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[Bullet Club]

Get a glimpse at Flintlock’s magic and gunpowder wielding heroes in action as Nor and her fully voiced foxlike companion, Enki, team up to prevail against the Gods. Flooded by tides of undead, players must combine the might of Nor’s destructive axe and flintlock weaponry with Enki’s mysterious mystical abilities, strategically signalling Enki to gain the upper hand by harnessing his astonishing powers.

Your battle against the Gods begins early 2023 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Steam, Epic Games Store, Xbox One and Xbox Series S|X! Available day one with Game Pass.

 

[GymWolf]

I sincerely don't know how to judge this gameplay.

Lies of p seems more promising.

 

[tommib]

There’s something old-school and naive about this that interests me. Will pay attention.

 

[AJUMP23]

You cannot store a flintlock pistol with the muzzle facing down. The ball and the powder would all fall out.

I don't think this gameplay looks interesting.

 

[GymWolf]

You cannot store a flintlock pistol with the muzzle facing down. The ball and the powder would all fall out.

I don't think this gameplay looks interesting.

So it is safe to say that they dropped the ball with this trailer?

 

[Punished Miku]

Certainly looks good enough to try. Hope it delivers. I like that it's a new IP, and unique setting.

 

[AJUMP23]

So it is safe to say that they dropped the ball with this trailer?

 

[GymWolf]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeah.

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Premise sounded interesting, then it's a god of war clone. I was hoping for a late medieval game.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Looks good. If the price tag lands around 40 I might bite. Love the flintlock pistol action. Executions looks dope. I hope it's not too clunky and janky when you play. That's the main issue with these Souls-likes, they need that japanese super smoothness tucked in tight in the gameplay.

 

[Hayabusabruh]

More hyped for this than Lies of P. It appears to have more flow.

 

[jaysius]

IGN's preview makes it sound like a confusing mismash they said "god of war" and "souls like" and the combat looked, like neither of those, very mashy also they said there's a "Devil may cry" point system involved in the combat... those are all ideas that don't gel AT ALL.

Sounds like a 5 year old came up with this mishmash.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Looks cool, will definitely try it out.

 

[Fbh]

Looks fun, the attacks seem to have some weight to them and the visuals are quite decent.
Hopefully they release another video showing more of the world and exploration, at least the clip at the end hinted at slightly more open areas.

IGN's preview makes it sound like a confusing mismash they said "god of war" and "souls like" and the combat looked, like neither of those, very mashy also they said there's a "Devil may cry" point system involved in the combat... those are all ideas that don't gel AT ALL.

Sounds like a 5 year old came up with this mishmash.

Or shitty games "journalists" have lost the ability to describe games and mechanics without doing lazy comparisons to other games.

 

[drotahorror]

Looks kind of cool. Add some blood and wounds to convey a better hit reaction and I’m sold.

 

[kittoo]

I hate the brown filter.
Rest looks fine.

 

[GymWolf]

IGN's preview makes it sound like a confusing mismash they said "god of war" and "souls like" and the combat looked, like neither of those, very mashy also they said there's a "Devil may cry" point system involved in the combat... those are all ideas that don't gel AT ALL.

Sounds like a 5 year old came up with this mishmash.

Dude it's ign, they probably throw sticky rubber dicks into a drawing board to decide what to say like they do at vice.

 

[abacab driver]

Looks like a pretty cool new IP to me.

 

[Hayabusabruh]

A giant yes from me!

 

[Torrent of Pork]

As a person who owns multiple black-powder firearms, including a few flintlock muskets and rifles, this footage triggers the shit out of me. The fucking magic fox thing I can accept without question, but the mundane flintlock being treated like that bothers me.

You cannot store a flintlock pistol with the muzzle facing down. The ball and the powder would all fall out.

I don't think this gameplay looks interesting.

The wadding that the musket ball is packed in as it is loaded into the barrel both keeps the powder from escaping, and seats the ball against it through compression. Only during 'rapid' reloading during regimented combat would a soldier drop a naked musket ball down the barrel, then immediately aim, prime the flash pan, and fire. People either hunting, or using pistols would have a patch of linen cloth that would be put over the muzzle, then the ball would be pressed into it before being rammed in. The ball would not roll out thanks to that.

 

[March Climber]

This reminds me of the Xbox 360/PS3 era of action games where a lot of western studios focused on making combat feel like it had a ton of weight behind every move. I'm liking what I see.

 

[AJUMP23]

As a person who owns multiple black-powder firearms, including a few flintlock muskets and rifles, this footage triggers the shit out of me. The fucking magic fox thing I can accept without question, but the mundane flintlock being treated like that bothers me.


The wadding that the musket ball is packed in as it is loaded into the barrel both keeps the powder from escaping, and seats the ball against it through compression. Only during 'rapid' reloading during regimented combat would a soldier drop a naked musket ball down the barrel, then immediately aim, prime the flash pan, and fire. People either hunting, or using pistols would have a patch of linen cloth that would be put over the muzzle, then the ball would be pressed into it before being rammed in. The ball would not roll out thanks to that.

Show me where they patch the muzzle before stowing muzzle down on the back. I also think my original criticism still stands. It is a video game so it doesn’t matter, but a soldier never walked around with a muzzle slung down when marching.

 

[Moochi]

As a person who owns multiple black-powder firearms, including a few flintlock muskets and rifles, this footage triggers the shit out of me. The fucking magic fox thing I can accept without question, but the mundane flintlock being treated like that bothers me.


The wadding that the musket ball is packed in as it is loaded into the barrel both keeps the powder from escaping, and seats the ball against it through compression. Only during 'rapid' reloading during regimented combat would a soldier drop a naked musket ball down the barrel, then immediately aim, prime the flash pan, and fire. People either hunting, or using pistols would have a patch of linen cloth that would be put over the muzzle, then the ball would be pressed into it before being rammed in. The ball would not roll out thanks to that.

Thank you for saving me from typing that out.

 

[Torrent of Pork]

Show me where they patch the muzzle before stowing muzzle down on the back. I also think my original criticism still stands. It is a video game so it doesn’t matter, but a soldier never walked around with a muzzle slung down when marching.

The paper cartridge was plenty enough wadding for standard soldier use, and would hold up decently enough for relatively short periods of jostling with the barrel pointed down. For people who expected to have a charge ready to go for hours they would use linen pillow-ticking which would provide a much tighter fit for the musket ball.

Flintlock pistols were often pointed down when worn. They're virtually identical in function from their long-arm counterparts in function.

Edit- By "pointing down" I mean less than parallel with the ground, not with the barrel aimed 90 degrees downward.

 

[AJUMP23]

Torrent of Pork i knew I could make this thread educational. Look at that lobster back.

 

[Torrent of Pork]

AJUMP23

It's like when I watched Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

I can shut my brain off and accept the 300 foot tall nuclear dinosaur, but fuck the double-sized B2 bomber that the protagonists somehow flew into its hanger bay with a smaller jet. That's not how shit works.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn aims to build on Elden Ring by combining the challenge of a Soulslike with the cinematic flare of a Sony first-party.

Flintlock is due early 2023 for PC (on Steam and the Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It will be available on Xbox Game Pass on launch day as well.

 

[Torrent of Pork]

I also want to say that I'm looking forward to this game, my autistic screeching about firearm inaccuracy notwithstanding.

 

[Strider Highwind]

Looks interesting, i'll give it a spin

Only thing for me is some of the animation looked super janky at times

 

[fermcr]

Game got delayed to 2024.