An actual good looking, and interesting western first person dungeon crawler ?
What is this? Bizarro world?
This looks really interesting so far. Also, any details on the Tactical Formation bit? Is it something like Wizardry Forsaken Lands where all four people can group together to do a team attack, or defend themselves from rushing enemes?=
Underlair treats the player's party as a blobber, this means that the party will move as a whole during combat phase. It uses action points to perform actions, exactly as Fallout 1/2 does it. The tactical formation displays which character's can attack and take damage from any of the 4 directions:
When combat is engaged, the formation is locked, meaning that if you now rotate the camera to face another direction, the formation itself will rotate accordingly, letting you know which characters can attack the new direction you are now facing.
The formation also tells who will take damage when being attacked. Character
6 will block all melee attacks from
south and
East, while character 5 will block and receive damage from attacks from
East only. Character
4 who sits right in the middle, she is unable to attack anything using melee, but can use ranged attacks or polearms.
When you have 2 or more characters in the same row or column, they will be targetted randomly or through specific behaviors. For example, a creature with 'Prey' trait will most likely attack the weakest of characters. Character
1 and
2 will attack the direction the player is facing.
As combat advances, you can make changes in the formation grid, like sending wounded characters to the back or bringing your stronger members to defend a new side. These formation modifications required tactical points as seen in point 7. Once they deplete, you can still make modifications but will deplete all action points, leading to the character to skip his turn altogether.
You can rotate your whole party while keep facing the same direction using buttons 8 and 9. It will consume a lot of tactical points but less than realocating each one of the characters, one by one.
I really need to make a video regarding this. But I still have to develop other things before I can do it.
I hope this was helpful.