[UE4] Warhalla - A fast paced 3rd Person Shooter

ooParanoia

Hello fellow polycounters!

I would like to introduce you to the latest status of our game that goes by the Workingtitle of Warhalla!

The Team:

The Alpha was developed by a team of four students as our 5th semesters project. The team consisted of:

Eva Kaup: Concepts & Texturing
Katharina Ricken: Rigging, Animation & Environment
Julian Neagu: Character & Weapon Modelling
Tom Nietfeld (me): Programming & VFX
New to the team now:
Jannic Boehme: Sound

We now decided to continue our work on Warhalla for our bachelor thesis
and heavily appreciate every feedback we can get! Also for any tips and tricks for Steam Greenlight we are all ears

I have made an explanation-video for the game that should cover everything else:

https://youtu.be/jx83FxDEhXQ

ooParanoia

I also would like to share how we started. So here are some of our early concepts:


This particular concept was an Overpaint of our very first whiteboxed map to define the style we were aiming for.


Thsi concept was one of the first weapon concepts and was to define the style of the weapons we wanted to go with. Our focus was on funny, but functional weapons


These are some Iterations on Thors Champion we had. After we agreed on his body type we iterated on different armor styles.


Currently we are rethinking all of these decisions that we made so really any feedback on the current state of the game will be helpful. We are aware that there is still a long road ahead until we have the game in a polished state and would love to hear as many opinions as possible

ooParanoia

Some tiled Textures for the new map

ooParanoia

We got greenlit! Here is our greenlight trailer:

https://youtu.be/p9sBKdSJAs4


And Steampage:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=816529247

ooParanoia

Here is a complete playthrough of one match with only 4 out of 10 players though.

https://youtu.be/W5-YOyb322k

popawheelie

Looking great! I find that chicken gun sound a little too much. I'm thinking more of a basey 'thoomp' blowgun-ish sound and ever so often a random chicken cluck. Killing another player could make a cock-a-doodle-doo sound, or getting hit whilst holding the weapon can sometimes make the chicken make another sound.. Describing sounds is quite hard. Set up sound cues to add variety if you haven't already. Keep up the good work.

ooParanoia

@popawheelie
thanks for the input
Most of the SFX are placeholders at this point, as our sound guy just finished the music and will take care of the sound next. And yes that obnoxious chickengun will be first

Shrike

Looks good but the lighting kills it. Its underlit, the light color seems white - give it a yellow tone and make it brighter, and the shadows are just black and too strong. Increase ambient light and give shadows a slight purple tone and try to get less shadowing going, nearly your full arena is in shadows and that looks depressing, but you want to evoke a fun time. Set the sun higher. Color grading is also a must have and makes a lot of difference. Go shine and bright, warm and inviting.