Wasteland sequel likely

Sxerks on 7/11/2013 at 01:25

Wasteland 1 re-release (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2/posts/653968) has gone gold and should be available on Steam and GOG in a few days.

N'Al on 7/11/2013 at 05:51

Sweet.

Thirith on 7/11/2013 at 08:32

Definitely curious about this, not least because I never played Wasteland - not quite sure why, since I did play Bard's Tale at the time and Wasteland was definitely on my radar.

I wonder to what extent they've 'remastered' the game. For instance, are the text bits that originally had to be read in the manual going to be integrated? (All of this info might be available on the Kickstarter page, but I don't have access to it from work.)

N'Al on 7/11/2013 at 08:37

Yes.

From the backers page:

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First, we’re ensuring it runs on modern machines, higher resolutions, faster processors, and all that jazz. We’re also giving it some polish for rerelease including a Mark Morgan music track, integration of the original paragraph texts into the game, and optional paragraph voice over & uprezzed portraits (both of which may be toggled on and off). We’ve spent a very limited amount of time on the WL1 portrait uprezzes and if possible we’d like to open up the ability to customize the WL1 portraits to the community themselves. We’ve also added support for multiple save games – now you don’t have to wipe the game clean to start over.

Thirith on 7/11/2013 at 08:45

Thanks - sounds good! I think I'll definitely try this once it's out. (This sort of non-twitch old-school game would actually make for a great port for tablets...)

N'Al on 9/11/2013 at 07:16

Wasteland 2 backers can now redeem their free copy of Wasteland 1.

I'm downloading my copy from (http://www.gog.com/game/wasteland_the_classic_original) GOG as we speak.

EvaUnit02 on 10/11/2013 at 00:20

I'll probably opt for the GOG code, but am waiting until the game launches to see if there's any nice Steamworks features.

Sxerks on 10/11/2013 at 02:06

The WL1 and WL2 key codes are not linked, so it doesn't matter what you pick right now.

(http://wasteland-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Wasteland_1_-_The_Original_Classic) here is a list of the different offerings of GOG vs Steam for WL1. basically Steam has a few more extras and Autoupdates(which there have been 2 already).

EvaUnit02 on 10/11/2013 at 03:35

That post was entirely about what service I want WL1 on. You can only choose one service, you can't have a key for both. Is auto-update the only Steamworks feature? I probably won't know for certain until the game launches and is on the Steam storefront, i.e. a primary source. Wikis by their nature shouldn't be taken as gospel.

Sxerks on 10/11/2013 at 04:31

Don't know what other features there will be, pretty sure there will be no achievements. It's a really old game and they basically just added a front-end/overlay to it. Once it is installed, you don't even need Steam running to play it.

And, I am the one who added the info on the wiki, and that is what we the backers received from each location.