Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows - Announced

[Silver]

Ancient Frontier: Steel Shadows has been announced for summer 2018.

About This Game

A new chapter in the world of Ancient Frontier!

Steel Shadows is a standalone RPG set in the epic universe of Ancient Frontier. You do NOT need to own or have played Ancient Frontier to enjoy this content. Take command of a rag tag band of pirates and outlaws as you fight your way across the Frontier for treasure and glory. Delve into our latest turn based tactical RPG.

You play as Rogan Harker, a recently freed convict. He travels to the Frontier to find old friends and start a new life. But the overpowering Federation still controls most of the Frontier, and the new and budding Alliance is no fan of outlaws. Hated and feared, the pirate life is one of constant danger. Friends and allies are hard to find and harder still to keep. Beset on all sides can Rogan find fame and fortune with his fledgling pirate fleet?

FEATURES

• A full campaign with over 20 story missions
• Over 50 procedurally generated side missions
• Dynamic initiative based turn based combat
• Purchase, outfit and control the unique Pirate faction ships
• Hire and assign crew members that gain experience and power along with your ships
• Hidden unique mercenaries and ships to add to your fleet
• Experience over 50 random events
• Customize your play style by unlocking technologies in an extensive Tech Tree
• Large, detailed space maps to fight across
• Three different strategic resources to manage
• Dozens of different weapon systems and abilities to control
• Includes both free DLCs; Ancient Frontier - The Crew and Ancient Froniter - Quests and Events

Will you survive the frontier?

More information.

 

[Pongo]

Aside from the fixed protagonist this sounds quite good. Did anyone play the first one?

 

[mercy]

Unfortunately this team did not manage to make exploration and combat worthy to return to.. Boring.

 

[joxer]

- Over 50 procedurally generated side missions
- Experience over 50 random events

Why is 5yr old kid code random generator listed twice? Only one time is enough for me to say:
Roguelike = no buy.

 

[you]

Not every game with randomness is rougelike. That not to say that this game won't be rouge-like but from the description I'm not sure that is the case. diablo had some randomness and folks didn't scream roguelike.
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I'm not saying the game will be any good; the previous one (from reviews) wasn't horrible but wasn't anything exciting. This might be better (or worse); but call it for what it is not what you think it might be.

Why is 5yr old kid code random generator listed twice? Only one time is enough for me to say:
Roguelike = no buy.

 

[Carnifex]

I didn't play the first one, I believe a friend might have so I'll be asking him about it. I'll be keeping an eye out for any more nuggets about this project.