Hi everyone,

After more than nine months of work, my new game has finally hit Steam: Max Savage. Think Wing Commander meets Zelda, with a fully scripted, voice-acted story campaign and planet-side exploration.

There’s a free demo available, and it’s playable on Windows and Linux.

I hope you’ll give it a go.

Cheers,

Tim

I really liked the view of WC3. It was really impressive but WC4 was set to looking through targeting camera

I was curious about Wing Commander 4 ever since I was made aware of it. I just bought it off GOG, but that release is pretty unstable, even crashes the game every time I try to open the Controls Window. I got the enhancement patch that, not only allowed the game to run at 60fps, but also fixes the instability of the game, even doesn't crash when I open the Controls Window, but every time I try to set the controls up, I try pitching by holding up and down on the analog stick and HOTAS, but I just end up rolling. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Edit 1: I also just found out that the game will not allow me to change to the control preset I just made.

Hello everyone,

it's probably a long shot but if anyone here makes gaming content/coverage or knows someone who does and is interested in pre-release access to my upcoming game: just send me a message on Reddit or an email at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

You don't have to promise anything... there are no strings attached.

If you want to learn more about the game, here is the Steam-Page and Press Kit:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4305030/Max_Savage/

https://trgames.de/max-savage-press-kit/

Thanks

I've been wanting to replay them.

I have Boxer on my M2 Ultra, and I was curious what joystick could I get?

I've seen a lot of mentions of a Thrustmaster and a different one, but I didn't want to spent that much on them. And I don't recall these games requiring complex set ups for joysticks when I played them as a kid.

Anyone have a good recommendation for a simple joystick that would work on a Mac for this?

Can I use my gamepad for gog version?

Hello again,

Max Savage will be coming out on the 21st of July and I'm looking for people to hunt the bugs and give feedback. :)

If you're interested in testing and can find the time to play through the game once or even twice (app. 5-7 hours) please visit my Discord and send me a DM.

https://discord.gg/adDzkgft4F

I will hook you up with a Steam Key (you can keep) and if you want I will add you to the credits.

If you want to learn more about the game, here's the Steam page (with a demo):

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4305030/Max_Savage/

Thanks for helping out,

Tim

Hi everyone,

I thought I'd give you a glimpse at the progress of the game I'm making.

If you're curious to learn more or play the demo, you can find that here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4305030/Max_Savage/

Hope you'll give it a try. :)

PS: The full release will be fully voice-acted. 😉

Cheers,

Tim

From my local retro game store. Someone must've tapped out. Mark Hamill bio pics FTW. These will go great with the novels.

I just saw this ominous little closing when I exited DOS after running WC3 for the first time in a while. Is there a story behind this reference?

EDIT: I'm rephrasing my entire post because the answers so far are going in a "git gud"-kinda direction, even though my issues with the game are clearly of some technological type:

- my wingmen regularly die within seconds of reaching a Nav Point. And we are talking early Nav Points in early missions of the game. No, the game never was meant to be played like this

- I am getting absolutely swamped with missiles; often so much I am out of afterburner fuel and decoys after one or two Nav Points. As mentioned, I am rusty, but only playing on the second of six (or seven?) difficulties. No, this is not normal, no this is not how the game always was. There is something going on there, even for the missile-heavy Wing Commander 4. And we are still talking about the first few missions. I also just played through Wing Commander 3 a few days ago and nothing this absurd ever happened there.

- enemy fighters are jittery and erratic to an absurd degree.

There is something going on there with how gog.com is using the dosbox to emulate the game, but I dont know how to customize it so that the game can be played again. Does anybody have constructive input there? Thank you!

My original post:

Hey everybody,

I finally found the time to play some Wing Commander again. I installed Price of Freedom from gog.com and got to it. Now granted, I am a bit rusty, but I noticed from the very start a few things:

- the fighters move incredibly fast and hectic, Maniac in the tutorial mission was basically impossible to hit

- on every jump point I just get swamped in missiles, in a way that I do not remember from playing this game before. I only play on Veteran and from the fourth mission onwards I get the missile alert basically every other second.

- my wingmen constantly die, very often just moments after entering a new Nav Point.

- and I, too, am constantly dying..

Now, I am a bit rusty as mentioned before, but all of these issues appear to not only be a consequence of that. I assume that the game is running too fast in some way, but googling these issues didnt help me that much, to be honest. Can any of you help me fix the game?

Thank you!!

The game itself was okay, but the story and acting and cinematography were a massive step down.

Casey was a dull protagonist, not a good successor to Chris Blair.

Mark Hamill seemed to be phoning in his role.

IV was the perfect ending to the series. I choose to think of it that way. After all, Prophesy was part one to a new series that never materialized.

I was thinking about this the other day; when WC1 came out, as far as I know all of the Ultima games so far had had the option and that was Origin's biggest series. (It was U8 in 1994 that took it out.) And I feel like it would work and be pretty straightforward in WC1. After all, it's not like we see any sort of discrimination against Spirit or Angel or anything like that.

WC2 it gets a bit trickier because of the romance subplot and it being the early 90s, but they did something like that in Ultima VII, so maybe they'd still be fine?

Of course, WC3, that's where it'd get prohibitively expensive with all the extra scenes. But it makes me want to ask, if such a thing did happen, who would have been a good choice to play Christina Blair?

Hey everyone,

I’ve just released the demo for my game Max Savage.

It’s a mix of space combat and planet exploration... think Wing Commander dogfights combined with Zelda-like exploration, where you land on planets and fight alien creatures with a plasma sword.

You can try the demo here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4305030/Max_Savage/

Would love to hear what you think!

I started a fan voting site where users can vote on games they'd like to see Backwards Compatible on Xbox, and have even gotten some recognition from folks at Xbox.

It's not a petition, more of a place to centralize demand for these older games to be playable again. XboxGamePreservation.com is the site.

The live feed from inside the capsule. Reminds me of the original game.

Found it on a discount . Decided to collect it for my own Guilty pleasure.

I started a new podcast recently and my very first episode had to be about Wing Commander II and how it did its storytelling differently from X-Wing. If you've got a spare 15 mins, it's here!

I'm looking for testers for my upcoming game Max Savage.

It's basically Wing Commander meets Zelda: retro arcade space combat mixed with top-down planetary action.

Check out the Steam page here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4305030/Max_Savage/

Want to help test? Join the Discord and DM me for access to the testing channel and a Steam key:

https://discord.gg/adDzkgft4F

If you actively participate, you’ll get:

• the full game for free
• your name in the credits

Bonus: the game supports flight sticks, so I’m especially looking for people who can help test those.

Sorry... I don't mean to spam your subreddit. But I finished the game and wanted to share my thoughts!