Thread: "New" upcoming game: Cosmic Shock League

My problem with the videos is that I can't tell what I'm looking at. I get the match 3 part of it, but I don't follow what's going on with skills and damage. So I can't tell if there's deep strategy involved, an attempt at making deep strategy that ended up being degenerate, or just a nice-looking veneer over a contest of whoever pays the most money wins.

The video of going through the shop shows that it's there, but doesn't really give any information about it. I don't believe that making a text and buttons UI is difficult, so demonstrating that it exists really doesn't say very much. The video doesn't make clear the difference between spending things earned entirely in-game, buying useful things with a modest amount money, and buying things that only a whale would ever even consider.

You're not obligated to explain everything about your game the day you announce its existence. But the lack of explanation does mean that a lot of the video was meaningless. That's common of trailer videos, of course, which is why I have no idea why some people seem to think they're so important.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Is there going to be any nudity outside of the *romance* scenes? I mean gameplay nudity when activating scenes etc?

Yes we do have Nudity in the main story too. One of these elements involves the core female characters that guide you through the saga and challenge you to fights where you eventually blast them naked.

Also an idea we're considering is to add more scenes for all characters as you level them up. We don't currently have naked characters in the actual match-3 gameplay as we want those elements to exist on adult and non-adult versions. In the future we could do separate nude sets if we have the budget.

Originally Posted by Semaphore

My problem with the videos is that I can't tell what I'm looking at. I get the match 3 part of it, but I don't follow what's going on with skills and damage.

It's challenging to explain in a short clip but yes the strategy is pretty deep and the variety of gameplay is diverse, as a result of the different combinations of heroes and strategies a player can deploy. Let me try to summarise the core elements briefly.

1. Player has hp based on their level. Roughly 50hp increase for each level up
2. The player looses HP when tiles or heroes on their board are destroyed. -5 hp for each tile and whatever the killed Hero hp is, is taken directly from the player when it dies.
3. The player can bring 4 heroes into any game and they get 3 moves in each turn. Player that goes 2nd has 4 moves for their 1st turn.
4. Moves are used by matching tiles or by moving hero tiles around the board.
5. The heroes are basically broken into these groups

• Healers that add HP and attack to tiles (if a tile has 10hp then it will also do 10dmg to enemy targets when matched)
• Direct damage to heroes
• Damage to heroes and direct to player (by hitting the back of the board)
• Fire (Which burns for a few turns doing more damage)
• Ice (Freezes Heroes for x turns)
• Buffs & Nerfs for atatck and healing
• Armour
• Movement - Push and damage targeted heroes around the board
• Poison - ongoing damage to hero each turn change

Originally Posted by Semaphore

The video doesn't make clear the difference between spending things earned entirely in-game, buying useful things with a modest amount money, and buying things that only a whale would ever even consider.

You can earn all the heroes in the game by playing. You get free chests from every victory in PvE and PvP. You also get a battle chest every 8 hours from winning 5 PvP games. Their are daily win rewards in PvP if you rank in the top 100 that day. With very little coins (which you get in all chests) you can also acquire all heroes from the daily contracts (3 per day).

So yes you easily compete in PvP without being a massive spender... although as an indie we would greatly appreciate players spending a few bucks here and there

Hope this answers a few questions

Originally Posted by 1Playa

We don't currently have naked characters in the actual match-3 gameplay as we want those elements to exist on adult and non-adult versions. In the future we could do separate nude sets if we have the budget.

Thanks for the reply. Well im most certainly looking forward to the nude sets (nudity in the match-3 gameplay if i understood it correctly). If it is just PG-3 gameplay + (inserted) hentai scenes, well, one can just play his/her favorite game and watch a bit of hentai between battles, getting the best of both

I fully understand the desire to have 2 separate versions, would certainly end up better for your bottom line, just really hope you will have the budget for
those extra scenes - funny&sexy naked pictures when girlls use skills during gameplay would be great.

Its also great if girls get more revealing clothing/ get naked eventually when upgraded - great motivation to upgrade your girls, even those you dont really use in battle!

PS:
Looking at gameplay footage...
Yes, it would be great if the girls are fully clothed initially and in in-game pictures when using skill they are clothed, Then when upgrading them (leveling the girls, or evolving, or whatever you have there) they get gradually more and more revealing clothing until fully naked (at max lvl/evolution/whatever).

The pictures in battle would be the same poses, just different clothing - shouldnt be too hard for an experienced artist as the base picture is the same.

The player however, would be like --WoW what a sexy pose, i wanna see her do that naked--... and they will stick with the game, upgrade their girls, and throw money at you

So, the release is scheduled next week? More like Monday, or more like Friday?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The player however, would be like --WoW what a sexy pose, i wanna see her do that naked--... and they will stick with the game, upgrade their girls, and throw money at you

I'd have to disagree. The proper attire can be FAR more sexier than simple blam. Nudity. I'd argue the ability to unlock/purchase (and select) outfits.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I'd have to disagree. The proper attire can be FAR more sexier than simple blam. Nudity. I'd argue the ability to unlock/purchase (and select) outfits.

This is a definite post launch discussion or this is literally becoming anime titty Duke Nukem Forever! That being said I really like the idea of unlocking sexier skins from levelling, but like Street Fighter we could give the player the option of using whatever skin they want ingame on hero deploy.

The launch date is close but we need to finalise a few items on the Nutaku contract. Once that's done they will give us a date. Apparently June has a tonne of game launches so it might be July now.

July? God please no. You game looks superior to other Nutaku games. I have nothing to play on Nutaku because everything is boring waiting simulators.