@@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!
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
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!
@@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.
@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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!
I got to do a few games with full servers. That stuff was hectic. But man, when you had a squad that knew what they were doing, things really was badass.
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
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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 😅
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.
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.
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 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 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.
Great video! In the first few moments I thought you were shooting UT's Flak Cannon, so the style seems familiar to the Unreal Engine games from the 00's!
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.
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 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...
Man, it's amazing to see how far this game has come! I played it back when it was just a mod, so to see it come this far is extremely impressive! I'm gonna need to get back into it later on!
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
I'm so glad you're giving these guys some spotlight, had this for years and unfortunately only ever really been able to play with bots, but it's just such a superb concept.
I like how he keeps referring to the game's peak when the "servers were full" in the video. I've had this game for a lonnnnnnng time and I don't remember there ever being full servers lol but yea the devs have always been focused on the bots thankfully
Nice to see you covering this. I've had it for awhile and played it mostly offline with bots. Well worth the price of admission even offline (did I mention you can actually command the bots on your team around the map?) I'm definitely going to jump back into this soon to see if any players are online.
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.
Please keep PUSHING for this game, I want to see a new surge in the community, more sales and - hopefully - faster updates to polish the core gameplay.
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.
Just FYI Star Citizen's Theatre of War mode was being worked on by an outsourced studio. Same as their Star Marine mode when that first came out. (Not the same, just same situation.) But during development Sony bought out the Studio and work on the project was stopped.
I bought this game during the Christmas sale on Steam last year. My friend and I have done a few co-op games and it's pretty cool but damn is it tough to take some of those final points.
I've been following and participated on this since it was just a mod for homeworld 2 and unreal. It was amazing then and it remains an amazing idea and well developed game. If it could be updated for new gen gaming it would draw a massive crowd.
Its one of thouse games that I dearly hope even if it wont get deserved attention, it will pave the way for other new titles to improve upon its great concept.
Been looking up Battlefront related videos lately and this got recommended to me, and I completely forgot I had this game (and installed lol last played 2 years ago). And wow does this look a lot better than it did!
Okay this concept but as a Halo game where you play as a Marine, Spartan, or ODST in a class system during the height of the Human-Covenant War (2550 - 2552) against Covenant. You can play PVE, PVP, or PVEVP modes with gamemodes like firefight, CTF, domination, king of the hill, and infection. More ambitiously however, is that the three types of gameplay (Infantry, Air, Space) all mix seamlessly so you can shoot down a plane, kill someone on the ground in a plane, or fly down from the atmosphere to engage in air-to-air combat and then rocket back up to engage in space combat again. Overtime, they could add factions like the Innies or the Banished in different maps like old Modern Warfare where different maps have different factions. You have completely customizable characters just like Halo, but now you can fully customize Marine and ODST armor cores. You can also play as Elites, Brutes, Grunts, Jackals, and Hunters in the Covenant along with the Swords of Sanghelios being a faction as well. Fully customizable weapons as well from scopes to foregrips to the overall look of the firearm. One can dream...
Spacebourne 2 is an amazing game for single player, mixing X4 management and ship flying, with NMS planet landing and good 1rst or 3rd person view shooter mechanics m.
I was playing AFF when it was still UDK Showcase beta. Then i bought it on steam, and played bot matches. But it can not hold for longer without playerbase for online matches. Bots can only be so fun as one would have in Unreal Tournament matches.
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.
I bought this game years ago and liked what I saw, even if it was a bit unpolished at the time its good to see that the devs were actually passionate about the game and have been working on it for so long
I LOVE AFF! I've been playing it off and on for years. It's always been what I wanted from the Planetside franchise for years. Sadly, it used to be an acquired taste due to the *heavily* oldschool Unreal vibe it had, and bots vacillating between derping out and being super AI assassin droids. I'm hype to hear it's leaving early access! Reinstalling now to see what's new in the update. Thanks for the heads up!
I remember a Battlefield mod that nailed this concept years ago (can't remember if it was BF2 or BF2142 mod) called "First Strike", based in Star Wars universe (original and clone wars era) with nearly every vehicle and unit imaginable, it rocked! Sadly it suffered from lack of players and I think it was killed off by Gamespy's shutdown :(
I have had this game for a long time, I see they finally put out the update we all been waiting for. Will have to jump back in. I feel like the lack of game engine/graphics updates will hold this game back.
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
it actually started as a HW2 mod! :) and even back then the quality of the assets was waaaay beyond everything anyone else was doing (or has done since, honestly)
So many games that wanted to do something like the old battlefield got left behind. One that held a special place in my heart was a half life 2 mod called empires
The second I saw the first second of this video I knew it was Angels Fall First, me and my friends love this game, especially the all ship mission gamemodes where we just all board the enemy frigate and blow up a giant ship from the inside at a crisp 27 fps
I bought AFF very early and have been playing it with my buddy every now and then. I think the visuals are pretty good for what it does. I love that it has bot support since the only one of my buddies who has it doesn't really play games anymore.
Its the scope and the spiritual succesor to Universal Combat(PC Game). It even has a squad command option and bot aren't bad. This needs to have a campaign and story. It also needs to be on geforce now. Like seriously😊
I wish The instant binocular owl vision when you aim down a non-magnified site would go away forever.. everything else looks pretty good, in fact, that zoom is so stand out by comparison, especially with how much movement is going on, it would be bad on its own, but it's worse in this game for what it takes away.. If you want to have a zoom, at least have it as a toggle like squad used to do, especially if shooting mechanics are centered around aiming your weapon at a cheek well.
This game deserves so much more. I've been following it for nearly a decade and it's insane that the devs haven't given up no matter how many issues they've had. It needs a playerbase.
holy shit I haven't heard about Angels Fall First in years. I love this game and have spent a fair amount of playtime with friends. between Planetside and an old Kongregate game with similar arena-tactic class-styles; this makes me excited to see it finally getting released.
Ship flying and manning turrets seem broken though. I can't aim with turrets for some unknown reason, just remains stuck in one place. Your gameplay looks a lot smoothe and less clunky than mine which is interesting since my PC is more than capable of running the game.
i played this way back when it was an UT3 mod (it was VERY janky back then, but i saw that the devs were passionate about it and i loved it), and have had it wishlisted on steam ever since they went standalone.. but probably just like many i have postponed buying it due to low player counts and very sporadic updates.. which in turn probably feeds the cycle of low player counts and sporadic updates, so i'm sorry for that just bought 2 copies of it to make up for the delay :)
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
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
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
Got it a bit wrong.
Angels Fall First started as a mod for Homeworld 2, an then expanded into multiple mods for different games.
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.
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.
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
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
@@BallinLikeMike23I tried it years ago and it was terrible and underpopulated
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.
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.
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😂
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!
I got to do a few games with full servers. That stuff was hectic. But man, when you had a squad that knew what they were doing, things really was badass.
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.
This game looks awesome! Also, closest comparison: planetside 2?
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.
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!
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?
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
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.
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
Remember playing this in the 2010s, can't believe they're still working on it.
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.
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.
This brings me back to the constant drum beat of concepts released on DeviantArt back in the day xoxo
*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 😅
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.
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.
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!
AINTNOWAY angel fall first content. i play this game now and then and have hope for maybe it will blow up
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 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.
Great video! In the first few moments I thought you were shooting UT's Flak Cannon, so the style seems familiar to the Unreal Engine games from the 00's!
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.
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 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...
Holy shit Angels Fall First Content???? WHATTTT DUDE FINALLY THIS HAME HAS BEEN A CULT CLASSIC FOREVER
Man, it's amazing to see how far this game has come! I played it back when it was just a mod, so to see it come this far is extremely impressive! I'm gonna need to get back into it later on!
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
I'm so glad you're giving these guys some spotlight, had this for years and unfortunately only ever really been able to play with bots, but it's just such a superb concept.
I like how he keeps referring to the game's peak when the "servers were full" in the video. I've had this game for a lonnnnnnng time and I don't remember there ever being full servers lol but yea the devs have always been focused on the bots thankfully
I hope more big UA-camrs and streamers start looking at this one. It's honestly really cool and almost nobody knew about it
saw the vid in thumbnail and thought, 'Angels Fall First'?
And, yup.
Wild project worth experiencing.
Nice to see you covering this. I've had it for awhile and played it mostly offline with bots. Well worth the price of admission even offline (did I mention you can actually command the bots on your team around the map?) I'm definitely going to jump back into this soon to see if any players are online.
So happy to get more eyes on this. It's always more fun to play with others.
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.
Please keep PUSHING for this game, I want to see a new surge in the community, more sales and - hopefully - faster updates to polish the core gameplay.
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.
Just FYI Star Citizen's Theatre of War mode was being worked on by an outsourced studio. Same as their Star Marine mode when that first came out. (Not the same, just same situation.)
But during development Sony bought out the Studio and work on the project was stopped.
I bought this game during the Christmas sale on Steam last year. My friend and I have done a few co-op games and it's pretty cool but damn is it tough to take some of those final points.
I've been following and participated on this since it was just a mod for homeworld 2 and unreal. It was amazing then and it remains an amazing idea and well developed game. If it could be updated for new gen gaming it would draw a massive crowd.
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.
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.
I remember getting this game when it first came out but I returned it after just a bit. Crazy to see how far it's come.
This was originally an unreal tournament mod, crazy how its still being here and I remember played it on a computer that barely can run it
Its one of thouse games that I dearly hope even if it wont get deserved attention, it will pave the way for other new titles to improve upon its great concept.
What a cool find! Thanks for the video
BEEN PLAYING THIS FOR A YEAR. Its so slept on. I really enjoy the old unreal look
Been looking up Battlefront related videos lately and this got recommended to me, and I completely forgot I had this game (and installed lol last played 2 years ago). And wow does this look a lot better than it did!
Okay this concept but as a Halo game where you play as a Marine, Spartan, or ODST in a class system during the height of the Human-Covenant War (2550 - 2552) against Covenant. You can play PVE, PVP, or PVEVP modes with gamemodes like firefight, CTF, domination, king of the hill, and infection. More ambitiously however, is that the three types of gameplay (Infantry, Air, Space) all mix seamlessly so you can shoot down a plane, kill someone on the ground in a plane, or fly down from the atmosphere to engage in air-to-air combat and then rocket back up to engage in space combat again.
Overtime, they could add factions like the Innies or the Banished in different maps like old Modern Warfare where different maps have different factions. You have completely customizable characters just like Halo, but now you can fully customize Marine and ODST armor cores. You can also play as Elites, Brutes, Grunts, Jackals, and Hunters in the Covenant along with the Swords of Sanghelios being a faction as well.
Fully customizable weapons as well from scopes to foregrips to the overall look of the firearm.
One can dream...
i got the early access of this in like 2018 and surprised its still been updated
As soon as I heard the premise I knnew you were talking about Angels Falls First
Spacebourne 2 is an amazing game for single player, mixing X4 management and ship flying, with NMS planet landing and good 1rst or 3rd person view shooter mechanics m.
If this has the scale of Planetside 2 I'll def be in to try this. But what game is better to compare it to?
I was playing AFF when it was still UDK Showcase beta.
Then i bought it on steam, and played bot matches.
But it can not hold for longer without playerbase for online matches. Bots can only be so fun as one would have in Unreal Tournament matches.
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.
I bought this game years ago and liked what I saw, even if it was a bit unpolished at the time
its good to see that the devs were actually passionate about the game and have been working on it for so long
I LOVE AFF! I've been playing it off and on for years. It's always been what I wanted from the Planetside franchise for years. Sadly, it used to be an acquired taste due to the *heavily* oldschool Unreal vibe it had, and bots vacillating between derping out and being super AI assassin droids.
I'm hype to hear it's leaving early access! Reinstalling now to see what's new in the update. Thanks for the heads up!
This is basically theaters of war we should have got in star citizen.
I remember a Battlefield mod that nailed this concept years ago (can't remember if it was BF2 or BF2142 mod) called "First Strike", based in Star Wars universe (original and clone wars era) with nearly every vehicle and unit imaginable, it rocked! Sadly it suffered from lack of players and I think it was killed off by Gamespy's shutdown :(
Already had it on my wishlist, but that's one of 1600 games on there so thank you for reminding me of it lmao
Definitely picking it up soon
I have had this game for a long time, I see they finally put out the update we all been waiting for. Will have to jump back in. I feel like the lack of game engine/graphics updates will hold this game back.
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
it actually started as a HW2 mod! :)
and even back then the quality of the assets was waaaay beyond everything anyone else was doing (or has done since, honestly)
So many games that wanted to do something like the old battlefield got left behind. One that held a special place in my heart was a half life 2 mod called empires
The second I saw the first second of this video I knew it was Angels Fall First, me and my friends love this game, especially the all ship mission gamemodes where we just all board the enemy frigate and blow up a giant ship from the inside at a crisp 27 fps
I bought AFF very early and have been playing it with my buddy every now and then. I think the visuals are pretty good for what it does. I love that it has bot support since the only one of my buddies who has it doesn't really play games anymore.
I could tell immediately when I saw the gameplay. I actually had forgotten about it. It's an amazing game, totally recommend it!
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.
I actually did hear of it and played it years ago
I'm glad it's still going
thanks levelcap, this game been out radar glad i find it
seeing him accurately aim at someone and the bullets not hitting is causing panic in me
So awesome to see this game be talked about again!!!!
Finally someone's covering angels fall first!
Bro i forgot this game existed. I was so stoked for it when I saw the first bits of gameplay for it but assumed it never went anywhere
Its the scope and the spiritual succesor to Universal Combat(PC Game). It even has a squad command option and bot aren't bad. This needs to have a campaign and story. It also needs to be on geforce now. Like seriously😊
I wish The instant binocular owl vision when you aim down a non-magnified site would go away forever.. everything else looks pretty good, in fact, that zoom is so stand out by comparison, especially with how much movement is going on, it would be bad on its own, but it's worse in this game for what it takes away..
If you want to have a zoom, at least have it as a toggle like squad used to do, especially if shooting mechanics are centered around aiming your weapon at a cheek well.
This game deserves so much more. I've been following it for nearly a decade and it's insane that the devs haven't given up no matter how many issues they've had. It needs a playerbase.
holy shit I haven't heard about Angels Fall First in years. I love this game and have spent a fair amount of playtime with friends. between Planetside and an old Kongregate game with similar arena-tactic class-styles; this makes me excited to see it finally getting released.
Ship flying and manning turrets seem broken though. I can't aim with turrets for some unknown reason, just remains stuck in one place. Your gameplay looks a lot smoothe and less clunky than mine which is interesting since my PC is more than capable of running the game.
A cult classic from Stranj and the AFF team. I (still) love it!
i played this way back when it was an UT3 mod (it was VERY janky back then, but i saw that the devs were passionate about it and i loved it), and have had it wishlisted on steam ever since they went standalone.. but probably just like many i have postponed buying it due to low player counts and very sporadic updates.. which in turn probably feeds the cycle of low player counts and sporadic updates, so i'm sorry for that
just bought 2 copies of it to make up for the delay :)
I picked this up early in its Early Access and it's a profoundly underappreciated game. The Battlefront successor we never got
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
Nice to see some light get shined on this rough-edged gem of a game. Lol, there I am bouncing around at 7:50
been playing since day one and man.. they've done SO MUCH
I was thinking of trying it and have had it wishlisted for years because of early access. Now I'm thinking I should look into it.
I'll try this out, love a no frills large scale shooter