Neon Lights over a crowded car parking zone. The steam and sounds of a ramen stand. Billboards glistening within the pouring rain as whole tower blocks tumble within the distance. There’s loads to understand in Cloudpunk‘s towering urban sprawl – but until now, it’s at all times been stored at an arm’s size. This week, builders Ion Lands started testing a brand new first-person mode in Cloudpunk’s beta construct, letting drivers rise up shut and private with Nivalis’ attractive mile-high neighbourhoods.
The Cloudpunk devs have been messing with extra intimate digicam angles for a number of weeks, with my normal trawls for Screenshot Saturday Sundays posts incessantly citing tighter third-person shots. Now, although, they need to put the participant’s eyes proper inside Rania’s head, letting you expertise Nivalis from (kind of) floor degree (cheers for the heads-up, PC Gamer).
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— ION 👀 (@ionlands) May 22, 2020
While the devs word that the angle shines a light on some of the tricks used to assemble their voxel metropolis, it’s undoubtedly a cool-as-hell approach to discover Nivalis’ streets. Cloudpunk’s on-foot segments – an element I used to be quietly very enthusiastic about – nonetheless stored town at a distance, seen by means of extra static third-person cameras that by no means fairly grounded me within the metropolis’s alleys and marketplaces. I’m extraordinarily eager to see how that have adjustments after I can stroll by means of parking heaps and alleyways at a extra human scale.
After all, Cloudpunk’s metropolis is the star of the present. As Sin put it in her Cloudpunk review: “You can really believe the whole city is moving all the time, whether you’re there or not. You might not be able to do much besides walk and drive around it, but it’s one of the best cities I’ve ever seen, and I spent a fair amount of time just idling around and watching it go while listening to the rain, the muffled thumping of nightclubs, and the excellent music.”
It’s a surprising place, and I’m able to spend hours simply pottering across the metropolis’s streets with my very own two ft. Cloudpunk’s first-person possibility is at present obtainable to strive as a beta possibility on Steam, with hopes it’ll make it into the bottom game someday quickly.
