Thing is those people demand that modern games stop progressing and turn into the copies of the old ones. It would be fine if they wanted new old-school games, but they run around shitting on modern ones for not replicating the older ones.
No, it's D&D's miss 3 times in a row because bad rolls and embrace inevitable death. I'd say it's certainly an Incline over D:OS
We don't know how faithful to D&D 5 the game will be, so it's impossible to tell.
I also thought it was party-wide initiative, lol. I distinctly remember always going first and annihilating the opponents before they could move, so I might've confused everyone having high initiative with the whole party going first/having initiative. But I also kinda remember being able to choose who goes when, but maybe I'm misremembering.
There are no armor mechanics like in D:OS2
Right, which is why the comparison to JA2 initiative is bad.It's baffling because a single wizard of yours going 1st is already game winning in D&D, whole party acting first is
If I had to guess?
"Quite big battles". If this only means that they want to implement some sort of "simultaneous turn resolution", they are fucking idiots. If you only have 4 characters, they can't break the enemy team in too many subgroups.
That's a relief.
It's gonna run on 5e? Pretty interesting. 5e doesn't have much of a loot treadmill going on, since AC is kept pretty conservative (heavily armoured lvl 1 character can easily have an AC of 18, while, say, Tarrasque, one of the most powerful monsters, has an AC of 25. That means shit like sword +1 to hit is actually a really powerful, high-level item, meaning you can't give such shit out like candy).
Why? What's wrong with it?
For a company which has made quite a lot of turn-based games now, they should know that big battles and party-based RPGs are kinda like water and oil.
The interplay between that and anime styles, and the much more prevalent mid-tier development in Japan, means Japanese games are way more interesting to look at. NieR was another beautifully stylised game with photoreal elements. It's not the thing itself that's the problem, it's the place of value its given in western AAA-dom and the inability to experiment. Despite being extremely photoreal at the base, Kojima's word still has a definite style. Most western AAA games don't because they all gravitate towards shared styles out of cowardice.
Mike Mearls is a fat fuck and I hate him. If D&D 5 is the cool system it actually is it's only thanks to Crawford.
…why?
I have a lot of problems with the initiative systems, but they exists only in the context of live PnP sessions. I don't like how it breaks the flow of the encounter: an ogre arrives and attacks you, than the spotlight goes to other three characters and five monsters and when it returns to you the tension of the moment is lost. I usually solve this with a more "discursive" initiative, where after an action the first to act is the recipient of that action and an additional initiative roll is used if there are more element involved in the scene. But this doesn't have place in a videogame adaptation.
I think he meant this (big screenshot incoming):
VTT are already a thing and multiple 3D VTT are in development or already in the market.
It absolutely cannot because it's not the same thing at all, wtf is this
I was just saying that "get their armor to 0" has no equivalent in D&D 5.
Tactician mode is nothing like this. Enemies regularly restore their allies shields(and use CC breaks on them), have points in the skill that gives shields back after CC ends, etc.,
I doubt they will, but then again with Early Access feedback it's not impossible for them to change that if a lot of players tell them it isn't working out.
