Shallow Space is a 3D Real Time Strategy game inspired by Nexus: The Jupiter incident and Homeworld. Shallow Space focuses on organised mass RTS space combat in a fully 3D environment. Ships in Shallow Space are nearly always grouped into Flotillas and Wings, and orders issued to these structures cascade to the subordinate members. Rather than stressing out clicking on the units or dragging selection boxes during the heat of battle, standing orders are issued in advance leaving you to zoom around, activating abilities and arranging support and reinforcements. Should the tide turn in battle traditional control is still available.
More big changes as we start to consider the bigger picture, the number was up and a few of you were starting to see past the glitz and glamour and begun to question just how playable the game might be, so some work has gone on with the camera to make it start to feel a little more like a traditional RTS.
The UI has also been revamped, it still forces the player to group the craft into wings (and when the RPG elements and wider fleet movement elements are written in it'll make sense why) and we add contextual status icons next to the wings for quick command access (ie. dock frigates, change hostility.) All in all, playing quite a bit better now.
We also now have sounds! You wouldn't believe how fiddly it is to adjust the levels and things so expect things to improve there over the next few videos. Apologies for the framerate drops later in the video, was capturing using FRAPS to magnetic storage without realising and it started to croak when the file reached 30Gb!
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