Strive Sequel: Next update details
Hello everyone, I hope you are doing good despite all the commotion. At first I was planning to make a new release sooner, but as I was working on next content update, I realized that I wanna make it a lot more meaningful. So I'll go a bit into story progress which will be happening in next update, and showcase some of the stuff. Minor spoilers ahead.
As you know, the main story is focused on you, the player, who becomes a land owner at Aliron city, the capital of inherently human-dominated lands. The main power of the city is held between 4 Guilds-establishments you can already observe in the game. Your initial move is to introduce yourself to them and start making profits from their contracts. The next goal will present itself as you get enough recognition with one of the guilds: you will be proposed to elect for Mayor. After earning enough reputation, you will be presented with a few sidequests to make each guild support you (with at least 3 required to progress). Those sidequests I aim to present with multiple options to complete, so your build might also play some role. Your factors will allow you to use some shortcuts or persuasions in dialogues.
Meanwhile, some of the guild readers have received their art:
Amelia, Servants leader
Fighters Leader
More coming soon
After some considerations, the main city backgrounds will receive animations
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The new repeatable quests will allow to turn in slaves
The mod system will be getting an example and a small guide to work with
The new item will allow to promote slaves to peons
The planned update content will be ending on the moment when you get 3 of 4 guilds support and ready to go into next phase which will feature some unpredictable events (to not spoil more), so once we finish most of it, there shall be a really I could nearly deem as 'alpha' stage. Obviously, there's also some minor changes and lots of bugfixes I'm not going to mention here.
For now that's about all I wanted to say. Thank you for your attention and let me know what you think.
Comments (10)
I think you may have answered this before, but do you plan to have the sequel support playing a female character?
Your character can be female.
Remember the time Paul Atreides completed a side quest in hopes of running for mayor? I don't either. Rebuilding a great house from a position of weakness is a shared power fantasy of boys and men the world over. Please aim higher. Much higher.
btw great job, keep it up
you should make Stalin leader of the glorious workers guild
Great news. :) Can you share anything about what is planned for exploration and combat, yet? It might not be the main focus of the game, but the rise of turn based tactical "indie games" like Darkest Dungeon certainly shows that a demand for this exists. I think something alike would fit very well into strive.
Well, there's not that much to say outside of what is already in the game. It will be heavily based on rng, there will be lots of different dungeons and enemies. The main gameplay is to match elemental damage with enemy weaknesses and status effects. The healing is a huge part of sustaining and is tied to items and mana. There will be many different regions and different dungeon types in them with different events.
cant wait for the tentacle route
Fighters Leader feels like his name should be Frederick or something like that. 😊
Wow that looks great, can't wait to play the new update.