Class 3 Outbreak V1, what to expect!
Hello eager brainz hungry zombie fans. The first release of Binary Space’s zombie RTS, Class 3 Outbreak is not far off now. We have been following fan feedback all over the internet and are keeping a close eye on feature requests on the forums.
We realised that people have little idea of what to expect from the first release, so we thought we’d share with you a bit of a feature breakdown, so that your hopes and dreams of some infinitely complex zombie RPGTSMMORPG aren’t horribly crushed!
The first free game to be released in (very) approximately 3-4 weeks will be a fairly simple flash game, much like a playable Zombie Outbreak Simulator, called “Class 3 Outbreak” (C3O). We will be distributing it across flash games portals, which we hope to make ourselves some decent money from sponsorships and advertising to fund the sequel.
C3O will be an RTS with 1-2 maps, 1 unit type (police) and your basic terrifying zombies. We hope to give you a fun game in which players are tasked mainly with crushing outbreaks as they occur across the map. The challenge lies with quickly reaching outbreak sites and efficiently taking out all zombies before they can spread out of control. There will also be an escort part of the game which was featured in the trailer. We wont give away everything that happens though! If you’d like to get yourself tactically acquainted with the next outbreak locale, we have chosen Leicester, England in a classic suburban area that we feel that many people will be able to relate to. The Washington DC map will probably return as well.
To create some competition (against yourself and other players) we will be tracking the players score, which is affected by the amount of outbreaks you control, how many zombies you take out, how many people you escort to safety and so on.
What lies ahead after this first iteration of Class 3 Outbreak? That all depends on how the first one goes! It will almost certainly be a premium, pay version of C3O, probably with a free demo version. The only things we can guarantee at this point are lots of fun unit types, new maps and zombies :) There is a certain feature that has been requested many times that we are very excited about, but in game development you never know what will happen, we make no promises! When will it come out? For now its probably safest to say “sometime in 2010″!
Saxon and I look forward to bringing you the first version of C3O soon-ish!
Thanks to all the fans for following us, and I’ll see you on the forums, and facebook, etc!
Jay
Damn, this just gets better and better.
Would there be a survival mode, where you try to survive against tons of them by going into houses, running while shooting back, etc?
Even if there won’t be, still this would be great
Eredale there wont be a mode exactly, but there are elements of survival gameplay. You could also choose not to follow the mission objective and hole up where ever you like on the map. Its not much of a challenge though, due to certain features that wont make the first game.
Hopefully eventually you guys will make it where there will be soldiers and be able to construct bases. Hopefully there will be barriacades, 3d maps, see through buildings, essentially make it like racoon city. Also have troop production, helicopters that can drop off squads and pick people up. Hell make it where there is an opposing force too. Look I’m one of the biggest zombie fans around and I’m telling you if you make it like that people will buy it like crazy. I know I would. LOL! Anyways good work so far!
looking forward to the game
looks fun
Im glad theres going to be a new map. How much would we have to pay per month. Or is it a one time buy.
Looking REEALLLY forward to this game, i just found it today, and it’s crazy fun. I wish there was more units though, other then just police and civilians. Like soldiers and vans and swat teams and etc.
thanks for the positive feedback guys, I wish there were more units too but I’m afraid you’ll probably have to wait! :/
Zeth we haven’t decided for sure yet, but more than likely it will be a once off payment.
One off payment would be brill!
Would be funny, if you failed, the map become overrun and you had the option of dropping nukes all over the show.
I needless unnecessary charm lol
very cool.
I want to be able to control the zombies or the humans. I want to be able to individually direct units, then have them function on their own when Im not screwing with them.
So maybe I go attack some people/zombies, then the unit will go about its business fighting so forth.
If you are going to set this up where people can enter into multi player matches, that will be really awesome.
Different game scenarios, for story. Maybe protect the president, protect the senator, protect the school children, so forth. Also anti hero scenarios like take advantage of the situation, rob the bank, get revenge, go riot and steal stuff…lets face it, some people will really be doing such things when the opportunity presents itself in the form of a zombie apocalypse.
Military bases, gun shops, stuff for resources. Would be awesome if on the maps you choose to use, you edited out via photoshop the cars, and added them as game units, so human units could use them…Just like in the dawn of the dead remake when the shit hits the fan people are driving around batshit insane freaking out running over people so forth. Speaking of maps would be great if you released a map creating kit, stuff prefabricated, just load the google map of your down and edit it up for some game personalization.
The skys the limit, you can have all sorts of vehicle units, everything from battleships firing into the map, to Chinook helicopters rescuing survivors. Also the units, humans and zombies should have in my opinion individual ratings, so if they are good survivors in the simulation the individual unit has greater experience points.
As for zombie interaction on the map, I want them to be able to break into houses on the map, when they do I want to here windows breaking, you get the idea.
Definitely a great idea guys, good work, keep it up, I look forward to this.
I am a huge fan of the zombie genre.
I would like to be able to control single and groups of units, say tell the zombies where to attack or tell the humans where to run.
make military forces and fire dept litte heilcopters
evac centers Quraratine buildings civilan cars fire
make stuff explode
Pay for the game? Heh….
Looking forward the only thing that might ruin it is you will have to pay….:<
i think that there should be idots running around, normal people, gun nuts (guys with lots of guns) and verterans (guys that are experienced and smart and good fighters)
Just stumbled across this site while a had a brief respite at work.
Very excited to go home and really check it out as I have been looking for a Zombie RTS ever since I picked up “World War Z” last year.
Yay. I come back to this site in a month and it looks like progress is finnally being made.