RuneStorm Blog » Combat http://www.runestorm.com/blog The RuneStorm Blog Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:16:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Rooks Keep: Beasts and Free roaming mass combat unleashed! http://www.runestorm.com/blog/2011/10/14/rooks-keep-beasts-and-free-roaming-mass-combat-unleashed/ http://www.runestorm.com/blog/2011/10/14/rooks-keep-beasts-and-free-roaming-mass-combat-unleashed/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:22:33 +0000 DarkCarnivour http://www.runestorm.com/blog/?p=136 That’s right, there have been some big changes to Rooks Keep! The beasts set has been implemented in-game, the UIs are starting to look wicked and music is starting to go in, but the biggest change of all has been to the combat.
The combat system has been given a total overhaul so instead of having limited movement in 1vs1 combat, players will now be able to roam freely around the arena in third person and engage any number of enemies. This opens up lots of crazy new game possibilities including mass battles against many other players and bots, invasion game types and large team battle. BlackEagle is busy right now working on realizing these new gametype possibilities.

With this, player controlled combat is now the primary focus of Rooks Keep, putting chess into the backseat. If you can’t imagine how the game works, to try to give you a general idea of what exactly Rooks Keep is; basically, Rooks Keep is a bit like Unreal Tournament with swords!

Also not minor is that the Beasts have been added. This means there are now 12 characters in-game to engage in various flavors of brutal asymmetric combat.

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Don’t let the wild character colors frighten you, we’ll be attending to those as we go.
Also notice ShadowBlade’s new UI graphics compared to the previous shots of the UI I posted.

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