#chiron update

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Chiron update

In the latest update we may have fixed any issue with repair, leap, and armor. To start off, the Combat phase as been renamed to action round. With that, you now have two options with it, either make it an aggressive round or passive round. As you may have guessed, on your aggressive round you can only make actions that harm enemies health or stats. As for the passive round you cannot make attacks but rather make actions like repair, leap, drop items. We also changed the rules for some of these actions. Repair for instance, now can be done multiple times on the same round, as long as you gained the skill multiple times. As for armor, there was a scaling issue that we never thought about. It was the reason no one chose armor. Now armor is scaled in a way that makes it more appealing. We also got rid of frames having a limit on what armor they can have. It just complicated things. I believe right now all frames are a little sketchy on pricing. We keep noticing inconsistencies due to over editing and possibly not exporting all of them to the new system. Just a possible error on our part that we may need to fix. Stay tuned for updates! After December we plan on getting all legal forms ready. After that we may start hiring artists to do art for the book. If you are an artist or know an artist that can do well with a very basic sketch style for cheap and fast, please contact us!

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I have been running a lot of test play games recently and came across a couple things. There might need to be more movement parts that add more tricks to vehicles. I might want to make some movement parts have better tricks instead. Currently hydraulic legs allow you to move 90 feet on your first movement round and allows you to get on buildings. It seems to be the best option and really the only option.  What I’ll most likely do is just raise the price on them. That tends to fix some over powered things. In fact there seems to be some scaling issues that can only be solved by adding to mechanics and weapons. most parts seem to be around the same range and not that drastic. Everything seems to boil down to “you shoot then I shoot”. And this does not make a fluid game. It rarely happens in games with five or more people, but I did run into the issue of people only rolling for attack and then the other player rolling for attack. The weapons and tools I added last time completely changed it, but there are still some issues that need solved. At the time 1v1 is VERY boring for some classes. I taught someone how to play the game with a 1v1 match recently and it seemed a little boring. I had a napalm launcher and an assault rifle and she was a sniper. We both had the same movement speed as well. I was trying to use the napalm to corner her in a small area so i could shoot around a corner without worrying about her getting closer (napalm launchers throw down a circle of fire for 5 rounds). Buuuuut! She had a specter frame and those ignore small terrain, which fire is. So she was able to glide right over the fire and we seemed to just be taking turns rolling 1d20 since no one had movement advantage.  Is it situational and our builds fault? or was it the books fault in not giving enough mechanics and game play options to make it more dynamic?

I’m going to beat myself up and say the books fault.

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What’s been going on lately

I’ve been freaking out, that’s what. I don’t have my minis yet and I was really looking forward to having them at anime midwest. We aren’t having an official demo or anything, in fact we are just playing it on our downtime. But I was really hoping to impress people with how much effort we are throwing into this. Also the book isn’t formatted OR grammatically checked. So that stresses me out beyond repair. I lost my main graphic artist since she broke her computer, and I’m horrible at formatting and grammar. On the brighter said, Testudo Gaming gained a new member and a new project! Alice Shepherd is her name! She is working on a project called Phsychoscape but might change its name. It’s a very early project but has a lot of potential! It’s a Skill & feat based rpg and has some really unique concepts going for it. It’s an early game so I can’t say much else. 

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I think I finally created a vehicle that will allow me to win my own game. I’ve yet to win a single match.  With the new harpoon gun for marauders and the leap skill for jumping legs I think I’ve finally created something that can successfully get in and out of combat and take advantage of melee weapons. Melee builds actually have a great chance to being a competent build. Before, if you had a melee weapon you had to have a mid or long range weapon. Both the harpoon gun and leap skill allows people to be more mobile for melee builds without completely giving an unfair advantage over other players. The leap skill will have to be heavily play tested. as it stand you can only do it once per turn and only before your combat phase. I believe this will stop people from making their retreating phase impossible for other players to catch up with them. I also believe the highest movement speed was 8 hexes, with the leap skill they will be able to move 9 hexes their first movement phase but only 2 for their retreating phase. I still feel as if I’m missing something about the leap skill, and that’s why it needs heavily play tested.  Also on a side note. Mobility is a huge part of this game. Simply having movement advantage could determine a winner. And this isn’t something bad either, the game is based around figuring out the best time and way to strike. It doesn’t mean you have to always be fast too, you can be slow, you just have to make sure that your health and DPS are above average if your speed is below.

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Woah Chiron is going to get some changes.

To start off every faction is getting weapons and tools they only get. Some of these include a harpoon gun, magnet gun, and flame throwers. The original plan was to give them weapons and skills that were already in the game for free, allowing them to spend credits on other things. We feel as though special faction based weapons would allow better mechanics and more flavor to the game. Our jump skill has a new movement ability that allows players to leap from building to building. I honestly have no clue why it didn’t before. Maybe this is why our test players always picked climbing over jumping. We will also be reworking some weapon mechanics. Weapons will now have specific round types that you buy as well as attachments. We use to have attachments under misc parts as well as effected all weapons and not just one. We changed it to where you buy for only one weapon at a time, it allows to specify your weapons individually with a challenge. This overhaul will come with a LOT more bullet types and new things to buff your weapons! Apart from more mobility and specialized weapons, some practicality changes to the character sheet have been made. The weapons now have an an attachment section, a notes box was added, the vehicle parts box was lined and given a cost sections, AND THE WEAPON COLUMNS MATCH THE ONES IN THE BOOK! It feels like a setback for me since the book won’t be published as soon as I thought, but that just means more and better things will be in it before we finally do.

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Just a tiny update.

I got to chatting with my 3D modeler and we both think we are ready to make some test prints of some vehicles. By next week we will have minis!

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CHIR◈N update

  Ahh nothing is better than droppable equipment, bosses, and outlandish game modes. These are exactly what I've been working on for the last couple weeks. I’m going to start with the game modes.  The game modes I've added are: *Free for all *Team death match *Thunderstorm *Cornucopia *Story missions *Boss battle.   Thunderstorm and Cornucopia are the only ones that seem outlandish.  Thunderstorm is set up with all buildings being 50 feet or higher and indestructible. All players are limited to sound and electric weapons. The goal is pretty much don’t get pushed off or thrown into buildings. Cornucopia is based off hunger games. A care package zone is in the center while all players are in a circle 7 hexes away. once you reach the center you get 1 random perk.  Boss battles are very different from the rest. Rather than fighting each other, everyone works together to fight an NPC that’s ungodly strong. Boss NPCs have their own section to pick parts from.  Droppable equipment was a suggested thing to add and I thought it was a great idea. Turrets, radar, and jammers are main things in this sections. I did add something to it that deserves special notice. Phelan, a tester from the start, suggested a magnet bomb. I was a little defiant of this idea but finally realized it was a great mechanic to add.   Magnet bombs are: You are able to throw Magnet bombs seven hexes away. Magnet bombs have a six hex field. If anything steps foot in a magnet bombs field they are dragged to one hex away. if a building is between they go through the building. Players cannot move out of that range till the bomb is destroyed. Magnet bombs stats are: HP:250 Armor:4