Why Early Access? “This game has two game modes: Survival and Campaign. As the Survival mode is already fully playable, we think it is a great idea to let the players play it and take their feedback to improve the game while we work in the Campaign mode.
They Are Billions gets level editor, and you can already play 120 custom creations The developer of zombie plague RTS They Are Billions has released an official level editor that will let you build your own survival scenarios—and play through other custom creations via the Steam Workshop. They Are Billions is the perfect blend of Real-time Strategy and Survival elements developed and published by Numantian Games for Microsoft Windows. The game supports Single-player mode only and it takes place in the post-apocalyptic world.
All the feedback and improvements will be applied to the Campaign too.” Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access? “As this game can be expanded in a lot of ways, we will keep it as Early Access as long as needed. With that said, we expect to finish the Campaign mode in 2019.” How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version? “The Early Access game will start by including the Survival Mode.
In several months, we will include the Campaign mode, the story mode, with hand-crafted levels, crazy NPCs, and lots of other fun features! The final release will include both the Survival and Campaign mode.” What is the current state of the Early Access version? “The Early Access game now contains the Survival Mode. In this mode, a random world is generated and the player must create a colony that can survive in an apocalyptic world for a set period of time.” Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access? “Early Access will be cheaper than the final release.
However, we have not finalized the price for the final release.” How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process? “We plan to be extremely involved with the community. We love community feedback! We already did this with our last game Lords of Xulima.”. New Level from Numantian: The 50 Days Challenge!
One of the features of the level editor is that you can make the game generate a random Survival map and then modify the events, scripting and narrative to bring a new survival experience to the player. We have created 'The 50 Days Challenge' which is a survival game with just 50 days to build your colony before the Final Swarm arrives.
But don’t despair, you will not be alone in this task. The neighboring colonies and the New Empire will try to keep you from joining the hordes of infected by sending help periodically. Hope you like it! It’s a super fast game and a real challenge!
The Custom Levels Editor There are three ways to launch the Editor: - From the game main menu, go to More = Launch Editor - Or just press and hold the SHIFT key when starting the game and the editor will be launched automatically. In the installation folder you have a LaunchEditor.bat you can use to launch it directly. These are the main features of the level editor:. Map creation can be manually crafted or let the game generates a random survival map when the game starts.
Custom events. Custom scripts to enhance the narrative. Advanced ZXCode language (variables and functions) to create complex gameplay mechanisms. Multi-language support. Of course, it will be updated periodically to include more features to create.
One of the upcoming big features will be custom modding of game rules (units, structures, stats.). The Campaign Now it the editor is ready we think it can expand a lot the content of They Are Billions so we can focus on finishing the campaign mode. We know all of you are asking us for the estimated launch date but we cannot give an answer yet.
We would like and we will try with all our workforce to release the campaign on next Spring 2019. At the same time we will improve the Survival Mode with two new Map Themes and expanding the features of the editor to allow you to create even more awesome levels. And that's all! We hope the editor will bring lots of fun and surprises for the great community of They Are Billions players. See you soon!
Accesing the Test Branch To access the Test Branch you just have to open the properties panel of They Are Billions on Steam (right click on the game, select properties option). Then, under the page Betas, select the Test branch and let Steam update the game. This version hasn't been completely translated to all languages yet. That's why you will find some English texts in some parts of the game. We are planning to release The final version on November 25th that, as we always do, will be translated to all languages.
The TAB Editor There are two ways to launch the Editor:. From the game main menu, go to More = Launch Editor. Or just press and hold the SHIFT key when starting the game and the editor will be launched automatically. As we are planning to heavily update and expand the editor, the interface will only be available in English for now. Our intention is to have it translated to all the languages that They Are Billions currently supports when the game is finished. Nevertheless, you can create levels in any language you like.
Indeed, the editor allows you to create multi-language levels. About This Game They Are Billions is a strategy game in a distant future about building and managing human colonies after a zombie apocalypse destroyed almost all of human kind. Now there are only a few thousand humans left alive that must struggle to survive under the threat of the infection. Billions of infected roam around the world in massive swarms seeking the last living human colonies.
Survival Mode - Available Now! In this mode, a random world is generated with its own events, weather, geography, and infected population. You must build a successful colony that must survive for a specific period of time against the swarms of infected. It is a fast and ultra addictive game mode. We plan to release a challenge of the week where all players must play the same random map. The best scores will be published in a leaderboard. Real Time with Pause This is a real-time strategy game, but don’t get too nervous.
You can pause the action to take the best strategic and tactical decisions. In Pause Mode, you can place structures to build, give orders to your army, or consult all of the game’s information. This game is all about strategy, not player performance or the player’s skill to memorize and quickly execute dozens of key commands. Pause the game and take all the time you need!
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Build your Colony Build dwellings and acquire food for the colonists. They will come to live and work for the colony. Collect resources from the environment using various building structures. Upgrade buildings to make them more efficient. Expand the energy distribution of the colony by placing Tesla Towers and build mills and power plants to feed the energy to your buildings.
Build walls, gates, towers, and structures to watch the surroundings. Don’t let the infected take over the colony! Build an Army What kind of people would want to combat the infected? Only the maddest ones. Train and contract mercenaries to protect the colony. They demand their money and food, and you will have to listen to their awful comments, but these tormented heroes will be your best weapon to destroy the infected. Every unit is unique and has their own skills and personality – discover them!
Thousands of Units on Screen Yes! They are billions! The world is full of infected creatures they roam, smell, and listen. Every one of them has their own AI. Make noise and they will come – kill some of them to access an oil deposit and hundred of them will come to investigate. We have created our custom engine to handle hordes of thousands of the infected, up to 20,000 units in real time.
Do you think your colony is safe? Wait for the swarms of thousands of infected that are roaming the world. Sometimes your colony is in their path!
Prevent the Infection If just one of the infected breaks into a building, all the colonies and workers inside will become infected. The infected workers will then run rabid to infect more buildings.
Infections must be eradicated from the beginning, otherwise, it will grow exponentially becoming impossible to contain. Beautiful 4K Graphics!
Prepare to enjoy these ultra high definition graphics. Our artists have created tons of art pieces: Beautiful buildings with their own animations, thousands of frames of animation to get the smoothest movements and everything with a crazy Steampunk and Victorian style!
Future Game Mode - Campaign In the campaign mode, you have to help the surviving humans to reconquer their country. There are dozens of missions with different goals: building colonies, tactical missions, rescue missions. You can decide the path of progress and mission - research new technologies, advances and upgrades to improve your colonies and army. We are working right now on the campaign and we expect it will be available for Winter 2018.
The campaign will be included for free to all the buyers of the Steam Early Access version.
Who would have thought there was room for yet another zombie game to blow up on Steam? Yet, here we are, in 2018, with converting players by the second, much like its titular horde of infected.
Now we are joining in by giving away ten Steam keys for the game – find out how you can win one below. They Are Billions is a real-time strategy game set during the zombie apocalypse. The idea is to build and then defend colonies for the last handful of humans alive.
Currently, only a fast-paced Survival mode is available in the Early Access version of the game, but a Campaign mode is on the way. As it’s set in a future version of the world during which steampunk has cultivated technology, you are able to buildTesla Towers, mills, and power plants to fuel your people. You armies comprise zany scientists, mech pilots, and armed infantry. You will need to get familiar with their personalities, needs, and strengths in order to beat back the hungry hordes. Right then, now you know what They Are Billions is, let’s get on to how you can win one of the Steam keys we have up for grabs. In short, all you need to do is enter the competition to win a key via the widget below.
Every action you complete is worth one entry into the giveaway, and the more actions you complete the more chance you’ll have of winning. We’ll also need your email address so we can send you a code upon winning – we won’t send you spam, we promise. While you’re here, give us a Like over on the, or, and we’ll keep you up to date on all our future giveaways.