Warlordocracy - RTwP RPG/RTS from developer of Brigand: Oaxaca - now available on Early Access

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[agris]

When does the temp art get replaced?

 

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Finally got visible arrow tracers working. Death from above.

 

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Mobile AI can now use the same abilities as the player. They have to know the ability and have enough Meta, and be in the right situation (scripted in the "ai\aiUseItems.wsl" script that you can look at with Notepad). Here's a berserker using the Mad Dash ability and the the Berserk ability (naked guy is invincible).

 

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Robbing some graves, then shooting a fire arrow at some wasps, chopping up the hive, and collecting some honey in an empty bottle in Warlordocracy. Some wasps make honey, I checked.

 

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Filling up buckets with spa water to put out a bunch of fires in the Kickdi Brothel. Gonna be used later in naval battles where you have to fire cannons and put out fires below deck.

 

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Tying some rope on a hook and climbing down from a Riverfoot Keep balcony in Chapter 2.

 

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Street light effects now reveal concealed characters in the upcoming patch. Player gets spotted, shot, crippled, and killed by arbalists with the Aimed Shot ability.

 

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Got slow terrain like shallow water or deep sand/snow to cut off the bottom part of the character sprite and make sound effects.

 

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Got resolutions and font settings working in Warlordocracy.

 

[Spectral Pontifex]

Just bought this.

 

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Trying to kill some rich people with swords and molotovs in a noble manor in Jadenbury, but failing miserably.

 

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Making a play for the Roxor audience:

Been thinking about ratfolk a lot lately, so I'm gonna make them an entire faction you can make friends with and include a ratfolk party member.

 

[Lyre Mors]

Brian Lancaster, so I know you're working on Chapter 2 right now, but would you consider Chapter 1 to be fully feature-complete and polished?

 

[Spectral Pontifex]

This game better turn out to be the next Arcanum

 

[Brian Lancaster]

I might add like one more map and side quest to Chapter 1 before I finish all 6 chapters and leave early access, mostly to get some reputation I haven't thought of yet that matters in later chapters. I'll think about it after I finish all chapters.

In Arcanum you could convince the main bad guy that he's a loser and he should just kill himself if you max out your charisma, so that will definitely be a feature in Warlordocracy, yes.

EDIT: Main bad guy is based primarily on Ben Shapiro.

 

[Spectral Pontifex]

Main bad guy is based primarily on Ben Shapiro.

 

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Does he have a sister?

 

[Brian Lancaster]

He does now. And she sings opera.
(But seriously, thanks for that idea, it's going in)

EDIT: I'll have to find some creative commons opera singing sound.

 

[Spectral Pontifex]

I just noticed the post about naval battles in the future. MASSIVE INCLINE

 

[Lyre Mors]

Brian Lancaster, are you still working on refining the pathfinding? I have to admit, I tried the game out the other day for the first time since it launched into early access, and the pathfinding seems just about as bad as it was back then. And that is really bad. Like, maddeningly bad.

 

[Brian Lancaster]

It's pretty much as good as it's gonna be. Way better than it was in early acces. Characters should always turn the right direction when walking around corners at least.

EDIT: I am gonna add an option to increase game speed while out of combat in the next patch, though.

EDIT 2: I might also completely remove AI waypoints. They sometimes make characters go way out of the way.

EDIT 3: Also, I gotta make it so characters don't move behind walls with windows when pathfinding (they are little deadends that allow you to shoot arrows outside). That should be easy to do right now.

 

[Brian Lancaster]

Oh shit! That was the problem. I had them turning the right direction (as in the opposite of left), not the correct direction. Fixing now. BOOM! Problem solved.

 

[Brian Lancaster]

Just uploaded a patch that allows you to increase game speed when not in combat (like Pillars of Eternity). That way if the pathfinding fucks up it's slightly less frustrating.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1748160/view/3677805209165914971

 

[Tavernking]

Can you update the demo? The pathfinding and UI were atrocious