Greetings all! Today I want to talk about the new game mode: Safeguard but before that I’m happy to announce we now have a Grimoire: Manastorm Discord server! “Discord is an all-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that’s free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone.” It’s a great program that makes chatting and arranging game sessions a breeze so please feel to join us!
What is Safeguard?
Safeguard is a basic and barebones wave survival mode with an objective to defend. The main goal behind releasing this mini-game is to give players a chance to test out new spells, classes, and general gameplay in a fun and challenging offline setting. This isn’t a huge epic campaign with lots of voice acting and cinematics and while we would love to develop a more traditional style single player campaign this is all we can currently afford. Depending on the response from the community we may spend more time adding on to it in the future but the initial release will be limited to these features.
Features:
Single player only
Three maps each with a different difficulty setting: Easy, Medium, and Hard
Access to all classes and spells (regardless of whether you have them unlocked in multiplayer)
2 Ranged Skeleton AI (Fire and Lightning)
2 Basic Skeleton Melee AI (Pawn with low hp and “uber” with 100 hp)
1 Suicide Skeleton Melee AI (Leeeerooyyyy!!)
1 "Boss" Golem AI (Huge Ice golem with a few special attacks)
Simple "Defend" objective and time limit (Protect the door and survive for 10 minutes).
Story:
A powerful enemy mage is attacking the city and summoning the dead. You have teleported in to defend the people as they escape through ancient catacombs located inside a tavern basement. Your main objective is to defend the door for 10 minutes while they evacuate.
So essentially you will spawn in and fight wave after wave of basic AI which will provide a challenge and the chance to test out spells, classes, and tactics. Some enemies (the big skeleton warriors) will have the exact same health as enemy players in multiplayer so you can test out combos.
We are currently fixing a few final bugs with this and about 40 new spells. After that is done there will be a big pre-F2P update which will include the new spells, Safeguard, a new conquest map, tooltips, in-game combat log text, bug fixes, updated environment art, and a few small things.
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-Brent
