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Sandbox mode= skirmish mode?

May 31, 2010 1:08:34 AM from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums

Being that it is not an RTS so to speak, skirmish would not be the correct word to describe it, but the sandbox mode will be a kind of free-play mode where you can just load up a match and play against the A.I that is not strictly tied to the campaign?

 

(you can tell i'm not in the BETA )

 

But as a long time RTS and HOMM fan I have to say that I have never once felt compelled to play a game online. So if anyone could give me the official yay or nay on "campaign only or online or GTFO" that would be great.

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Reply #1 May 31, 2010 2:12:46 AM
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GTFO... jk

 

There's definitely going to be a mode aside from the Campaign for SP... Don't you worry your little head.

Hell there's even plans to try using Elemental to make RPG's of sorts. (Brad himself said something about tryin his hand at it.)

 

As far as I know for SP there's

1. Campaign mode (Supposedly plays kinda like an RPG, Don't get confused though, it's still a Strategy Game)

2. Free mode or Skirmish mode or Whatever... Just load up a random world map (Doesn't HAVE to be random) add your opponents, choose your side/sov and kick ass.

3. Modded in modes... RPG's, different Campaigns, etc...

 

I think that covers it.

I'm pretty sure on most of this, but If someone sees something I got wrong or can elaborate be my guest.

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Reply #2 May 31, 2010 2:26:58 AM
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Thanks for the reply, i've bought too many games recently that had little to no offline content, and this is never indicated in the game, I still play HOMM on a weekly basis, and it never gets old, so that's good to hear that this will offer similar levels of replayability.

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Reply #3 May 31, 2010 3:53:55 AM
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Like Gal Civ 2 if you've played it, but with a better campaign and online stuff.  I barely touched its campaign, it was all about the 'skirmishes'

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Reply #4 May 31, 2010 10:53:35 AM
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I believe that "skirmish" is going to be a multiplayer option; at least that's how it was described back in late 2008. Something about quick matching for short games on relatively simple maps.

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Reply #5 May 31, 2010 11:09:34 AM
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Meh, just terminology.  Point is that there will be standard games a la Civ

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Reply #6 May 31, 2010 11:13:54 AM
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Quoting astrath,
reply 5
Meh, just terminology.  Point is that there will be standard games a la Civ

Meh yourself. Clear, consistent terminology is damned handy. Just sadly unpopular amongst jargon-addled IT folks...

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Reply #7 May 31, 2010 11:26:24 AM
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I'm a mathematician.  We are known for using the same symbol to mean three different things in the same equation

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Reply #8 May 31, 2010 2:38:58 PM
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Quoting GW Swicord,
reply 6

Quoting astrath, reply 5Meh, just terminology.  Point is that there will be standard games a la Civ
Meh yourself. Clear, consistent terminology is damned handy. Just sadly unpopular amongst jargon-addled IT folks...

Hey, good developers love clear terminology! It's the buzzword-compliant types that give the rest of us a bad name.

 

For the overall theme here, yes the game will have "sandbox" play where you just generate or load a map, pick some opponents, and do whatever you want. In beta 1, that's actually the only kind of gameplay we have.

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Reply #9 June 10, 2010 6:44:44 PM
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Quoting astrath,
reply 7
I'm a mathematician.  We are known for using the same symbol to mean three different things in the same equation

I can't follow serious math at all any more, although I was once almost ready to learn calculus. But my favorite writing form is prose fiction, so the idea of 'context-sensitive' symbols in an art like math makes some sense to me.

Hey, good developers love clear terminology! It's the buzzword-compliant types that give the rest of us a bad name.

I've known a few of the former, but I might not have had any income for several years if it weren't for the latter folks being very numerous and needing so much help keeping themselves internally consistent and/or getting translated for external audiences. Irony is so...ironic? Gah.

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