I love the combat in Avadon 2, so this isn’t a complaint that fighting gets boring. If I have a gripe with Avadon 2: The Corruption, it’s that I wish there were more non-violent options to pursue in the game. It’s a theme no less topical now than it was then. The original Avadon does an excellent job of making you feel like your choices mattered, but also made you think about the gray area between freedom and safety. The story itself twists and turns, and you gather companions throughout that remember choices you make and approve (or disapprove) of them according to their own motives.
Will you aid Avadon and bring stability (and perhaps tyranny) back to the realm? Or will you aid the rebellions and bring freedom (and perhaps death and danger) to the world? This has led to destabilizing of the entire game world, as rebellions have been springing up like weeds as foes of the realm grow bolder. The Black Fortress itself and its all-powerful ruler, Redbeard, are no longer as feared as they once were thanks to the events of the first game. By the end you discover something that has a major impact on the game’s universe, and you’re suitably pulled into events well beyond your ken just like any classic fantasy story. You’re thrown right into the middle of a scouting expedition which serves as a really great tutorial that gets you into the mix immediately. You begin the story as a scout for an outpost, not an actual Hand of Avadon. It’s a welcome addition that adds some new strategies to the battlefield, but from a mechanics standpoint, I basically just described everything new about Avadon 2. There’s a new support style class called the Tinkermage that can set traps, build turrets, buff companions and debuff foes. Avadon 2: The Corruption plays almost exactly like Avadon: The Black Fortress. One could take all of the discussion in my previous review about the game mechanics and simply paste it here. Maybe I’m simply not as old school as I thought.
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I’m forced to admit that it is the Spiderweb Software game I’ve replayed the most, and I found myself champing at the bit for Avadon 2 to come out. Still, Avadon quickly became Spiderweb Software’s best selling game ever. I can certainly understand and respect their points.
Character development certainly has less choice and complexity in Avadon compared to previous titles, and automatic healing between battles was also disparaged by these folks. They didn’t like the fact that Avadon simplified a lot of the mechanics that fans had come to expect from games like Avernum and Geneforge. I got some very negative feedback for that review from a few longtime fans of Spiderweb Software games though. It’s a big, awesome, old school game that feels like it was made just for me. I got it on the iPad so that I could play it while on the road. As soon as I finished Avadon once, I played it again.
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Things you can also enter at the connection prompt : “MUTE” to kill the music, “IDDQD” for degreelessness mode, and one other secret code which will be revealed elsewhere on the interwebs!įor more information about the commands you can enter on the splash screen, see Devine’s wiki page on Diluvium.I loved Avadon, and I’m a big fan of Spiderweb Software games. The connection screen lets you know your LAN and WAN IPs as you host the game. Otherwise, the game should work fine in LAN and over the Internet, as long as you open up the server’s port 10000 (I’m not sure whether Unity networking uses TCP or UDP, so go for both). The game has a half-assed single-player mode that you can access by typing “LOCAL” in the connection screen. No duplicate animal! Thankfully you have 284 animal names to choose from, 100 of which are illustrated differently.
If someone spawns a dog on the playfield, nobody can spawn another dog until it dies. The totem is as intelligent as its most intelligent member, and health is summed up, but movement speed is averaged. Each animal has its own stats : speed, attack power, health and intelligence. You can type up to three animal names in a row, which spawns a totem of these three animals. The first to kill the other one wins, as these things usually are. Type animal names to summon them, and they will attack the enemy’s spawns and ultimately the enemy summoner himself. There are two summoners on the battlefield, and you are one of them. Diluvium is a game made by Renaud, Devine, Henk and Dom2D as Les Collégiennes over the course of TOJam The Sevening, a 48h game jam (though we had a ~8h headstart on that) which took place between May 11th and 13th 2012.ĭiluvium is a versus typing tactics game.
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