Crowfall Reporter Episode 3 – Three’s Company

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?

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-

https://crowfall.com/#/news/combat-chat-3-powers-q-and-a

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!)
  - http://daocinfo.awardspace.com/guides/class/mages/sorc/sorcerer_by_bullseye.htm

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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