teknoman2

"Shaka, when the walls fell". Wait, so we can write our own chants in-game? SOKATH HIS EYES UNCOVERED MAMA JUST KILLED A MAN that adds a minor damage bonus to all allies if followed by PUT A GUN AGAINST HIS HEAD all guns gain accuracy PULLED THE TRIGGER NOW HE'S DEAD adds extra damage on criticals

Not very malleable at all, if you ask me. I thought Planescape: Torment did this a lot better when it came to the factions, just because you were a deader didn't mean the same thing to everyone. Similarly, I would suggest that the developers move away from this idea of limiting player's choice in this way. I would rather that players choose the path they wish and that consistency be rewarded and inconsistency not rewarded. This means that instead of bonuses/maluses as described to priest power, i would rather there be an adjustment to area/duration/power instead. Instead of +/-, it should be a blue/red/white choice, all equally viable, but different. I don't know the specific mechanics used in the priest class, but this should be seriously reconsidered. If anything, the paladins should have this sort of mechanic instead of the philosophical priests. Your lore just doesn't match your mechanics at this point, and I think that's poor form. My other criticism has to do with the animations. While I know that your animations are only alpha, from my understanding, Unity has great tools to allow transitions between animations. I don't know why it was the case with the second animation, but the transition from standing, facing south, to casting, facing north, was abrupt and jarring. 3D technology should be utilized to its maximum potential when possible, and this should have a relatively easy fix, from my understanding of Unity and basic animation software. Everything else looks fine. great job. well the thing is that the best choice in terms of game mechanics may not be the best choice to deal with your current situation. you are a paladin of the wayfarers and you are presented with a choice by someone that took a traveler hostage. give us that companion whom we have a grudge against and we release the hostage. your ranger can snipe the leader of the bandits while the exchange is made, your mage can cast a delayed teleport to get him/her back as soon as they let go of the hostage and you could use any number of deceptive tactics to resolve the situation without having to sacrifice your companion, but if you do, it goes against the rules of the order. so will you give up on your companion for the sake of the rules or will you bend the rules for your companion? and what if the companion is your love interest? giving her up, would be as much against the beliefs of the order as it would be to save her through deception or to let them kill the hostage

I love to read, but seriously, do you only want walls of text delivering you the narrative? yes, if it means better written dialogue npc makes a 10 line philosophical argument 1. 2 line serious response 2. 1 line joking response 3. 5 line philosophical response 4. 3 line political debate 5. 1 line ignorant response 6. goodbye depending on the player choice, the npc may give up to a 15 line response the cost to voice act a dialogue of that size would be prohibitive, so the same dialogue would be altered to (with all the implications that would have to the quality of the discussion and how well it could make the player understand the situation) npc sumarizes his 10 line into a 3 line philosiphical argument 1. 1 line serious response 2. 2 line philosophical response 3. 1 line political debate 4. goodbye depending on the choice the npc may give up to a 5 line response

you know this made me think... calling the black people in the US african american, is actually more racist than calling them black. calling them african, is like denying them their national identity... they are no longer americans with black skin, they are africans who live in america

that's what i say. people will always find ways to exploit, no matter how exploit proof you make the game. so making a game mechanic in a certain way just to prevent certain behaviours with no other reason in mind, would be bad game design. im not talking about this game in particular because they offer valid reasons for the way the system works.

this in not a 1999 game played on a 2009 screen. back at the time the most comon screen resolutions were 640x480 or 800x600 (1024x768 was for the rich) so the game was designed around them. they werent exactly thinking that 10 years later people will be playing it on 1920x1080. and since that is the standard resolution these days, there wont be a problem for a few years. besides today we have rendering tecniques and the hardware to execute them that back then were not possible, so making it all change size to match the resolution automatically is easy

im against full VO in this sort of game. there will be partial for some important stuff and battle responses, but any more than the absolutelly necessary would be detrimental. many modern games with full VO cut down on the amount of dialogue (even when some extra lines are necessary) because of the cost. so it's better to have something with partial VO and have the dialogue writters make as much as they see fit

I'll give an example. We don't have to call it kiting. You use one character to lure a creature and with another you go stab it in the back with a melee weapon. AI, being silly as AIs usually are, keeps chasing the other character while being stabbed in the back repeatedly. This cheap tactic would be harder to execute if moving stops your recovery timer. actualy this can be done in this game even with the recovery time. you do as you say.... if the enemy keeps going for the fighter while your rogue is on his back, the rogue will get a disengagement attack. and as the rogue follows while the enemy tries to catch the fighter he will trigger disengagement attacks constantly. and since for this tactic to work, the rogue needs to be faster than the enemy, then the rogue through various stops as he reaches the target will deplete the recovery and will be able to attack again. so the tactic will work anyway, it will just take a bit longer

logically speaking, someone with a sword can attack on the move. someone with a bow, needs to stand still to draw the string and aim. someone with a crossbow needs to stop to reload because it takes some strength to arm it. flintlock or matchlock guns are complicated to reload and the procedure cant be done on the move technically speaking in game terms, a melee character cant kite anyway, while for those who can, there is a valid reason to have a delay to their attack if they move. in the end however, a melee character will barely have to move most of the time, and when he moves, it will be a few steps with 1 or 2s move time, since there probably wont be any large scale battles and most of the action of each encounter will be in an area about the size of the screen.

i can see the point of Lephys on the recovery time matter. if you have autopause when an enemy dies and the fighter gives the killing blow to his target, you give him a new target while paused. let's say that he has to walk for 5s to reach the new target. isnt that plenty of time to recover for his attack? why should he wait another 2s after reaching it before attacking? i think that for melee, recovery time should count down even when moving (at half the speed maybe)

I assume you are asking why would the USA try to assist in defeating Boko Haram? Several reasons, they are already involved throughout Africa in places that are potential breeding grounds for Islamic fundamentalism. But the main reason is that most people, including the USA, think that the kidnapping of young girls to be sold into slavery is an utterly unacceptable situation and needs to be condemned and stopped. The good news is the USA has already offered to help https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nigerian-girls-captor-sell-them-122202090.html?.tsrc=yahoo#e9OMLLo This is good news Malc, the USA is getting involved the US government doesnt give a flying F about the kidnaping. if there is an intervention, it will be used as an excuse, but there will be as always political/economical reasons underneath. there are dozens of places in the world that would require an intervention for humanitarian reasons, but nobody cares to intervene because nobody has anything to gain by doing so. however where there is money to be made, the US rushes first to save the poor inocent civilians

a kite tactic i used in BG was to have the party spread out, all with bows and slings and as the enemy was chasing one guy around, the others were hitting him. if he changed target, the bait would start attacking and the new target would go around baitin the enemy

What kind of nation would deserve to win such a war? after a war, the important thing is to be alive while the enemy is not. the rest is trivial idealism

>implying the US sents the army uninvited into other countries from the goodness of their hearts

it will probably stop draining when you go down to 1 point

really? I recall that you could use fear or confusion which made creatures to lose control and wander around, but I don't recall a morale system in bg\bg2 and neither in PoE for that matter :/ Edit: maybe you mean "morality" i.e. the alignment system? no he menas morale... there were often messages saying morale failure. if a character or creature was getting overwhelmed, it would run away in fear. your party's morale was deternimed by the leader's charisma

here's how to win a war fast. you build stealth balistic missiles with nuclear warheads and shoot them without warning in a way to cover the entire enemy country with explosions. you need not shoot a second time or fear retaliation, since there will be no one left to fight back

isn't this more of a combat mode problem than morale problem? A little of both I suppose. Im not 100% sure what triggered morale failure but once it happened the mooks would run away and you would be forced to run them down and kill them just to exit "combat mode". and that was a combat design problem. if in this game you make an enemy flee, since you get no xp for the kill anyway, he should just run off and despawn once he is a certain distance away from your party (let's say double the visual range). he is no longer part of combat so the combat ends.

Merging spell and weapon damage or accuracy into one attribute is not needed to accomplish that. Anyway, regarding character builds, I'm curious if we'll be able to choose Abilities (not talking about Talents) from time to time. I'm not expecting to be able to do so at every level up, but being given a choice between 2 abilities every few levels would be nice. if you have a separate attribute for everything, you would need strength for physical damage power for magical damage dexterity for physical accuracy clarity for magic accuracy tactics for fighter aoe engagement intelligence for spell aoe perception for landing criticals with physical attacks wisdom to do the same with magic attacks defense for resisting physical damage resistance for magical damage resolve to not get interrupted by physical attacks will to not be interrupted by magical attacks might to be intimidating as a warrior presence to be intimidating as a wizard charisma to be persuasive charm to flirt and many more that's not a game anymore but a spreadsheet. the point of having abstract attributes with a class system, is that each attribute represents a different character quality within the role of the class. a fighter is for going toe to toe with the enemy, a wizard's job is to cast spells. so a mighty fighter has the strength to cleave enemies in 2 with a swing, while a mighty wizard has the power to burn anything to a crisp and a mighty ranger can pull the string to the limit, shooting extremelly fast arrows.

1: im not sure 2: enemies are hand placed, but the type and number depend on the difficulty level. if at some point you are to meet goblins, there will be goblins. however, depending on the difficulty, it may be a few normal goblins or a few elite goblins or both and they may even have a shaman 3: if you scout (stealth mode) ahead you can see enemies before they see you and may be able to avoid them 4: i think they have a morale system, but i cant recall any precise info about it

in accordance with the video, attributes are an abstraction, because to make them more specific would require about 100 of them... so i was just pointing out the reason they called it might. also the way the system is made, prevents you from making a totally gimped character, by making the changes from attributes small and providing a benefit for each (that may not be useful in every situation) so long as you stay within the role of the class... if you make a wizard that cant cast spells and fights with a 2h sword, he will obviously be gimped

> as much quality content as they can make with the money they have. and that sums up what most people here think

they call it might and not strength for a reason. that reason is that might is not necessarily a body trait. besides as Josh explained, the bonuses received by the attributes are not the only thing that determines things like aoe and damage. also these bonuses are not that big. with maxed out might you get about 15-20% more damage than normal if i remember what he said in an older topic. so you can cast a fireball and hit for 100 damage in a large area with high intelect and low might, or for 120 in a small area with high might and low intelect. so neither is more powerful overall, but depending on the situation, each choice may be a blessing or a curse. eg: if you have a large aoe and fight in a place with civilians around or against a single powerful enemy, it becomes a hindrance or you just wish you had that extra damage. however if you have the extra damage and are getting zerg rushed by trash mobs, you'd wish to have the aoe to wipe them out in a single attack.

most probably he will attack imediatelly. but only Josh can tell you for certain

to use an easier example, you shoot a crossbow bolt. recovery time, is the reload time of the crossbow. if you move before you reload it (ie you put in the bolt but havent pulled back the wire), you leave it half armed and finish the reload when you stop. same principle applies to all attacks with all weapons