New Tyranny Video Shows off Spell Creation and Dungeon Crawls

A new video for Tyranny from developer Obsidian and publisher Paradox Interactive has given players a window into the world of spell creation as well as a look at some of the dungeon crawling that players will do when the game releases sometime this year on PC.

Spell Creation

You will find items called magic sigils as you explore and combine to create new and unique spell effects in spell creation. The core sigil defines the spell, such as its element like fire or lightning. Then you determine the spell’s expression such as touch or range. The interaction of these 2 features determines the spell’s icon. Additional items called accent sigils modify the spell such as altering its area of effect and these need a specific lore value to apply the effect. You will have to develop your character to make it effective. Enhancements modify the spell further, such as adding extra jolts of damage to a spell.

Spells you craft can be renamed and given different icons. Each character has slots for spells. As you level up you can add talents that increase your spell slots.

Dungeons & Progression

Next they took as on a journey through a dungeon, showing the Old Walls and the Bane enemies within. The game’s pause and play combat was shown, showing off some of the tooltip features in the combat log as well as some of the dynamic traps and how they will interact with player abilities.

Some info on how progression is handled was presented as well. Whenever a particular skill is maxed you rank up in it which gains experience for the character to level up and gain new attributes and talents. Furthermore, powerful weapons and armor called Artifacts have their own progression in the form of their own reputation bar. Equipping the artifact gains an ability for the character. As you use it you build rep for the artifact and the more reputation it has, the more powerful the ability that it grants you becomes. Neat stuff.

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