Who happened to have taken fucking centuries to get there. Meanwhile the Company's regular magicians are more tricky with the deployment of magic than anything else. All flash and show, very little direct stuff.
Which is why I wrote "On daily basis" as in the daily operation of The Black Company itself.
Yes, probably. We want to wait a bit and see how the camping mechanic works out and how often players make use of it first before we shuffle events around, though.
Not at present. For this as well we want to see how camping works out first, especially once we add a more detailed injury system that may make resting more of a necessity. Men needing sleep makes sense from a simulationist perspective, of course, but it can also get old fast if all it does is force you to hit the camp button every few minutes. I see this as more of a potential tool to make use of once everything else is in place and we feel that we further need to balance out the attrition game.
Magic does have tangible effects for the player, but I'd like to believe that they aren't of the flashy high fantasy kind. We've deliberately made all magic abilities be utility/support kind of spells. The thing is, you don't need any magic to do ranged damage; any bow or throwing weapon can do that. In order to make the best use of the limited amount of magic we have, we want it to be something special, something that changes the whole flow of combat in ways that can't be achieved by normal means. More interesting (and within the context of the game world, mysterious) than arrows dressed as fireballs is necromancers raising your own dead to fight against you, for example.
No, magic is not about to play any bigger role in the world of Battle Brothers than it does now. I've not read much of the Black Company, however, so if you're refering to anything specific, it'll be lost on me.
Those weapons can be looted, right? The design is great.
Why the change? Not saying it's particularly good or bad, but werewolves don't strike me as a high-magic setting trope, they could just be people with some sickness or mutation.
Makes me want to see them even more. Hordes of poorly armed cultists? Mercenaries going insane? Getting corrupted? I guess they can wait though.
Of course.
I might have worded that poorly. Werewolves in Battle Brothers were never supposed to be anything other than ferocious animals. They never were people, they're not cursed with disease or mutation, there is no way to save them and their condition isn't contagious. Their current name is very misleading as it lets people expect something different, like you did, so we'll change it.
There'll be churches in some of the cities, and there is mention of religion in texts throughout the game. However, there is no faction or quests attached to religion and it won't play any big role in the game for now.
It's worth you shutting up and buying it right now
True story.
Dev Blog #69: Update Date Announcement, Pretty Pictures
February is almost upon us, time to announce a date! The worldmap update will be released exactly one month from now, on February the 29th. We’ll use the time until then for adding some more minor features and more content, as well as for bugfixing and balancing. As the release draws closer, Jaysen will also start a new Let’s Play series to give you a tour of how the game now plays.
Bugfixing and balancing doesn’t make for good content in blog updates, sadly, so this week we’re a bit short on material. Let’s look at some pretty pictures instead!
Pretty Pictures
Most of the worldmap visuals are finished now. There’s a few settlement locations left to be done, like the harbor, but at this point it’s more polishing than creating new assets. Take a look at one of our new environments, the steppe. It’s modelled after terrain you’d find in some southern European countries, like Spain. With a drastically different look from the tundra and snow you can find in the north, it makes for more distinct regions in the world and more variety as you travel it. How much steppe there is, and where it is exactly, changes with each world you generate.
Swamps also received an overhaul. Looking more dreary now, they can be found in small to medium stretches more or less all over the world. Traversing them has become slightly faster, but travelling on dry land is still preferable. That ground fog is actually animated, and they have quite a lively sound ambience.
Mountains are still not something you want to cross regularly, as it takes a long time and is costly in terms of supplies. To make it easier to distinguish them from hills, all mountains now have snow caps. Should you make it to the top, you’ll be able to see far across the land – useful perhaps if you’re looking for something.
Hills are now a common terrain that can be crossed at decent speeds. Settlements at hillsides often have an economy based around mining, like the one in the picture below. Goats are held here as a source of food, and you’ll be able to purchase goat cheese in the settlement. The gem mine will also likely make caravans from here juicy targets for bandits, which in turn means good job opportunities for mercenaries.
Noble houses are quite a bit more active than the Landsknechts of old, especially when it comes to defending their territory. This picture shows a company of soldiers led by a knight battling against a horde of marauding orcs. Speaking of orcs, they had all their sounds redone and a lot of new ones added to bring them to the same level as goblins.
Those poor crossbowmen in the last picture...Friday update time.
Dev Blog #69: Update Date Announcement, Pretty Pictures
February is almost upon us, time to announce a date! The worldmap update will be released exactly one month from now, on February the 29th. We’ll use the time until then for adding some more minor features and more content, as well as for bugfixing and balancing. As the release draws closer, Jaysen will also start a new Let’s Play series to give you a tour of how the game now plays.
Bugfixing and balancing doesn’t make for good content in blog updates, sadly, so this week we’re a bit short on material. Let’s look at some pretty pictures instead!
Pretty Pictures
Most of the worldmap visuals are finished now. There’s a few settlement locations left to be done, like the harbor, but at this point it’s more polishing than creating new assets. Take a look at one of our new environments, the steppe. It’s modelled after terrain you’d find in some southern European countries, like Spain. With a drastically different look from the tundra and snow you can find in the north, it makes for more distinct regions in the world and more variety as you travel it. How much steppe there is, and where it is exactly, changes with each world you generate.
Swamps also received an overhaul. Looking more dreary now, they can be found in small to medium stretches more or less all over the world. Traversing them has become slightly faster, but travelling on dry land is still preferable. That ground fog is actually animated, and they have quite a lively sound ambience.
Mountains are still not something you want to cross regularly, as it takes a long time and is costly in terms of supplies. To make it easier to distinguish them from hills, all mountains now have snow caps. Should you make it to the top, you’ll be able to see far across the land – useful perhaps if you’re looking for something.
Hills are now a common terrain that can be crossed at decent speeds. Settlements at hillsides often have an economy based around mining, like the one in the picture below. Goats are held here as a source of food, and you’ll be able to purchase goat cheese in the settlement. The gem mine will also likely make caravans from here juicy targets for bandits, which in turn means good job opportunities for mercenaries.
Noble houses are quite a bit more active than the Landsknechts of old, especially when it comes to defending their territory. This picture shows a company of soldiers led by a knight battling against a horde of marauding orcs. Speaking of orcs, they had all their sounds redone and a lot of new ones added to bring them to the same level as goblins.
