00:00Hello, I'm Ian Fish from Redemption Road Games, makers of Road Redemption and the upcoming Kingmakers.
00:11In Kingmakers you travel back to the year 1401 to help the real-life Welsh rebel Owein Glendower conquer England.
00:22In reality, his Welsh rebellion was defeated and he mysteriously disappeared.
00:26So, in 1401 England you use modern weapons to help the outnumbered Welsh defeat English armies made up of thousands of soldiers.
00:34And everything in Kingmakers is real. The thousands of soldiers are all simulated.
00:38Furthermore, all buildings are fully navigable and fully destructible.
00:46Thousands of soldiers can navigate complex multi-storied castles with the same level of pathfinding fidelity you'd expect from a modern first-person shooter.
00:54Originally we thought Kingmakers was going to be a cool simulation of what it would be like to go back in time with modern weapons.
01:00Would you be able to defeat a medieval army with an AK-47?
01:03Then we realized that if we're going to do this, we've got to do it right.
01:06Medieval battles involve thousands of soldiers, so we're going to simulate thousands of soldiers.
01:11And this isn't like Dynasty Wars, where soldiers kind of spawn into existence as you approach them.
01:16In Kingmakers they're always there, running their AI all the time.
01:20Furthermore, we realized that a game with this scope, the player would want to be able to command his armies and fortify his own outposts.
01:26So it kind of grew from there.
01:28It's now something completely unique.
01:30A shooter with real-time strategy elements that rival Age of Empires and shooting gameplay that rivals Helldivers and Space Marine.
01:36Today we're excited to share a little bit more about the destruction aspect of the game.
01:44Every building, castle, wall and tree in Kingmakers is fully destructible.
01:48You can blow it up with a grenade launcher, take it out with an airstrike or maybe even demolish it with a tank.
01:56And none of the destruction is scripted either.
01:58It's all dynamic, courtesy of Unreal 4's fast physics calculations.
02:02It's one of the reasons we didn't switch to Unreal 5.
02:05We experimented with Unreal 5.1 and Unreal 5.3, but nothing has been as fast on the CPU side as Unreal 4 when it comes to physics.
02:14Finally we're excited to share that you and up to three friends can lead their own armies alongside yours and join in on your conquest of England in online co-op.
02:22This is the full campaign, full online co-op, no compromises.
02:25This means four players fielding armies of thousands, building their own fortifications and buildings and attacking enemy bases either on their own side of the map or alongside you.
02:34We really wanted to make sure that all four players feel just as responsive to play as if they were all playing a single player game or as if they were each playing as the host player.
02:42Even if your ping is not great.
02:44Kingmakers is coming to PC early access and hopefully to all major consoles.
02:49We'll have more to share about the game later in 2025.
02:52In the meantime, please wishlist Kingmakers on Steam.
02:55Thanks for watching and enjoy the rest of the show.
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