The Most Ambitious Game Ever... that you've never heard of
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Angels Fall First is finally leaving Early Access after 10 years and it's easily one of the most ambitious indie FPS games ever...
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This concept would have been Star Wars Battlefront 3 if the industry didn't mishandle it
lets be real both of the EA battlefronts could be this a 3 title would do much change cause they already had the opportunity 2 times to make it
@@dusakim Lucasarts was making Battlefront 3 and the game was nearly finished by Pandemic.
After Disney purchasd them, they put all projects on hold.
Battlefront 3, StarWars 1313, A DathMaulGame, and Star Wars: Assualt.
All here on youtube for you to checkout to "what could've been".
@@dusakim A big reason why these games aren't made, or even attempted is that there has not been a previous success with that concept. Would've been a first.
And these companies will never try anything unproven.
They always go for the safest concept. Rinse and Repeat.
Never touch a working system, u know?
@@dusakim He´s most likely not talking about the EA Battlefronts but about the cancelled game from Free Radical, that had a similar scope and was cancelled despite being almost finished!
@@c4blew ah i see so the actual battlefront 3 from the og developer
Thought that was planetside 2 for a second lol
This does actually look like Planetside 2 with a bfbc2 hud
looks like Planetside 1.5
Yeah thats what i thought too lol
Me too bruh😂
Dude couldn't think of a game to compare it too and said Star Citizen... 🤦♂
This game has been around for quite a long time and deserves more notice than it has gotten. Good Find.
It's so good. It deserves way more love
I'm downloading it tonight!
its trash so no it doesn't
@@rickyozenbaugh640 not its impressive
Agreed, needs some fresh players so this helped!
Titan mode in 2142 was hands down the best Battlefield experience I had for many years. I was really bummed we didn't see a return of the mode in Battlefield 1 between Zeppelins.
Yeah for real. That mode was always epic to play out, and could be very tense. Trying to get the other teams Titan shield down before they get yours, lol. Fun times
I wanted it properly implemented in bf4. The carrier assaults were missing the best part when its exploding and everyone has to gtfo!
@@chaseinyourface87 Carrier Assault fucked up so many things that comparing it to Titan mode is an insult to Titan mode.
I STILL remember matches from that gamemode with near perfect clarity 18 years later
Fun fact, BF2142 holds the Guinness World Record for largest controllable vehicle in a first person shooter.
I don't like Guinness but it's still cool that 2142 still holds the record.
Got it a bit wrong.
Angels Fall First started as a mod for Homeworld 2, an then expanded into multiple mods for different games.
also Nexus : The Jupiter incident :)
Well its a standalone now
I always hurt inside when Planetside isn't mentioned
Same bro Same
Indeed, especially since planetside blows all of these games out of the water. "If only epic could bankroll this," why not someone bankroll planetside lol, it's better!
@@thedrone8403 because Planetside is P2W garbage maybe?
@@V3RAC1TY how?
@@V3RAC1TY what part of planetside is p2w? Everything you start out with is just as effective as everything else in the game. Cosmetics are really the only thing you would actually need to buy
I worked a bit on this game actually. I did the hovertank mesh, the Empire revolver/rocket launcher and the shotgun. Great team, stranj is a cool dude and the whole aesthetic was really inspirational to me.
Was one of the inspirations for this game Tribes 2? Please tell me it was.
@@LittleTas12 Lol I couldn't say so...yes? Stranj was the AD so he would know the major influences.
Thanks for your contributions! The hover tank from the Empire is my favorite, and I usually have the revolver in my equipment kits.
@@LittleTas12 It's not as fast as Tribes, no skiing. I love it though. Tribes, Planetside, BF2142, Star Wars Battlefront (2004), Angels Fall First.. all great.
@@LittleTas12 I miss Starseige Tribes and Tribes Vengeance... Some of the weapon / map mods were insane.
This game is on top of my “lord I wish people knew about this game” list. I loved every part of this game; the infantry combat, vehicles, and space. It was great and I hope that a new wave of folks get in on it
Im glad this game has competent bot support. Running cap ship only games of space territories with full bots has become one of my favorite things to play whenever i want a quick, cathartic game of something.
This game needs a strong mouth to ear push by the fans. It surpasses nearly all modern multiplayer live service shooters
Been a supporter and fan of Angels Fall First for awhile now. Absolutely love this game. Thank you for covering it!
Are servers populated enough to feel lively? I'd buy if this was a new game
@TurtleTugger Depends on the day. There's usually 6 people at least and theres event/game nights announced in the discord. The game has kind of a strange learning curve though. Like getting used to the way combat works and stuff and making a class you like and are good with. It very much plays like an older game like battlefield 2142 or Enemy Territory Quake Wars or Battlefield 2 even.
Can you play everything with just AI bots?
I'll 1000% buy to of you can, At least then if there's nobody to play with you always have that
@@noonyabeezniss4911Yes. It fully supports custom offline lobbies and you can choose just how many there are on each team. AND you can give commands to your squad to have them follow you or attack objs.
In MP bots wll fill in for players when there are empty slots, and the bots are actually half decent *(though theyre not the best with air vehicles, they do better with tanks)*
@noonyabeezniss4911 yeah the bots are actually pretty good and decently competent. The server/map is always filled with bots anyway i think. There's always an Ai commander for both teams unless you pick commander for your team. Each team is made up of multiple 4 man fireteams. Each player gets 3 AI squad mates who they can command. The AI can Fly ships, board enemy ships, Pilot Mechs and Tanks and capture and destroy Objectives. I used to play just with the AI before there was any real community.
Last I checked nobody was playing, but this game is great fun when populated.
Glad to hear there's still life in it, I'll be diving back in. I'm not sure I ever fully understood the HUD.
The AI works well enough though. There's nothing quite like boarding a capital ship, fighting through to the core & triggering a meltdown.
Steamcharts has it at an average of 10 players a month... OOF
@@Ruschnav Yeah it's a real shame. It's got nice varied gameplay. A commander mode, flight, fps & multicrew gameplay. The population was already tailing off when I picked it up but had some real memorable rounds and a cool community.
@@Ruschnav😂
Yeah I honestly thought the game was dead. I got it many years ago and only got to play like 3 matches ever
@@Ruschnav Doesn't really matter how many people play, you can play vs AI and the bots are actually pretty good.
A couple of minutes into the video, and you had me convinced of buying it. Bought it and then kept on watching it. Looks really promising, now I'll give it a try.
How is it?
This game reminds me of a game I would day dream about playing if it existed growing up. Can’t believe I’ve never heard of this.
Right?? Same vibe!
Yeah I want to play it now. How much is it on steam?
@@BallinLikeMike23it’s like $20 I think
Bro, PlanetSide 2 is like 10 years old
@@Dingbobber Yeah Ive never heard of it until now somehow
This game looks awesome! Also, closest comparison: planetside 2?
Back in the day, 32 Vs 32 Space combat in this was a blast. Getting a good coordinated squad then boarding and enemy ship to destroy it from the inside was brilliant.
Been playing this game for years. Catch up guys. Need these servers to fill up
Not gonna lie, all I knew about it was that it was broken. I assumed it was abandoned.
like Planetside 2 ?? Did people just forgot that game ?
yeah first thing i thought of, suprised levelcap didnt mention it, its the best comparison
Yes, sadly. I'd love to see a proper sequel made by a proper studio.
Yeah its strange how much he forgets planetside exists especially since he played it for a good while.
Shit I think PlanetSide 2 forgot PlanetSide 2 ... If this can avoid having that monetization scheme, then it should be pretty solid lol...
Forreal lol
I remember the days when this was a mod for Unreal Tournament, been hopping in every once in a while for ages glad to see it getting a little coverage again.
This makes me want to play it more, does it feel like unreal a bit still?
Looks a lot like Planetside2
Was literally thinking that as I started the video😂
It's a similar combined arms concept but it honestly has a lot of inspiration from Star Wars Battlefront and Battlefield 2142 as well.
Eh, it's more reasonable and manageable than PS2.
Oh man, I remember Angel's Fall First! It must have been its very early days when I encountered it as I remember it being a shared built universe for people to tell space combat stories. I recall there were plans to build maybe half a dozen mods for various types of games, like Homeworld 2. I had no idea that the Unreal mod was the one that made it to completion, let alone that a full game came of it.
Well done to all those working on the AFF shared universe, I think I still have an early design document on my hard drive somewhere...
Wow, I found it and it's dated to August 2005! The original plan was for four mods for Homeworld 2, Nexus, Battlefield 2, and Half-life 2. There was also a plan for a stand-alone game even back then. The PDF is 263 pages long, although many of them are essentially blank.
Two decades in the making!
OH LEVELCAP! I literally saw yesterday the update 1.0 news and was so sad no one covered it...I really hope the game gains some attention, thanks for the video
Wow, Angels Fall First, that's a name I haven't heard in quite some time.
Kind of has the same vibe to it (the name) as Heroes and Generals....like scratching glass , lolz
I remember playing this game for about a total of hundred or so hours when I fell upon it. There were enough players with the bots that it was a good niche little game that no one knew about.
Thanks for making me re-install and seeing if anyone still plays!
Glad to hear of this game again. It's been a while since I played it, but I remember some good times with it. One memory in particular was when it ended up getting streamed by JoCat and ended up filling a server with players.
Holy shit Angels Fall First Content???? WHATTTT DUDE FINALLY THIS HAME HAS BEEN A CULT CLASSIC FOREVER
saw the vid in thumbnail and thought, 'Angels Fall First'?
And, yup.
Wild project worth experiencing.
Remember playing this in the 2010s, can't believe they're still working on it.
FINALLY!!! Someone spotlights this. I have been following this and playing it her and there for years.
A correction is that it started as a Homeworld 2 mod with it's own lore. If you looked at spaceship art back in the day, art from this universe has been around once you recognise the ship designs.
*ahem* planetside
I see where you come from and where you are going with this. But Planetside isn't even close to the scope of Angels Fall First. It has the playerbase tho 😅
I started playing this 6 years ago and there were quite a few players. I loved it and I've been playing it off and on since then. Somewhere along the way they changed something with the space flight and it didn't feel as good. Maybe they just nerfed the bombers which is what I usually fly. I'll have to test it out in a fighter next time. I have a lot of fun playing against just the competent ai now. It's really cool how you can stand in a ship and look out the windows at the ships battling outside. Get in a transport, fly over to the enemy capital ship and board it as infantry.
Played on a nearly full server with the devs a few years back. Never got that experience anywhere else. The level of coordination between squads, the general mayhem, all the gameplay possibilities... This game is one of a kind
Played this game at its peak player count and i still play it on a weekly basis. After all these years its still my favorite shooter to this day.
The game at its peak was insane, the roleplay screaming when breaching an enemy ship was hilarious and adrenaline pumping. Forming squadrons to bomb enemy ships or gunt down fighters was fun too.
It makes me sad when i play the game and I see that I'm the only one online most of the time. The discord and other groups do set up game times and orivate servers occasionally and its worth experiencing a full server every once and awhile
The ground combat is fun, but man i love space combat and breaching enemy ships and having massive battles in the interior while other players are on the outside defending/attacking the ship the rest of the server is fighting in.....
I hope one day we will get an unreal engine 5 upgrade, the game would truly be unbeatable in its genre then, but the devs work jobs outside of the games development so it most likely won't happen.... This lonely player can dream though
I remember finding this game on YT eons ago, even remember finding a bunch of art of this on Dievent Art. This is 100% a work of passion and its sudden rise in popularity leading up to the 1.0 (which I hope is happening) is proof to the absolute meritocracy of art.
Personally, I really dig the Unreal Engine 3 sorta aesthetic. It sorta fits the whole idea. These two powers slapping anything and everything together to out do one another and us as players doing the same with whatever color (blue or tan) was able to bring to bear at that time.
AFF would be a FANTASTIC Flagship Unreal 5 game. Epic is losing money every second they aren't littering the Dev's caufers.
I described it best recently.
'Its the Combined Arms multiplayer ImSim 40k adjacent I've been dreaming of with memes to match'
i remember downloading this on moddb years and years ago and trying to get anything more than 15fps, brings back memories of unreal engine 3 and cryengine mods. glad to see it still going, though it's been a while...
I used to follow the artists who work on this on DeviantArt way back around 2005 or so. The artists to my knowledge don't share an office or anything but are around the world working on this and they've been at it longer than 2007.
Titan Mode from BF 2142, that was a blast from the past. That was a classic game.
Too bad EA refuses to acknowledge it's existence and success.
The gameplay of this reminded me a lot of the days of Unreal Tournament 2004 assault maps. You would end up destroying ground targets, and progressing to space ships at the end of the map. Really good times and great maps, don't get my started on scorpion races among others.
AFF has been a hidden gem for years. thanks for showing this to more people because this is a lovely game and it has always brought a smile to my face
I legit thought this game was abandoned by the devs with how quiet it got, played back when the servers were more filled, there was almost always at least a handful of bots on either team with how sizable the player count is per match. As for how it felt, brought back that sensation when I first loaded into Battlefield 2142 and saw those giant mobile airship bases creeping across the sky, a brief moment of wonder and awe before mild panic and joyful chaos ensues because the enemy team found you gawking at the pretty scenery lol
seeing him accurately aim at someone and the bullets not hitting is causing panic in me
AINTNOWAY angel fall first content. i play this game now and then and have hope for maybe it will blow up
This brings me back to the constant drum beat of concepts released on DeviantArt back in the day xoxo
*cough Planetside 2 *cough
Literally what I thought
It looks like Halo meets Tribes meets Killzone 3. Thanks for bringing attention to this very cool game!
Looks like an xbox 360 game.
I've been a fan for years, and every time I hear about it by chance I'm like "man, if they made it more modern this would be an instant hit". Alas, it will be a humongous amount of time before that's even an option.
13 players peak in last 24h :// Should I buy it? Looks like Planetside 2 which I loveee
I'd say nah, don't bother unless that player count starts to substantially increase. Unless it gets a fairly substantial jump in player count, it'll just die again after a little while once people get tired of it and go back to whatever they were already playing. I'd just keep playing Planetside if that's what you like, and maybe keep an eye on this games player count for if it sees any growth.
@@luckysevenow1872 "Don't play this game, no one is playing it" is such a self fulfilling prophesy 😂
man i bought AFF fricken YEARS ago, played against bots... it's the Battlefront 3+ game we never got. It was amazing, but had some performance trouble and the AI wasn't all there. Never managed to find a populated lobby either.
Guess i should reinstall, eh?
level cap ripping on a small indie dev for taking 10 years to fully realize a game while he constantly defends CIG a company that has had 12 years 700 million dollars 1100 employees and still has a giant dumpster turd of a game to show for it. Theaters of War was lied about it was vaporware put down the cope pipe my dude.
Video starts with: WHAT IF THERE WAS AN INSANELY AMBITIOUS DEV TEAM SAYING WE GONNA TRY TO IMPOSSIBLE
--Star Citizen: STILL in alpha
Weird how battlefront 2 wasn’t mentioned when you can literally be in space and fly down the the surface to help the ground battle. Or what about planetside 2 which is this game but larger? Battlefield might’ve been the worst game to use for comparison besides maybe cod with its invasion/warzone modes
Finally someone's covering angels fall first!
I've been looking for a game like this ever since hearing about the unreleased Star Wars: Battlefront III. I'm on my way to buy it right now, thanks.
Holy shit, I have this game since 2015, but never played it because my old PC never could run it. Guess it's finally time to try it out.
They should crowdfund a sequel. They could make a more fleshed out game with modern tech and mechanics. I would certainly back it.
I remember playing this when the servers were full. It was fun but very hard to figure out if what you were doing was contributing to the team objective. Excited to see how the tutorials pull this together. I got a chance to play this on one of the early Alpha builds.
I'm looking forward to checking out the update. I thought it was abandoned. It has fun combat. Though I found space combat to be a little tricky.
Saw the thumbnail and video title and knew immediately it was Angel's Fall First. Been following it since it was a mod for Unreal Tournament 3. The Space maps are so fun. Everyone loading into a huge ship to board an even bigger ship is so intense and insane.
I remember thebluedrake doing a video on this years and years ago. When they port this to Unreal Engine 5 i'll give it a look.
these games alwasy sound super cool, unti your the guy geting blown up from tank that can only be taken out if squads quadrate to do so and most of time people just dont
Not even 2500 reviews in almost a decade. Thanks, but no thanks.
Thanks. I'd forgotten about this. Played it ages ago on Steam. Was pretty fun. Like you say, it has so much to offer. Shame it hasn't got big. Just downloading it now to give it another try!
I really do appreciate that the developers were putting work in to the latest update, there's times I'm hosting a server hoping to see more people give this game a try.
Everybody saying planetfall 2 but I'm thinking of Dust 514 and EVE Online.
This just sounds like what the OG Battlefront 3 was supposed to be.
I was thinking, how did they nail the late 2000's and early 10's graphics? Got the answer but yeah 😅
Meh, I wish them luck. Looks like it would of been great a decade ago
im mildly confused because it looks cool but it has literally 0 players on steam? how
The community largely plays on weekends and organizes on the official discord.
Basically same game concept as Battleground Europe from 2002 and onward but It's set in ww2 western Europe in 1/2 map
I am just looking at the pc requirements and the minimum is a fucking dual core cpu recommended is quad core. The game looks incredible
Planetside wishes to be this, and to this day they still cry when its brought up lol
the title is kind of bad-ass. I wish them success.
You forgot to mention Planetside 2 as the closest comparison to this.
This is basically theaters of war we should have got in star citizen.
Long time, no see lads. AFF is a game everybody should play at least one just for the experience of boarding a ship and blowing it up from the inside, it's a great spectacle. With a good first experience to onboard you into AFF you can get another hundred hours out of it before the deeper flaws start to burn you out. My advice for this: Short match timers and long re-spawn times, it breaks up the loop of spawning and getting farmed, makes stalemates easier to break when defenders can't return to their posts as quickly after being picked off (successful flanks achieve more), it cuts short a bad experience when a stalemate can't be broken, and it lets you experience more map and environment variety in one play session (AFF's space map selection is a bowl full of eye-candy and you're missing out if you stick to ground maps). You want your interactions with AFF to be short and sweet to keep the game fresh.
I'll support any game with bot modes.
Imagine what planetside 3 could be, like seriously
Ive played this game and ngl i love the ue3 aesthetic in 2022
This was what DUST 514 aspired to be.
Love piloting a USNV Hugins Class Battleship blasting AISN Cricket class shuttles before they "sting" me.
At the start of the video I was like "Huh, this looks weirdly familiar", and then when I heard the name it hit me.
I played this game, like 12 years ago! It must've been still a UT3 mod back then. No way it's still alive! I got to give it a try.
Also, Planetside 2, that comparison you looked for is Planetside 2. Or the original SW Battlefront 2, also kinda similar.
"such a good game"
3 players on Steam lol
Played this for a bit a few years back and loved it, but ultimately stopped playing once the already small population dwindled. Media coverage for it is good, but I feel this is too late, though I will check steam charts this weekend and see if enough people are playing to give it another go.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I played this a while back and had to run with bots :D HELL YES I loved this! Like Planetside 2 but more arena shooter. Hot damn, time to redownload this beauty and stack some knife kills!
This is such a great game, just never had more than 4 people playing at once when I was on, but it’s what Dust514 always wanted to be, or what SWBF3 wanted to be. This and guns of Icarus deserved a much bigger player base
Wow, used to play like 8 years ago and completely forgot about it. Might jump back in because of AI support since when I was playing some servers were pretty barren. So glad they're resurrecting it!
I hope more big RUclipsrs and streamers start looking at this one. It's honestly really cool and almost nobody knew about it
I believe the devs of this game regularly hold community play events in the Angels Fall First discord.
I'm getting titanfall vibes from this in terms of aesthetics
I would've loved this back in 2015...wonder how it flew under my radar, considering I played almost exclusively shooters. Hopefully it gets remade in UE 5.3+
For the closest game refs:
Star Wars: Battlefront (originals)
Planetside
Battlefield 2142
upd.
Well now you mentioned that in your vid and I'll pretend I wrote this comment for the algorythm xD
this video is so repetitive. yes I know you can do spaceship combat board big ships and have lots of mixed infantry and vehicle combat, you said that whole paragraph like 5 times in 2 minutes. thanks for informing people of this game though, seens interesting enough
A wildly ambitious game that combines spaceflight, infantry combat, vehicle fighting, and took 10+ years to develop huh?
Sounds familiar. Curious to see how the masses treat this one since they haven't been able to peek behind the curtain until now.
Imagine it updated to UE5... OOF
Level digging up this carcus as opposed to playing Helldivers2. For Super Earth! For Liberty! man who cares about this lame ass game. Going through a dry spell here.
Would also check out Metalcore a very underrated game already won a few prices with almost everything whats in Angels Fall First minus the space battles. On purpose I do not include a link. Its on unreal engine 5.
When it was a mod for Unreal, it was the closest feeling thing I've ever played to Battlefront 2 (the original), and once it become it's own game, it was like they stepped that feeling up to 11.
These guys really saw Star Wars Battlefront fail to deliver on any of it's promises, and said "bet."
Good. At this point, indy devs deserve to steal every lunch AAA has.
Notice how he said each multiplayer mode could almost stand as a game on its own. Yet we get games with a single mode, nearly full priced, with micro transaction live service models, to keep it "fun".
Never heard of? I've been playing AFF off and on for 9 years, it's grossly underrated, It's everything battlefront wishes it was.
I tried this out years ago. It wasn't all that great back then. Let's hope things have improved substantially since then