Planet Stronghold: Warzone dev thread

[abnaxus]

Well, I finished my first playthrough and am curious how the story will continue in the second game. I'll keep my saves in any case!

The final battle was fairly easy, because I got good rolls and my "Shock" to shut down the robots never failed. Otherwise, it would've been much more difficult.

(what's funny though, is that Nelson 'only' becomes 1st Lieutenant in the end... he should at least skip some more ranks and become Major for saving the world and perhaps galaxy )

[jack1974]

Haha yes I should do more research on military ranks indeed... anyway, will probably fix this when together with Aleema we'll rewrite a bit the ending to match the sequel starting events/conditions!
About sharing the savegames I looked in the library docs and shouldn't be a problem, of course not all the items, but keeping the skills and choices made (which side you joined, etc) should be simple.

p.s. so who was your favorite romance?

[abnaxus]

Well, with Joshua I like Rumi best but her ending slide was a bit disappointing. Hopefully she will be in second game, she was a very useful party member.

[jack1974]

Yes all characters will be in the 2nd game, except Bellamy who will be replaced with a more "hot" male

[Skyway]

Yes all characters will be in the 2nd game, except Bellamy who will be replaced with a more "hot" male

Oh no, Jack. Who will spit out the grenades then?
I recommend we make both Nelsons exist. So if you play Josh, Lisa exists too and join the team.
If you play Lisa, Josh joins later.
This should be crazy awesome.

[jack1974]

Lol I thought about that, but would need some serious plot twist. What Nelson had a sister/brother? where was he/she!?

[abnaxus]

Will the sequel flesh out the setting more? Right now, there's not much information about "the Empire" and its history, the different alien species, etc. It seems the universe is kind of a feudal society (like Dune) considering there's a King on Planet Stronghold?

Maybe a possibility is to have a Codex with information entries (like Mass Effect) or information terminals spread out in the game world that can be accessed by player.

[Aleema]

I'll definitely try to flesh out the world. That's always fun. Not sure about the Codex, maybe Lucille can churn out generic stuff if you ask her. Though, I prefer that lore is interwoven into the narrative, not dumped on you.

[jack1974]

As a player I agree with Aleema. I never found the Codex very interesting. I mean I prefer to learn how the Lakadema alien race reproduces (if they do at all!) directly speaking with them maybe in a fun or sexy scene than reading it in a sort of encyclopedia But yes in the sequel you'll surely find more info about the Empire, the alien races (in particular the Marada since you'll have the chance to play on their side).

[abnaxus]

That is good to hear.

Marada are interesting. I had the impression from the first game that Shiler was quite manipulative and had a secret plan of her own even if I sided with her.