[Aspettando] The Age of Decadence

[gaxel]

In sintesi:
Scelgo un ruolo da interpretare e quello resta, per tutto il walkthrough, costringedomi a ragionare in ogni situazione, come il personaggio che scelto di interpretare.

[gaxel]

Ieri ho ricominciato la demo con un drifter, 4 nelle prime 3 caratteristiche, 8 in perception, 10 in int e char. Punti spesi in lore, persuasion, streetwise, disguise e etiquette... non una furbatissima perché la demo è un po' limitata, ma pazienza.

Mi sono fatto 1 oretta e mezza, solo dialogando ed esplorando qua e là e devo dire che i diaoghi sono ottimi, il sistema di interazione con le skills negli stessi eccelso. Mi piace l'area di gioco piccola, ma piena di personaggi e cose da fare.

Soprattutto, dà l'idea di essere davvero diverso in base al personaggio... ora non vorrei rovinarmelo troppo giocado la demo che è limitata, ma andrò avanti un poì così, poi provo con uno full stealth e uno full combat, uno scaltro e l'altro che punta solo sulla forza... e il divertimento credo sia proprio rispettare il personaggio, cosa che ben pochi giochi hanno permesso... e The Age of Decadece sembra uno di questi.

[Jon Irenicus]

Update su Steam, poco meno di 70mb:
http://steamcommunity.com/games/aod/...69221282802411

Originariamente inviato da VINCE

Our third update is out, officially making it a pattern! What’s in it? All kinds of cool things! Step right up and take a look!

Places to go, People to see, Things to get:

• Changed the area around the temple in the Slums to make it look like a busy little bazaar. We added a new, rather colorful character who greets you when you enter this square and introduces the area.
  
• Added another character and his followers near the tower of Zamedi. He will provide a fresh perspective on the tower and share valuable insights with you.
  
• Added a new artefact (a mechanical eye). You can acquire it and, in the best traditions of the Planescape Torment, swap it for one of your own. The eye doesn’t shoot lasers (would be totally cool if you did though), but it can see into other planes, which makes it a rather useful thing to have ... in your eye socket.
  
• The hammer crowd complained that they don’t have a cool hammer, so we gave them … *drumroll* … the Perforator! It’s a handy spiked hammer with a unique icon.
  
• 3 journal pages (not the entire journal yet, but it’s a good start). Now in addition to Quests and Techniques, you get Lore (to collect what you learned from different people in one place), Items for all the Artefacts you managed to get your hands on, and Characters to keep track of people you double- and triple-crossed. The Characters page has only the portrait and the intro text for each character; the effect of your actions will be added in the upcoming updates. Overall, you get 17 Lore entries, 29 character entries, and 15 Artefact entries. There will be a lot more in the full game, obviously.
  
• Added several rare alchemy components in the tower’s library.

Quest Improvements:

• The trial-by-combat is now more customer-oriented. You will be offered a crappy weapon of your choice and even a shield!
  
• Now you can fight Hamza in MG5 if you decide to go to the meeting alone. Aso, you can convince Strabos to tell you what he knows without having to fight Hamza in IG4. You can thank Brandon and his 'smart soldier' and 'tough trader' characters for this suggestion.
  
• Now you can handle TG5 peacefully by paying the assassins crew a visit and discussing the situation with them, which means that now you can play the entire thieves questline without having to fight.
  
• Now you can get the key to the tower of Zamedi as a Daratan praetor and thief (not only as a Gaelius’ faithful servant), which should make the game more open. We’ll extend this option to the assassins in the upcoming updates.

General Improvements:

• The scroll in Feng's house increases Lore to level 2. If you have 2 or more, you get 5 non-combat skill points instead.
  
• The scroll in Antidas’ palace increases Etiquette to level 2. If you have 2 or more, you get 5 non-combat skill points instead.
  
• The workbench in the blacksmith house increases Crafting to level 2. If you have 2 or more, you get 5 non-combat points.
  
• Coltan either teaches you some Alchemy increasing it to level 2 or gives you a bunch of reagents plus a bottle of liquid fire, if you skill is 2 or more.
  
• In Belios house in Teron you get a couple of quicksilver roots instead of a flat Alchemy increase.
  
• The amount of money you can give to Reggie has been reduced to reflect the adjusted economy.
  
• Added money and reputation rewards for the Arena fights and rebalanced SP gains.
  
• Infiltrating the palace now awards some SP.
  
• Fixed miscellaneous issues, dialogue loops, camera angles, icons, and such.

Keep in mind that while your save games are still compatible, some changes won’t take any effect until you restart the game.

As always, we’re very grateful to the Steam community for their support and willingness to try new things. So far, we’re on track for the next month update which should include 5 new locations. We did 2 locations in February and should be able to do the remaining 3 in March. Stay tuned!

[sonmiananxa]

Iscritto

[Jon Irenicus]

Update febbraio:

http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum...ic,3936.0.html

We’ve just released update #3 on Steam (the BMT version will be updated in the next few days), which is out 5th update (R4.5) since the second 'chapter' was released. Overall, what we released in November (R4) was a good foundation and we spent the next 3 months building on top of it, adding more characters, quests, dialogues, details, and polish.

If you want to see what's in the update, click here.

We’ll continue adding and ‘expanding’ characters (Kemnebi and Abukar will get more quests, dialogues, and portraits), but now the focus will be on new locations.

We’re aiming to add 5 locations in a month’s time. Two locations are almost done: Aemolas’ village and the Library of Saross, which was slightly changed and expanded from the original design. Inferiae is half done and we’re slowly working on the bridge and the portal.

Since we're moving away from the relative safety of towns to ruins and such, we'll add two creatures in the next update as well.

* * *


^ The area around the temple


^ The eye implant


^ The, um, "crossbow" from the previous update. It shoots bolt so we called it the Bolter.

In unrelated news, Scott Jäeger, a talented writer and a great guy who's always happy to help us, has released another book on Amazon. It's called the Dreamlands and it's about this guy who does all kinds of crazy things, so you might want to consider shelling out 5 bucks to support creativity AND get yourself a great book to read.

http://www.amazon.com/Dreamlands-Sco.../dp/B00IA3D4A2

In case you're wondering who this Scott guy is and what he has done to deserve five bucks, he is the guy who wrote this (among other things):

http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum...pic,483.0.html

Enjoy.

[Jon Irenicus]

Update marzo:
http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum...ic,4031.0.html

Welcome to update #4. It’s a ‘major’ update for us (and a big chunk of content, bringing the number of available locations to 15 out of 22) and we’d like to introduce it properly to make sure that the players won’t miss the new locations (which is easy to do since the game is non-linear). Without further ado:

Aemolas’ village

This location is available only if you:

Helped a group of refugees get into Teron.
Talked to Aemolas after and were deemed trustworthy enough (positive Word of Honor reputation) to be asked to retrieve his stash.

The village is full of raiders, but there are quite a few options there, including a rare opportunity to put your scoped crossbow to good use or have some double- and triple-crossing fun. Sorta like a menage a trois where everyone gets fucked but you.

The Library of Saross

Available only if you talked to Abukar the Mad and learned about his trip to the Library. It’s an important location because:

You finally get to use that sphere you found at the beginning of the game (IF you found it)
You learn more information, provided you can get into the hidden chamber and translate the message
You can unlock an optional and very creepy (but extremely rewarding) ending. Naturally, you don’t get that ending right away, but you unlock the path that can lead you to it. If you have the balls.
Unlock the Arch and Inferiae locations.

The Arch

There are two ways to unlock it: the above-mention Library or faithful service to Lord Meru. Since the latter isn’t available yet, look for the clues at the library. So, what makes this location special and why should you care?

You should. You really, really should. It’s that place where you wave Kansas good-bye.
You will finally be able to use both the eye and the glove. How exciting.
You will meet your old pal Esbenus. Unless you killed him, in which case you’ll miss out on a beautiful relationship.
You will make new friends. Powerful friends. From the other side.
You can unlock Inferiae in case you failed to do so at the Library.

Inferiae

It's a desert village sitting on top of a place of power. Points of interest:

You’ll meet the very first character who’s actually been inside the temple you’re seeking (thus confirming that it does exist, among other things).
Play your cards right and you’ll be thrown into the ‘underworld’, which unlocks a bumpy ride that will lead you all the way to the top (of one of Maadoran’s minarets). The Eye thing will come in handy there.
You can unlock another location that will lead you to the temple. For obvious reasons, this location isn’t included in this update.
You can learn how to use one of those fancy semi-sphere consoles.
You can learn more lore stuff and connect more dots.

The Monastery

You can unlock this location by becoming a repeat customer of the healer (heavy wounds only). Impressed by your badassery (or at least your ability to survive the most grievous of injuries), the healer will ask you to fetch an ancient elixir that will improve your self-esteem and cellular regeneration, whatever that is.

Points of interest:

Raiders
Ancient mysteries and sacred liquids
Chambers deep inside a mountain
Huge doors that can’t be opened by mortal hands
Moral choices (must have morals in the first place to qualify), otherwise just join the raiders and have yourself a lovely day, full of plundering and pillaging.

The next month’s update will add another location - Caer-Tor, the Imperial Guards’ headquarters, which will introduce Dux Paullus and unlock the path to yet another ending where the Guards becomes Templars – the guardians of the temple.

The remaining 6 end-game locations will be released when the game is out. We’re aiming to start the final beta test in June and expect it to run for 2-3 months. We’ll continue to update and improve the Early Access build on a monthly basis, adding more content (characters, dialogues, items, etc) and general improvements.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

While your saves should work, we recommend starting a new game to avoid any scripting issues.

Screenshots sul link sopra.

[Jon Irenicus]

Specie di preview di RPS:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014...-of-decadence/

[Jon Irenicus]

Update di aprile: http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum...ic,4071.0.html

[mistero1982]

Originariamente inviato da Jon Irenicus

Update di aprile: http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum...ic,4071.0.html

Per un gioco con tanto testo come questo è prevista una traduzione?

[Jon Irenicus]

So che qui ci stanno pensando:
http://forum.rpgitalia.net/topic/222...raduzione-ita/
Ma non me l'aspetterei in tempi brevi (oddio, non si sa manco quando uscirà sul serio il gioco per quello...).

[Jon Irenicus]

Per il 19 gennaio è prevista una nuova beta.http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum...ic,6067.0.html
Il che vorrebbe dire che sono più o meno in linea con delle affermazioni fatte ad ottobre che ventilavano l'uscita del gioco per il Q1 2015.
Chissà...
Io ho evitato accuratamente di giocarci, ma a leggere qualche commento il gioco è molto pulito da un po'.

[Jon Irenicus]

Ho visto che il dev ha dato ieri sta risposta a chi gli ha chiesto quando ci sarà la release finale:
"Summer, most likely."
Chissà...

[gaxel]

March Update
http://www.irontowerstudio.com/forum...ic,6376.0.html

[mistero1982]

Traduzione in ITA non ce ne sono all orizzonte suppongo?

[Jon Irenicus]

Vedi risposta qualche post sopra, non credo si stia cimentando qualcun altro.

Se c'è una cosa in cui tutti sono d'accordo cmq è che la scrittura del gioco è veramente eccellente per cui molto meglio giocarlo in inglese più che mai.

[Donbabbeo]

Originariamente inviato da Jon Irenicus

Se c'è una cosa in cui tutti sono d'accordo cmq è che la scrittura del gioco è veramente eccellente per cui molto meglio giocarlo in inglese più che mai.

Ringrazia che 'sto thread non lo legge nessuno

[gaxel]

Originariamente inviato da Donbabbeo

Ringrazia che 'sto thread non lo legge nessuno

Ho come l'impressione che ci sarà un improvviso, rinnovato interesse per il thread

[Jon Irenicus]

Lo so, lo so... Volevo già scrivere che se a qualcuno non gli sta bene che si apra un thread a parte per sta storia delle traduzioni visto che poi in sto caso non c'è tanto da discutere a parte la filosofia di giocarlo in lingua originale o no, ma ho lasciato stare.

E backate Aledorn.

[Murdock79]

Originariamente inviato da Jon Irenicus

Vedi risposta qualche post sopra, non credo si stia cimentando qualcun altro.

Se c'è una cosa in cui tutti sono d'accordo cmq è che la scrittura del gioco è veramente eccellente per cui molto meglio giocarlo in inglese più che mai.

Originariamente inviato da Donbabbeo

Ringrazia che 'sto thread non lo legge nessuno

Winter is coming

[Bestio]

Originariamente inviato da Jon Irenicus

Vedi risposta qualche post sopra, non credo si stia cimentando qualcun altro.

Se c'è una cosa in cui tutti sono d'accordo cmq è che la scrittura del gioco è veramente eccellente per cui molto meglio giocarlo in inglese più che mai.

Per me le alternativa sono due o giocarlo in Italiano o non giocarlo.
E dato che è un gioco che non mi vorrei perdere, spero proprio che qualche anima pia lo traduca.