A.R.M. PLANETARY PROSPECTORS EP1 Asteroid Resource Mining
Разработчик: Nefarious Dimensions Interactive Games
Описание
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We are still in Early Access and will be updating and adding features, fixing bugs, and tuning the gameplay. We listen to our community and value their opinions. NDiG's goal is to provide the most fun and exhilarating Space Exploration, Mining Psychological Survival Horror game on the market. Then eventually port to Sony PlayStation 5 and Microsoft Xbox X.
About the Game
In the year 3012 A.D., Earth is barely surviving. A decade has passed since an iron-based comet tore through our planet, obliterating over 70% of life.During an expedition, a team of prospectors discovers an enigmatic signal emanating from within a hollow asteroid. They uncover an ancient alien artifact, glowing with an otherworldly light. Upon contact, they are abruptly teleported to an alternate dimension.
Stricken with amnesia and scattered, the crew is captured and enslaved on a sinister AI-controlled mining barge. Forced to mine asteroids in mech suits, they must collect resources, craft tools, and devise an escape plan.
Spoiler Alert Flashbacks reveal a vibrant Earth of the past and a glimpse of advanced Gaia. Memories of a young girl, eerily similar to a long-lost sister, piloting a mech suit to carry her injured grandfather up a mountain surface. The protagonist must escape the prison, repay their debt as a slave miner, and seek answers about this alien realm. The ultimate goal? To retrieve the alien artifact and return home.
Upon escaping the barge, the quest to recover the alien artifact begins. This time-altering device could potentially revert the comet’s devastating impact on Earth.
Immerse yourself in a survival simulation as a prisoner forced into space flight and asteroid mining. Explore a procedurally generated open world with fully destructible environments governed by Newtonian physics in this space flight sim and psychological survival horror game.
Game Features
First-person, Survival Psychological Horror, Adventure, Immersive Space Mining Flight Simulator with JRPG-inspired elements
Episodic content including rescue, repair, racing, and archaeological missions (EP1 currently in Early Access)
Character-driven, Singleplayer story-focused for Episode one (Multiplayer coming in future episodes)
Psychological Survival Horror mixed with Anime-style Quest and RPG elements
Explore, Expedition, Prospect, Mine, Rescue, Repair, Survey, Salvage, Scavenge, Survive
Outwit or fight Pirates, various aliens, rival asteroid miners, and Overlords
Procedural Generated near infinite “Open World Multiverse”
Expansive, and growing organic procedurally generated, fully destructible environments
Fully Destructible Environments, mine asteroids and collect minerals to trade or have crafted
Trade with merchant ships, while avoiding hostile raiders and rival mining corporations
Find tools and have them crafted to escape the prison
Component and Systems damage, oxygen, water, fuel are only some of the systems set in play for survival in an immersive simulation
Science-based GeoPhysics inspired by Thermodynamics and Aeronautics, Simulated Newtonian Physics based on Real factual science simulations
VR Oculus Rift and HOTAS/Gamepad Support (Vive HMD support coming soon)
Community driven receives points and rewards for finding bugs and coming up with new ideas
Can you outsmart your captors and escape the prison of forced space mining? Find freedom, build a mining fleet, and strive to become the wealthiest Space Mining Jockey in the Universe!
Step into the shoes of an everyday Deep Space Asteroid Miner, enslaved to mine asteroids for valuable resources under the watchful eye of an advanced alien A.I.-controlled mega-mining corporation, A.R.M.
As the Andromeda Galaxy is set on a collision course with the Milky Way, hope seems lost. Can a group of unlikely heroes from diverse species set aside their differences, harness their unique strengths, defy fate, and overcome destiny? Your mission is to escape the mining prison barge and save your family!
Experience a hands-on futuristic space mining simulation in a gameplay-focused, character-driven first-person VR and non-VR immersion. Set in an episodic universe centered around unlikely heroes from diverse origins, you play the role of a vulnerable space miner trapped as a prisoner aboard a mining barge converted into a prison for asteroid miners. Wake up, mine, explore and use your wits and skills to escape the barge and find your family.
As an enslaved Asteroid Miner, you can either work to pay off your debt or devise clever means to escape the malevolent AI overlords orbiting Earth.
Episode One EARLY ACCESS Our graphics and gameplay are subject to change as we are still in EARLY ACCESS. We reward our community for making suggestions and finding bugs. We are an indie team, and some of us working part-time until we secure more funding from our upcoming Kickstarter. nDiG is committed to this series and will continue to build for years to come, even if development slows down and we have to source work from the community. Your support is greatly appreciated and will keep ARM in Early Access until it is ready to LAUNCH! Episode ONE is expected for Fall 2022. Join the community and make a real impact!
If you encounter any difficulties or have suggestions for the game, PLEASE reach out and report it to us before leaving negative comments. We value every review and are actively investigating fixes to address any negative reviews. We aim to work with you to make ARM a memorable and amazing game that players will appreciate for generations to come.
ARM PLANETARY PROSPECTORS EP1 is still in EARLY ACCESS and subject to change. We are using this time to make improvements and iterations to the design, art, story, tech, and performance. Once the pilot episode 1 meets our quality standards, we will continue with future episodic content. This game is not abandoned or vaporware. We are a small indie team, some of us balancing full-time jobs in the game and other industries. We ask for your PATIENCE and THANK YOU for your SUPPORT.
Stay tuned for some big announcements regarding our breakthrough in improving the voxel destruction tech!
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel Quad Core Duo 2.20 GHz or equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2 GB video card Dedicated DX 11 Compatible GPU
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 3 GB available space
- Sound Card: generic
- VR Support: SteamVR or Oculus PC
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel i7 3.60 GHz or equalivant
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: 4 GB video card Dedicated DX 11 Compatible GPU
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 3 GB available space
- Sound Card: generic
- Additional Notes: The better the GPU, the more intense the procedural generation will be
Mac
- OS: Mac OS X 10.5.6
- Processor: 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Dedicated DX 11 Compatible GPU
- Storage: 3 GB available space
- OS: Mac OS X 10.5.6
- Processor: 2.2.26GHz Intel Quad Core processor
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Storage: 3 GB available space
Отзывы пользователей
Straight up scam. Without even basic collisions with the environment.
PLEASE Do Not Buy
This game hangs around like a bad smell.
There was so much promised but never delivered. I wish I'd given up earlier and had a refund.
Initially it looks promising but rapidly falls apart. It was described as a sci-fi fans wet dream but delivered nothing.
The sad thing is that it could have been great, a real treat and enjoyable even if it had been for a short tiime.
Instead it's just a mess. The very definition of why early access games are a gamble.
I hope the devs are ashamed, they should be.
Aborted garbage. Of all of the times I had to kill this game, or it crashed.. At least one of them was actually scripted in.
You can't close the error console, and you can't ignore the spam of null references.
The tutorial is broken, Dialog is painful, as you can never skip it.
The magenta you see are models missing their textures.
Which isn't so bad when compared to the random crashes that will happen while using your tools on the asteroids.
And while its control layout isn't bad, It isn't explained by the time you need it.
What's really sad is the opportunity you had here before you decided you don't like working on this project.
I bought this game in the beginning of 2016 and it was in Early Access even back then.
But what really makes me irritated is the fact that now the developer now states that i only bought episode 1 rather than a whole game.
Waaay too late to get my money back now but at least i can warn others to stay away from Nefarious Dimensions Inc who developed and published this so called game.
Avoid at all costs. Please look up the developers and the game before even considering a purchase.
I bought the game back in 2016 expecting it to be treated like other early access games; incomplete to start with but slow, eventual progress towards a polished game. The game concept is the only redeeming quality, but its worthless without an actual game to back it up.
True to their name, the devs have engaged in nefarious practices such as false advertisement, including padding of the feature list. See the right side of the store page? Several of those features don't even have a purpose in a game like this, much less are actually useable - the game has no multiplayer whatsoever, yet is tagged for PvP and Co-Op. They've clearly labelled the game to get on as many lists as possible. They've also randomly increased the price of the game to more than AAA-levels ($75+) periodically.
The game has not received any update in the public branch in over 3 years, and their internal dev branch (at least the one on steam) hasn't received an update in over 4 years. Yet, they continue to add tags to the game, change the title of it, make edits to the store page - all in an effort to spur people into dropping money on something they think is being treated with any care at all.
They seem really good at setting up roadmaps and promises of future updates / features in various places and then immediately abandoning them. Read the early access text closely - they intended a full release in 2016, nearly 4 years ago now. Further, they set up a 'public trello' roadmap, which hasn't been touched since mid 2017. Now, they have opened up a Discord where they farm out work on the game to community members with 'shares in the company' as the carrot on the stick - and even then, there is no visible contribution or progress beyond a few token submissions, with responses from the devs sometimes taking months.
I only paid $6 for the game and I still feel ripped off. I'm a fan of early access, and I've had some poor experiences with it, and usually it is worth the risk to help a new developer. However, this game is by far the worst experience I've had with an early access title - at least the second and third worst admitted they were dead and went F2P (and open source) after 3 years of stagnation instead of trying to edge more money out of customers and never respond with even a single update to the game.
If they're out of funding, they should start a kickstarter or something.
Tried to play multiple times. Coming back every few months. But can't even really get the game to run.
Mouse wont move much, can't change the settings easily, if at all. Crashes in the options menu.
Dev's haven't updated in over 14 months.
Even a simple *hey we haven't forgotten* would prevent this from what it seems to be.
Abandonware.
Good potential. But. I can't even get 15min of solid game play before crash or freeze.
This game has been dead since almost the day i bought it...don't bother buying this please save your money. Steam shouldn't even be selling it.
The controls are awkward. Your ship bounces around uncontrollably. Everything breaks or runs out too quickly.
overall I'd say this is one of the most disappointing gameplay experiences I've ever had in a game there is little to no guidance from the tutorials that actually helps you much and the frequency of crashing to desktop and freezing in freelook mode made this one of less then 5 games I've ever attempted to refund and mind you I kept No man's sky.
By category:
controls 0/10 very clunky and even once you get them hard to use and even after looking on guides I couldn't find the way to get back in the ship properly.
storyline 3/10 so far didn't talk to more then 3 peeps as you are locked up at the start this held some real promise and I didn't dig too deep
tutorial 0/10 almost useless
mining 3/10 was pretty ok untill the drill broke before the tutorial explained how to fix it. and yes I did try to go and use the repair bay that was clearly marked click on ok and it didn't fix my drill very disappointed in that.
overall experience:
it has promise with literally a full overhaul of all the controlls and an actually helpful tutorial but in it's current state it was one of the most disappointing buys I've made on steam and I got it on sale.
I'm going to say that while this might seem a neat game, the visuals are very different than pictured, much worse, and the beginning tutorial, what there is of it, is horrible. For example, at least for me the mining arm is unselectable and completely immobile. Maybe various features are broken, but how to mine and collect ore is something that seems to need a while to pick up - I've broken mining arms, run out of fuel, run out of battery, and restarted a number of times.
Maybe it all becomes better with some upgrades, but I can't even figure out how to sell the small amounts of ore I do collect.
I love the concept and the dedication that these developers have put forth recently. Almost any other dev group would have scrapped/abandoned the entire game, leaving it unfinished. I really think that if they had more exposure to the gaming community, things would have progressed a lot further! These devs have kept working on this game despite all of the negative reviews. I approve of these devoted devs and I think that the steam community should give them a chance. I think that this game could eventually be as good as Subnautica, P.A.M.E.L.A, and space engineers. This game has major promise and the devs are committed to making this an awesome game. These devs can use all of the support possible..... (and mabye some english spelling and grammar checkers and editors)
I cannot recommend this game at this time. First off, kinda lacking in direction from the start. It lacks an area to ease into learning everything. For the life of me I dont know how to get my drill to work again for example. Bland gameplay, at this time, makes me feel as though I am a prisoner within the game being punished for playing the game. Maybe in a few updates and more content I might revisit and update my opinion of the game. Finally, the game lacks any real thing to do other mine rocks.
But, what they do have right is the physics and feel of working in space, which I like. It doesnt feel to "arcade"-y.
I hope to see better things from this game, but seeing as it is now 2017 and the state of the game I have serious doubts for this game.
for now it looks promising. i strongly recomment you wait for the full release and only after that read the reviews and (if you like them) buy it
Note: I'll potentially change this review if can actually get the game to work, but for now I feel like I probably wasted my money.
I'm playing this game on the Oculus Rift. Firstly, the game won't even run from within SteamVR, but fortunately I found a forum post in which the devs suggested running the game exe directly and that worked. Second, and this is the game-breaking part: no inputs work! The mouse and xbox controller work to move the game cursor around, but that's it. Headtracking is fine, but from the very first instance of needing to select something in the game (menus prior to playing seem to work fine), xbox buttons, mouse buttons, and keyboard keys do nothing. So I'm dead in the water right from the get-go. I found a post in the forum in which several people indicated having the same problem, but the dev responses weren't helpful and I don't know if those other players resolved their issues.
The forum posts from devs seem to go back to early December and then nothing. I'm not sure if devs abandoned the game, but as of right now, there was only one recent forum post from a player and even that was a week ago.
TL;DR: looks like this might be another dead early access game and I'm out 10 bucks on what looks like something promising. Again, if I hear from a dev to get my current issue resolved so I can actually play the game, I'll at least update this review to reflect that.
EDIT: I just found that my post in the game forum regarding the problems I was having with the game (as well as asking where everyone had gone, since the forum appears to be dead) has been deleted! I'd say that's a pretty strong indication to stay far away from this game. My money was stolen but yours doesn't have to be. The game is unplayable right now (despite many other VR games working fine with my OR rig) and rather than supplying a support response to my post in the forum, they deleted it! What is going on with this game??
I can't recommend the game at this very moment as it's so technically unstable. I understand that crashes aren't unusual for early access but this is just too much. Progress is nearly impossible whenever the game quits on me just as I start (from repeated new game as well) my objective to mine. Glitches are numerous as well e.g. there's a black border around the planets making the space immersion seem so fake!
I'm sure if the developers continue to commit that the game will turn out great! The overall concept is stricking and it was already reasonably enjoyable despite (obviously) lacking a lot of the features it promises for the final product. Even then it feels like it was released too soon. Hopefully it will improve and if it does, I'll gladly repurchase it even if the price goes up post-early-access. Until then though it's probably worth waiting a bit longer.
Do you like watching the sun rise and thinking, today has possibilities?
Do you like putting cash down on the table when gambling, because you might win, and if you don't at least you had a fun game of cards?
Do you like when someone tells you "have you heard" not looking horribly stupid and silly and saying "no" but instead saying "been there mined that this is what your doing wrong son."
Do you space?
Do you like mining?
Do you like the idea of being a prisoner of boath and trying to escape build your escape with nothing but your wits and what you can beg borrow or steal?
Do you like an original concept that's not just, man with gun does pew pew, man with sword goes hack slash, or something so avantguard it barely resembles a game?
Do you like VR games that have a story, and gameplay that's more than a glorified tech demo costing way more and providing way less than a look around version of clicker heros?
Well this game is early alpha, putting money down is investing in it's future. If you like the idea then back it. This is TRUE alpha. It's not triple A, it's not beta, it's truly a work in progress, and where and when it works it's great. It can crash randomly. It can look like crap at times. If you like riding the bleeding edge, watching a project grow, and knowing you were the first one in your circle of friends to see it, and support it, and maybe even give some feedback that helped to shape it, then this is a great game for you.
If your like me take the plunge.. if not don't, or save your dimes and buy it when the cool kids tell you to and it's fully developed.
The game has some serious graphical glitches at the moment that make it almost unplayable: textures are low res, shaders are broken (the planet is surrounded by a black border which pops through all foreground objects), lighting and shadows are borked.
Worst thing is I posted about this two weeks ago and there's been no developer response at all.
Its an interesting concept but unfortunately the game doesn't work at the moment.
Also, the HUD doesn't look like it does in the first dozen screen shots. Its some really ugly placeholder looking thing.
ARM is, even though it's early Alpha stage, already delivering a space walking experience that I have found missing in other games of the genre. At this point the game focuses on mining, and does it quite well at that. Mining shouldn't be easy and managing battery power, oxygen, fuel and heat while simultaneously trying to catch chunks of ore is ...challenging - in a good way!
Also worth mentioning are occasional debris fields hurtling through your area at dsiturbing speeds, giving you great opportunity to experience the detailed damage model and repair (EVA) system!
Pros:
Unique mining experience.
Captures the gloomy, lonely and exposed feeling of spacewalks well (compared to other games, at least).
Lots of controls available inside the MRM (the tub you're stuck mining in atm)
Basic ontrols are easy to grasp.
Advanced controls are available (full newtonian & subsystem controls).
Great potential!
Active and attentive developers.
Ingame tutorial (could be improved though.)
Cons:
Unstable (had five CTDs during the first two hours of play).
Limited content (Alpha - duh).
Manual is outdated and there is a distinct lack of "how-tos".
Tutorial repeats every time you enter the level.
In short: If you enjoy realistic, gritty space sims, keep an eye on the beauty! Well worth the price at this point!
Very interesting concept, very weird decision to enable Early Access on such a "Pre-Alpha" early stage.
A space game with decent simulation and an actual interesting plot which challenges you to break away from its chains? Definitely interesting.
In A.R.M. you are a (possible) criminal locked up in a Mining Barge, and mining asteroids with a mech for as long as the system tells you to is your sentence.
If you try to misbehave, they come for you. If you try to escape, they come for you.
Your mech has upgradable parts, and there's a modular damage system.
There's a really cool system by which you use the ARM tool of your mech to pick things, like bombs, wedges or other tools, and you can also activate a jet on the "hand" in order to propel whatever you're holding, or use it as a reverse thruster. Never seen that before - very interesting.
There's other simulated variables, like heat, oxygen, fuel, energy, battery, and newtonian flight.
However, this is all there is to this game at the moment.
When I first bought it, you couldn't even play for more than 5 minutes without something breaking.
Now it's a little bit better, but all you get is a very little sample of what the game COULD be, with some weird gameflow issues.
In my own, personal and honest opinion, releasing a game this early is an horrible idea.
There's not even an actual clue to where the game is going - it could become a Sandbox game, or a linear story game with open-world elements. It doesn't seem like the devs have a consensus about it, either.
ARM is all concept, no game. I wish all the best for the developers, which seems to be a brand new company. They seem really interested in making something good. And for Early Access games, the developers matter more than the current state of their product.
But, again, you can't just release something in this state. It's more of a weird Kickstarter than an Early Access purchase. And as a reviewer writing for fellow gamers, I can't just pretend it's not.
Not ready for prime time.
No save game, controls are awkward and feedback is unclear and strange.
I've tried to play the game numerous times, but despite manipulating everything I can't seem to refuel and then my ship spontaneously gets damaged despite not moving anywhere. Maybe that is user error but it's totally baffling to me.
No, I don't want to have to read some how-to outside of the game, either. If the game doesn't present itself, them it doesn't.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Nefarious Dimensions Interactive Games |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 20.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 24% положительных (42) |