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[GAME ON] Chromehounds: Guns with Mech Parts
The Burnin8or
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Chromehounds (This product is a work of fiction)
What is it?
Chromehounds is the latest mech/giant robot action game developed by FromSoftware (makers of the Armored Core series) and published by Sega. from the Sega site:
"Chromehounds brings intense multiplayer HOUND combat to the Xbox 360 for the first time ever. In this massive global conflict, three nations with opposing political views have erupted in an all-out war. From the cockpit of a giant metal "HOUND", you must power your tower of heavy artillery through giant war zones while backing five others on your squad and dodging the firepower of six other live players via Xbox Live. One team member will be elected Tactics Commander and lead the team through the fray via voice commands. You are responsible for arming and customizing your massive mechanized weapon, but overload it and you won't get very far. Your teams' successful completion of missions will open up valuable new items that will bring you all that much closer to victory. Chromehounds also offers numerous single-player missions, plus training modes for team combat and HOUND control familiarization.
Features:
Multiplayer combat mode allows players to build squads of up to 20 players and take to the field in clans of six for head-to-head battle with opposing clans. Conquer enemy territory to advance towards world domination.
Single player action allows players to sharpen their tactics and create a HOUND that best suits the battle. Take on the role of Tactics Commander and strategically transform your team of massive HOUNDS into unbeatable war machines.
Customize your HOUND from a huge array of options to create a walking arsenal of firepower and then take it to the field in both first and third person perspectives.
Wage war in 115 maps spread over three nations. Stunningly realistic battlefield effects draw you and your squad into the fast-paced fray. "
Extensive mech customization is expected for Chromehounds, simliar to what they've done in the Armored Core series
There is currently an online mech builder with a few basic parts from the game as well as a gallery where you can vote for your favorite design here
In addition to the normal single player story mode, Chromehounds features 2 aspects of online gaming. The first involves straight up ranked and unranked matches with up to 12 players across various gametypes: (as posted by Ziggymon)
- Standard : Defeat the opposing teams hounds or HQ
- CTF : Typical capture the flag mode
- Combas Keeper : A Territories gametype, keep as many points on the map in you're teams control for as long as possible
- Death Match : Competition based on number of enemies you're team destroys, penalties for destroying anything other than enemies or dying
- Unlimited : same as death match but unlimited ammo
- Survival : Typical survival, last man standing mode
- Keep the flag : Similair to 'Oddball'; points awarded for having posession of the flag the longest
- Break all : Competition based on amound of objects you're team destroys (buildings, tanks etc)
The second aspect of online gaming in Chromehounds centers around a persistent online gameworld. Players can form clans and join 1 of 3 in game countries to fight for. By fighting players from other nations and winning battles, the areas of a country will expand (or retract if losses occur), giving a country more power and money. Parts can be bough or used from a player's single player game. This game mode is supposed to cycle every couple of weeks with the work resetting during this time (assuming a single country has not taken over the world map before hand)
The current game map and country leaderboard can be found here (thanks EliteBattleman!)
Country Information
from the 360 Wiki:
There are three warring nations in Chromehounds: the Democratic Republic of Tarakia, the Republic of Morskoj, and the Kingdom of Sal Kar. Here's what the official site has to say about the mech types for each of them:
1. Democratic Republic of Tarakia
C. Hound Special Characteristics
Tarakian Hounds are average in both cost and performance. On the good side, they're easy to use and stable, but on the other hand, they have no defining features or particular strengths.
2. Republic of Morskoj
C. Hound Special Characteristics
These Hounds are like you'd expect: strong, robust, durable, and overall big. They also have large amounts of firepower and are well-suited to duking it out one-on-one in open areas. However, Morskoj Hounds are lacking in variation, and they have little to no mobility.
3. Kingdom of Sal Kar
C. Hound Special Characteristics
Employing many light-weight, high-performance parts, Sal Kar's Hounds tend to be few, but effective. Their designs are particularly complex. As mobility is the prime goal in Sal Kar designs, durability can be a problem. These Hounds are expensive, and like Morskoj's designs, they lack in variety.
Other Media
Screenshots - Click to view Full Size (Thanks to Zonghui for all these pics and videos!!)
Gameplay Videos - Right-Click Save As
Teaser Trailer
15.39 MB
Customization Video
42.77 MB
Night Attack Video
15.54 MB
"The First 10 Minutes"
162.51 MB
Other Videos for Chromehounds at the official Chromehounds site, Gamespot, IGN
Achievements
Here are the achievements for Chromehounds. In case anyone is worried about spoilers, they have been, er, spoilered . . :P
[spoiler:fc2c4328d4]
All these are worth 20 points a piece, except for the last one. There are also some additional secret achievements.
Scout Complete - Complete Scout arc in Story Mode.
Soldier Complete - Complete Soldier arc in Story Mode.
Sniper Complete - Complete Sniper arc in Story Mode.
Gunner Complete - Complete H. Gunner arc in Story Mode.
Defense Complete - Complete Defender arc in Story Mode.
Command Complete - Complete Commander arc in Story Mode.
All Tact. Complete - Complete all missions in Story Mode.
Tact. Instructor - Top marks in every Story Mode mission.
Hover Specialist - Deploy on hover Chassis 50 times.
Wheel Specialist - Deploy on wheeled Chassis 50 times.
Biped Specialist - Deploy on bipedal Chassis 50 times.
Inverse Specialist - Deploy on inverse Chassis 50 times.
Tread Spec. - Deploy on treaded Chassis 50 times.
Multi Spec. - Deploy on multi Chassis 50 times.
Crushing Award - Wipe out enemy and live 100 times.
Storming Award - Attack opponent first 30 times.
Survival Award - Return alive 10 times or more in a row.
Red Flag - Win a total of 100 times or more.
Bronze Wing - Destroy 50 or more enemy HOUNDs.
Bronze Flag - Secure COMBASs total of 100 times.
Bronze Hammer - Destroy enemy HQ and win 50 times.
Silver Wing - Destroy total of 100 enemy HOUNDs.
Silver Flag - Secure COMBASs total of 300 times.
Silver Hammer - Destroy enemy HQ and win 100 times.
Scout Valor - Scout experience level maxed out.
Soldier Valor - Soldier experience level maxed out.
Sniper Valor - Sniper experience level maxed out.
Command Valor - Commander experience level maxed out.
Gunner Valor - H. Gunner experience level maxed out.
Defense Valor - Defender experience level maxed out.
Bronze Patriot - Stay w/ same nation for 3 seasons.
Gold Eagle - #1 in total fame for a given period.
Gold Cross - #1 in seasonal fame at end.
Gold Wing - #1 in avg total fame for a given period.
Gold Hexagon - #1 in average seasonal fame at end.
Gold Sword Cross - #1 in total conquest pts for period.
Gold Lion - #1 in seasonal conquest points at end.
Marching Service - Travel total of 1000000.
Military Service - Deploy total of 300 times or more.
Capital Occupation - Affiliated nation destroys another.
Nation Resurrector - Successfully revive affiliated nation.
(40) Neroimus War Medal - Affiliated nation wins Neroimus War.
[/spoiler:fc2c4328d4]
Downloadable Packs
Sega and FromSoftware are going to be releasing downloadable packs for Chromehounds which will contain additional weapons, parts and camo patterns to use on the mechs you build in the game. Sega has announced the first of the packs on the official Sega Chromhounds forum which will be free as a thank you of sorts for dealing with some of the network issues that have popped up with the game after it's release. This first pack became available for download via Xbox Live Marketplace on July 19th and contains:
Light Arms
http://tinyurl.com/n8mdn
WP_SG003
A sniper cannon for fast, furious engagements. Features a smaller magazine to reduce weight.
Heavy Arms
http://tinyurl.com/njkgb
WH_HC034
An improved HC1500/D, for those in the know. A giant cannon with massive destructive power.
Assist Part
http://tinyurl.com/mlkec
AX_AM002
Additional armor with an enhanced KE defensive profile. It’s shaped to better turn bullets.
Colour Pattern
http://tinyurl.com/o3y3q
WWII Tricolor Camouflage
A brand new World War II inspired camouflage pattern.
The second group of downloadable parts has been released to the marketplace. Here's some shots and translated descriptions from the Japanese Chromehounds site (please excuse the Engrish of the translations, but it was easy to cut and paste, and somewhat entertaining to boot . . ) All weapons and the camo pattern are 100 pts, and the spacers are 60 pts.
- With the mechanism inside uniqueness, the rifle which makes 3 running fires possible
- Researching the rapid fire mechanism of タラキア, the high-speed automatic discharge type machine-gun which was made
- The new model anti- HOUND rocket which modifies the antitank rocket which you use. Bullet speed is slow, but power is very high
- The improved CANON gun which extends the gun, raises precision
- The revised machine of MS1000. The propellant was strengthened, bullet speed improved
- The モルスコイ 3rd generation generator which strengthens armoring on the basis of G1500
- V letter type spacer which increases the terminal area to two. タラキア make
- The multiple spacer which can be used at the various places. モルスコイ make
- The T letter type spacer which separates the connecting location the side. シャル cirque make
- Color pattern. WWII winter camouflage
Once downloaded, these show up as parts in the shop you can buy, at a cost of $0.
Chromehounds Paper Craft
For anyone into papercraft, the Japanese Chromehounds site has some available for download from their site; 1 mech from each nation. The assembly guides are in Japanese, but are mostly pictures anyway . .
Parts
Assembly Guide
Parts
Assembly Guide
Parts
Assembly Guide
What Do We Need To Do??
Buy the game!!
A demo has been released for the game and is currently on the Xbox Live Marketplace for all regions except North America.
If you have an Xbox silver or gold account for another region (directions for doing this can be found on the internet), you can download and play this demo, as it is not region locked and is in English.
So, with all that information, discuss!!
(and please feel free to point out anything I should add, remove, change, spell correctly, etc. . . :P )
What is it?
Chromehounds is the latest mech/giant robot action game developed by FromSoftware (makers of the Armored Core series) and published by Sega. from the Sega site:
"Chromehounds brings intense multiplayer HOUND combat to the Xbox 360 for the first time ever. In this massive global conflict, three nations with opposing political views have erupted in an all-out war. From the cockpit of a giant metal "HOUND", you must power your tower of heavy artillery through giant war zones while backing five others on your squad and dodging the firepower of six other live players via Xbox Live. One team member will be elected Tactics Commander and lead the team through the fray via voice commands. You are responsible for arming and customizing your massive mechanized weapon, but overload it and you won't get very far. Your teams' successful completion of missions will open up valuable new items that will bring you all that much closer to victory. Chromehounds also offers numerous single-player missions, plus training modes for team combat and HOUND control familiarization.
Features:
Multiplayer combat mode allows players to build squads of up to 20 players and take to the field in clans of six for head-to-head battle with opposing clans. Conquer enemy territory to advance towards world domination.
Single player action allows players to sharpen their tactics and create a HOUND that best suits the battle. Take on the role of Tactics Commander and strategically transform your team of massive HOUNDS into unbeatable war machines.
Customize your HOUND from a huge array of options to create a walking arsenal of firepower and then take it to the field in both first and third person perspectives.
Wage war in 115 maps spread over three nations. Stunningly realistic battlefield effects draw you and your squad into the fast-paced fray. "
Extensive mech customization is expected for Chromehounds, simliar to what they've done in the Armored Core series
There is currently an online mech builder with a few basic parts from the game as well as a gallery where you can vote for your favorite design here
In addition to the normal single player story mode, Chromehounds features 2 aspects of online gaming. The first involves straight up ranked and unranked matches with up to 12 players across various gametypes: (as posted by Ziggymon)
- Standard : Defeat the opposing teams hounds or HQ
- CTF : Typical capture the flag mode
- Combas Keeper : A Territories gametype, keep as many points on the map in you're teams control for as long as possible
- Death Match : Competition based on number of enemies you're team destroys, penalties for destroying anything other than enemies or dying
- Unlimited : same as death match but unlimited ammo
- Survival : Typical survival, last man standing mode
- Keep the flag : Similair to 'Oddball'; points awarded for having posession of the flag the longest
- Break all : Competition based on amound of objects you're team destroys (buildings, tanks etc)
The second aspect of online gaming in Chromehounds centers around a persistent online gameworld. Players can form clans and join 1 of 3 in game countries to fight for. By fighting players from other nations and winning battles, the areas of a country will expand (or retract if losses occur), giving a country more power and money. Parts can be bough or used from a player's single player game. This game mode is supposed to cycle every couple of weeks with the work resetting during this time (assuming a single country has not taken over the world map before hand)
The current game map and country leaderboard can be found here (thanks EliteBattleman!)
Country Information
from the 360 Wiki:
There are three warring nations in Chromehounds: the Democratic Republic of Tarakia, the Republic of Morskoj, and the Kingdom of Sal Kar. Here's what the official site has to say about the mech types for each of them:
1. Democratic Republic of Tarakia
C. Hound Special Characteristics
Tarakian Hounds are average in both cost and performance. On the good side, they're easy to use and stable, but on the other hand, they have no defining features or particular strengths.
2. Republic of Morskoj
C. Hound Special Characteristics
These Hounds are like you'd expect: strong, robust, durable, and overall big. They also have large amounts of firepower and are well-suited to duking it out one-on-one in open areas. However, Morskoj Hounds are lacking in variation, and they have little to no mobility.
3. Kingdom of Sal Kar
C. Hound Special Characteristics
Employing many light-weight, high-performance parts, Sal Kar's Hounds tend to be few, but effective. Their designs are particularly complex. As mobility is the prime goal in Sal Kar designs, durability can be a problem. These Hounds are expensive, and like Morskoj's designs, they lack in variety.
Other Media
Screenshots - Click to view Full Size (Thanks to Zonghui for all these pics and videos!!)
Gameplay Videos - Right-Click Save As
Teaser Trailer
15.39 MB
Customization Video
42.77 MB
Night Attack Video
15.54 MB
"The First 10 Minutes"
162.51 MB
Other Videos for Chromehounds at the official Chromehounds site, Gamespot, IGN
Achievements
Here are the achievements for Chromehounds. In case anyone is worried about spoilers, they have been, er, spoilered . . :P
[spoiler:fc2c4328d4]
All these are worth 20 points a piece, except for the last one. There are also some additional secret achievements.
Scout Complete - Complete Scout arc in Story Mode.
Soldier Complete - Complete Soldier arc in Story Mode.
Sniper Complete - Complete Sniper arc in Story Mode.
Gunner Complete - Complete H. Gunner arc in Story Mode.
Defense Complete - Complete Defender arc in Story Mode.
Command Complete - Complete Commander arc in Story Mode.
All Tact. Complete - Complete all missions in Story Mode.
Tact. Instructor - Top marks in every Story Mode mission.
Hover Specialist - Deploy on hover Chassis 50 times.
Wheel Specialist - Deploy on wheeled Chassis 50 times.
Biped Specialist - Deploy on bipedal Chassis 50 times.
Inverse Specialist - Deploy on inverse Chassis 50 times.
Tread Spec. - Deploy on treaded Chassis 50 times.
Multi Spec. - Deploy on multi Chassis 50 times.
Crushing Award - Wipe out enemy and live 100 times.
Storming Award - Attack opponent first 30 times.
Survival Award - Return alive 10 times or more in a row.
Red Flag - Win a total of 100 times or more.
Bronze Wing - Destroy 50 or more enemy HOUNDs.
Bronze Flag - Secure COMBASs total of 100 times.
Bronze Hammer - Destroy enemy HQ and win 50 times.
Silver Wing - Destroy total of 100 enemy HOUNDs.
Silver Flag - Secure COMBASs total of 300 times.
Silver Hammer - Destroy enemy HQ and win 100 times.
Scout Valor - Scout experience level maxed out.
Soldier Valor - Soldier experience level maxed out.
Sniper Valor - Sniper experience level maxed out.
Command Valor - Commander experience level maxed out.
Gunner Valor - H. Gunner experience level maxed out.
Defense Valor - Defender experience level maxed out.
Bronze Patriot - Stay w/ same nation for 3 seasons.
Gold Eagle - #1 in total fame for a given period.
Gold Cross - #1 in seasonal fame at end.
Gold Wing - #1 in avg total fame for a given period.
Gold Hexagon - #1 in average seasonal fame at end.
Gold Sword Cross - #1 in total conquest pts for period.
Gold Lion - #1 in seasonal conquest points at end.
Marching Service - Travel total of 1000000.
Military Service - Deploy total of 300 times or more.
Capital Occupation - Affiliated nation destroys another.
Nation Resurrector - Successfully revive affiliated nation.
(40) Neroimus War Medal - Affiliated nation wins Neroimus War.
[/spoiler:fc2c4328d4]
Downloadable Packs
Sega and FromSoftware are going to be releasing downloadable packs for Chromehounds which will contain additional weapons, parts and camo patterns to use on the mechs you build in the game. Sega has announced the first of the packs on the official Sega Chromhounds forum which will be free as a thank you of sorts for dealing with some of the network issues that have popped up with the game after it's release. This first pack became available for download via Xbox Live Marketplace on July 19th and contains:
Light Arms
http://tinyurl.com/n8mdn
WP_SG003
A sniper cannon for fast, furious engagements. Features a smaller magazine to reduce weight.
Heavy Arms
http://tinyurl.com/njkgb
WH_HC034
An improved HC1500/D, for those in the know. A giant cannon with massive destructive power.
Assist Part
http://tinyurl.com/mlkec
AX_AM002
Additional armor with an enhanced KE defensive profile. It’s shaped to better turn bullets.
Colour Pattern
http://tinyurl.com/o3y3q
WWII Tricolor Camouflage
A brand new World War II inspired camouflage pattern.
The second group of downloadable parts has been released to the marketplace. Here's some shots and translated descriptions from the Japanese Chromehounds site (please excuse the Engrish of the translations, but it was easy to cut and paste, and somewhat entertaining to boot . . ) All weapons and the camo pattern are 100 pts, and the spacers are 60 pts.
- With the mechanism inside uniqueness, the rifle which makes 3 running fires possible - Researching the rapid fire mechanism of タラキア, the high-speed automatic discharge type machine-gun which was made - The new model anti- HOUND rocket which modifies the antitank rocket which you use. Bullet speed is slow, but power is very high - The improved CANON gun which extends the gun, raises precision - The revised machine of MS1000. The propellant was strengthened, bullet speed improved - The モルスコイ 3rd generation generator which strengthens armoring on the basis of G1500 - V letter type spacer which increases the terminal area to two. タラキア make - The multiple spacer which can be used at the various places. モルスコイ make - The T letter type spacer which separates the connecting location the side. シャル cirque make - Color pattern. WWII winter camouflageOnce downloaded, these show up as parts in the shop you can buy, at a cost of $0.
Chromehounds Paper Craft
For anyone into papercraft, the Japanese Chromehounds site has some available for download from their site; 1 mech from each nation. The assembly guides are in Japanese, but are mostly pictures anyway . .
Parts
Assembly Guide
Parts
Assembly Guide
Parts
Assembly Guide
What Do We Need To Do??
Buy the game!!
A demo has been released for the game and is currently on the Xbox Live Marketplace for all regions except North America.
If you have an Xbox silver or gold account for another region (directions for doing this can be found on the internet), you can download and play this demo, as it is not region locked and is in English.So, with all that information, discuss!!
(and please feel free to point out anything I should add, remove, change, spell correctly, etc. . . :P )
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Also, apparently, for a clan to show up in the clan list, someone from that clan has to be online, which might make it difficult to join until more people get into the clans (or get online, which will probably be happening tonight), so, keep this in mind. (thanks for pointing this out Dogthulhu!)
Currently registered Chromehounds Squads
Squad Name - Special Squad Info
Arcadians - general purpose, anyone from PA clan
P.R.O.D. - General purpose, anyone from PA, anti-jackass squad
Washs Warriors - Designated British clan / Europe timezone
Iron Skies - general PA clan, thought Crimson Skies wasn't manly enough
Vindication - PA individuals who are vindictive against reviewers who gave Chromehounds a bad score
I just got promoted to PFc (for the eleventh time) and I want to build a buffer so I don't get demoted right away again.
we had a hard time finding opponents though....is it true that people are just spamming 1v1 fights against the CPU and just ignoring REAL fights?
Enlist in Star Citizen! Citizenship must be earned!
It was my fault.
Podcast WHORING: Episodes 2-8 (Thanks Zonghui)
Friendly Fire?? You shot him in the back didn't you??
THEN I SODOMIZED HIM.
Google+//http://gplus.to/chorazin
FitBit//Profile
3DS Friend Code: 3823 8527 9997
Wii U NNID Chorazin
NOT TRUE!
It was my best friend. He called and I immediately said "can I call you back in 5 minutes?"
Then I hear Chad say "You're a douche."
And I'm like "Yeah, I know...but Chromehounds is more important."
And he goes "No, I'm fucking DEAD. You couldn't do the simple task of distracting the guy!"
And then I cried.
I BRUSHED OFF MY FRIEND FOR YOU CHAD.
WONT YOU BE MY FRIEND NOW!@?
Podcast WHORING: Episodes 2-8 (Thanks Zonghui)
Am I right?!!??
Other than unlocking them from Singleplayer, the best parts are to be had from the lottery.
Go into "Special parts" in the shop section. Experimental parts are usually pretty good, such as the movement chips the countries have. Select the chip and hope you win the lottery when it occurs at 1 AM Central time.
Podcast WHORING: Episodes 2-8 (Thanks Zonghui)
There really isn't any crazy awesome win-button part. You can get better parts than what you see in the shop through the lottery.
^This is like the ball pit at Chuck E Cheese's^
I doubt it. It doesn't look as if the research levels are reseting with each war, and I don't see anything that would indicate more parts are coming.
As I understand it, yes. Research isn't being given enough time to progress and develop new parts.
EDIT: How's that for two contradictory posts one right after the other.
Yep they work great! :P
Pile scouts are easily my favorite kind of enemy to face. First thing you do is add a mine layer to your hound, second thing is always keep an eye on your base.
It's rockets hitting me directly on the cockpit that stops me every time.
I never really understood where that line of thought came from. If the research reset each war, it cause a massive unbalance for any new players. They would have to wait for new parts to be researched while older players would be running around using all the highest researched ones.
Um, that's how it works, but that's not yet happened. These wars are pretty much over before they start. There really haven't been any parts being researched because there's not enough time to research them.
There are many others like it, but this one is mine.
Yeah that'll get ya killed but quick.
Listen to eToy's podcast!
http://etoychest.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4897&Itemid=1
(Pimping because i'm in it.)
• Balancing battlefield endurance properties
• Adjusting occurrence of special events
anyone know what that means?
Are you sure though? None of the research figures on chromehounds.com have gone down since the game went live. I think the research carries over.
Well the second one probably has to do with spawn rates for those super hounds and special events in the news cast like getting more subsidies, parts being captured, etc.
^This is like the ball pit at Chuck E Cheese's^
Battlefield endurance properties is probably "For the love of god lets make the war last longer."
You both sound very sexy.
I will say that, in the three days I've been playing a few hours a day online, I'm having a blast even when I'm being killed.
There are many others like it, but this one is mine.
What the hell is Scott Kurtz doing on that podcas-- oh nevermind, that's you.
2. Place generator on cockpit.
3. Put diagonal spacer on the front of the generator, and rotate it so it's facing down.
4. Put armor plate on the end of the spacer.
5. ?
6. Victory!