Aod News Main Thread

[HoboForEternity]

dude my eyes literally hurt reading that

 

[Ninjerk]

You shut the fuck up in the presence of BLOBERT.

 

[Elhoim]

FUCKONG SOMETHING BROKE THE GAME FOR ME BROS

WELL IN SLUMS NO LONGER DOES TEXT SECTION INSTEAD I AM CAUGHT IN DARKNESS WITH AREA VISISBLE

MONASTERY TOTALL FUCKED BANDITS DONT ATTACK IF I KILL ONE

THE MONASTERY VAULKT HAS NO LIGHTS AND I CANT EXAMINE SAFE

VILLAGE DOESNT AUTOATTACK AND ELDER WONT SELL SHI

BRO SEND SAVE REPRO THANKS!

 

[BLOBERT]

BROS AND I AM NOW DONE

MOSTR BADASS YET THIEF TURNED PRAETOR KILLED AGALOTH

 

[Infinitron]

Interview with Vault Dweller: http://existentialgamer.com/interview-vince-d-weller-of-age-of-decadence-iron-tower-studio

Late reaction:

 

[Zeriel]

TEG: What role, if any, do literature and art play in your creative process, and what are some of your major influences in these domains? What else inspires you?

VDW: Um… you do know that I’m an indie game developer, not a Nobel prize winner, right?

Spoiler

Never change, Vince.

 

[Ninjerk]

Lol, is there a little salt in that? In case anyone doesn't care to click:

TEG: What game would people be most surprised to hear you enjoyed (or currently enjoy)?

VDW: I really don’t think of it in such terms, although maybe I should. Once I openly admitted enjoying Wasteland 2and never heard the end of it.

 

[Excidium II]

Liking shit games is an RPG developer tradition.

 

[PlanHex]

Lol, is there a little salt in that? In case anyone doesn't care to click:

TEG: What game would people be most surprised to hear you enjoyed (or currently enjoy)?

VDW: I really don’t think of it in such terms, although maybe I should. Once I openly admitted enjoying Wasteland 2and never heard the end of it.

I think he meant this bit:

TEG: Are there any developers and/or game designers that you are excited by creatively? In your opinion, who should we pay close attention to?

VDW: Right now? inXile. They have the right experience and creative freedom (aka “we don’t need no stinking badges Real Time with Pause”) to do what they want.

 

[HoboForEternity]

So sassy.

 

[Morality Games]

Just curious. Is that turn-based dungeon crawler still a thing or did it get canned?

 

[AbounI]

Just curious. Is that turn-based dungeon crawler still a thing or did it get canned?

why would it be canceled while Nick, Oscar, Mazin and Ivan are still working on it?
http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/colony-ship-rpg-update-3.107531/page-2#post-4499419

 

[Vault Dweller]

Just curious. Is that turn-based dungeon crawler still a thing or did it get canned?

Still a thing. It's shaping up well so far: the levels, the first pass, and the dialogues and characters are done. We'll show it in a month or two (so the far the focus has been on functionality and getting all mechanics working, not presentation).

 

[Goral]

Age of Decadence is 50% off on GOG (i.e. it costs 15 USD): https://af.gog.com/game/the_age_of_decadence?as=1649904300



AGE OF DECADENCE, THE
gog.com
The Age of Decadence is an isometric, turn-based, single-player role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world, inspired by the fall of the Roman Empire. The game features a detailed

 

[Excidium II]

I guess that means it'll be 50% off this Steam summer sale?

 

[Goral]

Steam version of AoD has been updated because Summer sale: http://steamcommunity.com/app/230070/discussions/0/358415738185771421/

June update
Improvements

- Added improved tutorial.
- If you negate Faelan powers and fight him, the thieves join the fight if they're with you.

Fixes:

- Fixed infinite SP loop if you find the trap in the hangar's door
- Fixed a combat bug in Al-Akia if you have the Mindshield ability
- Fixed ending notes after blowing up the temple for Balzaar.
- Fixed issue with Faelan appearing in Meru's ending scene after he's been killed.

Combat Balance:

- Tweaks to torso attack:
* DR bypass is now 40/80 (normal/critical), from 25/75.
* Costs 1 AP less and THC penalty reduced to 10 from 15.
* Normal attacks increase chance to damage armor by 25.
- AI stops attacking legs if the THC is high enough and switches to other attacks.
- AI does head attacks if the THC is very high, regardless of the helmet DR.
- AI does more aimed torso attacks against heavily armored opponents.
- Crossbows do more damage on head attacks, and less damage on legs and arms.

The most noticeable change is the improved tutorial which coincides with this review where some retard was complaining that tutorial only teaches you bare bone basics. Besides that, improved AI is a huge plus. I really wonder what the final update will include because there's not much left to improve (aside from very costly changes that won't happen for obvious reasons).

 

[HoboForEternity]

Anyway, what was dodge like before it was nerfed >_>

I was playing block mercenary when it was still around

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Dodge is still good yo... At least, before this update. Hammer+dodge is the build I'll finish AoD with seven times.

 

[HoboForEternity]

I know, my last assassin was nigh unbeatable, save for agathoth, but i heard, it was waaay way more OP before

 

[Trojan_generic]

Just bought mine from Steam Summer sale, was 13.99 eurocucks.

 

[Elhoim]

I really wonder what the final update will include because there's not much left to improve (aside from very costly changes that won't happen for obvious reasons).

We will add combat improvements from the combat crawler.

 

[AbounI]

speaking about the combat improvements for the dungeon crawler, does it mean there will be some mechanics for flanking or attacks from behind bonus/malus?

 

[Elhoim]

speaking about the combat improvements for the dungeon crawler, does it mean there will be some mechanics for flanking or attacks from behind bonus/malus?

Those are already in AoD, but we increased them for the crawler. We also have a "wait" command, to pospone your turn to the end of the queue, plus pre-combat positioning on a grid to create your own formations.

 

[Sensuki]

Will the combat crawler be able to run at 120Hz+?

 

[Elhoim]

Will the combat crawler be able to run at 120Hz+?

I doubt it will be much different from AoD. Did you try the latest version? The main blocks for solving this issue would be that we don't have a 120Hz monitor to test, and we don't handle the rendering code for T3D. We'll look into it, but no promises.