Brief Geneforge 4 Update

[Enraged Slith]

What about a creation color change option? It might be interesting to have a little more control in the creation of your creation.

 

And while I'm at it, I'd like to see a few balancing issues that I'm starting to notice, sorted out...

[Retlaw May]

The problem with controlling what your creations look like is that Shapers generally don't know how to do such trivial things. Shapers succeed through trial and error, and don't really have time to concern themselves with changing the color of a functional creation.

[Alorael at Large]

I can easily see young shapers giggling in the corners of the lab when their stern master finds his menacing battle alphas coming out of the vat with lime green splotches. And I'm sure those same apprentices eventually slip a little pyro in the roamers.

 

—Alorael, who can see the now very upset stern master then requiring his giggling young proteges to clean up the mess. With their robes. Without a chance to wash those robes afterwards.

[Vicheron]

I'm really hoping that the fighter class can learn some special abilities/techniques like charge or shield bash. Guardian was the most boring class in the previous GF games.

 

It would also be nice if there were labs where you could improve spells and creations.

[MagmaDragoon]

Quote:

Originally written by Vicheron:
It would also be nice if there were labs where you could improve spells and creations.

Someone remember my "ADV Shaping" thread? That is.

Read it there .

[Fyora Toast With Roamer Butter]

I would like to see an interesting set of functions added to this game which come from another game called Evil Islands. In the game you can run, walk, sneak, and crawl. This increases the strategy of the game. It would make for interesting graphics and functionality. I know it sounds odd.

[Drakefyre]

GF4 has much improved sneaking.

[Fyora Toast With Roamer Butter]

An idea. I want to have a picture of toast somewhere in the game. Lets say an inn where you can buy different foodstuffs, toast, wine, milk for those nonalcoholic types, chicken apples, etc.

[Student of Trinity]

Mmmm, chicken apples. Like crab apples?

[Fyora Toast With Roamer Butter]

Chicken apples are flying apples, kind of like flying pineapples which can only be found deep in the desert of zounds...

[shadowss]

ok...5 classes, im guessing ittl be shaper, agent, gaurdian and servile... but what is the 5th one???

[I_am_a_Minotaur]

You're not a shaper.

[Alorael at Large]

Wrong, wrong, wrong, and right. But for all practical purposes, they're all right.

 

—Alorael, who thinks the classes were already discussed. The real question, which still has not been answered, is which possible combination of skills isn't available. No, it's not really intuitive at all.

[Randomizer]

It's too late for GF4, but how about one that is bad at everything. Having high costs for fighting, magic, and shaping for those people who complain that the game is still too easy on torment. The slow curve for advancement would be a change.

[Student of Trinity]

Heh, kind of like the 'tourist' class in (what game was it? Angband? No, Nethack, definitely.). And for a graphic, just use the 'normal human' ones. Even with choices of race and sex. You would just be a normal dude, caught up in it all.

 

But it's easy to play a handicapped character if you want to. Just don't use all your skill points.

 

EDIT: Thanks to Thuryl for the immediately following information. I can ill afford to enrage either of these communities, for I bear an uncanny resemblance to an ASCII character.

[Lilith]

Quote:

Originally written by Student of Trinity:
Heh, kind of like the 'tourist' class in (what game was it? Angband?).

You're thinking of Nethack. Confusing Nethack with Angband tends to enrage fans of both games.

[Alorael at Large]

Which character do you resemble? I sincerely hope that it's @.

 

—Alorael, who now has urges to translate many things into Roguelike. His + is always ', Onward and <, that sort of thing.

[Student of Trinity]

I'm afraid I can't afford to make it 256 times easier for my enemies. They are rough characters.