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There is much that could be done to improve the lot of your fellow outcasts. There, you are expected to die, a victim of starvation, horrible monsters, or simple despair.Īre you going to accept your fate and try to survive in this hostile environment? Or will you rebel – strike a blow against the Empire, find an escape route to the surface or maybe help the Avernumites by eliminating some of the more dangeous monsters? Everyone who speaks out, who misbehaves, who doesn’t fit in is cast into the dark, volcanic pits of Avernum, far below the surface. All of the known lands are subject to his brutal command. The surface is ruled by the cruel Emperor Hawthorne, master of the Empire. Walkthrough: Getting Started | Known Lands | Strengthening the Party | Major Quests | Loose Ends | Great Questsįurther pages: Towns (friendly, neutral and hostile) | Shops | the other Games This is a very different conception of level and class than most people are familiar with, and we may end up changing the words we use because of that, but testing so far seems to indicate people are comfortable with the new usage.Navigation: General Hints | Party-Building Again, level becomes an indicator to your opponents of what you might be capable of. If your Point Value goes down – let’s say you remove some of those melee skills – your level will go down too. Similarly, level isn’t an indication of progress, but a reflection of the Point Value of a character. Class thus becomes more of an indicator to your opponents of what you might be capable of, rather than a restriction on the skills you can learn. Remove the melee skills, you might become a Priest.

Add a few healing skills, you might become a Paladin. Put on an eyepatch, and you might become a Pirate. Lots of melee skills, you might be a Knight. In fact, you don’t get to choose your class, it’s chosen for you according to the skills you know, and the equipment you wear. Can you explain these concepts as they exist in Tactica Online?Ĭlass in most games is a restriction on what you can do. What your team refers to as a class and level in Tactica Online may not be what the average MMORPG fan expects. If you win, it’s because you played better, not because everything just went your way today. This approach is reflected throughout the game – if your attack misses your enemy, it’s likely it was because they put some defenses in place, rather than because that they just got unlucky. This goes back to Tactica Online’s roots as a strategy game – you want your success or failure to be the result of the strategy you choose, not the result of some bad random numbers. Originally we had a large variance in the amount of damage done by attacks, for example, but in testing we found that this detracted from the experience. I have to say, though, why do you want a single player version? It won’t cost any less, there won’t be much difference in your control over your play experience, and your opponents will get a lot less interesting. Let us get this version out of the way, and we’ll see what happens.

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Any chance of a single player or offline version of Tactica or some sort of campaign mode?Īnything is possible. We are starving for good turn-based rpg's out here. We encourage you all to post your questions for future articles as we cover this highly tactical, thinking MMORPG.

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The fourth in our bi-weekly series of questions about this thinking-man's MMO.Įvery other Friday we will bring you the top four questions about Tactica Online, as gathered from this thread on our Tactica Online Forums.