As a lot love as I’ve for the likes of Gravity Bone and Quadrilateral Cowboy, of Blendo Games’ output thusfar, my favorite needs to be Flotilla. It was a quietly satisfying little sport about tactical house fight, physics, and gratifyingly hard-hitting missiles, all wrapped up in a pointy low-fi aesthetic and spiced with Rastafarian space-cats. Today’s excellent news: There’s a sequel within the works! Less-good information for almost all of the PC gaming sphere: It’s going to be a Virtual Reality unique.
If you’ve not been lucky sufficient to play the unique Flotilla, it’s lots like Homeworld’s fight engine however damaged into slices of real-time actions and the planning behind them, ala Frozen Synapse. Tell your ships the place to maneuver and what to shoot at, and hope that your enemy doesn’t maneuver in order to put their hardest armor plates within the path of your weapons hearth. Simple, satisfying, and required actual spatial consciousness as each ship had totally different ranges of armor toughness for entrance, again, sides, high and backside plating.
The sequel appears to be extra of the identical, exterior of its change in interface type, though point out of degree design from a panel of creators implies that this one can be targeted extra on hand-crafted tactical challenges as an alternative of a procedural romp by way of bizarre animal-people house up till you butt heads with one thing too large to deal with. A degree editor can be included in Flotilla 2 permitting you to create and share your personal situations as effectively, which ought to hopefully give this one some strong long-term enchantment.
I’m fairly enthusiastic about this one, however that’s as a result of I’ve been planning on getting my first set of future space-goggles for a while, and can most likely accomplish that someday this summer season, every time the subsequent steep low cost presents itself. Having just lately had an opportunity to check out each HTC Vive and PSVR takes on 3D Computer Space, it actually does create a formidable sense of physicality, so having the ability to stroll round this tiny little space-battle occurring within the air round my head feels prefer it may very well be enjoyable, and may make judging distances and angles a lot simpler.
While there’s no worth set for it but, Flotilla 2 does have a Steam store page up, and a launch date. It’ll be launching on August 1st. If you wish to (gravity) bone up in your house ways earlier than then, the unique Flotilla is available here for £7/$10.
