May the yods be silent! Welcome to the new home of open Outcast!

After long and hard work from all of…wait…again…after long hard work from s87 and some little work from the rest of the team, we are now able to present you our new and fresh oOC site. *fanfare*

Yeah, lets go a bit into the details about the reasons for this switch of homepage. That’s quite easy, it was just because the old page was really terrible to update. No CMS or anything in place, just plain html. Not that we are not competent enough to make updates in HTML – we are – but we somehow just didn’t have time in the last month. As you all know we had something else to do

Okay, but now the new site is live and several things are going to change now:

• More regular news updates on the page
• Weekly developer’s blogs
• More content – Videos & Pictures, maybe some music even
• A lot more activity in the boards

But wait, that’s all? Nothing else?

No, not even close to something like “nothing else”. Lets see…

• We now have a finished OASIS – check
• We received a lot of good and enthusiastic feedback – check
• We all look as good as David Beckham – che…wait.

Okay, maybe not. But at least, we have a plan. And it seems, that it is a good plan. In theory…

But I really should stop talking nonsense now and come to the real important points. One of them seems to be how we are planning to proceed now after Oasis? Releasing other demos? Going the episodic way? Going on holiday with the dev-team? No not at all. We had a long and exhausting developer’s chat the other week and nailed down our masterplan to finish and successfully release oOC. And this is the direction we want to go to:

Four milestones

• Gandha – Pre-Alpha
• Eluee – Alpha
• Ka – Beta
• Fae – Final / Release

Don’t expect us to write any of the release dates down. They are kept internally until we are sure that we can publish something that will hold the pressure. Oh, and by the way…There won’t be any new demo releases for the next milestones.

“D’oh! But why not”, will some of you now ask us.
It’s easy, we want to finish oOC in an acceptable time span. And if we release demos between the milestones, it will last 100 years and when we release it then you are all dead. And that would be a quite unfortunate situation as you could imagine.

So we decided to kick out the new demo releases and just concentrate on the big game.

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Okay okay, you are right. Something has to be release anyway to keep you interested. We know that. “Bread and Circuses” as the old romans would have said!
To get serious again…we are planning to release regular update packs for the OASIS demo.

This means the following. If we finished a package of new interesting features (like a new HUD, the quest system, the conversation system, climbing on the walls, camera etc.) we are implementing them into the OASIS demo and release a patch. And you can try out those features right away. Okay, you won’t get anything really new in terms of game assets and quests – at least not in every patch – but hey…there has to be at least some last good reason that you will stay with us to play the final game, right?

We are expecting a lot of feedback about those features from your side and because of that, you are an important part of our developer team. You guys are the one’s we are making this game for and that is why we want to integrate you as much as possible. Tell us your ideas, critics and feedbacks as soon as a new patch comes out. Of course there will be some separate boards for this – just like the OASIS one – where you can post everything you get out of the new version of OASIS.

Yeap, so far so good. That seems to be all for the moment.
*turns around and shouts in direction of the developer’s jacuzzi*
“Okay guys? Did I forgot something?”…
…*blubb*…*blubb*…

Believe us, there will be A LOT more action on the site and the boards, than it was before and even than it was EVER. So stay tuned, guys! The adventure of getting serious in creating oOC has started right now with the release of this news post and you will be a part of this voyage. We are counting you in. Lets rock!

“Even the longest way starts with a single step…”

Best regards,
Eternal Outcasts

Our tech preview Oasis has been released!

Download it from Origo, eXp, Crysis News or ModDB!
Also take a look at the Release Notes in our forum where you can tell us about your experience with our first demo based on Crysis Wars.

Don’t forget that you DO NOT NEED TO BUY CRYSIS WARS in order to play Oasis – the Trial version is enough (see Release Notes).

If your system isn’t able to run the demo check the playthrough video to get an impression of the release.