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00:00Hello, I'm Ian Fish from Redemption Road Games, makers of Road Redemption and the upcoming
00:10Kingmakers.
00:15In Kingmakers you travel back to the year 1401 to help the real-life Welsh rebel Owein
00:20Glyndwr conquer England.
00:22In reality, his Welsh rebellion was defeated and he mysteriously disappeared.
00:26So in 1401 England you use modern weapons to help the outnumbered Welsh defeat English
00:31armies made up of thousands of soldiers.
00:34And everything in Kingmakers is real, the thousands of soldiers are all simulated, furthermore
00:39all buildings are fully navigable and fully destructible.
00:46Thousands of soldiers can navigate complex multi-storied castles with the same level
00:50of pathfinding fidelity you'd expect from a modern first-person shooter.
00:54Originally we thought Kingmakers was going to be a cool simulation of what it would be
00:57like to go back in time with modern weapons.
01:00Would you be able to defeat a medieval army with an AK-47?
01:04Then we realized that if we're going to do this, we've got to do it right.
01:07Medieval battles involve thousands of soldiers, so we're going to simulate thousands of soldiers.
01:11And this isn't like Dynasty Wars, where soldiers kind of spawn into existence as you approach
01:15them.
01:16In Kingmakers they're always there, running their AI all the time.
01:20Furthermore, we realized that a game with this scope, the player would want to be able
01:23to command his armies and fortify his own outposts, so it kind of grew from there.
01:27It's now something completely unique, a shooter with real-time strategy elements that rival
01:32Age of Empires and shooting gameplay that rivals Helldivers and Space Marine.
01:36Today we're excited to share a little bit more about the destruction aspect of the game.
01:44Every building, castle, wall, and tree in Kingmakers is fully destructible.
01:48You can blow it up with a grenade launcher, take it out with an airstrike, or maybe even
01:52demolish it with a tank.
01:56And none of the destruction is scripted either.
01:58It's all dynamic, courtesy of Unreal 4's fast physics calculations.
02:02It's one of the reasons we didn't switch to Unreal 5.
02:05We experimented with Unreal 5.1 and Unreal 5.3, but nothing has been as fast on the CPU
02:10side as Unreal 4 when it comes to physics.
02:13Finally, we're excited to share that you and up to three friends can lead their own armies
02:17alongside yours and join in on your conquest of England in online co-op.
02:22This is the full campaign, full online co-op, no compromises.
02:25This means four players fielding armies of thousands, building their own fortifications
02:29and buildings, and attacking enemy bases either on their own side of the map or alongside
02:34you.
02:35We really wanted to make sure that all four players feel just as responsive to play as
02:39if they were all playing a single-player game or as if they were each playing as the host
02:42player, even if your ping is not great.
02:45Kingmakers is coming to PC Early Access and hopefully to all major consoles.
02:49We'll have more to share about the game later in 2025.
02:51In the meantime, please wishlist Kingmakers on Steam.
02:55Thanks for watching and enjoy the rest of the show.