Ultima Ratio Regum v0.6.0

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Ultima Ratio Regum is a middle-ground between roguelikes, RPGs and strategy games.

• Over 200,000 spawnable weapons. Ultima Ratio Regum contains over a dozen fully-modelled materials, a large number of weapon classes (sword, knife, mace, longbow, etc), a variety of blessings, curses and enchantments, significant variation in manufacturing quality and durability and a number of other attributes, all of which contribute to its combat effectiveness, price, and other factors. The large number of variables thus results in the huge number of possible weapon permutations. Different skills govern different weapons, and different races express a preference for different armaments.

• Complex AI with their own motivations, loyalties and objectives. Unlike in many RPGs and Roguelikes, enemies will not simply throw themselves upon your sword. They act as ‘players’ too, and have their own motivations – wealth, martial prowess, ideology or anything else, but ultimately self-preservation. They intelligently assess the battle and decide when to attack, whether to rally their comrades, when to flee, which items are worth picking up and using, pass information about your combat strengths and weaknesses to their allies and many other actions besides. Intelligent creatures on your side will need a good reason to fight, while intelligent creatures facing you will not hesitate to back off and regroup if appropriate.

• Dozens of factions and species to gather support from. Humans, Dwarves and Elves are looking for allies as ever, they are not the only races you can align yourself with. Many species including Minotaurs, Liches, Titans, and even some of the more diplomatic legions of the Undead can potentially ally with you, aid you, and eventually be converted to your cause, given the right encouragement. There also exist a large number of wild animals and monsters of various strengths that impact upon the growth of empires, and might need to be removed to gain access to particular shrines, resources, etc.

• No limit to the size of armies the player can equip and command. Upon getting a faction to entrust you with their soldiers, a number of organisational, combat and objective-orientated options become available. You can lead as many soldiers at any one time as are willing to follow you. They can additionally be delegated to follow another individual of high rank, allowing you to launch attacks from multiple fronts and many other possibilities. However, you may need to serve in their armies – or gain their respect another way – before persuading them to serve under you…

• 300+ types of creatures, including name generators. Each letter denotes a class of creature, which can contain multiple species. For example, ‘B’ creatures are Behemoths; ‘t’ creatures are Trolls; both encompass just a single species with variations. By contrast, ‘T’ denotes Titanic creatures, which range from Giants and Ettins to Colossi and the Titans themselves. Each class or species of non-animal creatures has their own name, moving away from the concept of ‘unique’ NPCs in other games. Humans, dwarves and elves are denoted by ‘h’, ‘d’ and ‘e’, but the use of the ‘@’ symbol (normally just for the player) is used for the commanders of military forces to make leaders clear on the battlefield.

• 14 varied creature languages. Different species and races speak different languages. You begin only able to speak the language of your species (Human, Dwarven or Elvish), but have the ability to learn other tongues. The more of a language you know, the more of that speech you are able to understand, and therefore the greater the ease with which you can trade, exchange information, and form alliances. Minotaurs, for example, are ordinarily unconcerned by strangers, but cannot be recruited as mercenaries unless you, or someone in your employ, learns their language.

• No in-built quests; pick your own allegiances and objectives. Ultima Ratio Regum contains no fixed objective. Instead, it presents a complex, dynamic world, and history books that need to be written. What – if any – mark you leave upon them is up to you.

v0.6:New Features:• City generation – hundreds of districts, buildings, architectural styles, and more.• Nomadic fortresses – strong walls, open-air markets, military protection.• Hunter-Gatherer settlements – building materials, shrines, geometric layouts.• Towns and farms generate throughout feudal civs, and can be explored.• Improved map generation – new biomes, more efficient algorithms.• Explore massive and varied feudal cities (each able to support a population of ~300,000+), each with its own range of districts, architectural styles, and buildings influenced by the political and religious choices of its civilization.• Discover nomadic fortresses in the desert, enclosed by walls and with an emphasis on strong defence and open-air markets.• Farms and towns now also generate within the countryside, which in the future will be important stops on your travels, and sources of occasional markets and information.• Hunter-gatherer civilizations now have settlements, laid out in complex geometric patterns, built from a range of materials, and containing cryptic shrines…• A huge range of new ‘l’ook graphics for almost everything new in the game, and for a range of items/features/terrains which did not possess graphics in the past.• Improved world map generation – now includes rare marshland areas, and a significantly overhauled polar biome, now featuring ice as well as snow.• Introduction of strategic-layer movement around cities, a note on the pricing of city districts, and the unique coinage of each civilization, which will be activated in version 0.9.• Significant expansion of variety of religion and civilization generation.• A range of bug-fixes and optimizations on roads, settlement generation, coats of arms, line of sight, generating certain aspects of rivers, and more.

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