Tyranny Discussion Thread

Izak said:
Well we don't know shit about the world before Kyros rolled in with his legions, for all we know he could see himself as bringing unification to a torn up land through any means necessary. It's not like it's hard to make evil factions justify themselves, Nazi's believed they were doing the world a favor, I see no reason for Kyros's armies to see themselves as pure evil.
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Yep the best villains believe they're doing the right thing... Well except for the joker of course but I digress...
 
Not kidding, I clicked the thread because I misread "Tranny discussion thread", I had no idea why it was in Gaming, expected Great Things.
 
R.Graves said:
Oh... Most trannies are disappointing. A feminine guy dressed like a chick is fine by me.
But most guys are too masculine to pull it off.. But that's just my opinion.
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Well there are the ones with hormone treatments and the boob implants that can be pretty convincing.
 
JO'Geran said:
Why do you dislike CD Projekt Red?, I personally think there one of the most admirable companies in modern gaming.
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well i quoted his first sentence...

the only thing that i dislike from CDPR (as witcher 3 shows) is that their engine is difficult to moddable. they clarify it for being usiing lot of liscenced software tool to develop REDEngine. i would just be happy if they just using cryengine v instead
 
New Dev Diary 2

https://blog.tyrannygame.com/2016/05/04/dev-diary-2-the-basic-game-systems/

Hello again!

Last week I talked about the vision for Tyranny. For this week’s update, I want to talk about some core game systems – mainly skills, attributes, and character progression. We’ll go into more details about other game systems like combat and magic in the coming months.

Skills


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One of the first decisions I made when I started designing systems for Tyranny was to make it a skill-based game. These are my favorite RPG systems to play, as they give players a lot of freedom and flexibility to make their own character. A lot of my favorite games – both pen and paper RPGs and computer games – are skill-based, and the first game I ever worked on was a skill-based RPG. Making this change felt a bit like coming home.

Skills in Tyranny are grouped into three broad categories: Weapons, Support, and Magic. Weapon skills determine how accurate your character is when wielding weapons of that type. Support skills determine how good you are at avoiding being hit in combat, as well as how nimble, sneaky, or knowledgeable your character is. Magic skills determine how precisely your character can draw various magical sigils and control the forces they evoke.

Skills increase as you use them, but there must be some challenge involved. You can’t fight characters who are far below your level to gain experience, or climb up and down the same wall over and over.

Attributes
Tyranny uses six core attributes to define characters. These are:

  • Might – your character’s physical strength and attack power.
  • Finesse – your character’s physical precision.
  • Quickness – your character’s speed and reaction times.
  • Vitality – physical health and force of personality.
  • Wits – intelligence and arcane potential.
  • Resolve – ability to endure physical and mental challenges.
Attributes also determine the base values of skills. Each skill has a primary and a secondary attribute that contribute towards the skill’s rank. Primary attributes increase the skill by 1.5x the Attribute value, while secondary attributes increase the skill by 0.5x. The One-Handed Weapons skill, for example, uses Might as its primary and Finesse as its secondary. A character with 15 Might and 10 Finesse would have a base One-Handed Weapons skill of 28 ( 15 Might * 1.5 + 10 Finesse * 0.5 ).

Attributes also contribute towards secondary statistics, such as the Endurance, Will, and Arcane resistances.

Progression
I wanted skills to increase as you use them, rather than spending skill points at level up. This meant a fundamental change to how character progression worked. In Eternity, characters gain experience as they complete quests and objectives. Individual combat encounters or conversations had no effect on level, unless they advanced a quest.

With the decision to increase skills by use, I needed skill gains to contribute towards character level. Otherwise you could theoretically have a character with a hundred ranks in a skill, but still technically considered ‘level 1’. So, in Tyranny as you use skills they gain experience. When they gain enough experience, they increase their skill rank. When a skill increases in rank, your character gains experience towards their next level.

A benefit of this is that it makes even optional combat encounters rewarding for the player. This change could have made conversations less rewarding, as players would need to fight in order to level up their characters. To resolve this, we added functionality to allow players to level up their skills in conversations. Player choices that are gated by skill requirements will add experience to those skills when they are used. Additionally, if you use a skill to intimidate an encounter into fleeing, we grant skill experience to the party equivalent to what you would gain if you fought them. It can’t be exact, as there are too many decisions that players can make during combat to replicate it exactly.

So, your characters gain experience as their skills increase in rank – whether it’s through combat, conversations, or interacting with objects in the world. You also gain some experience for completing quests and objectives, though it’s a smaller portion of your overall experience than it was in Eternity.

As your party members increase in level, they can improve their Attribute scores and purchase new Talents from Talent Trees. Your character has 6 distinct trees to purchase talents from, while your companions have their own unique trees.

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