Dev blog: The Adventurer’s Guide to Battlefields
Hi everyone,
In this dev-blog, we will talk about the Battlefields.
You will enter and crawl many procedurally generated dungeons in Terra Randoma but do you rest once you step on the overworld? The answer is: No! You will also need to fight through various battlefields.
In a previous article about incidents, we briefly explained that you go to a battlefield screen if you encounter a hostile incident on the overworld and your skill checks to avoid fight fail. The battlefields in Terra Randoma are all procedurally generated with 15x15 grids providing an intense battle experience.
The obstacles are randomly placed so the battlefield will be different every time you play. There may be river tiles on the forest and a bridge to cross it that makes battles all the more interesting. The river is passable by certain monsters but not you (until you have certain points in your wilderness survival skill).
There may be other obstacles like a fallen trunk or a cacoon of a giant spider. You are able to chop trees if they somehow block your way. There will be cracks on the mountain battlefields, and you will be able to break rocks, as you can chop trees, and occasionally find precious metals or gems inside them.
There is one exit tile on each battlefield. Like we explained before in the article about combat system, your character in Terra Randoma has a sprint ability and you may actually use this ability to escape from the battlefield through the exit tile. This exit tile is always behind the enemy so it is tricky to escape without getting a damage.
There are also special battlefields you come across as an investigation incident, where you choose whether or not to investigate a Broken Cart, an Abandoned Camp, or a Witch’s Hut.
You may perhaps choose to investigate some Castle Ruins. Here you can see the remnants of a once-wealthy household, and then broken pillars and walls here and there. This place holds great riches. There may be alchemy tables, weapon racks, barrels or simply coins laying all around. But always with an enemy party defending the place.
The Ancient Shrine of the Forgotten God is another curious incident you may discover with a special battlefield. Here you find an altar with an engraved stone you cannot read. You see a random drawing of a Forgotten God on the floor tiles. Forgotten may be, it still lures worshippers who may have offered coins or items on the altar, which you can happily loot. There may be pools here which you can heal your self when you drink or encounter some nasty suprise. Beware though, it also lures creatures of the forest who do not want you there. These shrines will play a special part in accomplishing one of the meta goals.
We will add many more spots like these above by the time the game hits Early Access, and the year following that date.
In this dev-blog, we will talk about the Battlefields.
You will enter and crawl many procedurally generated dungeons in Terra Randoma but do you rest once you step on the overworld? The answer is: No! You will also need to fight through various battlefields.
In a previous article about incidents, we briefly explained that you go to a battlefield screen if you encounter a hostile incident on the overworld and your skill checks to avoid fight fail. The battlefields in Terra Randoma are all procedurally generated with 15x15 grids providing an intense battle experience.
The obstacles are randomly placed so the battlefield will be different every time you play. There may be river tiles on the forest and a bridge to cross it that makes battles all the more interesting. The river is passable by certain monsters but not you (until you have certain points in your wilderness survival skill).
There may be other obstacles like a fallen trunk or a cacoon of a giant spider. You are able to chop trees if they somehow block your way. There will be cracks on the mountain battlefields, and you will be able to break rocks, as you can chop trees, and occasionally find precious metals or gems inside them.
There is one exit tile on each battlefield. Like we explained before in the article about combat system, your character in Terra Randoma has a sprint ability and you may actually use this ability to escape from the battlefield through the exit tile. This exit tile is always behind the enemy so it is tricky to escape without getting a damage.
There are also special battlefields you come across as an investigation incident, where you choose whether or not to investigate a Broken Cart, an Abandoned Camp, or a Witch’s Hut.
You may perhaps choose to investigate some Castle Ruins. Here you can see the remnants of a once-wealthy household, and then broken pillars and walls here and there. This place holds great riches. There may be alchemy tables, weapon racks, barrels or simply coins laying all around. But always with an enemy party defending the place.
The Ancient Shrine of the Forgotten God is another curious incident you may discover with a special battlefield. Here you find an altar with an engraved stone you cannot read. You see a random drawing of a Forgotten God on the floor tiles. Forgotten may be, it still lures worshippers who may have offered coins or items on the altar, which you can happily loot. There may be pools here which you can heal your self when you drink or encounter some nasty suprise. Beware though, it also lures creatures of the forest who do not want you there. These shrines will play a special part in accomplishing one of the meta goals.
We will add many more spots like these above by the time the game hits Early Access, and the year following that date.