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Preview Tyranny Previews - Gameplay Footage and Conquest Mode Details

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Tags: Brian Heins; Obsidian Entertainment; Tyranny

The release date for Obsidian's Tyranny was announced last week and the game was made available for pre-order, but it hasn't exactly been setting the Steam sales chart on fire. Paradox's marketing department hasn't been completely idle, though. It turns out they also gave hands-on previews to a number of gaming sites, which were published today. Most of the previews put a particular focus on "Conquest Mode", the segment of Tyranny's character creation where you determine the Fatebinder's actions prior to the beginning of the story, which we didn't get to see in August's character creation stream. It's an elaborate CYOA sequence that takes place on a board game-like strategic map. You can see that and much more in Polygon's 100+ minute gameplay video:



Here's a list of all the previews we've been able to track down:

Beyond the Conquest Mode, I would say Rock Paper Shotgun's preview has the most information about how the game itself will play. Here's an excerpt:

The ragtag rebellion should be an easy fight, but the Disfavored and the Scarlet Chorus can’t agree on tactics. As a result, the Overlord’s massive armies sit stagnant while the opposition grows stronger. You’re sent down to the Tiers to — *ahem* —convince the two armies to work together.

Your weapon? An Edict. Basically a magical contract infused with the Overlord’s power. This one’s addressed to the leaders of the Disfavored and Scarlet Chorus, and says “Stop wasting time fighting each other. Take over this city within eight days or everyone in the entire valley will die.”

Yes, it’s an actual time limit a la Fallout. Once you’ve read this edict, a counter pops up at the top of the screen informing you how many days are left until all life is extinguished. Time passes whenever you leave to go to a new area (a.k.a. when traveling), and if you don’t accomplish your goal before the eight days is up?

“The game ends,” said Heins. “If you are really good and know where to go you absolutely can do everything in that eight days, though it starts getting tight.”

“We wanted the replayability and playing different paths though, and having a time limit creates a sense of urgency that maybe you don’t want to do everything. And with Kyros and the Edicts,” he continued, “we wanted to add some visual presence. The time limit felt like a good way to show this is actually urgent.”

As for whether you’ll see other time limits later, Heins said Obsidian’s experimenting with a few but they may or may not make it into the final release —and they might not all be game-ending catastrophes. “Others may just change the overall state, or what the win conditions can be. But we’re still evaluating that.”​

That's right, a time limit in an Obsidian RPG. Never thought I'd see that again. If you'd like to see more of Tyranny, gaming personality Sean "Day[9]" Plott will be broadcasting it on his Twitch channel later today, at 8PM CEST.
 
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Take over this city within eight days or everyone in the entire valley will die.”
Yes, it’s an actual time limit a la Fallout. Once you’ve read this edict, a counter pops up at the top of the screen informing you how many days are left until all life is extinguished.

Oh right, the one thing Fallout creators said they regret putting in the game. Good job, Obsidian!
 

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I suspect this will be more lenient than those time limits. It sounds like time won't pass when you're walking around in a single area and maybe not even when you rest. Just when you travel on the world map. Though I'm not sure how that works if there's a day-night cycle.
 
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Gee, a time limit, what a huge fucking deal. Not really, either way. It will probably be generous enough that veteran players can do most of what they want.
 

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It'll probably sound stressful on paper but be more generous when you play the game.

It's a "cool feature" they have.
 

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Gee, a time limit, what a huge fucking deal. Not really, either way. It will probably be generous enough that veteran players can do most of what they want.
People complain about the Fallout time limit all the time, but IIRC I didn't need half the time to finish that quest in Fallout, and I'm a shit player. Git gud fuckers.
 

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P.S. Brian has got to be BSing about "adding more time limits"? That's not something you do three weeks before a game's release. If they add anything it'll be post-release.
 

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Gee, a time limit, what a huge fucking deal. Not really, either way. It will probably be generous enough that veteran players can do most of what they want.
People complain about the Fallout time limit all the time, but IIRC I didn't need half the time to finish that quest in Fallout, and I'm a shit player. Git gud fuckers.
You need prior knowledge to know exactly what you have to do and what you shouldn't do before you finish certain quests and how much you have, which is basically cheating, and this is exactly what I am going to do while playing Tyranny. Protest time limit, protest poor game design choices, use cheat engine to send a message.
 

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People complain about the Fallout time limit all the time, but IIRC I didn't need half the time to finish that quest in Fallout, and I'm a shit player. Git gud fuckers.

Its probably more of a 'theoretical' complaint by OCD types who feel rushed. Has anyone ever really lost that game due to it? That must've been one slowass slug of a player. I wasn't even aware there was a time limit when I played through Fallout 1 the first time.

The time limit in Tyranny (and in F1 for that matter) supports the mcguffin and injects some sense urgency and C&C into the game early on. If done right, it could be pretty immersive.
 

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Gee, a time limit, what a huge fucking deal. Not really, either way. It will probably be generous enough that veteran players can do most of what they want.
People complain about the Fallout time limit all the time, but IIRC I didn't need half the time to finish that quest in Fallout, and I'm a shit player. Git gud fuckers.
You need prior knowledge to know exactly what you have to do and what you shouldn't do before you finish certain quests and how much you have,
You don't need prior knowledge. You just follow the main quest and explore the locations you encounter on your way. And you beat the time limit in no time.
 

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Gee, a time limit, what a huge fucking deal. Not really, either way. It will probably be generous enough that veteran players can do most of what they want.
People complain about the Fallout time limit all the time, but IIRC I didn't need half the time to finish that quest in Fallout, and I'm a shit player. Git gud fuckers.
You need prior knowledge to know exactly what you have to do and what you shouldn't do before you finish certain quests and how much you have,
You don't need prior knowledge. You just follow the main quest and explore the locations you encounter on your way. And you beat the time limit in no time.
What if I want to farm max level on random radscorp encounters? I played fallout at junior school, I didn't know anything about hacking or programming back then, the only way for me to start the game with max level was to farm random encounters. I didn't expect the game to punish me for that.
 

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Gee, a time limit, what a huge fucking deal. Not really, either way. It will probably be generous enough that veteran players can do most of what they want.
People complain about the Fallout time limit all the time, but IIRC I didn't need half the time to finish that quest in Fallout, and I'm a shit player. Git gud fuckers.
You need prior knowledge to know exactly what you have to do and what you shouldn't do before you finish certain quests and how much you have,
You don't need prior knowledge. You just follow the main quest and explore the locations you encounter on your way. And you beat the time limit in no time.
What if I want to farm max level on random radscorp encounters? I played fallout at junior school, I didn't know anything about hacking or programming back then, the only way for me to start the game with max level was to farm random encounters. I didn't expect the game to punish me for that.
What? You knew that there is a time limit on the main quest, I think it makes it pretty obvious that you can't waste you time on grinding. It is not prior knowledge, just common sense.
 

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What? You knew that there is a time limit on the main quest, I think it makes it pretty obvious that you can't waste you time on grinding. It is not prior knowledge, just common sense.

Almost every game gives you a sense of urgency yet very little actually have an arbitrary time limit. If anything, this time limit was UNlogical, considering game design fundamentals which are familiar to most players.
 

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Hm, the changing NPC portraits is interesting idea, but in a such an ugly form!
 

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What? You knew that there is a time limit on the main quest, I think it makes it pretty obvious that you can't waste you time on grinding. It is not prior knowledge, just common sense.

Almost every game gives you a sense of urgency yet very little actually have an arbitrary time limit. If anything, this time limit was UNlogical, considering game design fundamentals which are familiar to most players.
There was a clear timelimit before your people die from thirst. How is this not logical or hard to understand? Did you think that time limit is just a joke?
 

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Fallout's time limit was a smoke and mirrors effect to create the illusion of urgency, did anybody ever fail the main quest due to the time limit? Without doing it on purpose? Anyway, this is a pretty unsubstantial and arbitrary reason for the time limit, "rocks will fall and everyone will die" isn't really good storytelling :p
 

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What? You knew that there is a time limit on the main quest, I think it makes it pretty obvious that you can't waste you time on grinding. It is not prior knowledge, just common sense.

Almost every game gives you a sense of urgency yet very little actually have an arbitrary time limit. If anything, this time limit was UNlogical, considering game design fundamentals which are familiar to most players.
There was a clear timelimit before your people die from thirst. How is this not logical or hard to understand? Did you think that time limit is just a joke?
Not everyone is RPGsmart.
 

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IIRC the effect of time constraint on FO1 is mostly psychological. Upon realizing that I had a time limit I felt pressured to up my pace considerably, especially given the unknown factor of travel time back and forth.

Still finished the game with good amount of time left over and at no point I was really racing against time: meaning I never had to make decisions that I did not like just to save time. Still, simply by knowing that I had a time limit regardless whether the actual effect is tangible or not bummed me out a little bit because I am used to doing everything at my own pace.

Good design just from a C&C POV, but satisfying? Not really.
 

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