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Hello and welcome to |
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this, our third and final feature video
for By Blood Alone. |
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My name is Peter Nicholson, game
director on Hearts Iron IV, And today |
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we'll be taking a look at some of the last
features to be introduced in BBA. |
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We'll be beginning
with Divisional Command. |
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In By Blood
Alone will be upgrading the system |
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that previously existed to hire
new commanders, new generals. |
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In By Blood Alone, Every division
is going to have its own commander. |
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They don't necessarily confer
statistical bonuses, but that there is |
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a sort of baseline for you to draw |
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from as a pool to upgrade to generals. |
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They're going to earn experience over
time, |
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as well as apply history entries
for the deeds that they they do. |
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For instance,
you can capture strategic locations. |
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You can capture airfields
that could be involved in important combat |
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or perform encirclements
and stack wipe enemy troops. |
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For these things, they will earn something
called a history entry. |
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So you'll be able to see these in a log
in the division's history. |
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And for some of these,
you will be able to award a medal. |
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Medals themselves do confer bonuses. |
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So using this system,
you'll be able to reward |
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the divisions
that you're particularly attached to. |
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You'll be able to give them some unique
features compared to the others, |
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and you'll really be able to reinforce
that attachment to the divisions |
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that you feel have served you
well during combat medals will be tracked. |
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On the unit,
you'll be able to see the medals, history |
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and the various history entries
that a unit possesses. |
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You'll be able |
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to stack the effects
with diminishing returns. |
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And if you promote a commander
from a division to being a full general, |
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they will take a copy of these
for flavor reasons with unit cohesion. |
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Is a new battle plan setting that we'll be
introducing in the avalanche patch. |
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You'll be able to choose |
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from one of three settings for cohesion,
and this will affect primarily |
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how the automated unit assignment
system works along that front line. |
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If you choose the middle setting,
balanced cohesion, you'll find that |
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the battle plan and the unit adjustment
system will work more or less as before, |
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units will relocate themselves
along the front line to fill holes. |
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You have two slightly stricter
settings after that, which will mean that |
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the units relocate from a much shorter
distance to try and fill gaps. |
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And I think beyond that
they won't relocate. |
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So in short, |
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you're going to find a lot less shuffling
if you use the setting above balanced. |
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There is of course, a rigid cohesion
setting and this means that units will |
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only relocate themselves from provinces
next door to where they currently are. |
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This can leave holes, |
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so you should consider this an advanced
setting in the avalanche patch. |
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Battle plans
will have dynamically generated names. |
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For many of them, They will be drawn
from a list of historical operations |
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that relate to the states that you're
creating the battle plan along. |
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You could create a frontline
against Poland as Germany, |
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and you'd probably find the name
drawn from the pool would be Fall Weiss. |
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Likewise, if you
if you create a front line as Germany |
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against the Soviet Union, you might end up
with Operation Barbarossa. |
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There are many of these, so there'll be
a lot of historical options there. |
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You'll also be able to rename them
yourself. |
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With divisional command covered,
we're going to take to the skies |
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and take a look at the plane designer. |
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So the reason why we're adding a plane
design is because we already have a ship |
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design and a tank designer and people
have been asking for it for a long time. |
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You can design
your tanks, can design your own ships. |
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Why would planes be that different? Right. |
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You choose a size of airframe
depending on what you want to build, |
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and then you decide what kind of weapons
you put on it, how many engines |
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you put on it,
how big the engines should be, |
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and what other modules you can put on it,
like extra fuel tanks, for example. |
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So modules are
what gives the plane its abilities. |
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A module can be a machine gun or a bomb. |
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If you have a bomb on the airplane,
then it can attack ground targets. |
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If you have a machine gun,
that can attack air targets. |
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And these modules are unlocked
through technology. |
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Some of them will be unlocked in the air
tech tree. |
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Air to air radar will be unlocked through
radar research, as one might expect. |
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And some of the guns can be found
in the artillery tree. |
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We sat down and we looked at |
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how people of the time
designed our planes. |
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Like what were their
considerations that they |
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had to take into account? |
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We wanted to recreate that. |
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From there, you kind of start
to think about what kind of |
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items were commonly found on planes
like machine guns and bombs |
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to represent these choices
that the historical actors had to make. |
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These are sort of the underlying rules
that we need to put into the, the plane |
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designer from there that you then
go, okay, here are other options. |
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We want to give the player
a lot of choices. |
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We want to have a lot of |
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different playstyles that they can try out |
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and experiment with or alter |
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to fit the situation that the country
that they're playing in is in. |
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The balancing of the plane designer
is still very much in development. |
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It's something that is still
being balanced as we shoot this video. |
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The balance is orientated
on the current system, |
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so there shouldn't be any wild swings
and sort of effectiveness. |
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So if you have a strategy that worked |
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with the current system,
it will probably still work |
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with the new system
and it will probably not be quite as good. |
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So one of the design and balance goals
for the plane designer was to take a look |
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at some of the plane types
that people have identified |
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as like a little bit overpowered
and tone them down a little bit. |
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CAS Planes and naval bombers in particular |
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will probably not be as strong
as they are in the current meta. |
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But that's sort of
the beauty of the system, |
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is that it gives us a lot more screws
that we can lose |
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and then tighten a little bit
to change the balance around. |
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So the transport planes in the plane
design work exactly |
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as they do now
because they still use the old system. |
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We looked into that early
in the design phase and we figured that |
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making a fully modular design
of all transport. |
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Planes. |
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Would open up
too many cases to many weird exploits. |
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And that has repercussions
both for multiplayer, but also for things |
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that the AI needs to consider
and we decided to just not touch that. |
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That's it for now. |
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But release is just around the corner. |
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For those of you who opt to preorder,
you can get access |
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to the new song Bella Ciao with B.B.A. |
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Make sure to follow us on social media
to stay up to date. |
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And thank you once again. |
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