Fresh3D has just announced a HD Reboot for the classic action-adventure game that was released back in 1999 and supported the voxel technology, Outcast. The company has launched a Kickstarter campaign for this upcoming reboot, and aims to raise $600K in the next 30 days.
Outcast Reboot HD will come with objects, textures, environments and characters entirely remade from scratch in hi-definition. The game will support higher resolutions than 1080p, though it will target 1080p @ 60fps.
Outcast Reboot HD will also be free from annoying story bugs that were spotted in the vanilla 1999 version, will have improved HUD, inventory, notepad and dialog interface, and will sport a new camera control.
The game will support DX11 and if it hits one of its stretch goal, it will receive some extra DX11 features which are:
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Introducing new dynamic weather effectsSnow in Ranzaar was quite good in the original game, but what about occasional sandstorms in Talanzaar, rain showers in Shamazaar, or even a good storm in Okasankaar. Enjoy a wealth of new dynamic weather effects all around Adelpha, and that, of course, includes awesome crunchy fresh snow in Ranzaar!
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Geometry shader based grass and vegetationIndividual grass blades and leaves simulation to see and feel the breeze in the fields.
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Rigid body physics objects simulation.All decoration objects to behave with rigid body physics simulation. Imagine how a combat in the markets of Talanzaar would look with that feature !
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Full HDR pipeline
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High quality anti aliasing, AO and DOF
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Post effects extravaganza
Last but not least, the team aims to port the game to consoles if it manages to hit 1.35M. In addition, this stretch goal will bring to the PC version cloth and ropes simulation, compute shader dynamic water and 7.1 sound effects.
Enjoy!
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Outcast is (or was?) AWESOME! 😀
Hope this project succeeds!
I’m extremely happy for this KS. I LOVE Outcast and it might be my favorite game ever. But their KS is not that good to say the truth. We’ll see how it goes.
They have my money. If this campaign does not succeed I will be quite upset. Im very much looking forward to this, its been a long time coming.
fix the horrible combat system and i am in.
I hope and feel like that will be fixed since this is a complete remake, not just an upgrade.
The fact they include the fixes for the well known bugs the game shipped with as a feature kinda hints that though.
It is already at 90,000 bucks . It is safe to say that the game will not only be funded within few hours but till the end of the campaign , it will smash most of the stretch goals as well. Old games used to have so much depth in them , HD remake of any old school game makes me excited (This and Homeworld Remastered . Can’t Wait)
Really liked the old game so this was an easy decision to back this HD reboot.
Man, this campaign already has $103,000+ pledged in 2 days!
Not overly interested in a HD remake, but if they are successful, maybe we will finally get to play Outcast 2 :3