Разработчик: Studio 4D
Описание
Three new factions available now!
Three more factions have been added tyo the game! Kingdom of Gug, Castus and Dragon Knights of Fevnr are now available to play in English.
This brings Lost Technology up to having 6 faction scenarios to play and enjoy! Check it out now!
About the Game
Story
War...
No one knows when or how it started.
In the lands controlled by humans, one fights in the name of peace and justice, one battles for no reason other than to fight, one battles out of greed, to gain more land, and like this, they all faded in the fighting.
The victor edits history to put them in a favorable light, and removes anything that they deem unflattering...
As a result, humanity has lost many things to the wars.
Territory, technology, and their true history...
Now there's not a single country that’s lasted more than 50 years...
Description
Lost Technology is a real-time-strategy (RTS) siege game.The game is centred around three major phases:
Phase One: Turn-Based War Strategy
Recruit units, and build your army. Find those who will fight for you, command their movements and formation to smoothly prepare to assault your enemy’s territories, or being diplomacy to build peaceful and prosperous relations.
Phase Two: Real-Time Battle
Co-ordinate your army and navigate them through the battle field. With a variety of terrains, attacks and formations, utilize them all to overpower and defeat your enemy.
Phase Three: Story Event
Play through scenarios, each triggered by special events within the game. Your choices and interactions here will affect your strategy and progression.
You must take control of all territories to complete the game.
The World
At a glance, the world of Lost Technology appears to resemble the Middle Ages, as well as a fantasy setting.However, civilization had once exceeded our current level of scientific advancement.
This drastic difference in advancement is due to the decaying effects of ongoing war. What remains in the game is the world experienced by the player.
Long ago when the realms were undivided, there existed incredibly advanced technology that we could not even imagine.
This technology would be:
"Weaponry", "Ideology", "Appliances", "Theory", "Manufacture", "Speech", "Craft", "Knowledge", "Study" and "Law"...
A wide range of fields that were developed over long periods of history.
However, most of this has now been lost through the endless wars.
The player's mission is to choose a single power and bring an end to the wars, once again creating a world of peace.
Game Structure
- Turn-Based War Strategy Phase
- Real-Time Battle Phase
- Story Event Phase
War Strategy Phase (Turn-Based)
- Form your squad
Assemble your ideal team of warriors. - Attack
Once prepared, move to attack the enemy region. - Recruit troops
Recruit standard troops and strengthen your army. - Recruit comrades
You can recruit powerful comrades in your region. - Diplomacy
Deepen your bonds with those you would rather not fight.
Battle Phase (Real-Time)
- Move your army into battle.
- Command your army into various formations.
- Lead your solders into battle with a variety of attacks.
Event phase
There are various factors which can trigger the event phase.
- You increased your territory.
- You befriended a specific comrade.
- Your territory borders another country.
- You destroyed another country.
- You met a certain comrade on the battlefield.
Features
- Over 100 comrade units (generals) with their own beautiful illustrations by Agahari!
- Carefully chosen music samples, as well as compositions from the legendary Cranky!
The differences between the Japanese and English versions
This is a game has a large amount of story text for each playable faction. Ideally we would like to provide fully localized versions for each respective faction, however, the size and scale of the game meant that a full localization would be extremely difficult to provide all at once, and so only the six factions known as the Reinald Empire, Makan, Álfheim, Kingdom of Gug, Castus and Dragon Knights of Fevnr are included in the English release.It is possible to start with any of the other playable factions, but story events will not occur and only the simulation part of the game may be played.
The Japanese version still contains the currently available free version, all of the basic functions without changes, and all factions are included in full right off the bat.
(We had to remove some fan content from the build due to the copyright issues though.)
However, it will be distributed as a paid title due to adjustments made specifically for Steam and the addition of trading cards, etc.
We currently plan to look carefully at how this title sells (including sales within Japan) and will proceed with the localization of the remaining factions in accordance with the sales numbers. The remaining factions are set to be distributed as additional DLC in the future. Please stay tuned for more news regarding further details.
With your support, we hope to provide players with Lost Technology in its full glory!
Developer's Voice
- Developer: CB-SXF6We’ve finally managed to make our way up to release.
We’ve come quite a long way in the two-plus years since PLAYISM first reached out to us on March 16th, 2015.
Lost Technology is an appropriation of a game program called Vahrenturga.
Vahrenturga was the winner of the 2009 game contest held by the major Japanese free game posting site Freem!, and boasts over 200,000 downloads.
I became obsessed with this game and spent an immeasurable amount of time playing it before subsequently becoming obsessed with creating mods, and then finally using the game system to create my own original title.
That title is Lost Technology.
Therefore, this program wasn’t created by our team, and the cooperation of the creator of the original game “Nanaashi”, was absolutely necessary for us to be able to release Lost Technology overseas.
Nanaashi was extremely happy to hear about our plans for an English version, and I myself was a huge fan of Vahrenturga, so I did everything in my power to ensure that this game could be released.
In Japanese, kanji characters can be utilized to shorten all sorts of texts, but that’s not possible in English.
There are some parts in which the text simply could not be made shorter.
Due to this, we often had issues with the game screen requiring tweaking in order to keep all of the necessary text visible and in place. Each time this occurred, Nanaashi helped immensely by accepting our requests for the required tweaks and adjustments. Furthermore, we also had some very serious problems with differences in non-Japanese OS text encoding, and these problems became so serious at one point that we actually came close to giving up on the release altogether.
However, Nanaashi was somehow able to figure out and solve the source of these problems, allowing us to finally bring the game to release. I honestly cannot thank Nanaashi enough.
To all of our overseas players who enjoy Lost Technology:
I would be enthralled if all of you would check out and play Vahrenturga as well since it's game program can be used freely, so as long as you have the various materials in place, you, too, can make your very own original strategy SLG on the same game system.
- "Vahrenturga" developer: Nanaashi
Congratulations on the release of the English version of Lost Technology.
As the creator of the original, I am truly honored to have Vahrenturga used as the base system for this expansive strategy-simulation title featuring beautiful illustrations, music, and voice work.
Thank you very much.
- "Hatoful Boyfriend" developer, and writer for the Kingdom of Gug Scenario: Hato Moa
Congratulations on Lost Technology and the English release of the Kingdom of Gug scenario!
It’s really deeply moving to think that those funky frogs are setting off out into the world.
Since it is, after all, a music-themed scenario, please be sure to check out the awesome original songs, too.
Have fun!
Поддерживаемые языки: english, japanese
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows Xp Vista 7
- Processor: Pentium4
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 9.0c
Отзывы пользователей
This game is an absolute steal at the price point it's sold at. The mix of the turn-based strategy map and real time tactics battles works like Total War, but if you play the story mode (called Prologue in the mode selection) the game goes through a lot of story events, which reminds me of the Nobunaga's Ambition series. However, if you don't like that and would prefer a more sandbox way of playing the game with no events or stories, you can just play Free Mode or Random Scenario. The game is very simple but fun, however I feel like the UI is very confusing and unintuitive and takes some time getting used to. The balance can also feel a bit lopsided, I don't expect perfection but the elf faction feels really weak while the musket and lizardmen factions feel brainlessly simple to play. Still, the variety on display is really good. Not only do you have a good variety of factions, but recruiting heroes from other nations allows you to recruit units from their faction for that commander and best of all there are some heroes that start off neutral that have completely unique recruitment pools.
Incredible action RPG system. Highly recommend for people who enjoy deep and rewarding RPG systems and leveling up characters. I have this as one of my Favorites for sure. Feels like the best memories of an old SNES game.
UI is likely a bit unclear for new players, but I believe there's a sort of tutorial for some of the basics. Besides having to learn a few obscure buttons on the UI, the click-and-drag and pausable real time system is fun and intuitive.
Solid job on the factions and story, feels very much like a Brigandine or Dragon Force style nations vs nations game. But some of the names and story feel slightly awkward due to the translation from Japanese.
If you are into this style of game don't miss out on this gem!
Lost Technology
Summary: it is worth buying because of its low price, but don't expect any surprises, and expect a lot of frustration.
I'll start with the negatives: terrible UI and poor visuals. The UI is the biggest problem by far.
Regarding the UI, it's very difficult to click and do what you want to do, to see what you want to see, and to understand what you want to understand. Very frustrating. Even the tutorial was really bad. Just not enough effort into making the user feel comfortable while playing this game.
As for the visuals, the main issue is really just the lack of being able to zoom into things. Everything is just so small, and together with the pixel graphics, it makes it feel quite lazy and difficult to look at.
A third bad thing is that there seems to be only a single map to play this Risk variation game, but the price for the game is low, so that one can be forgiven. Same with being able to walk over the sea.
And the good things: the story is fairly complex and fun, and it is the only thing where this game wins over the usual Risk. The units in the game are fairly varied, too. The artstyle is nice and... that's about all, I think.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Studio 4D |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 23.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 86% положительных (339) |