PC Gaming Terminator: TechCom 2029

[Spartan303]

Hey all. Found something that comes as quite a bit of a treat. Its called TechCom 2029. A Game developed by fans who have a real passion for the Terminator, which focuses on the Future war seen in Terminator and Terminator 2. As you can see from the trailer below this one focuses more on T1. The game designers going for the survival horror aspect of the Future War setting. They wanted to design it similar to Alien Isolation, but with Terminator. For in this game you are always under threat from everything, always having to run and hide, always running low on ammo and health, always outgunned and being hunted by a superior enemy force. Best part is, is that it'll be free to play upon release. This looks like its going to rock!





The recent reveal of the T-800.

Spoiler: Demo Gameplay 1.

Spoiler: Demo Gameplay 2

 

[Husky_Khan]

Free to play is nice, it looks neat from the demo. Still rough, but it looks good and I like where it is so far.

I wonder where it will be released. Or if they have a website so I can look it up myself. Their Youtube channel is very barebones.

 

[Spartan303]

Free to play is nice, it looks neat from the demo. Still rough, but it looks good and I like where it is so far.

I wonder where it will be released. Or if they have a website so I can look it up myself. Their Youtube channel is very barebones.

I ain't gonna lie. I am stoked about this game. The Demo vids sold me completely.

Purple Lasers!!!

 

[Spartan303]

Animation for the HK Tank and Arial.






And the first screentest for the T-800. They're trying to keep it as close to the original T-800 seen in T1 and T2. Not sure if the T-850 or any other variants will be seen yet.




Musical scores pulled from the game. They're trying to stay as true to Brad Fiedel as much as possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTy0QfL_b38

Yeah, I'm definitely hyped about this game. Terminator Resistance was damn good fun but this looks to be on another level.

 

[Spartan303]

Update to TechCom 2029. They seem to have a driving element. This is a sneak peak but still pretty rough.

 

[Jormungandr]

Update to TechCom 2029. They seem to have a driving element. This is a sneak peak but still pretty rough.

Terminator 2: the Arcade Game music! From where you're riding with John Connor on the back of the technical!

Holy shit, these guys are dedicated fans on par with the developers behind Alien: Isolation!

 

[Spartan303]

A little promotional stuff on TechCom 2029.

 

[UltimatePaladin]

Hmm, hope there is an option to drive in first person. Probably crash a lot in that mode, but I would enjoy the immersion. Though, was it just me, or did some of the animations seem clunky, here? Particularly in the weapon reloads.

 

[Spartan303]

Hmm, hope there is an option to drive in first person. Probably crash a lot in that mode, but I would enjoy the immersion. Though, was it just me, or did some of the animations seem clunky, here? Particularly in the weapon reloads.

I think its a team of 3 guys making this. But yes, they do seem kind of clunky. But for 3 guys and not a studio...this is VERY not bad, at all.

 

[UltimatePaladin]

I think its a team of 3 guys making this. But yes, they do seem kind of clunky. But for 3 guys and not a studio...this is VERY not bad, at all.

Definitely not bad.

Though, I think that it might have been deliberate, in retrospect? I looked back on some of the earlier gameplay, and it is much smoother like I remembered it. Think they're trying to go with an early 80's special effects kind of vibe? Though, it would work much better for the Terminators than the weapon reloads animation.

 

[Jormungandr]

I love how they're using the "old" T-800/850 design than the newer one seen in Genisys and Dark Fate -- that one was goddamn awful, with its flat heels and strange chest-plate.

 

[ShadowArxxy]

I found a pretty fascinating interview with the visual designer who did the "new" T-800 model for Genisys.

The changes to the body were mostly about making the Terminator more realistic -- the original T-800 endo's mechanical detailing and chest plate don't actually "fit" under a human skin, and its bodily proportions do not actually fit Arnold's frame. That's why the modified design has the "flat" chest plate and more smooth plating sections overall. It pretty much comes down to making it an endoskeleton that does a better job of matching its framing, as opposed to an endoskeleton that was done as a standalone item that pretty much handwaved its connection to the human skinned version.

The head, however, is 100% unchanged original. The apparent changes around the eye sockets are pretty much just a matter of it being a higher detail model seen under brighter lighting than any of the T-800 shots in the old movies.

 

[ShadowArxxy]

Basically, before I found that interview, I agreed with you in going, "The classic T-800 endo was perfect and iconic, changing it was bullshit." After reading the interview. . . I have mixed feelings. Because the classic T-800 endo *still is* iconic, but the changes do actually make sense as well.

Even the changes that weren't necessary for the endo to actually fit "in" an Arnold body were relatively subtle styling updates that were designed to avoid the whole 'future of the 80s' effect where projected future stuff can be dissonant today because actual industrial and technological capabilities went in a different direction than they imagined back then. I think that's actually a pretty reasonable way to update something while staying true to a classic original, and really, these are mostly subtle changes to the detailing anyway, not anything that heavily breaks SOD.

I suppose one could split the difference and say that the "more mechanical" classic endo is the standard Skynet infantry model that is used standalone and was also used for early infiltrator variants, while the "body compatible" endo is a more refined infiltrator variant that does a better job of passing as human.

 

[Spartan303]

Well...shit. the youtube channel has been nuked. I think for multiple copyright strikes. This isn't good.

 

[Bassoe]

Spoiler: Demo Gameplay 1.

Spoiler: Demo Gameplay 2

If anyone was wondering what the sort of chromed-mannequin-robot instead of a T-800 endoskeleton on the title screen was, apparently, it was literally just that.


While intended as a placeholder, I can't be the only one who thinks it'd make a neat enemy, something humanoid enough to fit inside and use human-designed infrastructure, yet not designed with camouflaging itself as a human in mind.

Also, I've turned up some concept art sources. Josh Taylor's personal website and James Towne's artstation account.

 

[Laskar]

Well...shit. the youtube channel has been nuked. I think for multiple copyright strikes. This isn't good.

Dammit. I only got to see some of the early gameplay demos.
The concept art and models linked by Bassoe is top-notch. It pisses me off that Terminator movies are only ever going to recycle the plot from the first two movies, but a fan game that might take place after Judgment Day will never see the light of day.

 

[Bassoe]

Well...shit. the youtube channel has been nuked. I think for multiple copyright strikes. This isn't good.

Either buggy copyright-detection algorithms or Skydance not wanting competition made by actual fans doing it for the art with their planned licensed terminator games.

Probably the best bet would be to tweak the models to something just a bit different*, change the names and release it anyway as officially unaffiliated with the terminator franchise.

* Torso and pelvis of this design by Aurum Prime, the limbs capable of transforming between bipedal and quadrupedal locomotion of this design by Nivanh Chanthara with the semi-prehensile feet of this design by Andrew Baker and the head of some actual animatronic sans the skin. Something clearly terminator-inspired, but acceptable to lawyers.

 

[Spartan303]

Techcom 2029 is back up on YouTube. Turns out the account got deleted not because of something they did bit due to someone else having a similar name doing something that pissed off YouTube. As a result YouTube went scorched Earth and nuked that person and his account but ended up taking out TechCom 2029 as collateral damage. Took a month to get it sorted bit its fixed now.

 

[Jormungandr]

YouTube really need to change their shitty system.

 

[Bassoe]