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Note: This Early Access game is not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. Learn more

What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“The game is in Early Access because it is playable but not currently feature-complete and not represent its full potential. I develop this indie project single-handed, with the involvement of the community. So, Early Access is a necessary step on the way to my ambitious goal - create a new game genre that brings together some Action, Strategy and Role-playing elements in one.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“The game will remain in early access development as long as it needs to reach its full potential.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“Finished version will contain much more content and some new interesting features suggested by community. My plans are ambitious, but since the development of WARSHIFT is a one-man operation, I encourage to be realistic in your expectations. Note, that this is a very experimental project, so that its conception could be unpredictably changed in the future.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“Currently, game is playable but still remain in development and has lot of unfinished stuff. This release is focused on single player missions and custom skirmishes against AI.
What included in this release:
- Switching between Action/RTS mode in battles
- Unique NODE-based system for strategy gameplay
- Evolving systems for customizable combat avatars
- Tactical management system for heavy battleship
- 23 types of units: 7 customizable major units, 15 soldiers/vehicles, 1 battleship
- 8 types of buildings
- Dozens of weapons and upgrades
- Super-abilities and transformations
- 5 playable maps for custom skirmishes vs AI
- 5 types of physical environment: grounded, air, water, underwater, open space
- 10 single player missions + 4 tutorial missions
- Customizable skirmishes against AI”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“The price will be raised after the final release.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“Community feedback has already played a significant role in development of this project. I've already made significant changes in the conception and style of the game many times. On the official forum there is a special section for suggestions, development direction polls and contests: (http://warshift.com/forum). This is set to continue even more massively with new Steam auditory.”

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24 June

New alien units: Berserk, Cyclops

This is new alien units which are already available in the game:

Berserk

Alien Berserk is designed for breakthrough in battle. It is armed with a powerful impulse generator, four glowing blades and able to move around on land and on the seabed. Berserks are effective in the fight against infantry and armored vehicles but are useless against enemy aircraft.

Cyclops

This class of anti-air combat droids is designed for long range attack by launching multiple guided missiles.

I just created and added this units to the game, so they probably changed the gameplay balance. But I hope to fix that with your advices.

Thanks for playing and have fun!

More updates you can see at the official development blog.

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7 April

New Heavily Armored Units. Training Missions.

New Interactive Training Mission [Gameplay Video]
https://youtu.be/YAjUueID3IA
New Armored Units

This is 3 new heavily armored units which I made for humans faction: Tank-drone, MLRS artillery and Anti-aircraft defensive system. They are all based on amphibious undercarriage but have a very different features and combat assignments.

Tank Drone

Tank Drone is an unmanned, heavily armored fighting vehicle with a rail cannon that is designed for front-line combat. This unit is effective against large armored targets but not effective against infantry, due to the low rate of its weapon.

Artillery MLRS System

This is an armored, self-propelled, multiple rocket launcher. This type of rocket artillery is designed to destroy enemy buildings at a very long distance. Сommander must set the attack coordinates directly in the artillery mode to start artillery strike. It cannot attack the enemy in close combat, so it is recommended to use them together with a group of tanks or infantry.

Drone Defender (anti-air and anti-infantry system)

Drone Defender is a powerful unmanned, anti-air and anti-infantry vehicle with x4 rapid-firing guns.

Tank and Anti-air system can be created in the Vehicle Dept., but Artillery must be created aboard the ARK only.

Thanks for playing and have fun!

More updates you can see at the official development blog.

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GAME FEATURES:

- Switching between Action/Strategy mode on the battlefield
- Dynamic battles in the action mode
- NODE-based strategy gameplay
- 23 types of units: 7 customizable major units, 15 soldiers/vehicles, 1 battleship
- 8 types of building
- Powerful orbital strikes

- Evolving system for customizable combat avatars that are designed to add to the game some RPG elements.
- Dozens of weapons and upgrades
- Super-abilities and transformations

- Heavy unit "Dreadnought" is designed to add to the game some elements from classic “wargame” genre, such as tactical management of heavy orbital/atmospheric battleships.

- Grounded, air, water, underwater, outer space

CUSTOM SKIRMISHES vs AI
5 playable maps for customizable skirmishes against AI:
- Naval sector “Volcanic Island” is a mix of 4 playable environments
- Sector “Frontier” has ruins of bastion that located between the dense jungle and desert
- Wide sector “Admiral’s Canyon” is designed to show full potential of strong armies and battleships
- Winter sector "Tundra"
- Orbital sector “Ore Belt” is designed especially for battles in the outer space

SINGLE PLAYER CAMPAIGN
- 10 linked single player missions for the human faction campaign shows almost all the current features and modes of the game + 4 interactive training missions.

About This Game

WARSHIFT is a unique mix of Action, Strategy, Role-playing gameplay elements that forms an innovative game genre. You can collect resources, build bases, manage armies, and then come down to keep the enemies at gunpoint, gain experience in dynamic battles and customize your main characters or vehicles. The gameplay requires a complete change of your play style.

GAMEPLAY VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/YAjUueID3IA
https://youtu.be/tCvhT2zrp7A

BACKGROUND

In 2062, the colonial planet “Enigma” was invaded by an aggressive alien race Atroid’s from the parallel world that has gone into our universe through the hypothetical “Gates of Chaos”. This non-material beings were forced to clothe their energy nucleuses in the strong physical shells (exoskeletons), as they needed to have impact on the environment in our world. As a result, they created an army of alien droids which are capable to fight in any environment and at any temperature. The fortifications of the planetary defense line turned out to be not effective against the powerful energy weapon used by the aliens. Soon, the biosphere of the planet felt the destructive power of their deadly attack, and a half of its surface turned into a lifeless desert. The miner colony garrison that was made up of volunteer soldiers suffered huge losses and was urgently evacuated. All resource extraction works on the planet were suspended, and corporations began to bear huge losses. But, after numerous antiwar protests, the government of the Colonial Republic did not want to risk human lives, and scientists had to create an entirely new army of intergalactic operations. The republican fleet and the assault battalion “Delta”, consisting of cyber-guards, heavy machinery and robotic drones-transformers was sent to the planet. The Commanders who have telepathic skills control that steel armada while being aboard the ARKS. For the purpose of their own safety, they are forbidden to leave the ARK. However, they can be directly involved in battles as operators of combat avatars (unmanned combat robotic vehicle).
If any combat avatar gets a critical damage, it will be immediately evacuated and, after a quick repair, again will be sent to the battlefield. But, if the aliens are still able to destroy all the ARKS, the Colonial Republic will lose control of the planet forever..

ABOUT
This project is being developed by one person - Cyril Megem, who is both artist, game designer and programmer in this project. He worked hard to implement many his and community's innovative ideas in this game.

"I came up with idea of this game a long time ago. Once, I'm decided to stop just to dream, but to make it real. Being a professional artist, game designer and programmer, I spent 10 years of my life working for many game companies. Finally I decided to leave my last job, staying home like a hermit for a while, and focusing on my own game title. The game you see here is a result of my personal day to day hard work over a 4 years. That was my personal challenge, but I'm pretty sure I can do even more with community’s help. Cheers, Cyril"

Please use this form to contact developer directly and for technical support:
http://warshift.com/index/contact/0-3
Ask question or discuss game on the official community forum:
http://warshift.com/forum

System Requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows 7
Processor: 2.4 GHz Dual Core
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 / ATI Radeon HD 5870
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 5 GB available space
Sound Card: Sound: DirectX compatible sound card
Additional Notes: Over time graphics content and programming changes will change the system requirements for this game.

Recommended:

OS: Windows 7 or higher
Processor: Intel Core i7
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 780
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 5 GB available space
Sound Card: Sound: DirectX compatible sound card
Additional Notes: Over time graphics content and programming changes will change the system requirements for this game.

© 2015 Nominia Ltd. Created by Cyril Megem. Published by Nominia Ltd. WARSHIFT ™ is a trademarks of Nominia Ltd. All rights reserved. All stuff featured in WARSHIFT are fictitious. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.

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Posted: 2 August

WOW! I got this game during a half price sale, and I am glad I did. That said, it's a stupendously difficult game, even on EASY setting, apart from the First real mission....you will learn to enjoy getting smashed over and over again I'm afraid...you have to be quick and decisive to stand any chance. The graphics are great, the sound effects are cool, I love the look of the game including the unit design, the music is good; and the feel of the game, the speed of the game, is awesome. I suspect the game needs a bit of further balancing to make it a little less nightmarishly hard, apart from that, it's a good game. We haven't had a good RTS game for a while, and when you combine the FPS style element the game offers, it makes for a tremendously enjoyable killfest/strategy game.

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Posted: 1 August

Good game.

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Posted: 1 August

This game is a testament to the days of good ol' fashion Command & Conquer, and the style of many other classic RTS games that have simply died out within the evolving RTS genre.

It really is back to basics in WARSHIFT; moving away from the squad micro-management trends seen in the likes of Company of Heroes and Dawn of War II, it could be most accurately compared to the classic style of RTS seen in C&C: Generals Zero hour and Earth 2150, with focus on building large armies, rapid dynamic takeover of resource points, simplistic unit roles (and cheesy voice acting) etc, a style I have certainly missed.

However, that's about where it ends in regards to comparison to classic titles. WARSHIFT makes itself stand out to me, by featuring a rarely seen FPS/RPG/RTS mechanic, allowing a player to directly interact with the battlefield in the form of their own "Avatar" unit, in glorious third/first person perspective. You can ♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ up on the frontline in your very own Robo-rex/ Fighter-jet transformer (yes, a robotic T-rex that morphs into a mother♥♥♥♥ing aerial assault craft, it's as cool as it sounds), with a whole range of weaponary and upgrades to customise your avatar with, including level upgrades and item unlocks as your character levels up during each match. And there's at least 6 different Avatars as of now, each with their own unique set of items and upgrades, I mean you can play as a laser-katana-wielding-jetpack-cyborg-ninja if you want. Pressing tab allows the player to switch between RTS mode and Avatar control, allowing for pretty interesting gameplay.

With two distinct factions, unique character models and awesome graphics all around, it's as beautiful to watch as fun as it is to play. While it might be less prominant in the lore department, the gameplay alone is more than captivating, with a range of good missions currently, along with functioning skirmish and multiplayer, although I do hope for more content to come.

There are a few niggles you might expect with an indie EA release, such as a few ingame mechanics that aren't self explanatory, although there are 20 or so youtube tutorial videos (about a minute or two each) and 4 tutorial missions to help, and at times, some of the text has been awkardly worded, possibly mis-translated, but it's certainly not illegible. And the occasional falling through the floor glitch.

TL:DR
It's so much fun even in it's unfinished state, and brings back an older style of RTS gameplay most games of the genre lack nowadays, with it's own unique twist. Would definitely get it for ♥♥♥♥ing Robo-rex/Fighter-jet transformers alone.

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Posted: 1 August

to confusing and feels very uninspired, the only good thing about it that feels original is the fact that you can play as some mech perons thing. but i tthink it should be 10 dollars instead of 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq5rcqeR708 <-- developers be like

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Posted: 1 August

So I'm a Big RTS fan and my BFF is too so was shopping around and saw this was ok saw game play was like ok buy..

Am not refunding this badboy played good 2 hours was just EPIC. Thought of my BFF and bought him aye Copy.

if this is Early access geez end game gonna be sick :D

What they have done here is truly amazing instead of going to your mate gather this gather that.
Tell him to kill ♥♥♥♥ :D and you build.
Over all just amazing so far very very pretty game.!!!!

Ok Con's Mutiplayer set up lol so "waiting for player 200 ping" every 5 seconds with 26 ping just don't get it
i'm scared to jump into a mutiplayer battle because of this and im on fiber lol.

Map's Are great need Island's because AI just rushes you striaght away :(

-Maybe add a funtion for your mate to build as well not just you "simple units" etc
-I love the Mech's need more nation's with MEch's
-I'd love to see a German or Russian NAtion Stomp the yanks :D

From what i have played myself and with my friend this game is one of a kind and glad to have bought it its FARKEN RAD!!!!

10/10 Dev's RTS fan :D

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Posted: 31 July

Get this. It's an amazing game for the very low price. All from a single dev. If more expensive games from the bigger houses were more like this things would be so much better. Well done on Warshift. Loved every minute of it and the mix of gamne modes is innovative and fun.

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Posted: 31 July

This game shows alot of potential.

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Posted: 28 July

So far i love the game its a new RTS version for me but it works and i can not wait to see what it will work into

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Posted: 28 July

This game is f*cking awesome!

The game is allowing us play same time in strategy mode and RTS & RPG .That's cool !

But you need really good video processors.

Anyway this is "Early Access" game But,BUT it's calling "I'm on my way and coming Yaw!" .

8.75/10

Graphic 8/10 (MAX)
Playability 8/10 (Mouse&Keyboard)
Sounds Effect 10/10 (Really nice)
Music 9/10 (can be use more effective playlist.That's necessary)

For my heart Ten/Ten

Don't think about it just buy and enjoy!

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Posted: 27 July

Its a real RTS game. Something that has been missing for a while.

However. There are cons.

The factions are unevenly matched. The red side is straight up zerg. And they build extremely fast. To the point its almost impossible to win even on easy. The AI is a bit wonky too. Blue sides artillery wont shoot at the red side artillery even though they are getting pummeled by the red side artillery.

The UI needs some work. Its a little cluttered in just one corner. Space it out and have the selection in a bar at the bottom. And a easier way to select your bases to create stuff instead of having to constantly move my camera back to the base and click the button a few time. And then pan all the way back to my army getting zerged by the red team.

Blue team only has 1 trooper. And its a waste of money and time to even build those barricks.

The dreadnaught is under powered. 3 artillery reds took it out while it was trying to kill 1 of them.

Am I looking forward to this game? YES! because i am so butt hungry for a real RTS its killing me.
Do I recommend buying now? NO! it needs massive tweaking.

Also only 1v1? Really? Come on Red Alert in the 90s could do 3v3.

Also I kinda really dont understand that energy system. That fo sho needs some work. Having to walk your avatar to each energy node just so you cant build from your base is kinda wack.

Looking forward to this game. However is a NO now.

Uhhh pros:
Its a RTS game kinda like red alert. That needs work. But could be cool? Maybe? Hopefully? Please? Save us?

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VIPER!

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Posted: 25 July

WOW! I have not felt this way about a game in a LONG time. This mix of genres is exciting and functional. It gives you the O SNAP when you realize what you can do and how you can play it. Its taking me awhile to get the game down, but it does offer good tutorials to teach you the ropes. There is some polish and rough areas that needs to be done, yet. It is obvious that the devolopers are making good progress. I found the game very playable and fuctional for a Early Access Game. I think if improved this could be a staple game at my LAN parties.

It offers Single, MP, COOP and LAN PLAY!!!! O YEAH thanks for the LAN play option, I live in Alaska and hate LAG. It has Mechs, miniguns, anf flying battleships! FLYING BATTLESHIPS!!!!!

10 out of 10 WOULD FLY BATTLESHIPS AGAIN!

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Crolpe[T]

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Posted: 25 July

A good game, and besides the fact the internet needs a semi-traditional RTS game that isn't named Starcraft, besides this one comes with the actual shooter mode. That and it's only in Early Access, it can only get better, Gabe willing. The graphics are great, the gameplay is great and the action gets really serious in the action mode, and in the tactical mode for that matter. The game is great and a breathe of fresh air to the genre mostly dominated by 4X games, while I do love them, we need some more of the good old wargames.

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X_Pilot

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Posted: 25 July

The game is really good, so let me list some pro's and cons to give you an idea of what you are buying:

Pros:
Nice looking
Epic concept
Helpful tutorials
Good gamemodes
Nice maps
Good units to use
Fun with a friend
Epic battles that look stunning and feel amazing when you win.

Cons:
Controls are a bit odd.
Hard to immerse yourself to a point of understanding
---I still don't get the game xD
Holy crap the factions are not evenly matched.

Overall:
Would definetally recommend you buy it as the dev has done a very good job at combining RTS and third-person shooter aspects into one. The game could do with some improvements, but hey that's what Early Access is for!

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Posted: 1 August

Good game.

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olexagonchar

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Posted: 15 August, 2015

It looks nice, as for the one-man project.

Some positive:
- Unusual gameplay
- Nice graphics and FX
- Different gameplay modes
- Intensive battles
- Helpful video guides

Some negative:
- Controls
- Balance
- Little hard to get into

But this is a recently released Early Access! So, you can overcome difficulties, if you just keep playing.

I'm just posted the requested video:

https://youtu.be/19DkAV4zlm4

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