This week we want to encourage you to ask questions and comment your thoughts. Tower mechanics of the game is the best topic to do this since our game is tower defence hybrid and we didn't reveal much on that yet. Even ingame trailer we published didn't tell much about it.
So lets talk about tower mechanics in the game!
Crafting Towers
Crafting panel asks what kind of foundation and soldier should be used. Foundations determine health of the tower and soldiers determine which weapons you can give to the soldier.
Current Foundation Types:
Wooden Foundation: Low height, low health (few woods)
Reinforced Wooden Foundation: Medium height, moderate health (few woods and iron)
Stone foundation: high height, high health (wood,stone and iron)
Weapons and Ammo
After you build your tower, you can open tower panel to choose weapon and ammo. Soldier's class determines which weapons you can choose. Weapon has base damage but most important thing about the weapon is attack speed and ammo type. Because your ammo is the main damage source.
Current Ammo Types:
Arrows- Wooden arrow, poison arrow, explosive arrow and mana shock arrow
Grimoire- Fire magic, frost magic, lightning magic and dark magic
After you craft weapon and ammo than put them in the tower, your tower is ready to function.
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Wild Animals
Skinning Leather
Some equipments needs leather to craft. Old Kingdom's islands are home to many animals. You can hunt them and collect leather.
Your chance to get more leather change depending on the size of the animal. But beware! Chasing a big animal can lead you to be hunted. You will encounter different animals in different climate.
Enemy Appears!
Hordes of Jarl Hrafnar Sterkrson
You are not the only one who seeks Old Kingdom's treasures. Vikings are your strongest rival in this adventure.
Your real journey begins after you learn combat and basic mechanics of the game in training island. You will arrive the first Old Kingdom island and built your headquarters there. But you need to build defences not only for dangers in the island. Vikings will try to seize the island from you.
Jarl Hrafnar thinks you are weak. Therefore he sent a small ship of warriors to you first. Everytime you win your defence, he will increase number and strenght of his fleet.
This plot is our "tower defence" mechanics, we will talk about this in more detail in future.
Viking Units
Ulf - Basic Footman, uses one-hand axe and shield
Moderate health
Moderate damage
Moderate defence
Can block with shield
Bjorn - Barbarian Brute, uses heavy battle-axe
High health
Health regeneration
Moderate damage
Low defence
Ambush attack doesn't work
Helga - Basic Archer, uses bow and arrow
Low health
Moderate damage
Low defence
High range
High accuracy
Guardians of Old Kingdom
Dark magic knowladge lost with Old Kingdom but in the ruins you will encounter with remains of Dark Knights and Dark Mages, The Undead.
Probably the reason islands of Old Kingdom vanished long ago is dark magic. Scolars think something prevented these islands to be found by some magic they don't have knowladge about. For unknown reasons this magic is faint so islands start to pop up out of nowhere.
Skeleton Units
Dark Knight - uses sword and shield
Moderate health
Moderate damage
High defence
Fast attack speed
Can block with shield
Ambush attack doesn't work
Dark Mage - uses staff and grimoire
Low health
High damage
Low defence
Can leach health with channeling spell
Can knockback with dark explosion spell
Ambush attack doesn't work
Tribes of the Wild
On second island you will encounter with an uncivilized natives, are they survivors of the Old Kingdom? That is the biggest mystery to solve.
We don't want to spoil any story you will uncover during your first island expedition. So we will just continue with unit types for now.
Tribe Units
Wild Fighter - uses spear and shield
Low health
Moderate damage
Low defence
Fast attack speed
Fast movement speed
Can block with shield
Medium attack range
Wild Scout - uses dagger
Low health
High damage
Low defence
Fast attack speed
Fast movement speed
Stealth attack
Wild Shaman - uses staff
Low health
Moderate damage
Low defence
Can sacrifice friendly units to heal
Can summon sand creatures
We separated Animals, Humanoids and Bosses so there are more dangers out there waiting for you. We will discuss animals and bosses in future weekly announcements. Stay tuned!
Training Island
You will learn how to fight in this small island before sailing
You can fight dynamically once you learn hotkeys There are several attack types and you can combine them to create your own combos.
Attack Types and Their corresponding Hotkeys
Light Attack - Left Mouse Button
Heavy Attack - Shift + Left Mouse Button
Thrust Attack - Ctrl + Left Mouse Button
Special Attack - Alt + Left Mouse Button
Jump/Air Attack - Shift + Space + Left Mouse Button
Defending is more important from attacking, sometimes.. There are several options for defending yourself from your enemies. You can block with your weapons and shield but how much damage you can mitigate is depending on your item's block stats. You can also parry with your weapons and dodge attacks by rolling to a direction.
Defensive Actions and Their corresponding Hotkeys
Block - Right Mouse Button
Parry - Alt + Right Mouse Button
Dodge - Space bar
In Training Island first you will learn basic movement and camera mechanics
Character Movement - W, A, S, D
Camera Movement - Mouse X, Y axis
Run/Walk Toggle - CapsLock
Then you will learn targeting system and interaction with objects
Targeting System Lock - Tab
Change Focused Target - Q
Interact - E
Inventory - I
Drop Item - R
Equip Item - Left Mouse Button
Assign to Actionbar - Press number of the action bar while hovering the item example: Press 1 for adding hovered item to first action bar.
Once you test some of the weapons on dummies, you will head to the arena for some real combat experience!
Weapon Mechanics
Weapon type means combat style
There are 6 types of attack actions and every weapon has its own unique attack style.
Attack types:
Light Attack
Heavy Attack
Thrust Attack
Air Attack
Special Attack
Ambush Attack
Attacking cost stamina based on type of the weapon and attack type.
Weapon Tiers Using a type of weapon in battle or on training dummy rewards you experience on that weapon. When your experience bar on a weapon fills, you can upgrade your weapon to a higher tier at Engineering Table.
Tier I Weapon: Tier I Headquarter with Blacksmith, common resources to craft.
Tier II Weapon: Tier I version of that weapon type with full experience, Tier II Headquarter with Engineering Table, x2 Resources of Tier I version.
Tier III Weapon: Tier II version of that weapon type with full experience, Tier III Headquarter with Engineering Table, x2 Resources of Tier I version + special upgrading item.
Tier IV Weapon: Legendary upgrade item from bosses, Tier 3 Headquarter with Engineering Table, x2 Resources of Tier I version.
Weapon Durability If a weapon's durability is zero, that weapon will be destroyed. As you can guess repairing your equipment is important for protecting weapons that gained experience. Repairing costs resources based on current durability.
There are three stages of durability:
Fine
Worn
Battered
Weapon Types and Stats We developed 16 weapon types so far. But this is not final, we will be adding weapon types and new equipments throughout Early Access. You can see weapon stats when you hover your mouse on the weapon in inventory.
Only thing to explain about weapon stats is that "Attack Speed" is based on the weapon type. So when you look at Tier I Greatsword you will see 0.8 Attackspeed but Katana's attack speed is 1. That doesn't mean Katana is slower than greatsword. There are more greatsword variations other than your crafting recipies. You can find these items or recipies of them by various ways that will be discussed in a later date. Lets check those 16 types of weapons:
Melee Weapon Types:
One-handed Dagger
Dual-Daggers
One-handed Sword
Greatsword
Dual-swords
Doublesided Sword
Katana
Sabre
Spear
Polearm
Scythe
One-handed Axe
Greataxe
Maul
Ranged Weapon Types:
Bow
Magical Staff
Left-Hand Equipments We will inspect these items in detail at a later date but there are some items you can use with specific weapon type as shown below:
Arrows -> Bow
Shields -> One-Handed Weapons
Grimoires -> Magical Staff and One-handed Weapons
Crafting System
Rooms and Workstations:
Build workstations to craft items. You can purchase blueprints of items from the library and use resources collected from the island.
Collectable Resources:
Wood
Stone
Leather
Iron
You can earn gold from killing monsters.
The number of workstations and their types vary depending on the tier of your base. Every workstation has a different purpose.
A tier I base has two workstations.
Blacksmith: Craft weapons and shields
Carpentery: Craft defense buildings
A tier II base has four workstations.
Tier I workstations.
Barracks: Hire guards and mercenaries.
Engineering Table: Upgrade your items to a higher tier
