I hope this is a final beta.
[PLAY BETA]

GIMME BUG REPORTS NAO!!!!

What is Project Wasteland? and why 0?

PW0 is the first step in the making of my post-apocalyptic rpg. Basically its a combat-only game, a set of combat scenarios. Character development/leveling is rudimentary and many skills are not working. PW0 is a like an early demo of the actual game that I've planed.
The purpose of this zero release is to polish the combat balance and to find all the bugs.
There is still so much to do, I'm thinking another year of development till Project Wasteland 1 is finished. While PW0 is just a set of combat scenarios, in PW1 there will be a world to explore. Fully interactive worldmap: find new locations, random encounters with enemies on generated maps, search for stuff with metal detector and, of course, a town with NPCs. There will be non combat skills for exploring/trading etc... like lockpicking for example. A classic character leveling system.
I hope I will be able to finish all that.

A few words about Fallout. A lot of people claim that this is a ripoff, well I don't see it that way. I do indeed find my inspiration in oldschool cRPGs like Fallout1&2 and Baldur's Gate, I do not intend to use Fallout world or S.P.E.C.I.A.L though. I will probably remove and rename some stats for PW1. This is a different setting, different planet, there are no vaults or tube powered computers. I'm not even sure about the nuclear war, maybe its going to be a virus, that caused the fall of civilization, or maybe some natural disaster... anyway, too early to think of that. I need to finish game mechanics first and balance the gameplay before even thinking of plot development. And that is going to take more than a year.

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