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[sambojin]

Oh well. If you do find a village that's close enough, you know what to do.......

Yes, in URW that means that you murder that family and sell the meat-cuts you butchered off them to the actual village you found. For profit!

Ok, you don't HAVE to do that. But you could....

[sambojin]

I am fairly sure that this is why people with saunas survived, nobody else did.

Thus, URW is completely legit historically.

[debvon]

I'm not entirely sure how the "spirit karma" system works in this game. According to the wiki it doesn't really matter now? Rituals work whether the spirits like you or not and they can't do anything about it, which is slightly lame.

In any case I noticed the sacrifice cap for specific rituals fluctuates. Hunter's sacrifice, for example, has a very low cap if you've just killed a bird or small game. If you kill multiple small animals before performing the sacrifice the cap seems to only take the last kill or two into account, maybe turn based? If you kill something large like a forest reindeer or elk the cap is huge. I've never actually tried to reach it, I ended up sacrificing 30 cuts from each large kill for good measure. The most I sacrificed was somewhere in the 50s. I always get the "You feel unity with the world" message the night following a large sacrifice. I'm thinking there's a hidden karma bar that "levels up" and resets to a fixed point, granting you a chance at a new ritual? Favor rituals drain that bar instead of add to it? If so it'd probably be good to bless all of your significant traps after a large kill. Not that it matters.. at the moment.


I got really bored with my character's daily grind. I packed up my stuff and settled down near Njerpez territory. Butchered a lone adventurer who was probably in league with the bastards and then ran into a settlement. There were a ton of aggressive people rushing me. I unleashed my dog, started throwing arrows, killed one before my dog died, got surrounded by Njerpez and passed out from a stab in my side. Guess I should bring help next time, that was really pointless.

[MonkeyHead]

I'm not entirely sure how the "spirit karma" system works in this game. According to the wiki it doesn't really matter now? Rituals work whether the spirits like you or not and they can't do anything about it, which is slightly lame.

In any case I noticed the sacrifice cap for specific rituals fluctuates. Hunter's sacrifice, for example, has a very low cap if you've just killed a bird or small game. If you kill multiple small animals before performing the sacrifice the cap seems to only take the last kill or two into account, maybe turn based? If you kill something large like a forest reindeer or elk the cap is huge. I've never actually tried to reach it, I ended up sacrificing 30 cuts from each large kill for good measure. The most I sacrificed was somewhere in the 50s. I always get the "You feel unity with the world" message the night following a large sacrifice. I'm thinking there's a hidden karma bar that "levels up" and resets to a fixed point, granting you a chance at a new ritual? Favor rituals drain that bar instead of add to it? If so it'd probably be good to bless all of your significant traps after a large kill. Not that it matters.. at the moment.


I got really bored with my character's daily grind. I packed up my stuff and settled down near Njerpez territory. Butchered a lone adventurer who was probably in league with the bastards and then ran into a settlement. There were a ton of aggressive people rushing me. I unleashed my dog, started throwing arrows, killed one before my dog died, got surrounded by Njerpez and passed out from a stab in my side. Guess I should bring help next time, that was really pointless.

War with the Njerpez is a part time hobby for my current character. Jol, a Kaumo bow and spear toting badass who rolled amazing skills and attributes, spends summer and autumn the year as a typical hunter/farmer in the wilds near the Kaumo/Kiesse border, and the winter months assembling a band from local villages and wandering individuals to go and take down Njerpez settlements, peppering enemies from range with a longbow while on skis, so my followers can finish them off. 2 or 3 towns can be taken down each winter, with the dead burnt within their buildings, and anything of use scavenged, traded, or given to my loyal followers. Granted, many of these followers fall, but such open tribal warfare is a lot of fun. Of course, it really helps I have a massive secure compound, more food of all forms than one would ever need, master work arms and a lot of ring, mail and iron armour. Spring is often taken up with the processing of the spoils and tending to any wounds.

[KaelGotDwarves]

I think OP is around so we don't need to bother with a new thread.

Unreal World is coming to Steam in 3 days! http://store.steampowered.com/app/351700 with an updated version. Price is about $11 I believe.

I hope that our beloved Finnish survivalist murder/death simulator gets lots of love.

[Robsoie]

nice trailer, you can see some of the graphics and sound improvement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY-_F5W9Usg
http://z3.invisionfree.com/UrW_forum/index.php?showtopic=7098

And about the steam / regular version :

Donation FAQ explains what the lifetime membership is about:
http://www.unrealworld.fi/urw_donation-based.html

The upcoming version 3.3 will be also eventually released for free, just like the recent ones. For as long as there's sufficient amount of donations there will be free-to-play versions. The free version will be available on the game homepage, on Steam we will be having only paid version. Pricing of Steam version is not yet settled, but lifetime members get access to Steam version at no cost.

Those who have donated a little something in the past should be aware that you can get lifetime membership also with recurring donations. Donations over longer period of time grant you the lifetime membership when their total reaches $35 USD. Upgrading to lifetime membership this way is handled manually and you should e-mail me when the total is reached. If you're uncertain about your donation history I'll browse the archives and let you know, but it's handled faster if you do the preliminary calculations by yourself.

[sluissa]

Honestly, I don't like the direction it's being taken. I'd have gladly paid (a third time, no less) for a major version or so back. No longer. New graphics are ugly and get in the way. Gameplay changes questionable. And honestly, I think a steam release is not a good decision at the moment. It's still not a complete game by the dev's own standards. Still things missing. He's wasting the publicity (little as it may be) of an initial steam release on a game version that's incomplete, and thanks to being a new major version, likely to be a buggy mess.

But maybe he has to, maybe money is that tight. I don't know. Good luck to him, but I'm done with the series unless some decisions are remade.

[Robsoie]

I have not followed much of the developement in a long while, what are those gameplay changes you find questionnable ?

Noticed on a thread that the quest system will not make it for 3.3 , it will only be for later.

[sluissa]

I was, probably unpopularly of the opinion that hirable npcs were a mistake and there's more of that to come. However my big gripe is just the ugly as sin graphics we're being given now.

[Robsoie]

Not sure how you can see the possibility to build some hunting or war party or simply getting companions working with you, to be a mistake , unless you're talking about something else i have missed in development ?
I remember reading that with quests was supposed to come the possibility to make friends, not just hiring hunters, and that would lead later on the dev roadmap in more things related to npc interactions.
But with quest out for the upcoming version, this interesting part is probably pushed for more distant releases.

For the graphics, i'm sure you'll have several tileset to bring back the older ones, there have been several done already for current and older versions and that's certainly going to happen for the next.

[KaelGotDwarves]

I understand being annoyed about graphics for nostalgia sake, if the was what you played with years ago and are accustomed to it. But I was under the impression that Unreal World was always ugly as sin so any progress is better. Hell, might as well complain about DF allowing graphics sets in edition to tilesets too.

[BigD145]

Hell, might as well complain about DF allowing graphics sets in edition to tilesets too.

Which people do.

[Glloyd]

Hell, might as well complain about DF allowing graphics sets in edition to tilesets too.

Which people do.

Because people will complain about anything, especially on the internet. Doesn't matter if it's insignificant and noone else cares, people will still complain.

[Gunner-Chan]

Lifetime members get steam version free? Oh cool I didn't realize. Ill have to dig through my emails and see what I need to do for that. The new light effects and sprites look nice too.

I should grab this again.

[ConsUme]

So what will be the new limitations of free vs Steam...? Note: Id rather have the 3.2 Graphics optional too.