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Auroch Digital & Dotemu Unveil Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War, Landing Early Next Year

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FED DEV—FEDERAL SERVICES COMMUNIQUE: Are you thinking about starting on the road to Citizenship? Overseen by the United Citizen Federation itself, Auroch Digital and Dotemu are proud to unveil Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! Deploying early 2026 for Steam, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2!

What are you waiting for, Troopers? Do you want to live forever?! General Johnny Rico is back, and he's calling on you to do your part! Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! Delivers fast-paced first-person, retro warfare. Remember, Troopers—Service Guarantees Citizenship.
Join the Mobile Infantry and witness the most realistic depiction of war you've ever seen!


Take up the trusty Morita rifle, pledge your allegiance to the Federation, and join the most realistic depiction of warfare you'll find. An authentic retro FPS experience, a devastating anti-bug arsenal, over 30 iconic weapons and items, sharply loyal story and starring General Johnny Rico himself
Sources: ST:UBW Steam Profile, Dotemu

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11 Comments on Auroch Digital & Dotemu Unveil Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War, Landing Early Next Year

#2
LastDudeALive
This is by the Warhammer 40K Boltgun devs, FYI. Hence the retro graphics.

Although, I am very disappointed that all Starship Troopers media only adopts the movie, instead of the book (which the movie itself was an extremely poor adaption of). I get that licensing is probably a big issue, it's probably much easier to get the licensing from whoever owns the movie rights than to get licensing for a proper adaptation of the book.
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AGlezB
LastDudeALiveAlthough, I am very disappointed that all Starship Troopers media only adopts the movie, instead of the book (which the movie itself was an extremely poor adaption of). I get that licensing is probably a big issue, it's probably much easier to get the licensing from whoever owns the movie rights than to get licensing for a proper adaptation of the book.
Personally, I'd love me some jumping around in a Marauder suit while firing micro-nukes like confetti, but the fact is outside SF fandom nobody knows about the book and nobody cares, Hugo or not. Just google "Starship Troopers" and see how much you have to scroll until you get to a result about the book, so don't expect anything that's not based on or inspired by the movie.
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#4
FierceRed
First of all, Casper Van Dien has aged poorly and that's sad because hes my version of a square jaw Rambo-like. Damn, I'm getting old too.

Secondly, yes I've read the book. The movie canon is more fun.

Third, this looks like a mobile game. I was shocked, SHOCKED I SAY, when I saw the platforms at the end of the trailer. Who's paying for this with a PS5?

Fourth, this already exists as Starship Troopers: Extermination and it wasn't too successful after the EA burnout.
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#5
LastDudeALive
FierceRedThird, this looks like a mobile game. I was shocked, SHOCKED I SAY, when I saw the platforms at the end of the trailer. Who's paying for this with a PS5?
Again, it's by the Warhammer 40K Boltgun devs. It's an intentional retro-FPS graphics and gameplay style that's very popular.
FierceRedFourth, this already exists as Starship Troopers: Extermination and it wasn't too successful after the EA burnout.
No, a co-op FPS is very, very different than a single-player retro Doom-inspired FPS.
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#6
Scrizz
FierceRedFourth, this already exists as Starship Troopers: Extermination and it wasn't too successful after the EA burnout.
It wasn't too successful because Hell Divers came out a little before it and stole its thunder.
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#7
AGlezB
ScrizzIt wasn't too successful because Hell Divers came out a little before it and stole its thunder.
ST:E was EA on Steam almost a year before HD2 and it was already seeing very low player counts when HD2 released.

I'm not saying HD2 wasn't a factor but ST:E was released unstable, with network and server issues, poor optimization causing stuttering and frame drops and a bunch of other problems which they had to spend resources fixing when they should have been releasing new content and I don't mean cosmetic packs. A bigger advertisement budget would have helped if the game had one or two more years of EA but I don't think Offworld could afford it.
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#8
FierceRed
AGlezBST:E was EA on Steam almost a year before HD2 and it was already seeing very low player counts when HD2 released.
Yup, thus the EA burnout.

(This is a supportive message, not an argumentative one)
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#9
Scrizz
AGlezBST:E was EA on Steam almost a year before HD2 and it was already seeing very low player counts when HD2 released.
You mean the Early Access release? aka The "I'm still unfinished" release? ;)

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#10
AGlezB
ScrizzYou mean the Early Access release? aka The "I'm still unfinished" release? ;)

My point was the player count was down and trending down and had been like that for a while when HD2 released. Blaming HD2 as the source of ST:E lack of success is mistaken.

EDIT: it's easy to miss that ST:E at it's best never reached 17K active players and that was well before HD2 release while HD2 at it's worst never dropped below 25K and in the same time frame the number of ST:E players didn't show any significant increase, pointing that HD2 players are generally not interested in playing ST:E.
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#11
Scrizz
AGlezBMy point was the player count was down and trending down and had been like that for a while when HD2 released. Blaming HD2 as the source of ST:E lack of success is mistaken.

EDIT: it's easy to miss that ST:E at it's best never reached 17K active players and that was well before HD2 release while HD2 at it's worst never dropped below 25K and in the same time frame the number of ST:E players didn't show any significant increase, pointing that HD2 players are generally not interested in playing ST:E.
You shouldn't ignore the huge fact that you're comparing a polished game to something that is unfinished.
I know many people purposely stay away from early access games. Not only that, but Hell Divers 2 came out on console almost a year before STE did.
The only people who would play STE would be ST fans willing to gamble on a pre-release game.
Hell Divers 2 came out on console and PC as a finished product with everyone praising it.
Both games have a similar theme and include killing all the bugs!

If I'm Joe Schmoe gamer with my PS5 in May 2024, which game am I going to get? Am I going to but a pre-release game only available on Steam, or am I going to get this highly praised game that exists on PS5 and PC that my co-workers are playing?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers:_Extermination
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helldivers_2
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