Tyranny Pre-Release Thread

[Roguey]

She a writer on Tyranny? Liked a tweet that had gross in it. Big warning sign.

Artist.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Who are these people and why would I give a shit.

 

[Space Insect]

Looks like someone's butthurt about being an agent of the decline.

 

[Infinitron]

Doesn't take too much deductive reasoning to figure out who protected sogross-do is.

Not sure I follow. Are you saying it's an alt Twitter account of Lindsey Laney?

 

[Roguey]

Not sure I follow. Are you saying it's an alt Twitter account of Lindsey Laney?

Yes. The response to Kem0sabe's post makes it obvious enough but if one needs to have it spelled out https://twitter.com/goddessofcheese/status/741353270560493568

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Excidium II]

~justrogueythings

This gross cunt doesn't even know what she doesn't know.

 

[Bubbles]

By the way, the Gamescom embargo on new Tyranny footage expired an hour ago. Witness the flurry of activity as fans gobble up the new information.

 

[Infinitron]

http://www.pcgamesn.com/tyranny/tyranny-spell-creation-artifact-weapons

Building spells and creating legends in Tyranny, Obsidian's impressive Pillars successor

As we inch closer to the release of bad guy simulator RPG Tyranny, Obsidian are gradually revealing more and more about what sets it apart from their last superstar fantasy epic Pillars of Eternity. Aside from the fact that you play a, y’know, not particularly nice person, there are a few interesting systems at play that further increases the depth of the RPG template.

The big things to look out for in Tyranny are:

• A highly-customisable new magic system
• Smaller, four-person parties that can be fully-controlled or assigned AI
• Special weapons that increase in power as they perform legendary deeds
• A renewed focus on classic-style dungeon crawling

All too frequently mages can feel like one of the more neglected classes in RPGs, but Tyranny is building spellslingers in an interesting new way. “One of the things we’re doing differently in Tyranny is that you create your own spells by finding magical sigils in the world,” explains Brian Heins, game director on Tyranny. “So you start with a core sigil like fire, frost or lightning, and then decide how that magic type is going to express itself, whether it’s a long range bolt or a cone, like a great cone of flames, or a fireball.”

In the game’s spell creation menus, these are represented by a series of runes that are attached together. Further sigil runes can be added to modify the way in which spells deal damage, too: “You can actually create a magical fireball that leaves targets bleeding on the ground. [There are] a lot of different effects you can apply to customize and craft your own spells however you want,” says Heins.

In combat, these spells become visual feats as ice spikes erupt from the ground and waves of rippling energy tear across dungeons. It quickly becomes obvious that Tyranny is one of the best looking isometric games made since the classic RPG renaissance began. Your party consists of just four members this time, making it a little easier to appreciate each of their animations in the swirling melee.

That reduction from six-character parties was a remedy for the unnecessary levels of challenging management that Pillars required. “Since you only have four players in the party it’s much easier to keep track of what everybody’s doing and seeing, what their status is in combat, [instead of] trying to keep track of six people, plus summons, plus pets, plus everything else that can go on with a much larger party.”

For players that find classic combat a barrier to entry, Tyranny’s party AI feels significantly more advanced than Pillars’, meaning they can intelligently fight their own battles and stay healthy without much input from players. If you’re a combat whiz though, don’t fret: complete control of every tiny action is still a path you can take.

One of the many things we associate with fantasy lore are legendary weapons, be they King Arthur's Excalibur or Gandalf’s Glamdring. RPGs frequently have powerful named swords, but there never seems to be a reason for their fame. Tyranny is different: for a sword to become legendary, it needs to accomplish something.

“Artifacts are these legendary items, everybody talks about them,” reveals Heins. “Each one has their own reputation. So the more you use an artifact, the more it accomplishes great deeds, and the more legendary it becomes.”

When you find an artifact weapon, the character who equips it gains access to a new ability, such as powerful debuffs or special attacks. Using the weapon builds a meter on its inventory page, and as that meter builds so does the weapon’s renown. The most renowned weapons in the realm are, naturally, powerful tools that will see your enemies fall harder and faster.

And you’ll want powerful weapons too, as there are going to be quite a few classic dungeon crawls full of monsters and bosses. “One of the things we tried to do is create our dungeon experiences as much more of a classic dungeon crawl experience with traps, with interesting encounters and creatures and lots of treasure and loot to go and find,” says Heins. “So they’re very deadly experiences in the game but the reward is well worth it.”

Obsidian are currently quietly confident in a 2016 release. And while we’ve still not seen a huge amount of its evil world, what we have seen of Tyranny so far is an exciting take on the intricacies of old-school RPG design. For anyone with a love of isometric raiding, Tyranny really needs to be on your watch list.

 

[Bubbles]

The Watch article accuses Tyranny of being "dumbed down" and casualized.

 

[Neanderthal]

Fair bit o butthurt about lack o friendly fire on Obs forum, surprising, usually slurp cock over there.

 

[Athelas]

In the game’s spell creation menus, these are represented by a series of runes that are attached together. Further sigil runes can be added to modify the way in which spells deal damage, too: “You can actually create a magical fireball that leaves targets bleeding on the ground. [There are] a lot of different effects you can apply to customize and craft your own spells however you want,” says Heins.

Wouldn't it be more logical for fire to cauterize wounds instead of causing them to bleed?

 

[Sacred82]

That's surprising (coming from RPGWatch, not that it's dumbed down)

 

[Infinitron]

Fair bit o butthurt about lack o friendly fire on Obs forum, surprising, usually slurp cock over there.

Hah. Compared to places like the RPG Codex, official company forums are usually the home for the most sour kind of pissed off fan - the types who get fixated on particular things and don't see the big picture. Which means they might forgive a lot, but when they get mad about something, watch out.

 

[Infinitron]

This Italian website has user interface screenshots for some reason: http://multiplayer.it/notizie/17296...a-di-tyranny-in-un-set-di-scatti-inediti.html

Brief German preview: http://www.spieletester.com/previews/tyranny-vorschau/

 

[Bubbles]

This Italian website has user interface screenshots for some reason: http://multiplayer.it/notizie/17296...a-di-tyranny-in-un-set-di-scatti-inediti.html

Those screenshots form the entirety of the Tyranny Gamescom press kit: 12 pictures of the spellcrafting interface.

 

[Infinitron]

Seems like D:OS 2 and Torment starved Tyranny of all the RPG attention. Nice going, Failadox.

 

[Shadenuat]

Strange that there is no friendly fire but there is an option to customise spell shapes. It seems like ideal way of making a choice between weak but reliable spell (arrow, ray, cone) or damaging but less reliable (blast). Maybe even add a sigil that makes spell damage less and have smaller radius, but without FF; and a sigil that makes spell a huge blast with great damage, but random borders and bad accuracy. It could have been a win-win system for everyone.

 

[Neanderthal]

Seems like D:OS 2 and Torment starved Tyranny of all the RPG attention. Nice going, Failadox.

Bet MCA's all broken up.

 

[ArchAngel]

Strange that there is no friendly fire but there is an option to customise spell shapes. It seems like ideal way of making a choice between weak but reliable spell (arrow, ray, cone) or damaging but less reliable (blast). Maybe even add a sigil that makes spell damage less and have smaller radius, but without FF; and a sigil that makes spell a huge blast with great damage, but random borders and bad accuracy. It could have been a win-win system for everyone.

Hopefully there will be a mod that turns on FF again.

 

[Infinitron]

Spellcrafting:

 

[Bohrain]

http://www.pcgamesn.com/tyranny/tyranny-spell-creation-artifact-weapons

All too frequently mages can feel like one of the more neglected classes in RPGs

wat

Anyhow if you think about it the enemies in PoE had a habit of nuking their friends, so no friendly fire could mean more challenging higher difficulties if they balanced out not being able to hurt friends with adding more caster enemies.

 

[Excidium II]

Spellcrafting:

Zzz

 

[tripedal]

Seems like they took the FFVII/Path of Exile system and made it boring.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Welp, psdo isn't as cool as I thought she was. Note: she can win back cool points by replying to this post with "Joke's on you, I was never cool."

It all started innocently enough when I read


Doesn't take too much deductive reasoning to figure out who protected sogross-do is.

And that lead to "EW THEY USED A PHRASE I DON'T LIKE" https://twitter.com/camharr/status/760541076687958016

And more Codex commentary





That last one, but not sarcastically.

Oh, and found the post http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...bsidians-next-rpg.104738/page-78#post-4691222 Congrats Kem0sabe!

I dislike people having conversations on Twitter instead of just shouting incoherently to cyberspace.