FAQs for Ether One’s Redux

So – as some of you may have seen by now – Ether One Redux is out now! If you own Ether One already, you should see this unlock in your game library!

Both Ether One and Ether One Redux are very similar games and we’ve not changed any of the narrative or gameplay. We rebuilt Ether One from the ground up using the new Unreal Engine 4 so you may notice a few graphical improvements however we have tried to keep it as close to the original as possible! ‘Redux’ just refers to the updated version of the game so you know what you’re looking for in your game library!

Here are some FAQ’s that people have been asking over the past 24 hours:

What is the difference between Ether One and Ether One Redux?

Hopefully not much! But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try it out. We tried to keep both versions of the game very similar. If you see from the before and after screenshots, there are slight visual improvements but we tried to keep the feeling and tone of the game exactly the same and everyone we have spoken to so far has enjoyed it. The gameplay and narrative should be exactly the same minus a few small changes we needed to make but please do let us know what you think!

Why did you remake the game in UE4?

As some of you may have seen, we released Ether One on the Playstation 4 earlier this year. To do this, we had to re-create Ether One from the ground up. We thought it only fair that our fans on the PC should experience the updated version of Ether One – we also definitely didn’t want to charge people for this update which is why we made it free. Unreal Engine 4 made it incredibly easy to get the game up and running and without it, we probably wouldn’t have been able to continue developing games as a studio! The tools are free to use for people wanting to start creating games so why not give it a go at www.unrealengine.com!

What are the new features?

There are no new gameplay features. Hopefully things are a little more optimised with the Redux version.

We do however have French, German, Spanish, Italian and Polish subtitles so if you were waiting for the game to be localised, now is your chance!

Where is the VR support?

As some of you may have seen, we’ve removed the VR tag from the store page. When we shipped Ether One, the original Oculus DK was out and we included support for it – we even got a lovely review of 5/5 from VR FOCUS! (http://vrfocus.com/archives/book-review/review-ether-one/). We love VR and it’s still very much something we want to get into Ether One Redux and with all of our future games. Since we’ve released in Unreal Engine 4 – VR actually comes as standard. We’ve decided not to disable this in the options so if you’re the hardcore type of enthusiast, you can technically still use your DK2 on the Ether One Redux edition. Please be aware though, this isn’t our optimal implementation and we want to spend time doing a much better job and getting it feeling just right. We still need to get our hands on DK2 but as soon as that happens we can start the implementation – we just don’t have a time frame on this.

+1 to Linux and Mac please!

We hear you! We’d love to get it out to you all on the different PC OS’s. With the original Ether One, we tried our best to get the Mac build functional but we experienced varying results. On some Mac hardware it ran OK but it was too inconsistent and we didn’t get good frame rate a lot of the hardware. Now that we’re in Unreal Engine 4 we’re hoping this will be a much smoother process – we’ve not currently tried a Mac or Linux build internally so now that we have the Ether One Redux out we will begin the process of looking into Mac & Linux. We can’t promise that Ether One Redux will be coming to Mac and Linux but we will definitely do our best to get it out to you all – we just don’t want to deliver an unfinished product to you which isn’t as good of an experience on Windows & PS4. We will post more information as soon as we have it. 

THANK YOU!

We’ll update this thread accordingly for people that have more questions and queries however sometimes we may miss a few – if you don’t get a response and you’d like one urgently, please feel free to email us at pete.bottomley(at)whitepapergames(dot)com.

Thank you again all for your support and we hope you enjoy the Ether One Redux! We also begun work on our next title and we’re exciting to show you all what we’re creating!

Enjoy!