Savage 2 Announced

http://www.demo.clanvault.net/Savage2

all the downloads and screenshots on one page :) looks like will be an awesome game..

PLEASE BUY THIS GAME

I don't recall Savage at all. When did it come out and what's so special about it?

Looks good, I really enjoyed the first one and even gave it a pretty good review score :). Hopefully they truely improved on the gameplay by adding more stragetic elements and not just the graphics, and most importantly a solid netcode. Even after their 2.0 release, the netcode still wasn't that good. Also if you want to develop a strong community don't stop supporting your games. A lot of people though S2 Games was gone. Looking forward to this.

I may have to pass on Quake 4 for this.

Already purchased, I don't care if the game comes out or not, I just love supporting the developers.

While I never bought the original (as by the time I got around to it I could forsee a decline in the number of players playing online - and I don't want to buy a game I can't play with other people) - it was definately a very good concepted game. For those of you who still love it / play it, how populated is the online community in terms of the game servers?

Absolutely awesome. Savage was an amazing game and this looks like it's taking all the good and dispensing with the bad.

The community for Savage still exists and this can only bring it extra life... it's dirt cheap now and with the community patches it works a dream. Why this game didn't reach critical mass confounds me.

This is a must have as soon as it comes out.

nice graphics but I noticed only ONE character was on the screen at once. Isn't this game about a huge battle? I wonder what graphics card / CPU was running for this trailer.

graphics are shit hot, lets hope they fixed the fact that the fps element felt very loose and laggy. worse than bf2.

time to bring back a few savage shackbattles in celebration?

yay! I really enjoyed savage (wish that we had more shackbattles, outside the demo version)!

I also really like s2 games, so I'm happy to see that they are going to continue with this IP.

Savage melee was great. Simple and effective in my opinion.

Even with superior ranged weapons, I always wanted to zig-zag my way into close quaters and mix it up.

Haven't played this in a while, but here's some suggestions for the devs:

1) Don't put out such a good demo. IIRC, the demo servers were always full and people spent months playing on them without having to buy the full game even though the demo only had one race and few maps.

2) Do something about the NPCs to discourage newbies from spending all of their time killing them instead of playing the game. Give less experience points for each subsequent kill of a particular NPC type (law of diminishing returns) and limit the $ so tha tmining becomes a viable option.

3) Mining by players was never fully realized either. Mining orders from the commander were almost universally ignored after the first two minutes of the game. Perhaps something as simple as having a 5% chance of hitting a huge deposit at 10x the $ would make it more interesting.

4) Since it's almost impossible to perfectly hard balance the tech trees, put in some other mechanism to assure the various branches will be followed equally. One way to do that would be to make a rock-paper-scissors relationship amongst the branches so that outguessing your opponent carries more weight than any advantages gained by picking the 'best' starting branch.

I guess it's possible that the game has evolved to the point where these suggestions are meaningless, if so my apologies.

I'm a huge fan of the RTSFPS genre

Savage 1 had alot of network code issues.. so I never got into it....
Natural Selection ruled.. but it really need an engine upgrade....

Hoping Savage 2 will be a smoother better feel game...

To answer a few people, Savage is still played religiously by a few. You can still find well populated servers, but the total player count on any given night is well under 500.

And if you played Savage prior to the 2.0 patch then you missed out on what should have been the released version as it was a completely rehauled game. All new netcode, a healer class, reworked items system, graphical upgrades, etc.

Savage 2 should fit the bill quite nicely next year. I'm totally hyped.

Wasnt there a lot of hype for Savage? Then it failed at life?

I never really checked out Savage so I got the demo and it doesn't bring up any servers to connect to, is it dead or is something broken?

Did anyone else think when reading the headline that this was going to be the return of the S3 Savage video card?

Fantastic.

Savage was way ahead of its time. Looking forward to this!

You know, I'm really not one to buy a game, of even this genre, i'm more of a FPS guy, but my friend came over one day and wanted to see it (Savage), so I bought it to play it.

And after he left, I was still playing it. The next day, I played some more... for about a month.

The game ended up being really fun, even to just be a Behemoth and fucking throw down with a big tree, when you would get like 10 Behemoths going at once, it was gg other team, fun stuff.

It has it's problems, but it was a fun game, and I might just buy the 2nd one...

oh shit i don't even know what this is. this thing is hot wowzah

What is this making sequels better crap? Improvements and lots of additional features is not how you milk the money out of the kiddies, people!!