Game News Dungeon Rats, Iron Tower Studio's Age of Decadence dungeon crawler, officially announced

[an Administrator]

Crawling Legion.

 

[mondblut]

So no roleplaying elements at all ?

Seems to have enough of them to fill a screen.

But where's the most important RPG element of all, third person action combat?

That's a strange way to refer to the End Turn button.

 

[mondblut]

What does this mean for challenges outside of combat?

What?

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

Crawl to the Light

 

[Turtle-Zone 3000]

What does this mean for challenges outside of combat?

What?

Well combat and conversations clearly are still in, but with the removal of the following skills seems like it'll diminish the non-combat routes (Which was intended by VD)
or alternatively make it more reliant on your character stats (Which might also be intended?).

Some are useless but some like Lore seem necessary to the setting (Might intelligence be used in it's place?).

• Lockpick
• Sneak
• Steal
• Traps
• Impersonate
• Etiquette
• Persuasion
• Streetwise
• Alchemy
• Crafting
• Lore
• Trading

 

[Lurker King]

Vault Dweller starting your game name with the word "dungeon" is a terrible idea. There are already 40 RPGs on steam that have the word dungeon in it, many of them are very well known.

It's a great idea. People who bought AoD will buy this game, no questions asked. People who didn't buy AoD, but like dungeon crawlers or games with the word "dungeon" on the tittle, will buy this game too. He is bringing in new costumers.

 

[Lurker King]

I wanna know about the new crafting system. Do you guys manage to implement this or what?

 

[Lurker King]

Is Dungeon Rats going to be set in the same shitty setting as AoD?

They could at least try not to make it look so awful though.

 

[Roguey]

Pretty surprised mondblut's the only one to complain about the party size limit. With four, it's clear that VD plans to port this to consoles, much likes Tides of Numenera.

 

[Lacrymas]

Day 1 purchase basically. It would be cool if there is some narrative attached to the whole thing, not just mute puppets slamming against each other, but I'll take it anyway. Also, yeah, the name is terrible :p

 

[Kev Inkline]

Convict Code

+

Crawl to the Light

results in:

Con Flare

 

[Excidium II]

Pretty surprised mondblut's the only one to complain about the party size limit. With four, it's clear that VD plans to port this to consoles, much likes Tides of Numenera.

Don't give a fuck about party size tbh fam.

Actually I do but it depends entirely on the systems. It's easy to design for huge parties when half the character options only have a handful of stats.

 

[Severian Silk]

Consummate Dungeon

 

[Jasede]

Is Dungeon Rats going to be set in the same shitty setting as AoD?

They could at least try not to make it look so awful though.

Do you deny, all other aspects aside, that the game looks visually weak? There's no harm in working on the models and the lighting (everything is a bit too dark) to make the player able to at least see what he is doing.

 

[Delbaeth]

Shining in the Decadence
"Crawl for your live"
"Too crawl for you"
Decadence Souls: Tactics
MMXVI*


* No Ubisoft, it's not a copyright infringement, period.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Day 1 purchase basically. It would be cool if there is some narrative attached to the whole thing, not just mute puppets slamming against each other, but I'll take it anyway. Also, yeah, the name is terrible :p

There is, hence 4 endings.

I wanna know about the new crafting system. Do you guys manage to implement this or what?

No. It would have taken much longer (at least 3-4 months of work). We didn't have that much time.

...I suppose VD could have used the ressources into the colony ship game instead of making this. Not sure we needed a AoD dungeon crawler, but alas, I will of course try it

We couldn't start working on the CSG right away (and do what?) as it requires at least a year of pre-production.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

4-man party in TB is a sweet spot tbf. With good systems you can still have a nice varied party and lots of possible builds, but combat won't endlessly drag.

 

[rohand]

The Fall of the Decadence Guardians

 

[mondblut]

Pretty surprised mondblut's the only one to complain about the party size limit.

While 4 is pretty pathetic, I was primarily complaining about "1 real character and a bunch of incompetent sidekicks hidden around like easter eggs and intentionally gimped by the sawyers to be as useless as possible" approach. It belongs to the storyfag CYOAs, not to the real RPGs. Full party creation or bust.

 

[Shadenuat]

How much more, relatively speaking, we would learn about AoD setting from this game?

 

[mondblut]

What does this mean for challenges outside of combat?

What?

Well combat and conversations clearly are still in, but with the removal of the following skills seems like it'll diminish the non-combat routes (Which was intended by VD)
or alternatively make it more reliant on your character stats (Which might also be intended?).

Some are useless but some like Lore seem necessary to the setting (Might intelligence be used in it's place?).

• Lockpick
• Sneak
• Steal
• Traps
• Impersonate
• Etiquette
• Persuasion
• Streetwise
• Alchemy
• Crafting
• Lore
• Trading

If not obvious, I was being smug over your choice of words. "You need to invest 2 more points into Etiquette to click this button" is not a "challenge" by any stretch of imagination. The only kind of "challenges outside of combat" that come to my head is puzzles, and their absence is not something I would mourn overmuch.

 

[Roguey]

While 4 is pretty pathetic, I was primarily complaining about "1 real character and a bunch of incompetent sidekicks hidden around like easter eggs and intentionally gimped by the sawyers to be as useless as possible" approach. It belongs to the storyfag CYOAs, not to the real RPGs. Full party creation or bust.

Well if you want the well-built characters you have to gimp yourself by pumping charisma.

 

[Lord Azlan]

Party based make it a proper RPG. Call it AoD Dungeon version. Please make combat different from Blackguards 2.

 

[Havoc]

I only will care about this game if it will have this trustworthy man in it:

Now please follow me, I saw a chest full of gold right back this alleyway.

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

Decadent/Decadence Tactics or bust.

Decadent Tactics > Dungeon Rats any day of the week