Outpost 2 : Colony Search
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Outpost 2 : Colony Search
Outpost 2 : Colony Search is a game made by Savant-231-A, using Gamemaker engine. The Game is 2d and is played in 3rd person view.
Small Description
The game begins in the Main menu, where the player can Begin the Game, View The Credits, Or exit the Game. When clicked on the "START" button, a window pops-up and the plyer can choose will he play in "newbie" mode or "Elite" mode, and than the game starts. The mission actually is very simple, return to Eden colony, located right of the player. The player starts in a Laser Lynx, which is not automated. Player starts near a small facility outside the Colony. Afterwards the player find the enemy strike force, and has to go to the Colony, alerting them. On the way to the colony he has to destroy as much as he can of the strike force. He/she will pass through a canyon filled with enemy troops.
Enemies
Enemies use low-level AI (if that it can be called), and are usually armed by Microwave-EMP weapons. There are 2 kinds of enemies in the game: Lynx and Panthers. Lynx is faster than an panther, but has rate of fire 1. Panther is slower than a Lynx, but has a rate of fire 2.
Link
Outpost 2: CS page (http://forum.outpost-universe.net/index.php?showtopic=3410=) is located in OPU forums and all the latest info, development and screenshots are located. Also the download link is there.
Outpost 2 Colony Search Story
They were the last survivors of a dead Earth, castaways in an ocean of stars with not one they could call home. For nearly a century they drifted, suspended in cold sleep, while computer intelligence guided their hastily-built starship and searched, unsuccessfully, for an Earth-like world. Resources dwindling, the computers woke a few of the crew to make a desperate decision. If no Earth-like world could be found, how close was close enough? Their voyage ended on a world they named New Terra, in the same spirit that desert dwellers once named their towns after sources of water. In truth, it was nothing like Earth; stark, hostile, forbidding, and in its own way, beautiful. There the last few hundred surviving humans cobbled together a town from their meager supplies and what they could salvage from their starship and landers. At first the colony was known only as "Outpost," but as it grew, the colonists gave it a real name. They called it Eden.
Then, things began to fall apart. The colonists divided into two groups, one that wanted to conquer New Terra, and a second that wished to adapt to its harsh environment. In the end, it was the second group that took their share of supplies and resources and moved away to form a splinter colony, which they named Plymouth. For a time the two colonies tried to reconcile, but talking only seemed to widen the canyon of thought between them. When Eden announced its intention to terraform their planet, to transform it into a new Earth, the Plymouthers were outraged. In protest they broke off talks, and sent a command to the lone satellite that linked the two colonies, shutting it down, unaware that it could never be reactivated. It was as though a curtain had closed, and neither colony wanted to be the first to open it.
But, Eden had one more dirt secret. Before the outbreak of the microbe know as The Blight, the Eden council decided to raise a group dedicated to Eden, and no one else. Those people were steel like soldiers, careless and cold, but just becuse of their veteranship and wisdom, they were delaying the apperance of the microbe for a long time. They were know as Fortis Humanum. Until they were becoming stupid, unloyal and undisciplined. After that the council decided that they were a loss of time and ore... So they were afterwards known as: Colony Searchers. They are now vehicle drivers, or scavangers, driving in innacesible parts where computers were too dumb to drive. Most of them died, becuse of lack of resources in the field.
No one understands the meaning of them. Every time, when resources are needed, they are first to go, sometimes sacrifing their lives for the cause.
On New Terra, all the rules are about to change, except one: Extinction is not an option.
CREDITS
Initial Idea and development: Savant-231-A
Pictures, icons, and backgrounds: Brazillian Fan, Leviathan, Outpost 2
Sprites and animations: Op2ARTviewer
Game egine: Gamemaker
Thanks to: Mcshay
Special Thanks to: Midiworld.com, Mididb.com
