Total Influence: online turn-based combat game

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Another interesting project made in Russia: Total Influence. It's an online multiplayer strategy game with turn-based combat. That's what the guys that created the game are telling about it:
<blockquote>Total Influence is a tactical combat game like "Fallout" and "Jagged Alliance".

"Total Influence" can be played with 2 to 4 players. When the game round starts, the players find themselves in the area covered with the war smog. Each player has 3 characters, each of them clears the smog around himself by moving. Each action costs a number of action points. When you are out of APs, it's your opponent's turn.
There's a replay clip between the turns, whish shows what's happened before. By the moment there are 24 items in the game including weapons, armor, medicines, ammo.</blockquote>The map is randomly generated each time the game starts. You have 12 APs for each turn.

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You might want a hotkey map:
Enter - open a chat window
Ctrl+Enter - a message to your team
Tab - switching the characters
I - open inventory screen
E - end turn
~ - console
A - change weapon
X - exchange items
S - pick up a backpack (you should stand nearby and have at least 1 AP)

Link: Download Total Influence client (4,2Mb)
Link: Total Influence Website

Thanks xu.
 
Looks promising, indeed. The only weird thing I see in these screens are the health indication thingies. Instead of hearts they could use a cross? Shiny red heartsies in a gritty, dusty, asbestos-filled outdoor are a tad out of place.
 
"Critical hit" translated to Russian directly sounds rather awkward. As does saying "Murder" in Russian instead of "Kill".

They should've just used English game-phrases that are known to everyone, everywhere. You know, ones like "Kill", or, say, "Critical hit".

But the engine looks excellent !
 
You can select english when installing ..or german or russian.. engine looks really nice and game seems to check if there are any updates available when launching. Gameplay is pretty basic at this stage, but it's fully playable already. This could really go somewhere with further development.

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Made a little game play video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnTh6VZRS4I
 
Holy shit, this is proper handsome. Detecting some elements lifted from FOT, or is that just me?

Whatever, I'll be road testing this mofo in the next few days and that's for sure.
 
Stevie D said:
Holy shit, this is proper handsome. Detecting some elements lifted from FOT, or is that just me?

Whatever, I'll be road testing this mofo in the next few days and that's for sure.
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no, FOT ripped off JA. this reminds me more of JA than FO in general, but thats definitely not a bad thing :D
 
"Total Influence" can be played with 2 to 4 players.
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How does this make it a MMO ?
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it will be MMO, this is just the combat mode of the whole game
"babelfish" the forums in russian and you'll get what i was guessing: some kind of fallout online project :)
and definitely will be a mmo.
 
junkevil said:
no, FOT ripped off JA. this reminds me more of JA than FO in general, but thats definitely not a bad thing :D
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I suspect that Stevie D is refering to some of the art. There are a few pieces that are reminiscent of FOT, like the L-shaped section of metal fence and the storage tank. Though obviously not FOT's assets, if you are familiar with FOT tiles they do jump out at you.
 
Yup, there certainly is a resemblance. So much that I thought this was a FOT mod when I first saw the screens...
 
Nicely done graphic, especially floors and buildings.
<grumble>They could make site in English available too...</grumble>
 
Looks very promising!

Is it possible (or is it planned to be possible) to crouch, crawl etc? Also, are things like accuracy / effective firing distance based completely on the weapon specifications or is it modified by the characters stats (if there are any stats of course)?
 
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