General Gameplay

General Gameplay

Gameplay
As a hero, you need to gather followers and resources to build and strengthen your own army for the revolution to succeed. In that aspect, you’ll need to visit various locations, interact with NPCs, complete quests and even become a landlord to pool your manpower and wealth. You can explore lands and find treasures that may help you in your journey.

The game doesn’t utilize huds and bars to track the player’s health, magic or experience points. The player can cast magic infinitely without getting tired. As for the player’s health, the hero has a natural healing ability that will allow him/her to fully recuperate in a few seconds, so long as he/she is not receiving damage. During combat, the health potion will become available if the hero’s HP is considerably low; otherwise, it won’t be available for use.

The game doesn’t have an experience system but it is completely replaced by Guild Seals. You can use Guild Seals to purchase upgrades for your character, as well as various expression packs and other in-game bonuses. (See the guild seal section below for details) Defeated enemies will drop red orbs that will fill up the guild seal icon on the top left corner of the player’s screen. After filling up the icon completely, it will become 1 guild seal.

Guild Seals
As mentioned above, these are used to purchase upgrades and new skills for your character. You can obtain guild seals by doing the following:

• Completing main quests and sidequests
• Interacting with an NPC for the first time
• Befriending an NPC and completing the “Relationship Quest” for that person)
• Striking fear into the hearts of citizens
• Defeating enemies (accumulate orbs)

Interaction
Along with the course of the game, you’ll also come across moral decisions that will directly affect people’s opinion of you in the long run. How you treat individuals will affect how they warmly accept you or fear/despise you. When interacting with NPCs, you have the option to make friendly or offensive gestures. These gestures will increase or decrease their affinity to you, further allowing more options. Befriending shop owners for example will allow you to enjoy all-time discounts or even higher discounts when they’re having a sale. Further improving your relationships might even allow you to obtain lover(s) and even settle down, marry and have children.

Before your relationship with an NPC improves to the next level, you must do certain tasks for them, like delivering an item to another NPC on another village or finding a hidden item in a region (via digging). For romantic levels, you need to woo your lover with gifts or take them out for a date. You can then hold a wedding ceremony to officiate your marriage, if you want to. You can marry as many times as you want. You may divorce an NPC should you want to return to the wild - but take note that this will severe your relationship with that NPC permanently.

Real Estate
After obtaining the Landlord pack from Road to Rule, you’ll be able to buy residential properties and rent them out to earn money. All rented properties earn a set amount of gold every five minutes. You can adjust the rent and demand higher or lower fees – which will also affect your moral standing. Take note that each of these properties have a percentage of its condition or status. While being rented, residential properties will deteriorate over time. Once their condition fall down to zero, you won’t be able to earn money from them until they’re repaired. You can also increase the value of these properties buy buying furniture and remodel the interiors. These properties are not only for earning gold. You can also choose a home out of them where you can leave your family, should you decide to have one.

Later on, you’ll be able to get the Entrepreneur pack. This will allow you to purchase shops, stalls and other business establishments. These properties are usually expensive but you may want to prioritize getting them as they’re virtually maintenance-free (they don’t deteriorate). You can start buying small stalls and businesses then once you have enough, purchase larger establishments like pubs and pawnbrokers. You can enjoy massive discounts by buying stuff from the stalls and shops you own.

Combat
Your Hero can utilize spells, guns and swords to aid in his/her adventure. Though it is completely possible to master all of them later in the game, you should prioritize upgrading one of them as it fits your fighting style. Most players will surely go with upgrading their magic level as you can cast unlimited magical attacks and it’s the only attack that has an AoE (Area of Effect) attack. This is the best method of softening up multiple enemies and make them easy pickings for your gun and sword.

Your character can only use for types of items during combat: Slow Time Potion, Summon Creatures Potion, Health Potion and a food item. Summon Creatures potion can save you when you’re completly surrounded and you’re unable to roll out of danger. The summoned creatures will depend on your character’s magic level. For starters, you’ll only be able to summon lowly bees while high-end characters can call forth a squad of deadly, shadowy balverines. Summoned creatures also take the heat off from you instantly, allowing you to get out of the mob and heal. Slow Time Potion will obviously, make everything go slower, except the hero. Use this to buy enough time to summon a full-charged AoE attack or just buy some time to heal or get out of your dangerous predicament.

Flourishes are charged attacks with your melee or firearm that will inflict great damage and will also change the camera view in really cool angles/ cinematics. Use these whenever you have the chance to maximize your damage potential.

Weapons
There are only six types of gauntlets in the game, all of them must be purchased by spending guild seals in Road to Rule. As for guns and melee weapons, some of the common ones can be bought from shops while more rarer and uncommon ones can be acquired randomly from silver or golden chests. Later in the game, you’ll be able to purchase the Spellweaver upgrade which will allow you to equip two magic gauntlets. Now you can combine different spells to create devastating magical attacks.

There are two types of firearms and melee weapons. You can choose to carry a sword or a hammer. The sword will allow you to land swift and accurate slashes while the hammer will enable you to deliver slow but solid attacks. The best property of the hammer is that you can hit multiple enemies with it. Rifles has longer range and higher damage but its firing rate and bullets are low. Pistols have more bullets, high firing rate but limited range and average damage.

Each weapon have their own set of tasks and challenges that will unlock bonus stats and effect once completed. These tasks are unique to every weapon. You may want to check if the weapon you’re trying to level up fits your fighting style or morality standing. A weapon that can only grow by forcing you to commit murder won’t be of much use to a character with saintly morals.

Morality
The game is full of choices and decisions. They range from resolving minor conflicts to major ones that will affect an entire locale and its populace. Your own actions will also affect your overall moral standing in the long run. See the chart below for a quick run down of actions that will affect your good or evil moral standing:

Positive Morality
Giving money to beggars
Eating carrots and celery
Catching and apprehending criminals
Noble or good major decisions

Negative Morality
Threaten a citizen
Crime (Murder, Assault, Vandalism, etc)
Eating crunchy chicks (yes, these are being sold)
“Selling” a citizen to the factory for labor
Evil major decisions