Explore the solar system. Build fortress cities. Conquer all that you see. Rank: Warmaster is a brand new genre-defying blend of 4X, RTS, and Space Flight Simulator game play. Take on the role of a corporate settler stranded on Mars and construct a new civilization from the ashes of the old.
## About This Game
Rank: Warmaster is a genre-defying blend of 4X, RTS, and Space Flight
Simulator in which you must explore and conquer the solar system in order to
build a new empire and bring peace to humanity. When the Central Earth
Government ran up too many debts with the megacorporations, drastic actions
were taken to collect. Earth’s own defense grid has been turned against it and
all Earthbound citizens have been taken hostage. Nobody enters and nobody
leaves.
You take on the role of a corporate settler who has just been stranded on
Mars. Trapped in an underground shelter your only assets are a Builder Bot, a
handful of construction resources, and an instructional contingency AI named
Ares. From these lowly origins you build first a city and then a fleet of
remote controlled warships to secure your territory all the while knowing that
you aren’t the only one out here. Every other major corporation launched its
own settlers to escape the devastation and soon you’ll find that there’s just
not enough solar system to go around.
A One of a Kind Experience:
Rank: Warmaster combines the best parts of the 4X, RTS, and Space Flight
genres bringing a new depth to all three. Build your cities in real time and
raise up fleets to defend them. First plot your conquest across Mars, and then
the rest of the solar system. Order your fleets into engagements with enemy
forces and when the battle needs a personal touch freely drop in and take
direct, first person control of any of your ships. When the ship you control
is destroyed, instantly jump into any other ship you control on or off the
battlefield with no respawn timer.
Unique Granular Damage System:
Every part of every ship is individually damaged and destroyed. Penetrate the
hull to damage the critical systems held within. Enough damage will see a ship
fully perforated, allowing weapons fire to pass through one ship and into
another. With careful shots enemy ships can be left disabled rather than
destroyed, the better to salvage them and reverse engineer their technology.
Customize Your Ships Using a Vast Web of Technologies:
There are many tools at your disposal, victory will rely on picking the right
ones. Research new weapons and components and then use the ship builder for
full customization of your ships including armor thickness, shield strength,
and even weapon and component placement. With no set mounting points or number
of components the only placement limit is the ship’s available internal space.
Design the perfect ship manually or with assistance from the auto-build
functions. Focus on the technologies that suit your strategy, but beware that
your enemy can display just as much variety as you. You will be forced to
adapt your designs or be left in the dust.
Customize Your Corporation:
Create your own corporation with unique qualities to suit your preferred play
style. Is your shield technology miles ahead of the competition? Perhaps your
ships are optimized to allow more components to fit in the same amount of
space. Maybe nobody knows explosives quite like you. The bonuses and penalties
you select before the game even starts will be with you for your entire
campaign, irrevocably changing the course of your destiny.
Command as you Will:
A suite of AI helpers allow you to focus on the aspects of the game you love
the most and leave the management of everything else to the AI. Whether you
want to focus on developing your cities and technology, strategically
commanding your conquering fleets, or if you just want to be the best pilot in
the solar system you have the freedom to play your way. If you prefer human
management bring in friends and divide the responsibilities of empire
management between you, the AI doesn’t know the difference. For a more
competitive experience players can form their own corporations and challenge
each other for final dominion of the solar system.
Explore a Hostile Solar System Full of Surprises:
As you expand your sphere of influence an AI storyteller will present events
and situations which bring new depth to your story of conquest. Some of these
will be random while others will be placed at game start; waiting to be
discovered. The solar system hides many secrets both mysterious and mundane.
Carefully navigating the evolving narrative will yield potent rewards of
technology and resources while the careless and unlucky will suffer brutal
setbacks. Adapt to unforeseen circumstances as space itself becomes another
opponent to be challenged and overcome. At the end of your journey face off
against the forgotten colonists of Alpha Centauri who seek to reclaim their
home system.
Rank: Warmaster