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The new trailer for sandbox strategy game Antimatter shows off the epic scale

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Last updated: 28 Jan 2025 at 5:55 pm UTC

Back in 2020 the strategy game Antimatter sure looked exciting during the Kickstarter, with the developer steadily building up all the promised features.

To begin 2025, they've put up a new showcase trailer of various bits done on the game during 2024. The trailer really helps to show off the immense scale of it. The kind of mega scale you don't see many games try and it does look like it will be quite an interesting one to play.

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One bit shared in the recent update on Steam, that some players might frown upon, is that they're using the "GPT API" to translate the game into various languages. As they said:

I have initiated localization of the game and about 1500 string keys are bound already. I am glad to say that the game and all mods will be very easy to translate (a single file).
I speak French and can muddle through a bit of English, so both languages are included as core languages.

For the rest of the languages, I wrote a program that automatically translates the game through the GPT API by incorporating already translated languages and context. The more core languages, the better the generated translations will be. I am confident that after some training, most languages will have a proper translation.

Perhaps they will earn enough from it to get real translations done by people who actually understand context and the languages properly.

They're not giving an update on when it will release but in a previous update said "All I can say is that the game, the software, is in excellent technical shape, and I am very optimistic".

Features:

  • A procedurally generated and dynamic universe with thousands of systems to explore, where dozens of factions struggle for power or survival.
  • Take command of a spaceship, trade, mine, harvest, scavenge, produce, and participate in the simulated economy.
  • Manage an existing city or found new colonies and outposts on any planet.
  • Climb the political ladder of a commercial or sovereign organization.
  • Interact with AI characters who are living independent and simulated life in the Antimatter universe.
  • Terraform entire planets by altering their atmospheric compositions.
  • Fulfil missions for corporations, factions, or individuals, or unravel the secrets of this galaxy.
  • Get involved in the Antimatter Crisis and try to change the course of history.

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CatKiller a day ago
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Perhaps they will earn enough from it to get real translations done by people who actually understand context and the languages properly.

As an alternative, being open enough and having a large enough community to have fan translations to correct what the auto-complete has come up with. But, yeah, professional localisation would be heaps better than entrusting the user experience to auto-complete.
Zlopez a day ago
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I supported this one on Kickstarter when it was announced, it's looking like a really interesting game with really deep mechanics included.
Nocifer a day ago
So basically it's Distant Worlds meets Shadow Empire meets Civilization meets... whatever the f else, combined in a single game.

Yeah, I'm sold.

The only two asterisks will be 1) the AI quality (there's no point in having all that stuff at your disposal if it feels like playing by yourself) and 2) the diplomatic depth (for the same reason). As much as I love geeking over spaceship designs and colony statistics, I've had quite enough of deep, convoluted, but ultimately boring space simulators.

EDIT: Whatever happened to the user avatars?!?


Last edited by Nocifer on 28 Jan 2025 at 7:46 pm UTC
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