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I'm very bad at making OPs, and last time I tried to make a thread for this game, it petered out almost immediately, but I thought it was time to try again! From the Depths is a voxel building game that has been in development since 2013, and it is leaving early access today (November 6, 2020). Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhTNESwAzs4 At it's most basic level, From the Depths can best be described as a real time strategy game with a splash of grand strategy thrown in, and a robust building system. The campaign mode has you fighting one or more factions (the game's main planet has eight) for control of grid squares on a map. You do this using vehicles of all shapes and sizes. The game gives you a few basic ones to start with, but if you want to be effective, you are going to have to build your own. The game's building system is similar to Minecraft in many ways, though the recommended control scheme uses the keyboard for navigation rather than the mouse like Minecraft does. (Screenshots shamelessly stolen from the game's Discord server)    The main draw of this game is how specific you can (and in many cases have to) get with your vehicles. If your boat is made of lead, it's probably not going to float. If your helicopter doesn't produce lift correctly, it's going to spin out. If your engines don't pipe their exhaust out of the vehicle correctly, it may overheat and ruin your whole day. Your giant death laser won't do you any good if you put in on a submarine because the ocean is murky. Everything you build can be equipped with all sorts of weapons, from battering rams and age-of-sail powder cannons to guided missiles and particle cannons. You can set and customize all sorts of AI behaviors, even using LUA to guide your vehicles or missiles if you want. I'm not joking when I say that it helps if you know how to calibrate a PID controller, because that's a thing in this game. If you don't want to spend your time building things, and just want to see boats get torn in half by orbital death lasers, the Steam workshop has plenty of creations for you to use and abuse. I have personally sunk over 500 hours into this game since 2015. Building in this game can be truly enjoyable, though it is admittedly quite time-consuming. Resources YouTube Lathrix and Borderwise are two YouTubers who devote a lot of time and energy to From the Depths. They are both great places to learn how to play. Community The game has an official Discord and an official subreddit
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Nov 6, 2020 18:23
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The game is now officially launched (It technically had not at the time of the OP), and because of that there is a 20% discount on Steam, bringing the price from $25 to $20 in the US until November 13.
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Nov 6, 2020 19:31
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i don't have time to play something like this but it looks fun as hell. how's the launch been going?
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Dec 5, 2020 05:55
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Considering the way the game has been developed, there are no surprising new bugs or anything like that. The devs are still working on the game too. The latest beta update adds even larger missiles to the game, and they're reworking the very popular mimic blocks (blocks that can look like any other block or machine in the game and be scaled, translated, and rotated to your heart's content) to be even more flexible and useful. I don't use mimics too often except to cover up the occasional seam in my designs, but overall the people in charge seem to have good heads on their shoulders. If you're asking about sales figures, I have no idea.
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Dec 7, 2020 16:45
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This game is very cool and good. If you like multi-block structures, this is the game for you. Everything is a multi-block structure. Instead of plopping on a prefab weapon, you design every aspect of it. This goes for everything: power generation, AI and detection for the vehicles, and even the structure of the vehicle itself: depending on how you layer the different armor blocks, you get bonuses to HP/Durability. It's got a learning curve that's more a cliff than anything, but it's a very fun if you're into that sort of thing.
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Dec 7, 2020 16:59
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Recent patch added huge missiles and a new decoration system that takes some getting used to, but is quite flexible and powerful. I also finally got around to finishing up my latest ship, so that's nice.
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Dec 21, 2020 15:35
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There's so much crazy depth to the systems here it's unreal. I thought I was starting to get how missile launchers worked then I found out you can replace the warheads, let alone fire them horizontally and add sensors and magnets to them. Of course, if I could figure out how to build a stable hull that doesn't wobble left and right constantly that would help.
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Dec 23, 2020 14:57
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if anyone's played Stormworks, this is a lot like that but with guns and a much larger selection of corner pieces. my boat's entire turret went missing at some point during the last few updates but here's the stubby little drone plane that I built from scratch  it's not at all stable, but that just makes it harder to hit, and the AI can still control it well enough to maneuver and fight. game's on Steam sale again for 30% off ($17.50) e: reloading fixed the turret but now the PIDs are hosed up or something 
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Dec 25, 2020 01:00
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I just built my first helicopter in literal years today, then I built another one because the first was kind of ugly. It turns out that letting missiles drop for a half second before they activate their engines drastically increases their maneuverability. Finally, I have noticed one of my ship's guns kind of suck, so I am going to replace them with about a dozen vertically launched large missiles. Game is cool and good.
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Dec 26, 2020 03:38
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Kurr de la Cruz posted:Instead of plopping on a prefab weapon, you design every aspect of it. the single greatest QOL improvement they've made in the past few years was adding a variety of (unarmored, flat-bottomed, 1-thick) prefab hulls and example weapon systems to the in-game build menu. now you can get right to the fun part of putting guns on a boat instead of having to build an entire hull from scratch or search the steam workshop.
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Dec 27, 2020 17:35
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my small gun wasn't very effective, but I like tinkering with guns so it's time for some test platform action  original vs final, they both fit in the same size turret hole  saved as prefab, installed on boat in progress  it's still not as good as the pair of forward underwater torpedo tubes, but is now better and cheaper than the 4-pack of missiles on the back.
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Dec 28, 2020 19:27
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Griz posted:the single greatest QOL improvement they've made in the past few years was adding a variety of (unarmored, flat-bottomed, 1-thick) prefab hulls and example weapon systems to the in-game build menu. now you can get right to the fun part of putting guns on a boat instead of having to build an entire hull from scratch or search the steam workshop. I agree that prefabs are helpful, but I typically use them as inspiration more than anything else. That said, you can do some really cool stuff with only prefabs
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