Gaulish Gaming Banquet: beta-rome-project

overfloyd

(and for free)

filip5011

Evil Spork is gonna make Beta Rome a paid subscription

overfloyd

Oblebolix

pegperegogaucho

One last thing that Beta Rome needs is (are) save druid(s). I have no clue yet how to properly implement those, it has never been done before after all, but where would you place them? Note that they need to be near the respawn points marked below

pegperegogaucho

Adrien, heso, do you know anything about how spawn points are connected to the great map? How would you go about adding another point on the great map?

alatinn

I think I would add only 2 druids, on these locations:

alatinn

The first one would be close against the stained-glass window, and the second, in the cannon closed room

alatinn

I think it's necessary to have one near the end of beta rome since the first druid in actual rome is just before the ending

pegperegogaucho

The druids actually need to be right next to the spawn point, because in your example you could save at the machine gun and then reload to land in Sector 4, skipping a lot

pegperegogaucho

But otherwise the plan sounds good!

adrientd

I guess it mainly depends on how long the sections. Reaching I. should be very fast, and if the parts after get longer than it was in the preview, I would put one save druid at II., just inside the end of the transition sas, so need to be careful to not let annoying romans there. And also I would put a save druid right before sector 3, again inside the sas.

alatinn

Oh ok, I didn't expect to be that close ok...

alatinn

lemme think

pegperegogaucho

Like this?

adrientd

Exactly like that 👍

alatinn

Here's my thinking process: - I'm not sure 1 druid is enough for casual players. I think most of them will want to clear everything on their first playthrough, which might take a while. Except in Greece, the druids are pretty close from one another... - I think 3 is too much - In terms of game design, I think is better to have a druid in "safe locations", away from enemies. I think it's where the players would think they are.

pegperegogaucho

Sounds good!

pegperegogaucho

Hopefully we can get inserting another two druids onto the great map sorted out

alatinn

I dunno if those locations are satisfy the constraint: "to be right next to the spawn point", but I think Adrien's proposition looks great

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