Zero-K Cinematic Trailer by KingRaptor

We've made a cinematic trailer for Zero-K, narrating some of the backstory of the game.
Check it out here:
Be sure to watch in HD!

Awsome

@[v]ddabadabb
Agree, that how i think to show some real gameplay inside it can be good.

First of all that was awesome

Secondly… it also game me an idea … would it be possible (from a technical perspective) to use the “classical” approach for making battle scenes?

What I mean is instead of one person doing all the work could one “director” coordinate several “opposing” players to “act” the scenes (via mumble for example) so you have both epic scale and dynamic combat since the units would be controlled real-time instead of being scripted, once the desired scenes are achieved a “cameraman” with a powerful computer could run it on maximum settings to record the raw video used for the final editing stage

it may sound complicated but I believe this could greatly reduce individual workload in creating new videos … if a team comes together whose members can easily communicate and coordinate with each other…

interesting. It says that "only our children remain", which was the plot of Total Annihilation - humans had long ago died out, but their machine creations continued to fight. ZeroK however has human factions.... in planetwars atleast.

@The_Yak: Mercury_v1

Very nice, very well done.

I'll offer some criticism and suggestions later when I have more time.

Excellent trailer; I think it really nailed the mood perfectly.

(Kind of a shame though that spring shadows really suck :'<)

Ya using replays of actual battles is IMO the route to take, and a few more dynamic shots (you have that one of spinning around the Zenith, which is TOO fast).

Still love it though.

The OTA fiction was clones vs human uploads. The whole war is about whether humans shall continue in their bodies, or in machine bodies: The war over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines.

The Zero-K fiction is the about the abandoned children of a dead civilization who were careless with their creations and made them as slaves for war and industry. It's about finding their place in the galaxy without the guidance of their creators, and the singleplayer campaign will focus on the last human revived from stasis as she discovers what happened to all the humans and what the robots now fight for, and ultimately decides the fate of this new robot civilization.

PlanetWars serves as a prequel to the main Zero-K plotline. These were the massive wars that the robots were built for, that lead to the extinction of humankind. We've been way too lax about keeping the fiction updated between PW rounds. Cybernetic Front should have wiped out and infiltrated the fiction of almost every faction with their ridiculous wins during the Valhalla era, and LH would have been wiped out last round if it had concluded with anything but a stalemate (This is the reason Unaligned are no longer a faction). If this round ended right now, Empire would get wiped from the fiction too (Possibly rolled into Free Machines as 'The Machine Empire' or something).