Residual protocol SCI-Fi will withdraw us to the age of spaceflight Sims as it is launched in VR Meta Quest Store and on Steam In the fourth quarter.
The virtual reality game is a space flight sim with a strategy layer that keeps you under the command of a gingic rebellion. The game was teased on steam on PC as a 2D screen title a few years ago, but now it is coming first on VR. On PC, you will be able to play it as a 2D screen game or on VR if you wish.
The sports ancestor is from the game studio, which is a small, independent team of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Science-Fi Nard and Combat SIM enthusiasts located in Canada. He created a residual protocol as a love letter for sports such as tie fighters, X-wing and elite Dangerous, with a story twist contained in rebellion, politics and power. I am very indifferent about the Flight Sims of the past like the Wing Commander and the rebellious attack, and I want I can break the flightSim joystick more often.
The game has been out on steam on PC for a few years on 2D screen, but now it is going to VR. And now it is a publication partner for VR with meta. With over 51 million VR headsets in the market (Statista), VR is becoming a viable market for small sports manufacturers.
Scott McClum, a creative director of the Rimnant Protocol, started a project a few years ago, after transferring the game in a professional search from a hobby.
“We put a declaration teaser on Reddit and YouTube,” McCallum said in a special interview with gamesbeat. “And the blank saffert (a developer relationship manager in meta) reached us via DMS on the Redit. He said,” Hey, I am Corey. I work in the meta. It looks really good. Send me an email. “
McCallum and his gods thought it was BS but Safart gave a legal meta email and so they started talking. Sefeert handed him over to the publication team. And after 11 months, after a rigid greenlighting process, he had a deal.
He said, “And since then, we have been full time on this. We can be as difficult as we can now get financial support. We can quit our day’s job. It is really living a small dream for a small man like me,” he said.
There are now five people in the studio.
“We are more or less we have been bootstrapping from the beginning, and now that we have money, we have brought a 2D artist and a concept artist to help refine things, and we are looking for some audio people, which is really to finish the material now,” McClam said.
McCallum has been working on sports for almost eight years. It is fun that there is a dragon that appears at the end of the trailer by mixing fantasy with science-fi. It turned out that everyone used to ask about the dragon but was not really a great response to it
He said, “It has become so bad that it has just become a joke,” he said. “We put it in a scripted mission in an Easter egg, and it has actually become a meme in our community.”
A story game
In the story, the game occurs in generations after killing the blessed mother, and you take command of the remains forces that are still loyal to the cause. From the sanctuary, your hidden rebel base in the outer areas, you wage a guerrilla warfare against the usurpers who ruled the galaxy with the oppressive authority. Your Mission: To create an underground movement that will eventually bring down
The totalitarian rule through the acts of suboteses and subterfuse.
Action means that you will raid the outpost, combine, build ships, research new techniques and lead your wing colleagues in war. A huge empire was taken out and taken out, if you must be resourceful to be successful and ruthless.
As the name of the title, this residue is a reference to the protocol that becomes active to tell everyone that if the blessed mother is killed then everyone to go and hide.
Gameplay observation
● Rebellion on a villain scale. As the commander of the sanctuary, the Hidden Ribel Base from which you strike, you will make a difficult choice for a long campaign to recover the throne. It is entirely up to you how your limited resources and personnel are allocated for war efforts: operations, research, shipbuilding, espionage, recruitment and more. The fate of the galaxy is square on every decision you made.
● Acute dogfighting action. Hop to the cockpit and take permission from the pawn in your own private fighter. Inspired by the classics of Yesteryear, the giants of the style will enjoy a familiar experience of pushing the ship’s system to the border by juggling various components. The newcomers will get a fast-paced adventure, which is easy to take but it is difficult to master.
● You are being hunted. The enemy is actively discovering your secret base, and each trick that leads the goals of your campaign further enhances the risk of your notorious and discovery. Your ability to adapt to developed circumstances will eventually determine your destiny, balanced the risk with the reward of each action.
● A living, breathing galaxy. Many factions are maneuver to secure their position in the power vacuum created by the killing of the blessed mother, each with their goals and ambitions. This duration of uncertainty cooks opportunities for exploitation, but every decision you make will be wave in the transfer of the galaxy, political scenario. Be careful that you should not be able to hold yourself among those who call you an associate and who declare you enemies.
● Every campaign is unique. From procedurally generated missions to dynamic fiction elements, the knock-on butterfly effect you have made for the results of each war will never be the same.
Closer
The title will probably be revealed on the first meta, but it will eventually support the PCVR and 2D screen on the steam.
“We are also adding more VR-focused features to the regular PC version. If people want to play PCVR with their beef desktop instead of headset,” said McClum. “This is a challenge that was doing something for VR for 2D screen. But it has always been a cockpit game, which is very favorable for head-trekking and i-tracking, and hence adding head-mounted displays is not the biggest design challenge.
Technically, it is still difficult, especially with interactive control, where you hold a flight stick in VR.
“They are big challenges,” they said.
McCallum hopes that people in VR will play in VR, with Meta Quest Touch Controller. You can hold a flying stick with one hand and manipulate it to 3D. But other people have fancy setups with PC where they can connect a gamepad or joystick through Bluetooth, he said. This is an easy way to fly, he said.
Cockpit has always been highly wide for flight sim fans to admire. Those cockpits actually take about 60% of the screen real estate.
The game will run on Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest 3, as both have enough memory to run the title while the original meta is not quest.
The game is expected to cost $ 25 to $ 30, but the price has not been formally set yet. McCallum is expecting that the campaign will take about 20 hours to end in more than 20 missions. There are many secondary missions such as espionage and intelligence missions as part of the campaign. Some missions also help the player collect the funds or resources required for future missions. It is not going to be fully linear.
There is an aerial battle in the game which is either close to the ground on a planet or in the blackness of space. The players blow the small strike craft, like the rebellious coalition in Star Wars, fighting against the large capital ships of an evil empire. There will be secret gameplays and quick attacks. Players have to make an option about what to make peace, interact with traders, or go away from conflict.
There is still a lot of work. The company is accepting playsters on its discord channel. And this will evaluate the reaction as soon as it comes.
VR Flight Sims Elite: Dangerous, Microsoft Flight Simulator and even still still launched a actual market with the title launched star citizens have turned into a real market.
“Flight simulators are definitely large in VR. People love to be able to apply their headsets, are able to look around the space. It is certainly a unique spin, adding layer of strategy on top of the entire campaign. By adding the layer of strategy. You are only blowing the mission. You are also calling the shots, and the campaign is directed to shape the missions,” McClum said. “So far, the reaction has been positive. But the market will tell us when we will reach.”
