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

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Calling on some militia contracts to assault some Third Moon Pirates (but failing and dying).

 

[Brian Lancaster]

Wrapping up 3 more side quests for Warlordocracy Ch.2 before release on Monday. No fetch quests to collect 10 goblin panties, promise.

Wishlist now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2498110/Warlordocracy_Ch_2/

 

[Brian Lancaster]

Finally released Chapter 2 on Steam and itch. Still gotta balance the difficulty, so I need feedback.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2498110/Warlordocracy_Ch_2/

 

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Exclusive Patreon content for Thanksgiving: Turkey Terror.

 

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Got lightning and thunder working in the latest patch. Mostly just a video of lady pirates slaughtering some city guards.

 

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New sprites for gas, smoke, and dust clouds in Warlordocracy v11.

 

[Spectral Pontifex]

Played the game for the first time. Managed to get a character stuck in a pathfinding loop right in the tutorial. The pathfinding is truly retarded. How so?

 

[Brian Lancaster]

Fuck, I thought it was finally tolerable.

EDIT: Brigand actually has much worse pathfinding, but you don't notice it because it's first person and most baddies have guns.

 

[Spectral Pontifex]

The AI gets stuck on anything. Surely there must be big brain guides out there for coding pathfinding.

 

[Brian Lancaster]

Unfortunately there is no simple solution. The exact algorithm is A*, but even an extremely simplified version of A* is ridiculously slow. I have a big 500 page book on pathfinding AI.

EDIT: Also, whatever video you posted is unavailable for me.

 

[Spectral Pontifex]

EDIT: Also, whatever video you posted is unavailable for me.

My bad, it works now.

 

[Brian Lancaster]

Thanks. That was working about as well as expected. They can turn corners easily, checking for diagonal first/last, as well as L-shaped movement, and they can find doorways marked with waypoints easily, but going all the way around a building or large cliff is a bitch unless I manually add waypoints around each corner (and even then it's messy). I'll work on it more eventually.

 

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Spiders now spin webs on the floor that slow you down.

 

[Brian Lancaster]

This patch should improve pathfinding a lot. A while back I allowed mobiles to cut diagonally across blocked tiles to make movement easier, then forgot to update the AI. So now it checks for immediate diagonal movement to easily avoid small obstacles.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1748160/announcements/detail/3860212413478358846

 

[Spectral Pontifex]

Good stuff. I really like your approach to RPGs, as can be seen in Brigand and on your blog. Hopefully, the pathfinding won't be that much of a hurdle for Warlordocracy.

I don't have time to play through it right now, but I am looking forward to it.

 

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You can now ignite/extinguish torches in Warlordocracy early access v11.8. Here's a video of using flint+steel and a bucket of water, but there's multiple ways to do it. Now to start on Ch.3 for realsies.

 

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Just started on Ch.3 alpha and uploaded it to Patreon. Got slingshots, turtles, sharks, and more. Right now there's only two islands (one for each faction) with some baddies to kill. Also uploaded a new PDF for patrons detailing myth+magic.

 

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Been working on Warlordocracy Ch.3. Here's a random-ass battle outside Berindal's Estate.

 

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A group of siliki swimming out from Nightsteam Reef to electrocute a shark.

Upcoming patch (v12.4) will include swimming, and player characters can also learn to swim as a Physique ability.

 

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Killing some Izari mercs on Berindal Beach in Warlordocracy Ch.3.

 

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Killing some leapers in Babadoo Mire in Warlordocracy Chapter 3 (release date 30 April 2024).

 

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Got cannons working in Warlordocracy in time for Screenshot Saturday. Here's the player blasting some undead on Fortune Isle (from Patron Stories).

 

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Fighting some crocodiles and leapers in Babadoo Mire in Warlordocracy Ch.3 (coming 30 April). Shale has the passive Swimming ability, which lets her swim in deep water.

 

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Got a few "innate" abilities working for certain species. Siliki can dive underwater, trogs can burrow under sand. Don't wanna say "racial abilities" because they are different species (not races), and the adjective for species is "specific", because English is stupid.

 

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Killing some Eberan in Sentinel Rise in Warlordocracy Ch.3, coming 16 May.