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Pirates of the Burning Sea: Swashbuckler Shenanigans
Szark
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The Pirates of the Burning Sea official site has been updated with part 2 of their look at the swashbuckling system and detailed information on the types of skills players will be able to purchase.
Welcome back for part two of our in-depth look at our swashbuckling system. Today we're going to look at the different the Fighting Schools and the skills they contain.
Swashbuckling combat will be, at release, a sword fighting system. We fully intend to expand this system to include other types of armed and unarmed combat, but that will have to wait for the future. There are three schools of sword fighting: Dirty Fighting, Fencing, and Florentine. Each school will make use of a single type of sword: Cutlass for Dirty Fighting, Rapier for Fencing, and Small Sword and Dagger for Florentine.
The decision to link sword type to fighting school was a difficult one. On the one hand we want to allow as much player flexibility as possible. On the other hand we want swashbuckling to look really engaging, and the different fighting schools to be visually distinctive. Ultimately we decided to slightly limit player item selection in order to create a system that looked right. A swordsman holds a rapier very differently from how he holds a cutlass, and use of the weapon is entirely different. So if we want a particular attack to be usable with any weapon, we have to do three animations for it. Instead we decided to limit our animations to a single fighting school for each animation, but include a much wider range of animations overall.
Mechanically the primary difference between the Fighting Schools is their skill choices. The skills in each school are broken down into 9 skill chains. Each skill chain is composed of 5 related skills that must be purchased in order. To acquire the 5th skill in a chain you must first purchase skills 1 through 4; however, you can spend your skill points in different chains freely. The result is that you get a great deal of control over how your character develops as he levels up. If you really want one of the 5th tier skills early on you can head straight for it, or you can spend your points more broadly, making your character more well-rounded early on.
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Read the full article here.
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This game is still at the top of my list.
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I'm all for wreaking havoc on the enemy by sinking, burning or otherwise destroying their ships. But the prospect of a boarding action, and facing the opposing captain down with a blade in my hand certainly is exciting.
Well, I was kind of watching PotBS from a distance, but after reading up on their fighting system, I'm fully on board. This is the kind of combat system that should be in every game! Distinction and variety with each characters, along with player freedom and a skill based system, plus it just sounds fun! I might get this just for the combat. (I've always loved fencing)
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The swashbuckling sounds great to me, like the rest of the game!
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No auto attack, no elves fairies or such, skill based fighting style that on paper looks really fun and challenging....Wow where do I sign up this game is another that looks so different and fun, I can't wait for this next grp of mmos to come out.
Sounds intriguing. Will be interesting to see how it works in the actual game.