WHERES THE HERCS?

[ZooL]

Welp no Hercs here! because this has **** all to do with Starsiege

We Star Siege Mercs are actually playing the game over at
https://starsiege1.proboards.com/

[Styke]

Did the trademark lapse? I could have sworn Hi-Rez owned it.

[Seeds]

Just seeing HERCS written out is making me want to play Earthsiege 2 again.

[RaZor]

Yeah got excited for a second, saw cybrids and starsiege, but I don't think there is any relation other than inspired I guess? Hi-Rez still owns the license/trademark, they renewed it in 2020.

[Got Haggis?]

the company that made this is a spin off of hi-rez (if you read recent hi-rez news, they had a bunch of layoffs and restructured the company - hi-rez is now a publishing company and they have multiple studios in charge of their various ips - although this seems a bit different from the studios in charge of paladins, etc.

[FireStorm(StarlinVF)]

So another cycle of disappointment? Had my hopes up for a second

[RaZor]

Yeah I caught up on all the latest. There was dev stream and basically there will be three games under Starsiege umbrella: Deadzone, Raiders, and a third mode which is obviously the one I am most interested: Tribes. This looks like it'll be under one game - three game types.

They described the Tribes game mode as having 3 armor types, CTF, skiing, large open maps, etc., but not much more details at the moment. Not sure if it'll be a remake of T1 or something akin to T:A. They said stuff earned in Deadzone/Raiders might be usable in Tribes and vice versa (maybe just cosmetic skins? just speculation atm).

Anyways, cautiously optimistic.

My worry is they will modestly support all three branches and gauge which gamestyle attracts the most players (and presumably side revenue through shop) and put the others on lifesupport/abandonware status. I hope that won't be the biz approach here and they support new and vet players alike across all three game mode types. But, we'll see.

I'd like to think between apex-style game and corridor-looter shooter that a squad-based fast FPS+Z in large sprawling maps, that the FPS+Z is the novel game type that resonates with players today as it did to players back in 1998.

[Helios]

Originally posted by RaZor:

Yeah I caught up on all the latest. There was dev stream and basically there will be three games under Starsiege umbrella: Deadzone, Raiders, and a third mode which is obviously the one I am most interested: Tribes. This looks like it'll be under one game - three game types.

They described the Tribes game mode as having 3 armor types, CTF, skiing, large open maps, etc., but not much more details at the moment. Not sure if it'll be a remake of T1 or something akin to T:A. They said stuff earned in Deadzone/Raiders might be usable in Tribes and vice versa (maybe just cosmetic skins? just speculation atm).

Anyways, cautiously optimistic.

My worry is they will modestly support all three branches and gauge which gamestyle attracts the most players (and presumably side revenue through shop) and put the others on lifesupport/abandonware status. I hope that won't be the biz approach here and they support new and vet players alike across all three game mode types. But, we'll see.

I'd like to think between apex-style game and corridor-looter shooter that a squad-based fast FPS+Z in large sprawling maps, that the FPS+Z is the novel game type that resonates with players today as it did to players back in 1998.

Thx for the info.

[Nktalloth]

It's just sad to see starsiege reduced to this. Not a HERC in sight. I'm just glad the immortal emperor didn't live to see this day.