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Un videodiario che illustra la versione pre-alpha dell'RPG strategico Battle Brothers.
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00:00Hey guys this is Jason from Overhype Studios and today I'm going to show you our new gaming project. It's
00:08called Battle Brothers. It's a RPG slash strategy slash tactics game. Pretty much like the old XCOM game but put
00:20in a medieval or fantasy setting.
00:22And let's just jump into the game and I'm going to show you a scenario which we developed for showcasing
00:31the game.
00:32So what's the game about? The game is basically about you taking charge of a band of warriors, so called
00:40Battle Brothers, whose mission it is to defend a country against an enemy invasion from the outside.
00:49And that's just a rough story outline. Let me just show you the basic game elements. So this is the
00:58tactical combat map. We have pretty much like in XCOM we have a tactical combat layer and a strategic combat
01:07layer.
01:07This is the tactical layer. On the strategical map you will be able to manage your troops and buy new
01:16equipment, craft things, do some research and so on.
01:23And I'm just going to show you the elements of the tactical map right now. So this is our active
01:29battle brother. You can see him moving. These are his stats, his name, his action points. Action points are used
01:39for moving, attacking, using skills and so on.
01:42This is his fatigue, like his exhaustion. Any special skill he moves or any tile he moves will give him
01:53a little fatigue and if a character is too fatigued he will not be able to perform any more actions.
01:59Down here we have the moral. And this is lowered by killed friendlies and raised by killed enemies and at
02:08some point your troops will start wavering or even start fleeing. Also the enemies may flee the battlefield.
02:16So we have head armor. So this guy has not equipped a helmet. You can see it on the character
02:24icon right here. So he has zero head armor and very light body armor. And this is his health point.
02:33Over here you have active skills. The active skills are dependent on the equipment he is wearing. So he is
02:40wearing a spear which gives him a thrust and a spear wall which is a defensive skill.
02:47And he is also wearing a round shield which gives him a knockback ability and a shield wall ability. Down
02:55here we have the initiative order. So you can see who is next turn.
03:00If there are enemies on the map you will see them pop up right here. So let's go ahead and
03:07place our soldiers. You can see here the light green grass. Pretty easy to move. And here we have a
03:17dark forest.
03:18So now we are going to move our first battle brother right into the forest. And maybe we can spot
03:23some enemies. So no enemies here. Here we have a guy with a crossbow.
03:30He is a ranged guy obviously. And you can use these brushes. You can see this guy is hidden from
03:36enemy view. And it is always a very good idea to put your ranged units in these hiding places. So
03:44they won't be attacked easily.
03:45And this guy has got a two handed weapon. He is going to look to the north. And his view
03:53range is really short because he has a heavy helmet that reduces his sight range. So for this purpose we
04:01better use our lightly equipped guys. Like this one.
04:04Get this guy from the back. Get this guy from the back. Maybe farm a defensive line. Usually the enemies
04:10will come rushing at you in this scenario. So this scenario is basically simulating a late game mission. It's all
04:19the battle brothers you have here are pretty well equipped.
04:27So here is our first enemy. It's a wizard vampire. It's actually one of the most dangerous enemies you can
04:36encounter. And he will probably attack my bowman. Oh there is another one.
04:40So he uses his skill dark flight. To get right next to my bowman. And also get on the elevated
04:48ground. Which is very important in this game. Height levels.
04:53So now we've got a huge problem. You see these red shaded areas. It's called zone of control. It's one
05:02of the key elements of the game. If you move into an enemy zone of control you will not be
05:06able to move any further.
05:08And also if you are trying to leave the enemy zone of control he gets free attacks on you. And
05:15you have to be lucky to get out of the zone of control without getting attacked.
05:20So this guy is on the high ground. It gives attack to hit bonus. And also it's more difficult to
05:27hit the guy on top.
05:29So now we're gonna get our guy with the shield birra and the heavy armor to intercept this werewolf.
05:36Because the werewolf is a really dangerous guy. And he can just massacre our lightly armored guys.
05:42So we're gonna put up a shield wall. You can see this guy raising his shield. Now he is a
05:48lot harder to hit.
05:49Now we can use our ranged guy or bowman to maybe put a shot on the vampire. Or maybe on
05:59the werewolf. The werewolf has a very high chance to hit him.
06:05So this is like a quick shot. You can do two of those. Or an aimed shot with a higher
06:10percentage to hit.
06:12Okay. Yeah. That's very good. We hit him. You can see that he lost some of the health points and
06:18his body armor.
06:19So now I really have to rush to the aid of this guy. And defend him against the vampire. The
06:27vampire is like a really badass enemy.
06:31So all the guys I have here are pretty well equipped actually. So this is more like a late game
06:39scenario.
06:40And you can also see that all the weapons and armor are quite historically accurate. So it's not your high
06:48fantasy game.
06:49But it's more like a low power medieval fantasy setting. It's not like the guys are wearing helmets with big
06:59horns on them or whatever.
07:01So this guy actually to shoot a crossbow. It's quite different from a bow. So this just costs two action
07:08points. But you have to take a whole turn to reload.
07:12And now you can see okay it's 30-33% to hit. I will give it a try. But you
07:18have to be careful because you can hit your own guys.
07:21Okay. That was a miss clearly. This is where the bolt went. And we're waiting for the enemies to finish
07:27their turn.
07:28Next up our bowman. Who is a... hopefully will be able to escape the vampire and get into safety. But
07:35if I'm not lucky he will get... yeah... maybe one hit it.
07:39Okay. This was not a very good idea. But I try to escape nevertheless.
07:45Okay. This was lucky. I made the escape. But now he's so critically wounded that the vampire may just teleport
07:52behind my front lines here and finish this guy off.
07:56Hopefully he's not as intelligent. So let's see where he goes. Okay. He's gonna go on the high ground.
08:03Oh, he's going for my guy in the very back. And they're piling up on him. Because he has no
08:12defenses. He's very weak.
08:14in close combat. And there's another werewolf to seal the deal.
08:19You can see the guy's armor is getting shredded from the werewolf. We have... for all items you can see
08:25here we have a damaged version.
08:27So you can see this guy lost like half of his body armor. And you will instantly see on the
08:32battlefield like...
08:34who's of you... this guy has lost some health. You can see this is... wounds in his face.
08:39And the same goes for the enemies too. So you can see without looking at the stats or anything. You
08:45can see the damage done to the characters.
08:48Which we are really proud of. So let's give this guy a good knock on the head. It's not a
08:55very high chance to hit him.
08:56And we actually missed him. That was very unfortunate. So now we have to help our guy down back. Like
09:03here.
09:05I think we have no other choice than moving there. You have to remember the zone of control problem.
09:12So right now I'm moving here. Problem is vampires can move out of the zone of control with ease.
09:19So they are not stopped by that.
09:22So I'm trying to defend the tiles around him. So for this reason he's making a spear wall.
09:28So he's... any enemy who's entering this area around him will get attacked by his spear wall ability next turn.
09:37So let's see what the vampires are going to do. Actually like two vampires in a stack is like really
09:44really hairy thing to fight against.
09:48Of course you can use like the number keys to select the skills directly. That's what I'm doing right now.
09:56The small icon you can see on this guy. The shield is... it shows that there's somebody in the way.
10:04So I'm just gonna fire two shots at the werewolf at like 50 percentage.
10:09So now you can see this guy is severely wounded. He has only a fraction of health left. If I'm
10:14lucky I can finish him off with a second weapon.
10:17And there he goes. So that was the werewolf. This guy actually... okay now he got killed by the...
10:25By the vampire. But he did a good job killing the werewolf. Actually there is permadeath in the game.
10:33So if you lose a battle brother he's gone. He's gone forever. So even if he's like a high level
10:39and has a lot of skills.
10:41And actually this is one thing that's not yet in the game. Like you can level up characters and give
10:46them skills.
10:46And we have a whole inventory system planned. And actually the guys already have an inventory. You just cannot see
10:58it yet.
10:59And so you really have to try hard not to lose the guy. Because this guy is dead forever.
11:05And we are trying... that's what we are aiming for. To get like an emotional attachment to your characters.
11:11And just like in the old XCOM where it felt like really punishing to lose a guy.
11:16But on the other hand it was really making up for like a really good story.
11:21Okay this guy is wearing a maze. So actually it's not very clear to see right now.
11:26But he stunned the vampire with his hit. And you can see like the little stars on his head.
11:32So he will be stunned for the next turn. Which is actually awesome.
11:35So now this guy is stunned. So I can move this guy out of the zone of control with no
11:39problem.
11:41And actually fire a couple of arrows up.
11:47Yeah just one arrow actually.
11:50So now we are waiting for the werewolf to make his move.
11:52These guys are really fast. And they have really high attack speed.
11:56So you have to be very careful.
11:58Actually these are some of the most fearsome enemies you have in the game.
12:03So now let's pile on this vampire.
12:08And hopefully we can do some damage to him.
12:11That was like a miss.
12:15So let's put an X on his face.
12:19There he goes. So more damage.
12:21Okay now he is already a little damaged.
12:25I hope I can get this guy away without getting him killed.
12:29Oh that was actually very lucky.
12:32So now we have to wait for the enemies who are not on.
12:35I have not discovered yet.
12:37I am really glad that there is nobody showing up right now.
12:39Okay this guy will be active next week.
12:42Yeah he probably is going to be right from a crossbow guy.
12:46And as you can see the vampire actually was wounded and now has been healed up again.
12:52So that's a thing the vampires can do.
12:55So they heal up from the damage they do to you.
13:01It didn't hit that guy.
13:04Not enough action points.
13:06Actually you have to have six action points to do attack with the two handed sword.
13:13Now for the spear guy.
13:15Okay we hit him once.
13:17This guy is actually wavering.
13:18You can see like the little white flag.
13:20That means he has a morale that is below the maximum limit.
13:28So we have to be a little careful that he doesn't run away.
13:32Okay let's give this guy some arrows.
13:36And we missed.
13:38And we are probably going to shred this guy.
13:42Because he can do like three or four attacks a turn.
13:45Which is actually crazy.
13:48So what we have learned so far that we really have to be more careful protecting our ranged guys.
13:55Okay let's pile on this sucker here.
14:00Oh here is only a fraction left.
14:02Hopefully I can finish him up.
14:04And the other guy as well.
14:05Maybe a well placed hit.
14:09With the two handed sword can finish this guy off.
14:13Unfortunately not.
14:15Okay hopefully they don't do too much damage.
14:17Because they can heal up.
14:18Actually they don't heal from doing armor damage.
14:21So that was lucky.
14:24Okay this guy evaded the attack.
14:26That's very good.
14:28Now I have to put up my shield against this werewolf to deflect his attacks.
14:33And maybe just one attack.
14:36Okay he just panicked.
14:38He is fleeing right now.
14:40Which is actually very very bad for me.
14:43Okay let's kill this guy.
14:45Come on.
14:49He is not able to do anything because the vampires are close to him.
14:55And you cannot fire a bow if there is an enemy nearby.
14:58When we have put in the manageable inventory you can actually change his weapon to like a sword or something.
15:04That would be awesome.
15:06Okay he didn't make it trying to escape from the vampire.
15:13Don't get too many hits.
15:15Okay this is not looking too good actually.
15:18As soon as I lose another guy I will finish this short overview of the game.
15:22So yeah you can have a first look at our game.
15:28And also subscribe to our YouTube channel for some future updates.
15:34And hit us up on Facebook.
15:38We just started that.
15:39And yeah go to our website and follow our dev blog.
15:44And I hope you will be as excited about the game as we are.
15:49So cheers.
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