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AoD прошла отбор в Greenlight. Ну и если кто не знал, то все кто делал предзаказ на сайте ITS получат ключ и от стим версии.

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Запоздалое обновление за январь

 

Welcome to 2013, boys and girls. Should be an exciting year.

 

As I'm sure you know, Steam has kindly greenlighted us and we're in the process of signing paperwork and such. They seem to be a bunch of friendly and helpful people, which is always nice. The "greenlighening" has attracted a lot of attention and increased the number of pre-orders, so we already feel the effect.

 

In unrelated news, we entered the demo into IGF 2013 in Oct. I've never thought that we would win, obviously, but hoped for a nomination. Didn't happen, sadly. The judge couldn't get out of the town and felt that the demo was "seriously limited". I explained but I guess the damage was already done. Oh well...

 

Working on a location aptly named Inferiae - (Rom. Antiq.) Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends. Greatly expanded the main character's dialogue file, almost to the point of getting lost in the branches myself. You have a lengthy chat with this character and if she doesn't like your answers, you'll be offered as the aforementioned sacrifice.

 

Added another path there. Kinda tried another angle to see if it works and it worked. Added two more options if you do end up becoming a sacrifice and tied one of the options to another location, which fixed one of the issues in that location as well. So, all and all, I'm very pleased with this month's progress.

 

Now, on to the screenshots. House Aurelian. There are several scenarios there that determine how the conversation would go:

 

- agreed to find the temple for Antidas; serving House Daratan in a low capacity

- Daratan's praetor

- left Teron early, either in AG1, or after stealing Carrinas' documents, or any other case

- you are on Gaelius' personal shitlist, in which case it's not a conversation you want to have

 

Here is option #1 (the Etiquette option allows you to perform the 'weasel' maneuver).

 

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So, now you're given an alternative, another reason to look for the temple, another viewpoint, and another faction to side with, work for, and deliver the temple to. If Antidas is a warrior who dreams of glory, Gaelius is a statesman who's trying to secure and grow his power and influence. He is a man of reason and he is not interested in magic and relics of the past, but he doesn't want them to fall into the wrong hands and boost his rivals' power.

 

Now, a question that was often asked is 'what happened if leave Teron early and miss on all the XP and kills?' If you leave Teron early and prove your eagerness to Gaelius, he will offer you a quest that won't be available to any other character:

 

 

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IF you find the helmet and manage to keep it (don't forget the raiders), you can bring it to Gaelius and get your reward and the next quest or ... you can put it on and see what happens. Hint: something happens. Then you will unlock a new branch of the main quest that will eventually lead you to a very different ending.

 

 

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Greatly expanded the main character's dialogue file, almost to the point of getting lost in the branches myself.

Ну, блин, Винс не оставит без работы.

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Появился ещё один апдейт. Предзаказавшие получат особую демку, куда будет добавлен второй город, а ведь это почти половина игры!

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Появился ещё один апдейт. Предзаказавшие получат особую демку, куда будет добавлен второй город, а ведь это почти половина игры!

И когда стоит ожидать демки?

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Не хочу десяток демок, хочу игру целиком. sad.gif

Зато переводить будет проще - по частям, а не всю игру сразу после выхода.

 

И когда стоит ожидать демки?

Сроки не названы. Но пока даже не начинали тестировать её :-(

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Россия вырвалась на второе место по количеству предзаказов. А во всём виноват перевод.

 

United States 180

Russia 44

United Kingdom 38

Canada 36

Germany 35

Sweden 35

Australia 34

France 33

Finland 29

Poland 27

Norway 16

Denmark 15

Italy 15

Netherlands 10

Ukraine 10

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Мартовское обновление.

 

Коротко о главном в обновлении:

 

Оптимизация - игра загружается на 25% быстрее.

 

R4 - нас ждет новая версия системы. Главное отличие которое является полное разделение боевых и социальных навыков. Теперь в начале при генерации персонажа в зависимости от того как мы распределим навыки в той или иной категории нам будет доступно определенное кол-во очков навыка. Формула - (Стат-4)*5, т.е.

Str 10, Dex 8, Con 8, Per 6, Int 4, Cha 4 на выходе получаем

(10 - 4)*5 + (8 - 4)*5 + (8 - 4)*5 = 30 + 30 + 20 = 70 очков навыка боевой "ветки".

(6 - 4)*5 + (4 - 4)*5 + (4 - 4)*5 = 10 + 0 + 0 = 10 очков навыка социальной "ветки".

 

P.S. Хотя в обновлении получается не 10 SP для социальных навыков, а 20 SP... может быть автоматом социальным навыкам прибавляется 10 SP вне зависимости от начальных статов!?

 

Дальше оригинальный текст обновления:

 

Another update. Let’s make it a long one.

 

Misc.

 

We signed distribution agreements with Steam, Gamers Gate, and Good Old Games, so we just might make it after all. Also, we hit 700 pre-orders. In anything you do, support, approval, and encouragement are the most important things, and we’re extremely grateful for the support we’ve received.

 

Current focus:

 

As usual, we’re working on many different things at once: Maadoran, the endgame, loading times, the memory leak, R4 system changes, new animations needed for R4, etc. When you’re buried in work, time flies very, very fast. Yesterday was early January, today is the end of March.

 

Optimization:

 

We were loading way too much before. It’s handy to have in a developer’s build, but really drags the performance down for the players. A quick fix reduced Teron’s loading time from 20 to 15 seconds, overall performance increased by 25%. A more thorough approach reduced/improved it even further. The Library’s loading times went from 8 seconds to 3 when we removed the unnecessary datablocks.

 

R4:

 

I know, I know. Is it really necessary? To be honest, I had doubts myself. We talked about it internally and it sounded pretty good, but it was very tempting to say ‘next game’ and move on. Well, the next game will be different and it is a shame to throw away all these changes, which are the logical evolution of the previous concepts and the next and final design step.

 

So, when Oscar put it all in a design doc and made some mock up screens, I didn’t even argue. It’s fucking beautiful. It changes a lot of things – improves the overall design, changes things that didn’t work well or didn’t fit the overall design, brings more clarity, both design-wise and the way info is communicated to the player.

 

Quick example: The character creation. It wasn’t very exciting, for lack of a better word. You think about your stats, which define the rest. Then you distribute the extra points, which don’t really change the overall picture, and you’re done.

 

Now, stats no longer define the starting skill values. Instead, they add SP to two different pools: Combat and Non-Combat. Strength, Dexterity and Constitution add to the combat pool, while Perception, Intelligence and Charisma add to the non-combat one. The formula is (Stat-4)*5.

 

So, let’s say you want to make a tough, but dumb and ugly bastard. Str 10, Dex 8, Con 8, Per 6, Int 4, Cha 4. You get 70 skill points in the combat pool but only 20 points in the non-combat one. It’s a lot more fun to make characters now, that’s for sure.

 

Knockdown is no longer a passive trait of hammers, but a special attack available only to hammers, which fixes the main (and probably only) complaint about hammers – having enemies thrown back when you don’t need it.

 

Expect changes to special and aimed attacks, dodge, block, crafting, counter-attack, inventory access during combat, synergies, skills, info displayed, plus new attacks.

 

End-game:

 

Usually, it’s the most boring part of the game that often feels like a chore. All quests are done, all choices are made, character development and gear acquisition completed, let’s get it over with. We’re trying (trying being the key word here) to spice things up a bit at the end. The end-game should not be a place where things stop being interesting, it should be a place where things just got interesting, where you sit and wonder “shit, what the fuck do I do now?”

 

I see such game design approach as a funnel. You have few options when you start and you have a very limited grasp of the playing field, and you’re a nobody, and nobody cares what you think. Then you slowly grow in power and influence, which increases your options and broaden your horizons as to what’s going on. By the time you reach the endgame, you should have even more options and viewpoints (which should lead to doubting of what seemed so clear earlier).

 

In other words, a complex plot with many active participants with different agendas should not have a simple solution or an endgame “kiosk” where you can select an ending of your choice.

 

The *other* locations:

 

Well, you’ve seen the towns (Teron in the demo and Maadoran’s most notable city-slickers). What about ruins and exploring, which is another important aspect of the game? Glad you asked.

 

We have a number of ruins and old places you can visit, but keep in mind that they’ve been there a long time (think the pyramids), so it’s not like going to an abandoned supermarket in Fallout 3 and finding shelves to be well stocked.

 

Some locations require either specific items to unlock them or certain NPCs to help you. For example, if Esbenus (the raiders leader from the demo) is dead, a certain event won’t take place and you will have to stop half way when exploring a certain location and would have to lie to a certain gentleman. No, we don’t expect you not to kill Esbenus, but if you do, either because that’s how you roll or because you had no other choice, there are consequences.

 

Anyway, here is another location, called the Library of Saross.

 

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If you tell him to fuck off:

 

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Now, let's accept the invitation and have some coffee that tastes like dirt:

 

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Btw, there is a Streetwise option (not shown) when you first meet the prospector. It will warn you (if you pass the check) that his body language is wrong and give you another option to handle it. If you dabble in Alchemy, you can taste the poison and either drink an antidote (don’t leave home without one) or try to poison the prospector yourself, which creates an interesting situation, and hope that your poison kicks in first.

 

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If you have no choice but to fight, you’ll lose 20 hp, so the disadvantage is significant.

 

Now, here is a kicker. Thinking that you’re as good as dead, the prospector tells you that he found a hidden chamber. It’s a valuable piece of in-game knowledge, as well as the story he tells you. Attack the prospector right away, using the meta knowledge, and your character will have no idea that something is hidden there. He might just look around, find nothing, and leave, thinking that the site has been looted clean years ago. The in-game knowledge will lower Perception checks significantly.

 

Well, that’s about it. As usual, if you have any questions, just ask.

 

 

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Лучше бы подождал перевод. :)

 

Никто не идеален ;) ... Но я с этой новой системой очков навыка не совсем понял как высчитываются начальное кол-во социальных навыков, по боевым всё сходится, а вот по социальным - нет :mellow: ! Если следовать его формуле, то получается так как я высчитал, а так получается 10 очков откуда-то ещё берется и не пойми как. Может просто у Винса очепятка произошла, кто знает!?

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