Game News Banquet for Fools Early Access Update 2.0

[Infinitron]

Tags: Banquet for Fools; Hannah and Joseph Games

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3172700/view/512957645996426893

Update 2.0 features an expanded map to explore, featuring the farming village of Rozafir and the surrounding rocky terrain, new creatures and quests.

Also available on GoG

Going forward we’ll be releasing these main integer updates with map additions on Fridays.

This update includes two additional maps, a settlement and some more shops (as well as a couple secret shops for the upstanding and less upstanding guards.

Rozafir and Lazure Falls are the last of the ‘early-game’ areas, and is, according to Mihal’s provided map, potentially the first maps on route to Din Varens for new players. Gathering some power and supplies in surrounding maps wouldn’t be the worst idea before venturing offroad here, though the roads themselves are typically clear of any riffraff for traveling.

Next​

The next couple weeks we're primarily working on some additional fixes for 2.0 and putting the finishing touches on the sailing maps for 3.0, scheduled for later this month.

Thanks everyone. Have a nice weekend
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[ShaggyMoose]

Looks interesting, thanks. By all accounts, needs more time in the oven though.

 

[frajaq]

I have no idea what this game is about but this old style inventory, HUD and skills, plus the very Diablo-like perspective is making this very enticing

I might actually buy this at some point

 

[Falksi]

Demo was wank.

 

[The_Sloth_Sleeps]

Downloading demo now.

 

[The_Sloth_Sleeps]

The combat, its sort of tactical turn based I guess? It was very tiresome. Overall underwhelming and did not want to play further than a few minutes.

 

[Maxie]

early access = cancer

 

[Lagole Gon]

I do dig the vibe.

 

[Diggfinger]

Will try it out for sure

Big departure graphically from earlier titles

 

[Falksi]

The combat, its sort of tactical turn based I guess? It was very tiresome. Overall underwhelming and did not want to play further than a few minutes.

I'm not sure what they're trying to achieve tbh.

It's like they're going through some weird 00's Bioware beta testing to try and meld turn-based with action.

This studio really has gone to shit since it showed such incredible early potential with the original Serpent in The Staglands. All they needed to do was take all what they had already, and give it some more combat depth & a better world to explore.

 

[luj1]

Great interface, ugly models

 

[cretin]

This studio really has gone to shit since it showed such incredible early potential with the original Serpent in The Staglands. All they needed to do was take all what they had already, and give it some more combat depth & a better world to explore.

I don't know why it is, but this seems to be an incredibly common problem in gamedev. People just cannot iterate. They throw the baby out with the bathwater, and it seems this is more common in the indie space than in AAA.

Which is ironic, because AAA are the ones who have the capital to roll the dice on radical changes while indies are the ones who should be playing it safe.

 

[Morality Games]

This studio really has gone to shit since it showed such incredible early potential with the original Serpent in The Staglands. All they needed to do was take all what they had already, and give it some more combat depth & a better world to explore.

I don't know why it is, but this seems to be an incredibly common problem in gamedev. People just cannot iterate. They throw the baby out with the bathwater, and it seems this is more common in the indie space than in AAA.

Which is ironic, because AAA are the ones who have the capital to roll the dice on radical changes while indies are the ones who should be playing it safe.

Artists are driven towards unattainable perfection and can indulge (for better or worse) this tendency freely when they are their own bosses.

 

[Gibson]

This studio really has gone to shit since it showed such incredible early potential with the original Serpent in The Staglands. All they needed to do was take all what they had already, and give it some more combat depth & a better world to explore.

they're doing the standard "rock band" thing: you have lots of time at the beginning to deliver a good product (album); for the second album you start to "explore different ways of creativity" where you basically have to do everything from scratch but you lack the time to develop it properly since the fanbase is expecting something. it usually flops. then, if you survive the flop, you go "back to the original form".

it's got good visual vibes, tho.

 

[Grauken]

it's got good visual vibes, tho

Their previous game had good visual vibes too, just that the bugs were big enough to crush the rest