Hi everyone,
Before getting into the beefy stuff I want to apologize for the slow pace this past 2 months. As some might be aware I recently had my first child and it is taking some time away from Rogue Empire! Nevertheless be assured I am still at it!
Escape the Barrier
So what is this new game mode all about!?
The idea behind Escape the Barrier is that your character got trapped inside a shadow barrier of one of the main cities. By chance you acquired priceless information of how to escape the barrier and now make a run from it! Agents of the first shadow as well as other groups chase after you!
As you can see you start the game in a special map where you choose where to advance and then get into an encounter/event. This map is randomly generated when you play the game and is inspired by other popular games. Note: The art you see here is not necessary final!
So far I though of the following encounters but more might be added. I encourage you to throw some ideas!
- Regular encounter: Fight a few regular enemies. These will be grouped by themes.
- Champion encounter: Fight a a champion which may have some escorts.
- Shop: Our friend the magician merchant will sell you stuff!
- Trap encounter: Avoid a trapped location!
- Escape encounter: Against overwhelming odds there is nothing left but to escape!
- Unknown encounter: Some unknown event, Examples might be skill checks, tough choices, etc.
- Boss encounter: Entirely new bosses to fight against!
I am yet unsure how many maps you will have to travers. It might just be one huge one.
Another thing to consider is rules for this game mode are fairly different from other game modes:
- You can not heal or recover mana inside encounters! You will heal and recover mana a bit every time you progress through the map. This will make health a very important factor when choosing where to go!
- Some spells and abilities will be removed as available options for balance reasons.
- Experience will be acquired after finishing a successful non-passive encounter!
- There will probably be some kind of gear passing or buff as a result of your performance in your previous run. This should avoid hunting for the perfect map.
This is still very much work in progress. After this is done there is one more small surprise for the dlc proper before I open some beta testing to it!
Hope you enjoy this when its out!
Happy dungeon crawling!
GW