Falling Frontier - SatCom Trailer

The Richmond and the Caligula are redeployed to engage the Martian threat around Saturn.
- Music by Scott Buckley
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[@StutterFoxStudios]

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[@FizzleFX]

I'd love if cruisers and such had like 2 attacks. Like light hitting cruise missiles and a torpedo volley for CLOSE RANGE only. So you can experiment with how to move which ship /combinations around. Like sending ship to tank shots so the light armored cruisers can get within striking distance?? :D Ye i also adore WING COMMANDER (*though this bit was from THE MOVIE)

[@fredf68]

When Game ? :P

[@shaggymanson5375]

@@fredf68 never its another duke nukem see you in 15 years....

[@joelaton1062]

@@FizzleFX That movie sure let me down. But i did like the scene where the tigers claw was torpedoing the Kilrathi Capital ship.

[@fredf68]

@@shaggymanson5375 Like Starcitizen ? :P

[@AfroMan187]

I hope they include that all that comms chatter in-game. Homeworld and Deserts of Karak had it in and it really added to the immersion factor. Units getting a detailed debrief on their tasking orders and jump points would be so cool to listen to

[@RahulDevanarayanan]

+1 the effect on immersion is just tremendous

[@Sorain1]

What occurs to me is that even if most of it is unintelligible, as long as you hear it going on, it sticks in the back of your mind.

[@ravenof1985]

the sound design is very homeworld esque (down to the bloooop sound it makes when you jump in and out of the strategic command overview) makes me want this REALLY bad

[@anwarvanommeren8407]

I agree. The com chatter makes the world feel more alive somehow. Communication and passing on information seems such a part of military operations that it feels like it should be there for authenticity sake.

[@brinkofinsanity9034]

I would love this

[@crashEPIC]

When the ice broke off the turrets, something inside my heart became whole. Excited!

[@supercoolstar2356]

Same! really reminded me of when the space battleship yamato comes out of warp (in the series of the same name)

[@timgroenbacher4679]

Why would there be ice? I mean there's no water in space. Does anyone know?

[@RomanianReaver]

@@timgroenbacher4679 Well near Saturn water rains down from the ice belts onto the surface of Saturn itself. It's a small hint those ships were in the belts.

[@yrm1594]

@@supercoolstar2356 A true man of taste!

[@SoulWhite]

If only visuals made for good gameplay...

[@falamble]

ship combat looks like it got a big upgrade, much preferring the more tactical slow paced interactions than some of the more arcadey action seen in previous trailers. point defense turrets taking out missiles, railguns penetrating hulls, all my expanse dreams come true

[@PRC533]

except they shouldn't be within spitting distance of each other.

[@ilsignorsaruman2636]

​@@PRC533 let's hope we get some long distance combat

[@magicmulder]

@@PRC533 Yes but for visual glory you don’t want to shoot at targets that are just tiny dots in the distance.

[@sebthompson7871]

@@magicmulder exactly, there is realism and then there is realism. Some things just dont make for an exciting game, not actually being able to see you targets is one of them that shouldnt be added.

[@limyarplane1991]

@@PRC533 its important to balance a fun game with a realistic one, a certain amount of realism can be a lot of fun, but if you have to much realism it can stunt the actual fun of the game shooting at tiny dot's on a map from ten's of thousand's of kilometer's away is just simply put not particularly fun or interesting to play or watch,

[@TheOtherMontoya]

Oh man, watching Caligula frag its own friendly with those lateral shots broke my heart a little.

[@anwarvanommeren8407]

Words cannot describe how happy I am to see this game still being worked on. The steam page and discussion forum is pretty much a graveyard due to the lack of information. And I really really like the aesthetic of this one.

[@kylekafka6636]

discord's pretty active though, I'd suggest there to keep up to date

[@Mirvra]

The discord has updates and random announcements basically every other week. So yeah, might be a good idea to swing by if you want updates.

[@Aelazadne]

Does anyone notice how the player blocks his own shots and ends up assisting the destruction of one of his destroyers?

[@TheAderwolf]

yes. that lets you know a dev is playing. most of em arent actually that good at the games they make :P

[@eomat]

Really means you have to focus on angles so you don’t shoot your own ships. I like it.

[@altiose]

@@TheAderwolf I'm pretty sure the point is to show off a game mechanic.

[@graveyardshift6691]

Consider this your warning from the Devs. "Yes, friendly fire is on and your own ships will collide with each other causing damage and blocking shots if you aren't managing their navigation properly. This is not a bug. It's a feature. People who aren't capable of route projection and foresight lose all credibility if you complain. You have been warned. You knew this was coming."

[@MartinM87]

Hey Aelazadne, it was stated from the dev, the ship gets destroyed seconds before the hits occur. If a ship is destroyed, it loses the tag "friendly" and is handled just as an object. You can see blow off panels and after that escape pods leave the Hano destroyer. So as long your ship is alive, other friendly will not shoot it... Of course if a friendly ship is behind an enemy and your shot misses the enemy, it can hit your friendly ship.

[@joshatki]

Ah… Falling Frontier. What beautiful trailers you have.

[@flakcannonhans6170]

As long as the game is real I’ll be happy

[@5peciesunkn0wn]

@@flakcannonhans6170 There has been a few rounds of alpha testing so far, so it's real enough.

[@Fornalha]

How in the actual heaven is a solo dev capable of doing this much!! This is insane!!!

[@scarecrow559fresno]

jesus

[@mugthemagpie3001]

Excuse me WHAT

[@Fornalha]

@@mugthemagpie3001 Yes.

[@bladeviridian7853]

Would be quite the spectacle if we can see those Turn and Burn manoeuvres in game when dispataching ships

[@mattmorehouse9685]

What happens if the cinematic mode happens right as an enemy task force comes in to blow up your ships?

[@Kilovotis]

@@mattmorehouse9685 what?

[@nimox57]

My goodness, the General Quarter whistle T-T I still love so much the ship-sets and the feel before the new updates ,too ;)

[@existentialselkath1264]

These trailers are just pure aesthetic perfection!

[@Demigryph]

wow!! the whole intro cinematic game me "The Expanse" vibe

[@dtoxslab]

Absolutely delicious update. Love what Todd and team have done!

[@LauftFafa]

does he have a team now ? last time i checked he was solo

[@MartinM87]

​@@LauftFafa Artist for the new own IP 3d Models, because old stuff was from the asset store and gets replaced. Also the musik is made by an artist. Rest is Todd

[@LauftFafa]

@@MartinM87 thanks . also is the delay is because the publishers like wanted a sol based setting like expanse with a war story rather than the initial idea of an alien system ?

[@MartinM87]

@@LauftFafa i don't know. But as the Story Campaine is now the focus, plus remodelling everything, that will take time. As of now early acces could still be possible for this year.

[@Washeek]

Getting strong Nexus: The jupiter incident vibes along with Homeworld. Even if the gameplay doesn't turn up to be up to par it will be an immersive eye-candy for sure.

[@seniorbob2180]

ya 100% homeworld 2.

[@Mighty2107]

and the expanse

[@Wbrowncole]

You are right on this, it dose feel like Nexus: The jupiter incident mix with expanse. the game is getting better very day.

[@Mirvra]

Gods... I was horrible at that game, but I miss it's style so damn much! There's literally no other games that do capital class ships justice. I want to hear crew chatter! Comms! Slow manouvers while bringing entire broadsides to bear upon the enemy! Marines reporting their status while launching in shuttles to board the enemy installations! Snub fighters scrambling to escort the marine shuttle! I want proper CAPITAL SHIP games.... q.q

[@adriankoch964]

It looks a lot like this is how Imperium Galactica 3 would have played (who's battle engine was used for Nexus and the strategic layer only remained for the briefings). Now we'll get a fully working 4X that also has deep battles. (hopefully without being as obnoxiously clunky and unintuitive as Terra Invica's space battles)

[@TheWasher18]

Three things I want from this game. 1: The details of the bullet/missle/torpedo impacts and long lasting visual "scars" 2: The PDCs visually tracking things when im zoomed in as they wiz or fly by and watching the trails fire off into distant targets (please increase the fire rate so we see the rounds closer together but they do just ess damage for balance) 3: Adjusting trusters as the trailer showed them but also visible as you maneuver and zoom into your ships I love little details like that, and I genuinely hope this game hits the nail on the head because it seems soo visually detailed already. It's these little things that keep me playing modded homeworld and other space sims/strategy games.

[@julylost4074]

words cannot describe how excited i am for this game, I just wish it comes out soon enough, there's nothing like it currently on the market, not on this level fo detail, passions and art.

[@Starworshipper]

Homeworld my man

[@pettermct]

Nebulouse fleet comand, but has worst graphics

[@sowiwiody3681]

Terra Invicta It takes a lot of time to get to space combat though

[@lelouchvibritannia2300]

@@sowiwiody3681 ALOT of time.

[@TCBYEAHCUZ]

Distant Worlds 2

[@avengermkii7872]

That turn and burn was amazing. I'm loving this.

[@myinamei8884]

The small thing is missing - ships rotation! It's a space - so it's really fast and helpful to rotate you ship engines to front - for fast speed decreasing. And the rotate your ship via Y axis for better enemy tracking

[@cyborg29x94]

No ship commander will willingly expose such an important yet poorly armored part of the ship to hostile fire. The whole point is keeping the nose, generally the most armored part, pointed at the enemy to offer the minimum surface area exposed to the enemy.

[@RomanianReaver]

@@cyborg29x94 Depends on the design actually. From the combat seen here I dare say the front is the worst part to expose to the enemy. Think of it like in the Expanse terms: Mass drivers, solid shot going through a lot more ship if shot from the front. It's why the Donnager took so many fatal wounds, it wasn't expecting small ships to pack mass drivers.

[@antonzhdanov9653]

@@cyborg29x94 Depends. IRL, full throttle main reactive engine exhaustion should offer way better grade of protection than any armor can achieve whatsoever

[@TheSometimeAfter]

Nerd

[@rubinellemahrahn6591]

@@TheSometimeAfter hater

[@lastword8783]

I hope we get surface bombardment. I really loved that about sins of a solar empire.

[@juste4579]

LOVE the comms chatter, it adds such a level of realism!

[@MrOddlyFox]

The time scaling looks smooth! I am quite excited for this experience! Do your absolute best- and I'm sure we will all be astonished.

[@dust1209]

The gunnery crews of the Caligula casually giving the Richmond a broadside. It's got me wondering what the crew of the Richmond did to deserve that? This game looks amazing, I can't wait!

[@bsimulator]

Saturn Command ordered them to execute Order 66.

[@vasileiosmela309]

I believe Richmond was already disabled. It looked as though escape pods were being launched and there was a radio message about escape pods shortly there after.

[@svetchannel2998]

I note that the captain of Caligula is a woman, Leila Vela, but when you choose a ship, the man speaks

[@j.o.n.a3154]

I love how this takes the same « turn and burn » and feels from The Expanse Tv show

[@MikaelKKarlsson]

Nothing is better than in-game footage. 👍

[@MightyAssa]

Friendly fire is a thing. The battle animation looks amazing

[@citizen_brimstone3113]

Ok, there is friendly fire, and then there is sloppy targeting. The AI fired despite a friendly ship between the guns and the target. Hopefully that gets fixed because I would be pissed to lose a 2v1 battle because the AI doesn't know how to not shoot friendly units

[@Khayul]

@@citizen_brimstone3113 I quite like it, makes positioning way more important than just losing out on DPS, or like in most games, "just blob it". Although it would be nice if you could tell them to hold fire on a specific weapon type.

[@zetsubouda]

Looks great, I don't know if it's deliberate or not but the sound effects come across like you're hearing them from the interiors of the ships which conveys a nice sense of realism. If that's unintentional and you can perhaps enhance the effect it would absolutely make your game stand out! I wishlisted before the trailer had even asked me to. Looking forward to this!

[@ADMNtek]

that friendly fire at 3:30 uff. Once you fire this husk of metal, it keeps going till it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you're ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not "eyeball it!" This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!

[@stooney]

I sincerily hope the radio chatter stays in the game. It adds such a nice element to the atmosphere. Beautiful music and visuals as well. I can't wait.

[@FloatingOnAZephyr]

This looks so good. That red destroyer looked doomed but held its own. Can't wait to play this.

[@sebthompson7871]

that is definitely part of the mechanics of the game. 1 ship with a better crew and maybe slightly better weapons will fair quite well against multiple weaker and less experienced ships.

[@FloatingOnAZephyr]

@@sebthompson7871 Music to my ears.

[@ReddwarfIV]

​@@sebthompson7871Looked to me like the Martian destroyer had higher velocity guns and a faster missile reload rate.

[@joakimilenius7259]

Can't wait for this game

[@KHK001]

This looks better with every trailer! can't wait for the release!

[@Axis_._]

God damn that looked insane. Majestic even. Am impossibly excited for this game. It looks like a movie or work of art.

[@dailyshitter]

That friendly fire got him split in halve

[@mihaigheorghe467]

With the state of RTS in the last few years, this is a breath of fresh air, a game I am actually excited about. I really think this is GOTY material.

[@thor-cj9dh]

Looks amazing. Been on my Steam wish list for a while now. Good to see that it hasn't been forgotten about.

[@maffin1012]

Love the ship design! Well done!

[@kawafahra]

Everything about this feels top notch. The graphics suffice already, gameplay is where its at. One little superficial thing : If the engine plumes would resemble same details we have come to see in Star Citizen or DCS, if the graphics team would level this one thing up just a notch, then it would be spacegasm. Evetry time they fire these nuclear reactors up, i want to see brutal perfection, that moment never gets old, thats why we love it in the expanse.

[@akocbibbo]

This is BEAUTIFUL!! Devs, pls take all the time you need..we can wait. Just make sure we get a good game

[@Thesilverninja]

The radio communications, voice over, and ship prepare for battle audio got me HYPED!!!! Already wishlisted. Looking forward to the release!

[@Thalatash]

This game looks so awesome! I'm really excited for it to come out.

[@Grimfanden]

Looking better and better, damn the atmos is imersive!

[@diaperdood1]

Thank u so much for your hard work!!! Tbis is amazing!!!

[@bluemoon1368]

Really great audio on the cinematic

[@N1njaSnake]

This is the loveliest thing I have seen in a long time. I just LOVE it.

[@Azuca002]

You blow my mind, every time! Can't wait!

[@firestarter000001]

It really looks impressive. The mood/art is perfect, hopefully the gameplay as well:) .Been a strategy gamers my whole life, waiting with fingers crossed for this one.

[@xianderthest8014]

I love the comm-chatter is this, I hope it is something that is maintained throughout the game!

[@kyles5751]

I wish this game had a multiplayer mode like co-op or vs., so I could play with friends.

[@amethysttalon3507]

This is looking so good - I can't wait to get my hands on it

[@Shalashaska111]

I hope this game releases before I die of old age.

[@Schinken_]

dude its only 3 years so be patience and there is only 1 guy working on it for the most part.

[@iCeMhaN23]

I've been waiting for more than a year now! I cannot wait more :D

[@tomduke1297]

sweet stuff! keep at it man, you are doing great things! ;)

[@TheZoomTown]

Glad to see the cross-eyed gunner from Spaceballs is still finding work.

[@commissarzimmer7686]

Ребят, вы невероятны! Игра уже в списке желаемого. В России мы наконец-то можем пополнять кошелёк steam, поэтому лично я куплю игру напрямую без ключа активации. Я люблю RTS и очень хочу хоть как-то поддержать разработчиков достойных проектов в этом жанре. Отдельное спасибо за русский перевод со старта!

[@SizzleCorndog]

Feels like Nebulous: Fleet Command with more realistic graphics, no third dimension, and more focus on a single player experience

[@NotWhatButWho]

That ice shake gave me goose bumps, well done

[@dragonrabbit7410]

wow that friendly fire incident was brutal

[@harvbegal6868]

It's been on my wishlist for a long while now... and I think I'm gonna keep it there

[@andrewarez4059]

Everything looks so great but the sound design just mesmerising

[@miketacos9034]

These ship designs are stunning. And the clacking of the guns being fired is amazing. I am so looking forward to this game. I can wait til it’s ready no problem.

[@pathfindermorning]

i love that this is basically just the expanse XD

[@pickes]

Wow again and again. Really looking forward to test it out.

[@zeebaa6]

Damn. The naval (bosun's?) whistle when the ship's captain is addressing the crew

[@glitterfish7780]

Some serious 'Expanse' vibes here. Very Exciting!

[@AzzaRudd]

Look so amazing, perfect ambience

[@deckard4310]

Sounds are very well implemented.

[@christopherg2347]

3:25 I am 70% sure that ship went down to friendly fire there. Clearly 2 hits by the Caligula. And the explosion already started when the enemy railgun fired.

[@henrikklarsen2380]

That boatswain's call/whistle was a great touch!

[@dangbar200]

Looking great thanks for sharing!

[@xiaodai125]

this falling frontier radio chatter bring back the memories of the Homeworld series

[@vegassims7]

Really, really looking forward to this games release. Looks so awesome

[@GrandAdmiralBrador]

This really reminds me of Homeworld, but mashed up with Sins of a Solar Empire and a little bit of the Expanse. Looks great!

[@myinamei8884]

WOW, man! This is the best space game trailer ever! It looks AMAZING! It's a piece of art!

[@Killian.Hardegen]

Jesus, Todd. I´m speechless. Pure Fire!

[@atheenon]

This is looking great! Can’t wait to pick it up and stream it in the future! Thanks for all your hard work on it!

[@NNYYLL]

Caligula's weapons crew needs a heavy inspection

[@BISHOP10511]

had me at Com Chatter and extreme detail, cant wait!!!

[@phaodaimotnguoi-1manfortress]

The atmosphere is just so good, i can't 😢

[@kikrotin]

The insane amount of details... wow, I was feeling like in the Expanse :D

[@bigeasy1383]

defiantly the new ship looks sick worth the wait for sure

[@destroyerdragon2002]

Looking awesome as usual. Going to be epic.

[@OriGummie]

0:53 I hope space navies will keep old traditions. What a great detail!

[@ZiusPlays]

Homeworld vibe is strong with this one! Can't wait!

[@Dante347]

I’ve have watched this trailer again and again! My god I cannot wait for this game! Everything I’ve been longing for in a game. Like many others will happily pay for an early access release even if it’s still missing features 😊

[@clanceysmith2513]

This game looks great so far. Looking forward to playing it.

[@puregibberish]

Looks fantastic! So excited!

[@Jakobe_Beef]

Can't wait to play this game, looks and sounds great

[@phfr8808]

This have definitely some The Expanse vibe !

[@johnskinner9315]

Wow this looks amazing. Echoing the other comments on wishing that comms chatter is in game. That would be awesome.

[@oralord5659]

Can't wait for the release 🤞

[@alexanderthegreat8644]

Omg I can't wait to play this!!!

[@juste4579]

Having the score written by Scott Buckley is such a....score!

[@ivanhuang1335]

0:54 the bosun's whistle here is such a nice little touch

[@Soysauce_Soaked_Saltine]

I'm so excited for this!

[@arquebusier1995]

Somehow the vibe reminds me of World in Conflict, what a brilliant game it was. I`m sold on this one

[@XmortoxX1990]

I've never played a battle ship strategy game, but this one got my attention. Looks pretty good!

[@latch9781]

The game looks damn good, certainly worth the time put into it

[@CharlesbGallup]

Looks amazing. I'll continue to eagerly wait. Really hoping for multiplayer component down the line.

[@sablephoenix]

This was all really cool, but then we get to the end of the video, and that pull back from the individual dueling ships all the way out to the view of the entire Saturnian system was jaw-dropping.