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Hey guys, finally I’m showing you something you haven’t seen in the blog posts yet :)
This is one of several new armors which will be integrated into the normal armor progression. That means they can be found and bought just like any other normal armor.Cheers!
1 unique double blade battle axe, please. I know – you can do this!
Hehe. I can try to squeeze in a named Orc Mansplitter Axe. If I really manage to do it remains to be seen :)
The Armor of the Greatsword guy is already in the game. It’s a named armor:
While working on some new Armors I decided to work over the lamellar armors. I always thought they’re hard to read and have a strange shape in general.
Here are the new versions (lower row):
Hey guys,
Sorry for not replying all week. While absorbed working I sometimes actually forget that I activated this forum again :)Regarding the Unholds I’ll ry to make them a little more distinct – if I find the time. Apart from working on new stuff I try to squeeze in a few reworks of older assets I dont like anymore.
And by the way, of curse they can’t be CCed. The only effect that can be applied is “dazed” by the new maces as far as I know.The suggestion to add a few more human faces came up repeatedly and I will see what I can do – no promises though!
Here’s a little rework of the greatsword I did so that it actualy deserves its name. The old asset was one of the first weapons painted roughly 5 years ago.
As I mentioned before I’d like to show some more, but I won’t spoil anything.
So each friday after we reveal some new stuff I will post according art and sketches.I can give you one little thing. The header graphic for the announcement is part of a bigger artwork I am painting for the main menue. We will see if everything works out the way we planned it, but I like it a lot already :)
Hey Jikma,
awesome stuff, you obviously put a lot of thought and work into this. Your ideas really sound like cool additions to the game. I especially like the colored gambesons, they have a nice medieval touch. Don’t worry about the quality of the assets, they are pretty good and have a cool low-power style.We actually considered a layered system to freely compose armor earlier in the development. This makes sense, as real life armor works exactly the same way and it would allow a lot of visual variety.
We finally decided against it because of several reasons. First of all you would have to come up with a pretty complex UI screen to track all the different armor layers and the UI is already cramped.
Secondly it would be difficult to implement the system into the game design in a meaningful and understandable way. How would you calculate armor points if someone choses to wear a mail shirt without padding underneath? In real life the protection value would suffer a lot. Regarding armor values we don’t have a lot of levers to pull. Theres basically just armor points and fatigue malus. The system would be a bit boring if you just stack up armor points for each additional layer.
So we would need more levers, like different protection values for cuts, blunt weapons etc.
I think this would be cool, but gets way too complicated for our scope of the game.
Thats why we dont have something like this in the game.To sum this up I would have loved to implement this in a different way: By adding a “vanity” slot to the UI where you put surcoats, scarfs, hoods or whatever you want to wear over your armor. These items wuld just change your appearance and have no gameplay impact.
Regarding the Blacksmith, thats a cool idea and I think you could somehow make it work within the existing game mechanics.
Cheers!
By the way, here are painted helmets I prepared for the upcoming 1.1 patch:
