Overwatch was another feature that we decided early on to add. This gives the player more of a sense of control, since if a shot is good enough it's guaranteed to do something, only the most reckless and ill-advised attacks have a high chance of achieving nothing at all. The chance of a graze happening is up to 25% of the chance to miss, so:Ĭhance To Hit | Chance To Graze | Chance To Do Nothing

Grazing shots do half damage, and any special effects attached to the attack are either weakened or disabled entirely.

To help fix this every attack has a chance to Graze a target instead of missing it. One issue is that many people really, really dislike missing attacks. Units can also deploy smoke screens to protect their units in areas without cover.Īya Sashimi, a Vanguard hero, takes a pot shot at a distant Dvar walker. The terrain now has different height levels, and shooting at a unit that's lower than oneself grants a bonus to accuracy. It also allowed us to add more gameplay to the combat environments, long range attacks would have their accuracy reduced, as would attacks on units behind cover.

One of the first things we decided was that we needed to bring hit chances back into the game, having ranged weapons always hit makes combat feel stale and predictable, while the chance of an attack failing adds a level of excitement and tension. Just like in Age of Wonders 3, combat is a very important part of playing Planetfall and one of the biggest challenges we had was keeping the feel of AoW3 combat whilst developing a system that is more focused on ranged combat than melee combat.Ī group of marines approach a Psi-Shrine guarded by Spacer pirates Hello everybody! Today's Dev Diary is about the basics of tactical combat.

For dev diary #6 the focus is on tactical combat mechanics and units! The dev diary #5 for Age of Wonders: Planetfall focuses on tactical combat.

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