#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!

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

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. 

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.

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!

  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