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| 2s | [Applause] |
| 8s | thank you |
| 18s | I have a list of some of the cut spells |
| 20s | on my phone |
| 21s | um it's a list of 22 spells |
| 25s | but there were even more than these that |
| 28s | were so far out of scope that I just |
| 30s | literally deleted them because I didn't |
| 31s | want to see them anymore |
| 34s | um but uh one is the sandstorm so some |
| 37s | of you might know in lore that the uh |
| 39s | The Scourge Stone was used to summon |
| 40s | sandstorms and people wanted to be able |
| 42s | to summon their own |
| 44s | and Laura why can't I do it |
| 46s | um uh the spell I eat your heart from |
| 48s | Age Of Conan where the herald of zotley |
| 50s | reaches into someone's chest eats their |
| 53s | heart and gets a buff for even their |
| 55s | heart |
| 55s | that one was technically very expensive |
| 57s | right and then not every monster has a |
| 59s | heart in the same location things like |
| 61s | that |
| 62s | this is kind of hard to eat a skeleton |
| 63s | heart |
| 65s | uh polymorph other the ability to turn |
| 67s | someone else into a rat snake or spider |
| 71s | um weapon to snake one where you would |
| 73s | cast a spell and literally turn |
| 74s | someone's weapon into a floppy snake in |
| 76s | their hand |
| 78s | um a Spirit box that no affiliation that |
| 81s | lets you uh speak with ghosts so that |
| 83s | would be like an added interaction where |
| 85s | you can explore the world use the spell |
| 87s | and or hear different stories or Legends |
| 90s | or things that learn knowledge for |
| 92s | emotes or you know recipes that you |
| 95s | couldn't otherwise learn |
| 96s | magical mounts this one had really |
| 99s | um |
| 101s | no further description other than an |
| 103s | expensive ritual that summons a magical |
| 104s | mount we did wind up getting a couple of |
| 106s | these through the Demonic Rhino and |
| 108s | demonic horse but I think when they were |
| 110s | these were proposed the the things were |
| 112s | like I would like a Magic Carpet yeah |
| 114s | things that were very not Conan demon |
| 117s | blood sacrifice |
| 119s | um ritual performed to summon a demon to |
| 120s | harvest their blood this one just turned |
| 122s | into the normal human sacrifice so you |
| 124s | can't put a demon on the table but we |
| 126s | did make the blood sacrifice for other |
| 127s | things |
| 129s | freeze use the moisture in the air to |
| 131s | freeze an enemy temporarily so that's |
| 132s | just a straight up stun yeah it is very |
| 135s | cool |
| 136s | it is a bit stretchy in the high fantasy |
| 138s | side of things for Howard but |
| 140s | we also let that logic kind of play into |
| 142s | the ice bridge too that was kind of the |
| 144s | same justification |
| 146s | you've got water walking |
| 148s | you can guess what that one does uh |
| 150s | super jump allows the user to jump high |
| 152s | into the air they do not take fall |
| 154s | damage when Landing that kind of found |
| 156s | its way into slow fall and the bet a |
| 158s | flying potion that allows the user to |
| 160s | temporarily fly they do not receive fall |
| 162s | damage after flight expires |
| 165s | well that one actually also I think was |
| 167s | highly inspired by uh one of the dark I |
| 170s | think it's actually |
| 172s | there's a Dark Horse comic that's in one |
| 174s | of the Conan omnibuses where the height |
| 177s | their hyperborean Sorcerers that are |
| 179s | wearing robes and have gems and they fly |
| 182s | through the air and shoot lasers out of |
| 184s | the gems at Conan and other slaves that |
| 187s | are fighting back against the |
| 188s | hyperboreans I think that's where that |
| 189s | one read |
| 191s | keep shifting and then there's a whole |
| 192s | set of sub spells for shapes shifting |
| 194s | like snake pizzelle Etc |
| 197s | summon greater demon this is the one |
| 199s | where you would basically have an |
| 201s | on-demand avatar on a lesser scale I uh |
| 204s | I happen to be a really big Mortal |
| 206s | Kombat fan uh and a lot of the stuff in |
| 209s | sorcery was pretty shank swing inspired |
| 211s | as far as the soul manipulation stuff |
| 213s | goes and that was one where I wanted to |
| 215s | walk out and be like your soul is mine |
| 217s | and you know actually get some benefit |
| 219s | for it but again combat spells they |
| 221s | didn't play out well especially with our |
| 223s | slower more methodical casting system |
| 225s | Phantom walls |
| 228s | I don't even remember that one okay oh |
| 230s | it was actually your idea yeah |
| 233s | I I contextualize them as a loser report |
| 236s | walls okay fair enough |
| 238s | so the pitch on that one was you go to a |
| 242s | wall on a base it has to be a standard |
| 245s | buildable wall and you reach out and you |
| 247s | touch it and it loses its Collision so |
| 249s | you can just walk through yeah so you |
| 251s | could make your own kind of hidden |
| 252s | pathways through your base |
| 254s | I don't think we ever told the coders |
| 256s | about that concept because we didn't |
| 257s | want them to cry |
| 260s | and uh one of the last ones I can |
| 262s | remember is horrify which was meant to |
| 264s | just be like an area beer on things you |
| 267s | know so they would cower in that also we |
| 270s | made the tech for it and then decided it |
| 271s | wasn't a good pitch for a spell but it |
| 274s | actually wound up making its way back |
| 276s | into creeping Darkness where we apply |
| 278s | the fear effect to some of the NPCs in |
| 280s | the area of the the darkness so they're |
| 283s | actually kind of afraid of the dark and |
| 285s | Afraid of the spider |
| 294s | there was a lot of tech built for |
| 296s | sorcery there was a lot of tech built |
| 299s | for sorcery |
| 300s | um so sorcery when we first started |
| 303s | implementing it this was before we |
| 305s | actually knew what sorcerer's gonna be |
| 307s | as we said elsewhere there were a lot of |
| 310s | Concepts that we had originally and that |
| 312s | changed and |
| 314s | we didn't exactly know what the tech |
| 316s | needed to support for it at the start we |
| 319s | didn't know if spells would be able to |
| 320s | do damage he needed some way to be able |
| 322s | to allow a spell |
| 324s | to convey damage |
| 326s | I don't think we actually use that |
| 328s | anymore anywhere but we had to build the |
| 330s | tech for it uh the different types of |
| 332s | followers the uh the the raised corpses |
| 335s | the demons |
| 338s | when we were originally talking about |
| 339s | them we decided these guys should have |
| 341s | different rules than a normal thralls |
| 344s | and that's not just for gameplay it's |
| 347s | also for the lore of it and for the |
| 350s | feeling of being a sorcerer as a |
| 352s | sorcerer you're manipulating and |
| 353s | controlling the world you're dictating |
| 355s | the environment in which you engage in |
| 357s | combat |
| 358s | a sorcerer |
| 360s | doesn't show up to combat by himself |
| 363s | he shows up with allies and he puts |
| 365s | those allies in front of himself and |
| 368s | makes sure that they take the Run of |
| 369s | them he stands back and does whatever |
| 371s | he's done a bit more servants than |
| 373s | allies yeah |
| 374s | a sorcerer makes allies in some cases |
| 378s | literally |
| 380s | and |
| 381s | we didn't have a tech for that that all |
| 383s | had to be built out uh stealth was |
| 386s | another fun one that had to be built |
| 388s | the casting system itself |
| 391s | you can system went through more |
| 393s | revisions than anything else yeah it's |
| 395s | built upon our normal combo system in |
| 397s | the way that it intercepts inputs but |
| 399s | beyond that but not anymore it's not it |
| 402s | was at one point no it's uh it it has |
| 406s | taken a life of its own at this point |
| 408s | um |
| 409s | it started out as a very very simple |
| 413s | um in a sound bizarre but you would |
| 415s | press the special attack button or on |
| 417s | the keyboard the control key but you had |
| 419s | your staff the staff is the one thing |
| 421s | that never changed it's because the |
| 422s | staff was an actual weapon right so you |
| 425s | had to have light attacks and heavy |
| 426s | attacks so the special action was hey my |
| 429s | special action is to cast a spell yeah |
| 431s | originally you would have the staff and |
| 434s | if you clicked you went oh |
| 436s | and that was it it was a one-step combo |
| 438s | it's actually still there uh it the |
| 440s | version that's out now is better it's |
| 442s | two-step oh okay we used to have just |
| 444s | one where you just go |
| 448s | because we never really wanted it to be |
| 449s | a weapon right the sorcerer if he fights |
| 451s | would fight with a blade like a normal |
| 453s | man right right so the the uh the |
| 455s | original version of the casting system |
| 457s | when you started casting it would open |
| 459s | up a a radial menu like say when you're |
| 462s | interacting with a chest or something |
| 463s | like that and it would show you |
| 466s | different icons for different schools of |
| 468s | magic or domains or whatever that'd be |
| 470s | called and it wouldn't tell you what it |
| 472s | is and then you navigate into it and |
| 474s | there'd be spells in there and it would |
| 477s | just continually pop radio menus and you |
| 480s | choose what spell you want to cast and |
| 482s | then it would do a cast animation of |
| 484s | some kind and then |
| 486s | that was it and you were basically |
| 488s | limited by how fast you could click |
| 490s | through the radio so |
| 492s | that was awful |
| 494s | so we moved on we put animations between |
| 497s | the radial menus |
| 499s | it looked cool |
| 500s | if you weren't the one cast |
| 504s | we ended up scrapping that |
| 506s | moved to a version where the radial menu |
| 509s | was off to the side |
| 510s | and problems but now you can see |
| 512s | yourself looking cool okay |
| 515s | we had some problems where we didn't |
| 518s | exactly want to uh okay so a bit more |
| 522s | context in the version of sorcery that |
| 524s | you have |
| 526s | spells of different tiers take different |
| 529s | region pouches but it's consistent there |
| 532s | all of the first tier spells take tier |
| 535s | one pouch all the second tier spells |
| 537s | take the two pouch and all of the third |
| 539s | tier spells take the tier 3 ouch |
| 541s | in our original version each spell had |
| 544s | unique reagents and you had to carry |
| 546s | them on you |
| 547s | so |
| 549s | in the original version of I want to say |
| 551s | it was mass call you had to have |
| 553s | something like 20 stone and five iron |
| 554s | Stone to cast it |
| 556s | which not a problem you'll probably get |
| 559s | that back but that meant you had to go |
| 561s | out into the field with those 20 stone |
| 563s | and five iron Stone we also talked about |
| 565s | a version of detective resources where |
| 567s | you had to carry the resource you wanted |
| 568s | to detect with you so when you cast the |
| 570s | spell it would read what was your |
| 571s | inventory and show you those items only |
| 575s | yeah the the UI itself also came in very |
| 577s | late as far as being able to see the |
| 579s | spells in on your character sheet you |
| 581s | know in knowledgement so people that |
| 584s | were play testing it had to go off of |
| 586s | like documentation or slack messages we |
| 588s | sent with a list of ingredients to cast |
| 591s | spells yeah spells there was no |
| 592s | reflection of it in game yeah you |
| 593s | originally could only see them in the |
| 595s | the radial wheel when casting |
| 598s | not very friendly |
| 600s | uh so the uh the version that we |
| 603s | actually have in the release game |
| 606s | started out as a result of |
| 609s | basically we were what like a week from |
| 612s | one of our milestones and there was a |
| 615s | meeting with Dennis and a couple of |
| 618s | other leads and saying well |
| 621s | look at this and this is the weakest |
| 623s | part of the whole system it has to be |
| 625s | fun yeah and it wasn't it was awful yeah |
| 629s | we we actually wound up looking at the |
| 632s | um |
| 632s | second prototype that Chris made |
| 635s | so the first one was the radio menu that |
| 637s | pops up the second one was one where |
| 639s | your character would hold their staff up |
| 641s | and the stones would come out of the |
| 643s | ground and at the time they were just |
| 645s | using like placeholder Rock like Pebble |
| 647s | meshes that we had that were blown up |
| 650s | and they had a billboard of the |
| 652s | different uh schools of Magic on them |
| 654s | and I was like well |
| 656s | I like this one the most because it |
| 658s | feels like a toy like it feels like I |
| 660s | can reach out and touch it there's some |
| 661s | tangibility to it and and that made it |
| 664s | feel a lot more grounded and if you |
| 665s | remember things I've said |
| 667s | at other times in the video the whole |
| 669s | point is for magic to feel very |
| 670s | realistic rounded ritualistic and the |
| 674s | stones were conveying that more than |
| 675s | anything else we had we went through a |
| 677s | ton of Concepts like I was in a ton of |
| 680s | concept meetings |
| 681s | um to talk with different ways we could |
| 683s | show like clouds of smoke with the Rune |
| 686s | floating inside of it and you know what |
| 688s | kind of tech issues does that represent |
| 690s | or what does that give us on like |
| 692s | consoles and how many different ways can |
| 694s | we show these and everything that just |
| 696s | had a rune kind of floating in the air |
| 697s | wound up feeling like a UI to me and one |
| 701s | of the guiding pillars that we have for |
| 702s | the game is to is to avoid user |
| 705s | interface whenever possible if we can |
| 707s | show you something about your character |
| 709s | through the world |
| 710s | or we can do it in a way that is |
| 712s | represented you know another example |
| 714s | might be the healing potions that were |
| 715s | really contentious for people but |
| 717s | previously you just ate fish really fast |
| 720s | to heal and no one could see what was |
| 721s | happening you were just gaining |
| 723s | but by adding that potion we make it |
| 725s | work we feel more realistic and more |
| 726s | tangible |
| 728s | and it was the same for the casting |
| 729s | system |
| 730s | the stones |
| 733s | were a bit inspired by like the original |
| 735s | direction that was given to us by Joel |
| 737s | um one of his uh one of his big |
| 740s | references was eternal Darkness the way |
| 743s | when you cast spells runes kind of |
| 744s | appear around your character in the game |
| 746s | and he was like I'd like something like |
| 747s | this and we kind of took those runes and |
| 750s | lifted them up because when you're |
| 752s | playing a third person action game |
| 753s | looking at the ground is |
| 755s | it's not what you want to be doing so we |
| 758s | put the runes up in front of you and we |
| 759s | have these things you felt like you |
| 760s | could reach out and touch and suddenly |
| 762s | it felt more like the Spells were really |
| 764s | a lot more intentional a lot more |
| 766s | premeditated |
| 768s | it also kind of brings in the feel of |
| 771s | an Alchemy that's a consistent feel |
| 774s | throughout the rest of sorcery as well |
| 776s | we've used that to explain away some |
| 778s | sorceress things in the past like the |
| 780s | conversion |
| 782s | but you're working with the existing |
| 783s | physical objects themselves I'm just |
| 786s | saying what he said in different words |