🚀 Road to Launch #3 - Campaign & Difficulty Settings 🚀
Greetings, heroes of Songs of Silence! ⚔️
We continue our Road to Launch series... (finally! 🥳)
This week, we give you an insight on TWO key parts of ✨Songs of Silence✨!
Early Access and player feedback (you!) enabled us to improve and even rehaul certain chapters! 🛠️
This also fueled development for the rest of the campaign.
As for Difficulty Settings, both provided us with precious balancing inputs! 💡
[h2]⚔️ The Campaign ⚔️[/h2]
[h3]📖 Chapter 2[/h3]
When we released into Early Access, chapter 2 was strongly criticized. 😤
It suffered from several issues, which led us to the following changes:
Here's some before and after pictures below! 👇👇👇
[h3]⛰️ Terrain & Decorations[/h3]
Between Early Access and 1.0 release, every campaign map (as well as skirmish) underwent a beautification pass. 💅
In practice, this meant adding...
Before and after pictures below! 👇👇👇
[h3]🎁 Secrets...[/h3]
A video game isn't really one without some secrets... 🤫
We sparkled them throughout the campaign to incentivise exploration.
We don't want to spoil you, so here's a hint of what to look out for... 😏
[h2]⚖️ Difficulty Settings ⚖️[/h2]
Its main objective: cater to multiple strategy playstyles - from hardcore to casual.
Below is an overview - straight out of our Game Design documents - how Difficulty Settings work.
Armies
Adjusting difficulties revolves around neutral and AI army compositions. 👹
In a Campaign chapter, it would show like this! 👇👇👇
And that's all for today folks! 🫡
As usual - have fun, and do leave us a review if you like the game! ✨
⚔️ See you on the battlefield! ⚔️
Cheers,
The Chimera Team
We continue our Road to Launch series... (finally! 🥳)
This week, we give you an insight on TWO key parts of ✨Songs of Silence✨!
- ⚔️ The Campaign
- ⚖️ The Difficulty Settings
Early Access and player feedback (you!) enabled us to improve and even rehaul certain chapters! 🛠️
This also fueled development for the rest of the campaign.
As for Difficulty Settings, both provided us with precious balancing inputs! 💡
[h2]⚔️ The Campaign ⚔️[/h2]
[h3]📖 Chapter 2[/h3]
When we released into Early Access, chapter 2 was strongly criticized. 😤
It suffered from several issues, which led us to the following changes:
- We shortened and rehauled the first section for a faster, simpler navigation 🗺️
- We improved the movement meter to indicate when a player may hide or not 📏
- We reworked the forests and armies placed in the middle section to be more intuitive 🌲
- We fine-tuned the AI to be less punitive 🩹
Here's some before and after pictures below! 👇👇👇
[h3]⛰️ Terrain & Decorations[/h3]
Between Early Access and 1.0 release, every campaign map (as well as skirmish) underwent a beautification pass. 💅
In practice, this meant adding...
- 3D decorations 🗿
- Improved terrain textures ⛰️
- Unique shaders and VFX 🌪️
Before and after pictures below! 👇👇👇
[h3]🎁 Secrets...[/h3]
A video game isn't really one without some secrets... 🤫
We sparkled them throughout the campaign to incentivise exploration.
We don't want to spoil you, so here's a hint of what to look out for... 😏
[h2]⚖️ Difficulty Settings ⚖️[/h2]
Its main objective: cater to multiple strategy playstyles - from hardcore to casual.
Below is an overview - straight out of our Game Design documents - how Difficulty Settings work.
Armies
Adjusting difficulties revolves around neutral and AI army compositions. 👹
- Adjust Hero levels / maximum army sizes
- Adjust army compositions for existing armies (neutral & AI)
- Adjust AI hero revive pools (max respawn with weaker / stronger armies)
- Adjust AI hero respawn timers
- Add additional neutral or AI armies to maps
- Add cards to AI Hero pools
- Adjust location balancing
- Adjust location starting state per difficulty (Prosperity level or ruined)
- Adjust objectives dynamically between difficulty levels
In a Campaign chapter, it would show like this! 👇👇👇
And that's all for today folks! 🫡
As usual - have fun, and do leave us a review if you like the game! ✨
⚔️ See you on the battlefield! ⚔️
Cheers,
The Chimera Team