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BiTzSam
Small update on CS.
With Snk back he has been able to start doing the scripting again. Made some good progress today in finishing some of the AP system scaffolding. Laying the foundation that will allow countryside to have a very strong focus on cop/ gangster combat meaning your choice on being a cop/ gangster WILL influence certain areas you can go to, and how safe certain areas will be to go to.
The boundaries for the Cop/ Gangsters areas have been made, the Cop area is mostly finished, Gangster area has made good progress, and wouldn't take long to finish.
Bit of backstory, we are going with the Gangster faction as being the 'Morano Family' as you would have heard of, and they basically control the docks area as they are mass illegal importers of wine and weapons to the Countryside county. The Cop faction, 'Era Police' control the urban hillside city and their job is to to try stop the Morano families influence.
There will be a 3rd and 4th faction which will be NPC based, the Bandits and Forest Rangers. Bandits will control outposts around the map and will hopefully be an npc enemy to fight, similar to the 'Baddies' on classic. The Forest Rangers will be passive NPC protectors of the countryside landscape, they uphold the law where the Era Police don't. They won't necessarily attack you unless you provoke them.
Little progress report- Level/ content wise countryside as a whole is about 85-90%. Realistically it's in a state where it could be released at any point however it won't be until the script work is done, as the scripts are what will add longevity/ gameplay value to countryside.
By script work I mean things like quests, sidemissions, and various other features that aren't currently in the main Era game. Once i'm satisfied there is a substantial amount that people have to come back to for awhile then we can start to discuss a release date.
Keep in mind what is available at release won't be everything there is, as more content will be added at later points and possible area expansions, as we aren't releasing the entire countryside map at once. The area we are releasing is still extremely substantial, same size/ potentially bigger (if you don't include oceans) than the main map.
The countryside won't be as heavily pk based as the main era game (you can obviously still pk just I wouldn't say it's ideal in the sense that there are lots of forests and areas to go to, not really any bottleneck areas to sit and spam like around start in the main map) so it'll probably be easier to go on streaks but would take longer to get those streaks. My vision for countryside is basically faction teamwork/ roleplaying/ objective/ questing. I want to be able to facilitate players who want to have cop/ gangster wars against each other and for those who are maybe tired of the current jobs and want other ways of earning money/ things to work towards. So whilst the main map is more about 'gang' basing, countryside will be about 'faction fighting'. (Not to say you can't base or be in gangs just those things aren't the focus/ priority of CS).
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