Crowfall Reporter Episode 3 – Three’s Company
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Hold on to your helms everyone, because the news is flying fast and furious this week! This jam packed show has Matt, Bill and Chris talking about finally getting to see some powers in action, the August Q&A, how Crowfall will approach Crowd Control and so much more!
What we’ve done game-wise
Bill:
- GW2
- Wildstar
- Elite: Dangerous
Matt:
- Accordian(Get it right, Bill!)
- Bassoon?
- Theramin?
- Digerydoo?
- Mongolian War Horn?
- Mongolian War French Horn?
- Mongolian take out?
- GW2
- Wildstar
- Guild of Dungeoneering
- Darkest Dungeon
Chris
- GW2
- LINK to Stronghold
- Wildstar
News
Knight Powers in Action
https://crowfall.com/#/news/knight-powers-and-new-animations
- Shows some of the combination of the knight kit. First time that powers, animations and FX have been combined in a video.
- Onslaught combo is shown. Starts with Onslaught, a low cost damage dealer, hitting one target over 2 hits
- Line A-Shield Lunge (power 2a), Smash 3 targets in front of knight for crushing damage with yer shield(AKA shield to the face damage)….which is a setup move for……Bring the Pain(power 3a), which deals MORE shield to the face damage, AND knocks the 3 opponents in front of you down.
- Line B-Spiral Slash(power 2b) NOT shield to the face damage, but instead slashing weapon damage to 3 opponents in front of the knight over 2 hits, which leads into Rend(power 3B) which hits 3 targets over 2 hits and adds a bleed to all damaged by it. Also hits a single target an extra time(the one the target reticule is on) and makes them bleed more. But still not a shield to the face.
- Video also shows the leap slam attack, which draws in enemies and then smashes them in the head with the shield from above. Which is awesome.
Confessor Powers in Action
https://crowfall.com/#/news/first-look-confessor-in-action
- Shows some confessor combos. Same as knight, first time showing powers, animations and FX have been combined in a vid.
- Basic attack is a small fireball radial attack that explodes in over a small area(hitting 1-2 chars.) once it hits something or it’s lifetime ends. Chars hit by this will accumulate sin, which does nothing by itself, but when combined with the right-click attack, bad things happening get even worse.
- Right click basic power is Zealot Rush, mobility based, will move the Confessor 10M in whichever direction is chosen(WASD) at the time. Powered by Stamina™, it can be used 2 times in a pinch.
- Absolution- Takes all Sin stacked on up to 3 players in front of the confessor by turning it into flames. More Sin on a player = more damage done by Absolution.
- Also, 5 stacks or more of Sin means a movement debuff as well.
- Meteor Purge- Looks like the Confessor building a meteor between her hands. Longer it’s charged = More better damage. Apparently you can spin the camera while doing this. To find a target? Make yourself sick? Who knows? After 66% charge, the projectile turns into a BIG meteor. Bigger = more damage but slower movement. This will hopefully eventually translate into an ability to smash down walls!
Legionnaire Powers in Action
https://crowfall.com/#/news/legionnaire-powers-and-animation
- Similar video to Confessor and Knight
- Basic attacks are spear swings. 3rd and 5th swings include a blue trail to indicate the mana-regen effect being “cast” on the group
- Enraging cry is a rearing animation with a red tinge – mana booster
- Scatter horde is slamming his spear in the ground which is a pbaoe knockback
- Charge is a running shoulder-slam into something (in this case, a pile of barrels)
Combat Chat #3-
Consumer Product Safety Standards and Conformity Assessment: Issues in
- Video posted July 30
- Why do you need groups?
- Forces including different archetypes
- Shrink/grow powers based on how many people they should affect (groups of 8? 6?)
- Game is not being designed around 1v1
- Groups will support 99 billion players (promised on tape)
- Other person pick your fave, add it here
August Q&A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaDZbKG1gY0&feature=youtu.be
- “What is the structure of characters as they relate to guilds”
- Short answer – one account to one guild
- Long answer = an introductory lesson in database structure
- So glad he went there. It would have been too easy to say “Databases are hard”, but JT comes across as a real data nerd; which I wholeheartedly respect
- Allows that this design can allow for people to “spy” in game if they use multiple accounts, for example. They are aware, they “care” but don’t really care.
- Follow up question goes over “sub-guilds”; which will be present (i.e. guilds within guilds – roughly up to 3 -sub-guilds deep)
- Do we want to create a Crowfall/MMO Reporter sub guild or a full guild. Let us know what you want! (Listeners)
Tips and Tricks
Crowd control theory
https://crowfall.com/#/news/crowd-control-and-teamwork
- Note – this is somewhat duplicated from the Combat Chat video
- Calls out other games by name (!) for lousy CC
- DAOC “stungard”; which was only the 2nd most annoying CC in the game (aoe mez that could last over a minute!)
Crowfall’s CC approach
- diminishing effects of CC (i.e. halving of duration within a short period of time) + short immunity after being CC’d several times in a short period
- This is governed by a “hidden” stat called Resolve.
- Resolve builds each time you are CC’d. Once you hit a certain threshold of Resolve, you become CC immune for 15 seconds and your Resolve is reset to 0.
- Resolve also decays over time, so if you are CC’d but don’t hit the magic threshold, you will lose your Resolve over time
- long-cooldown “Retaliate” power which allows instant recovery from knockdown
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Community
Meet the VFX team
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT9pyA49LkU&feature=youtu.be
- 3 new VFX members have been added to the combat team.
A Team Effort
- Sure, it’s a team effort… but we know where all the good ideas come from, right?
Angry Crows
- Community run forum site
- Lots of guild members from other games planning and discussing what they think of crowfall :1 account-1 guild etc…..
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