Off-Road Velociraptor Safari!

Posted by Derek Yu Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:54:00 GMT

Off-Road Velociraptor Safari

Sweet Raptorchrist, it’s here... and it’s even more incredible than you imagined.

(Thanks, Dan!)

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  1. Bob said 26 minutes later:

    My life suddenly has meaning.

  2. Advenith said about 1 hour later:

    This is better than what would happen if you combined the forces of ice cream, kittens, and that threesome I was promised.

    I’m going to let that image burn itself into your mind.

  3. Pixel Mort said about 1 hour later:

    Runs at like 4 fp/HOUR on my computer : (

  4. Hello said about 2 hours later:

    Same, Pixel Mort D:

  5. Pooper said about 2 hours later:

    Its like im watching a slideshow of the game instead of actually playing it. Is there like a non browser based version of this?

  6. Blueberry_pie said about 2 hours later:

    Oof, runs pretty piss poor here too. Hope they’ll release a downloadable version soon.

  7. Robert said about 3 hours later:

    My computer can’t cope with the awesomeness either :(

  8. Pyrrhon said about 5 hours later:

    Thankfully it runs great here. This game is the best i’ve played in a long time. Great controls, graphics and gameplay! It’s also nice that the game keeps track of alot of statistics and also got some achivements thrown in.

    Instant classic.

  9. Kemo said about 5 hours later:

    And the system requirements are … ? How irresponsible is it to omit this important bit of info ?

  10. Kemo said about 5 hours later:

    Oh god the thing is a slomo…

  11. Carlz0r said about 5 hours later:

    it gets choppier the longer I play! And it’s barely playable to start! I have a half-decent rig. And there are several people here who said it runs really badly, too, but I don’t know what their computers are like.

    I know we didn’t pay for it or anything, but it’s still disappointing… I’ve been looking forward to this game

  12. TakaM said about 6 hours later:

    I think I need the same computer as jesus :(

  13. sinoth said about 6 hours later:

    FPS is ok here, and the game is fun, but the Unity web crap is annoying. I was forced to install it and not only run it in IE, but fish around for my 32-bit IE install. I wouldn’t mind as much if Unity actually worked in Firefox. (gives me an “Invalid Data File” error)

  14. Fishy Boy said about 6 hours later:

    Haha, it lags like crazy, but I managed to kill a velociraptor. If I had a proper computer and not this craptop, it would probably be really fun.

  15. Hmm said about 7 hours later:

    Works fine in firefox for me. :D

  16. Gr.Viper said about 7 hours later:

    Why do people always want to stuff everything into web browser?

  17. Carlz0r said about 7 hours later:

    The unity thing works in firefox AND ie for me, but both run very slowly… horrible fps. Ie is slower than Firefox, actually. I tried both. Unplayable.

  18. Pyrrhon said about 8 hours later:

    It would be interesting to know your system specs. So far it seems like most people have trouble playing the game.

    I got Intel Dualcore 1.8ghz, Radeon Mobility X1600 256mb, 2gb ram.

    Internet connection doesn’t have anything to do with the payability of this game right? Since after everything is loaded nothing else is streaming, or am i wrong? Anyway, i have a 10mbit connection.

    The game runs very well for me. Some minor slow downs at times but nothing to worry about.

  19. shinygerbil said about 8 hours later:

    Score one more for the underpowered computers. I’d really love to play this, but the Unity web player is pretty manky, from the look of things.

  20. Grawl said about 8 hours later:

    Runs between 15-20 FPS at an AMD XP 3200+, 1GB RAM and a GeForce 7600GS. Will test it on my laptop in a sec (2x 1.78Ghz, GeForce 7300, 1GB RAM).

  21. Fluffy_Bot said about 9 hours later:

    I get respectable framerates with my rig but that doesn’t stop this game from falling flat. Unfortunately, the control is so hit-or-miss that you can expect to end up overshooting your turns and spinning donuts or barely making any turning at all until at last you whip around as if you’d hit the e-brake with the steering wheel as far as it can possibly go in any given direction.

    My PC: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (3.0GHz), GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB, 2GB Gaming-grade RAM. Still get framerate dips when there’s tons of crap on screen (trees seem to be the biggest offenders), but overall consistently around the 50-60 mark.

    On the plus side it’s pretty damn fun when the steering is working right.

  22. Fluffy_Bot said about 9 hours later:

    Forgot to mention that the game works fine with Opera.

  23. Paolo said about 9 hours later:

    Runs between 15/25 FPS at a Core 2 Duo T5250, 2GB RAM and a crappy onboard Intel GMA X3100. At the “How to play”/”Play” selection screen, I’ve got almost 60fps at some points.

  24. JohnB said about 9 hours later:

    Ran choppy in Opera for me (huge delay between button presses and on-screen action), then IE went fine. What’s with the several minute load time, though?!

    I was actually excited about this release, but now that I play it, it doesn’t seem much more than a wacky idea tacked onto a sub-par arcade game.

  25. Lim-Dul said about 9 hours later:

    The game is awesome and runs perfectly on my PC in Firefox. =)

  26. L4rgo said about 9 hours later:

    oh no, will there be an offline version? 3D-games in a browser are an insult to every gamer. :/

  27. MisterX said about 9 hours later:

    My PC is rather good and actually ran it nicely, with some slowdowns when there was some more action taking place. Still for me it is a little too shallow. I know, I know, it’s not ment to be any different, but this way it just doesn’t motivate me much. I got to say though, the achievements on the other hand add quite some longevity to it, as they show that there’s quite some stuff to do (I’m yet to actually shoot those critters with the spiky ball :D ). Also what the game does, it does nicely, especially the driving physics. They feel rather uncomfortable at first, but I guess you get used to it. So, well, at least it’s a greater one of those “coffee break” games and the web player just enforces that. If just the performance was much better..

  28. Matthew said about 10 hours later:

    The game has high system requirements due to its hasty creation (ie we’re pretty sloppy in parts). If you want to test whether it’s the Unity plugin or our project, try one of their demos: http://unity3d.com/gallery/live-demos/tropical-paradise

    If the game runs poorly but you have decent specs, please email me your specs (mwegner to the domain of flashbangstudios.com).

    For reference, the weakest box in the office is a single-core 2.8GHz, Radeon x300. That’s probably around the minimum requirements…

  29. raelz said about 10 hours later:

    Same here, terrible fps, I can run bioshock at high quality here Tried opera and IE..

  30. Carlz0r said about 11 hours later:

    I have a 3.2 ghz single-core processor, 1gb of ram, and a Geforce 7800. I can play Bioshock on medium-ish settings, and Oblivion on full, maximum settings. It baffles me why this game won’t work well for me, besides the fact that it’s stuck in the browser.

    I was expecting this to be a downloadable game, when I heard about it a while back.

  31. Phyte said about 11 hours later:

    Only have my laptop right now, and it’s as slow as you’d think. The best thing is, it crashes totally when I slam full pelt into a raptor, firefox exploding in a burst of historically-accurate feathers and jammed sound effects.

    I’m about to run it for the third time and I can’t even play it for longer than 30 seconds.

  32. Gr.Viper said about 12 hours later:

    Maybe it’s allowed cache size that matters? Won’t even try this one until it’s browser-ish. Never had any luck playing 3D withn my FF.

  33. Derek said about 12 hours later:

    Sorry, Matthew’s reply got caught in the spam filter (#28).

  34. Phyte said about 13 hours later:

    The tropical paradise demo runs more or less fine for me. A hundred times better than RS, anyway… :(

  35. wormguy said about 14 hours later:

    This is so much fun.

  36. Krishh said about 14 hours later:

    Seems the CPU’s the bottleneck, my Athlon 3800+ runs it playably, though barely. It does sometimes slow to a crawl when bouncing around multiple raptors. (3 seems to be the magical number at whitch my PC gives up and the framerate drops into single digits.)

    But that’s actually not even my main gripe with the game. Often, at the end of the game, when I upload my score, it gets a connection error, and it never uploads the score. Oddly enough, my profile page still gets updated, just not the score. It’s hard to compete when only about 1/3 of all my games are scored.

  37. PHeMoX said about 14 hours later:

    It’s really awesome. Those ramps are a very cool addition, overall just plain awesomeness in this game! Excellent.

    Did anyone manage to get one of those Pteranodons yet or is that impossible?

  38. Krishh said about 14 hours later:

    I can get one reliably, but there seem to be at least 3.

  39. Phyte said about 15 hours later:

    Switched to pc, but still my specs are prohibiting potential awesomity. Managed to get 6x Raptor combo, each slowing the game a little more, until the thing became unplayable. Ahh, I want to play this properly so badly!

  40. Data said about 16 hours later:

    I got better performance when i siwtched to fullscreen (right click on the game window in the browser).

    Also there’s an update that allows to turn off audio.. see if that makes any difference.

  41. Exoduster said about 16 hours later:

    Laaaaag. Also crashed my browser when I tried to export a raptor. And I had such high expectations.

  42. Victo said about 18 hours later:

    I’ve got an old P4 1800mhz with 512mb of ram and a 256mb GeForce fx5500 and it’s unplayable :(

  43. Neon said about 20 hours later:

    NOOO THE LAG!

  44. Smithy said about 22 hours later:

    Doesn’t run well on my current dead PC, BUT I’m going to be upgrading to a new and better one soon anyway.

  45. raelz said about 23 hours later:

    Guys, try to turn off the sound in the menu, it DID help for me!

  46. sak said 1 day later:

    Any chance you’ll release it as a standalone matthew since unity has a option for standalone builds?

  47. Blueberry_pie said 1 day later:

    Disabling the sound didn’t seem to improve performance, but it did make me realize that having Born to Be Wild playing in the background makes the game even more awesome.

  48. Bob said 1 day later:

    Due to horrible lag, my life has suddenly lost meaning.

  49. Skyleak said 1 day later:

    Game runs fine, and has given me a hot’n spicy boner all day.

  50. PHeMoX said 1 day later:

    Born to Be Wild is indeed awesomeness-increasing, especially with these kind of games. I used to play Carmageddon with Born to Be Wild playing all the time… it’s insane! :)

  51. Blipflip said 1 day later:

    If you disable sounds most of the choppyness dissapears.

  52. captain said 1 day later:

    I’m curious, do the creators have a deal with Unity to try to increase it’s web player install base? I looked at Unity’s site and it says Unity3D comes with the ability to make standalone executables on Windows or Mac.

  53. PHeMoX said 1 day later:

    They probably just like games that you can instantly play. ^^

    I don’t recall having to install anything, except if I wanted to run the official demos, but perhaps that’s simply me being tired.

  54. Shabadage said 1 day later:

    Does that dude in the bottom look like MacGyver to anyone else?

    This game needs duct tape!

  55. curezen said 1 day later:

    and god said “let there be light” then he said let there be run over velociraptors and all of his minons were like wtf

  56. Lim-Dul said 1 day later:

    Does that dude in the bottom look like MacGyver to anyone else?

    Ehm? He does because it IS MacGyver?

  57. Matthew said 1 day later:

    We posted a bit about the reasoning behind the lack of a standalone on the main/news page of raptorsafari.com…

  58. Andy said 3 days later:

    I guess I will have to wait and see if you change your mind about the stand alone. I want to play this properly not in an internet browser.

  59. Neon said 4 days later:

    Did they fix the lag yet. This game was supposed to be my game of the year D:

  60. someone said 5 days later:

    They really botched this one. I was looking forward to this game.

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