Developer Oxide Games is still working on the highly anticipated epic strategy game Ara: Untold history, which will be published for PC by Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios division. This week, Oxide released the latest entry in their long-running video development diary for the game.
In this week's entry on YouTube, host “@GamerZakh” sits down with Oxide co-founder and president Marc Meyer to answer some questions from users. Ara“The community around the game. Meyer said Oxide's team was “firing on all cylinders. Ara He added that the game has now reached completion milestones in both features and content, and the team is currently “finding all the places where we can polish and improve performance.”
One of the questions from fans was about what they saw as an issue in one of the gameplay videos where the water in the river was flowing from bank to bank instead of flowing down. Meyer said the team will work with other teams involved in the game's terrain to fix the issue before launch. He added the following about the game's terrain generation:
We are trying to provide it better and faster so that you can start a new game and see new worlds again and again.
Another topic in the dev diary was how the AI challenges the player. Meyer said that the behavior of his AI in the game changes at higher difficulty levels. he added:
This allows us to say that at this difficulty level, Genghis Khan becomes even more aggressive and chasing you is incredible.
Meyer said one of Oxide's engineers recently spoke at the 2024 Game Developers Conference about “how sophisticated planning architectures for AI are becoming.”
Ara: Untold history It is currently scheduled to be released on PC sometime in the fall of 2024. If you're interested in playing the game before it's officially released, you can join the Ara Insider Program today for the chance to play pre-release builds. Visit the game's Steam page for more information on how to participate.
