyone playing.

You can check it in here; http://www.rawcritics.com/community/tools/isanyoneonairbuccaneers

This game is very much in playable condition and it is very stable for an alpha (0.61). We could really use some more players in there!

And to new guys; you can download AirBuccaneers HD alpha free from their site.

 

[I. Kant]

The Beta promo trailer (Beta's not out yet):

Cthulhu Dreams of AirBuccaneers - YouTube

I bought it on the GamersGate sale recently, using Blue Coins so it cost me zilch really. The woes would have to include small/ infrequent server populations and a lot of the fun factor missing when playing with strangers and not being able to use voice communication.
I hope it gets better eventually.

 

[Bobdog]

Air Bucs is now on Steam's project greenlight. Give it an upvote if you can

 

[Shadrach]

Aaaand it's released on Steam!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/223630/

Only 11€ and it looks beautiful.

Show your Love! ♥ :IS2: ♥ :IS2: ♥ :IS2:

 

[Flogger23m]

Hopefully they do a free weekend sometime as I would like to try it.

 

[I. Kant]

Just going by the Steam feature listing, I seem to have missed a lot. I had the closed beta key from being a premium alpha user, but never bothered with it.

Now that I have the full thing free (need too check whether that is indeed the case), I definitely have to give it another good go. The perks and flaws system and class specialisations caught my eye there — not to mention the two added ship classes. Happy to see it through.

 

[SiC-Disaster]

I never played Air Buccaneers but it looks intruiging. Then again I also saw Guns of Icarus Online which seemed to be interesting as well. Did anybody play both of them and can do a good comparison?

From the few pieces of footage I've seen it looks like Air Buccaneers is a bit more high on action whereas Guns of Icarus seems a bit more slowpaced with more room to manouevre. Dustclouds and regular clouds in Icarus seemed interesting as well but I haven't seen much of that in Air Buccaneers, are they in? Like being able to hide in them etc.

Then again I like the ship and character design a bit better on Air Buccaneers, and I like how people get back on the ship with gliders and such. Guns of Icarus people seem to die with the ship more often (bigger ships too, which is kinda cool, more room to manoeuvre) instead of getting knocked off and then spawning somewhere up in the air again, which looked kinda odd. Whereas Air Buccaneers seems to spawn them on the ground and they have to take off.

 

[Cpt-Praxius]

haha, what? Hot air balloon combat. I really don't know what to say, other than, what in the world?

It was definitely a mod that was right up there with Red Orchestra Combined Arms during the "Make Something Unreal" contest.... it was very popular.... though I never really played it.

I think I loaded it up once, but wasn't my thing and went back to RO to drive my Mouse-Aimed KV1 :IS2:

 

[Gervaise Brook-Hampster]

If someone still hasn't tried this game out, now is the time. It's free to play and install on Steam. Before the switch to free2play there barely was anyone playing, now there's plenty of random turks and russians

A lot of fun with a couple of friends!