Development Info Knights of the Chalice 2 Development Update

[ArchAngel]

I love what I see. Seems extremely easy to mod, very in-depth (oh god, all those modifiers are clearly displayed - awesome!) and that inventory looks juicy. No idea why it's 4:3 though...

And yeah, art is crap but that seems like something people will mod the day it comes out.

Did anyone mod KotC?

 

[felipepepe]

Did anyone mod KotC?

No, but KotC2 is being designed from the ground up as a module creation tool, not just a game. I assume that mod support will be a focus.

 

[ArchAngel]

For modules, we don't know if you will be able to replace graphics.

 

[circ]

Where is your god now Obsidian?

 

[Achiman]

The speed this guy is plugging away at it, and his quirky (not an undesirable trait) attention to details he consider important mean that we'll get this in another year and a 1/2 I reckon.
I loved KOTC but hanging out for a decent rpg to play is so 90s now.

 

[sser]

This is what I would expect from a money-allergic libertarian economist.

 

[jagged-jimmy]

I like it. KotC had charming graphics and i would have loved something like that again. But this is all about gameplay and that what KotC was about too. Good implementation of D20, awesome encounters. If he can do it again, i don't care how it looks, as long as it's functional. And it's sure looks that way now.

 

[aweigh]

this loooks insanely amateurish. how in the hell did he manage to make a less-professional looking game than kotc 1? it's unbellivabe. the guy should fucking kill himself.

and yes, kotc 1 is one of my faveorite tb rpg's ever played. the disappointment in me right now simply cannot be measured. i truly believe he made this as an intentional fuck you to everyone for not sucking his dick enough over his shitty RTS game.

 

[aweigh]

the this is all about gameplay argument also doesn't hold up as making kotc 1 art assets = faster/easier than making what's shown in the kotc 2 video. he flat out is making a shitty game. period.

 

[Jaesun]

All that matters is the combat.

 

[Jasede]

So? The KOTC combat was pretty much perfect. All it needed was maybe a slight rebalance of crafting, and perhaps some additional feats to make Fighters not so useless, maybe drawing from some additional sourcebooks like Way of the Warrior.

 

[Tigranes]

Yeah, why the hell didn't he just recycle all the KOTC1 assets? This looks like utter shit, which is still OK if the gameplay holds up, but he literally threw out existing art and spent time creating utter shit art.

 

[Jaesun]

The existing art was for a different perspective though.

 

[Roguey]

With a good artist, a tiles 'n tokens RPG would look great. Unfortunately, this costs money.

Still accurate.

 

[felipepepe]

making kotc 1 art assets = faster/easier than making what's shown in the kotc 2 video.

Uh, no? What's easier, to draw pixel art:

Or to take any image from google and just crop it in a circle:

 

[Jasede]

So? He could have recycled like 50% of the old content and we wouldn't have given a shit. This is just lazy/ugly/incompetent. This guy hates money.

 

[Mustawd]

This guy hates money.

He seriously does. Wtf is wrong with him?

Or to take any image from google and just crop it in a circle:

I wonder if the art will be easily moddable, so we can just throw in our own art we find online. The shit he has now is serviceable because I don't have glasses, but if you zoom in a bit it's horrendous.

 

[felipepepe]

So? He could have recycled like 50% of the old content and we wouldn't have given a shit. This is just lazy/ugly/incompetent. This guy hates money.

No, recycling shit is lazy. Completely changing the art-style so that anyone can expand the game in minutes is forward thinking.

 

[Excidium II]

No, recycling shit is lazy. Completely changing the art-style so that anyone can expand the game in minutes is forward thinking.

But is missing the opportunity of selling DLC.

 

[Mustawd]

No, recycling shit is lazy. Completely changing the art-style so that anyone can expand the game in minutes is forward thinking.

But is missing the opportunity of selling DLC.

This guy hates money.

 

[aweigh]

every single person in this thread...

 

[aweigh]

would have preferred kotc 2 with re-used kotc 1 art assets and hex-edited dialog over the old one. period. excuse the weird double post.

he has literally and completely and irrevocably WASTED YEARS OF HIS LIFE AND ENERGY MAKING A PIECE OF SHIT FOR REASONS THAT FRANKLY! THAT! FRANKLY...!

are probably due to his personal neurological diagonosis of specturm conditions.

 

[Excidium II]

I think I prefer this maptools looking thing tbh. KOTC perspective triggers me.

 

[aweigh]

the spectrum is wide so no worries, friend. you have no discovered your brain misfires chemically similarly to the kotc 2 guy.

 

[Roguey]

are probably due to his personal neurological diagonosis of specturm conditions.