More News on CTF coming Next Week + Shop Sneak Peek

Day 5 went ahead yesterday after a long long day of uni.

I realise making a post about news coming is a little anticlimactic, but I’m snowed in with university work at the moment and MM is preoccupied with giving a talk this weekend, so I’ll do it justice once my schedule is more clear.

Synopsis is that CTF Shops are under way, with most of the art and probably 40% of the code for them done. After they’re working and integrated with the builder there will just be the GUI production, Map making and lots of playtesting to do before it’s public. :^)



Here’s the shop art so far - Knight, Builder, Archer, Boat and Vehicle shops shown. The transport tunnel will also be present.

I’m considering leaving technology progression out of CTF entirely to keep the mode as simple as possible, I’d be interested to know people’s opinions on that approach. Otherwise tech progression would be based on “upgrading” each shop with one special tech item with no “research” building.

Max/Geti

Original DevBlog post.

 

Looks great, can't wait for this.... hope this comes out in a less then a month hopefully

 

All my yes.

 

What about these little guys . Also I like the shop upgrade system. Gold would be able to upgrade to the next tier similar to the demo shop in classic.

Also in the archer shop you should have the little target practice thing


Also it would be nice if the shops were made by unpacking crates like in the older beta builds. I loved that feature

 

Migrants aren't in CTF.... they are in zombies which will get working after CTF and other things I presume hopefully

That was in Alpha (The image) when you upgraded a arrow shop to a archery stand... dont think there going back, personally I like the way how they take what they had before and change it, give it a different look, works diffrently so we are not taking a step backwards and moving forward

That feature isn't that bad, so you can place things more organized I guess, dont think it would be of a big change to the game imo

 

The floating just looks a bit weird and I can't think of a way to prop a bow up unless it had hooks in the back. The crate thing is just a cool mechanic that wouldn't hurt the game and make things less simple.

 

Indeed, they should have a stone wall background for one.

 

I didn't understand the Knight/Builder/Archer shops.

They can change your class, or they make tools for each class like bombs for knights, arrows for archers and act like a workbench for builders?

 

if classic is anything to go by (it most likely is), then the class shops are for swapping classes.

 

I agree!

I also think there should be 2 swords crossed behind the shield in the Knight shop.

Oh!
Thanks, I played the classic version just once.

 

Will you used coins to spend at the shops, if so how will the builder get coins. Will he get kills from builder only weapons(such as the mortar thing that nkking suggested) or building/mining. Will the builder even be able to buy stuff. If not will the builder shop just be a class change and a workbench(lame).

 

My guess is the builder gets coins by mining and chopping trees like alpha, the pickaxe has really been nerfed and a builder has 10% chance of killing anyone unless its another builder. I assume the shop for builder might have the boulder, crate, lantern etc.
The way builders get money will be probally the same as in alpha since builders are somewhat weak in-action

 

I have 2 more questions!

I realy liked the boats and vehicles, they will appear just on CTF, or they will also appear in TTH?
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The boat shop will produce every kind of boat os just longboats?(Same question for the vehicle shop with catapults)

 

Well, I don't know how you are going about the "Change to \x\" Button, which I would think would be the larger issue.
For the "Upgrade Button", maybe it can be a large button on the bottom of the "Buy \y\" dialogue, the bottom row, if anything.
In Alpha, Buying/Upgrading was done in the same pie menu with pretty defined icons, and captions.

And to tousle with semantics, it would be Knight Shop = {"Demo Shop" + "Knight Stand" from Alpha}, so the archer shop would be roughly {"arrow shop" + "archer stand" from Alpha}.
I don't know about the builder, you could change into a Builder from the Tents, Beds, Outposts, and Combat-Class-Specific Stands if you weren't a Builder, there was no Builder Stand at all.

Past that, what happened to the notion of needing "New Meat for Test Servers", Geti?
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Seladur- Seemingly, you just buy packed boats from the boat shop. :/