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Chris Avellone hat in seinem Blog im Obsidian-Forum einen Beitrag über Wasteland's altem Skill-System verfasst.

One thing I wanted to vent about concerning old-school RPGs like Eternal Dagger, Wizard’s Crown, and Wasteland, is the more you give a player the ability to customize their own skills (and stats, although in WL, it’s random), the more you can build a character you can role-play, and imo, you can do it much better than you can if you’re simply given an archetype or limited stat set.
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So skills contributing to role-playing: As an example, when building my Wasteland party of four Rangers again, all I knew to start is I wanted a Brainiac, a Thief, a Jack of All Trades/Gunslinger as party leader, and a Melee Specialist because I like bashing the **** out of things with clubs, axes, and chainsaws. With those basics in mind, I went ahead and went through the Wasteland stat and skill set and built personalities formed by the random roll (although biased toward accepting characters with a high IQ, since IQ is a big “win” in Wasteland – and this should remind me to do a blog on how prevalence of usefulness of skills and abilities can ruin role-playing and a lack of balance can do the same) and also based on the skills that were provided to me and what points I put into them.

Den vollen Text findet ihr im Link unten.

Link:
Wasteland 1 and that Old-School Skill Set Symphony

Der Wasteland 2 Kickstarter-Countdown ist abgelaufen und das Projekt wurde vollständig und über 100% finanziert. Das Endergebnis von $3.040.865 (Kickstarter $2.933.147 + PayPal $107.718) kann sich sehen lassen und der Schritt über die 3 Millionen Dollar bedeutet, dass neben mehr Inhalte, außerdem noch Modding Tools drauf gepackt werden.

Für alle, die die ganze letzte Nacht verpennt (so wie ich) und dadurch die Wasteland 2 Wrap Party auf Twitch TV verpasst haben, befindet sich hier der aufgezeichnete Stream, zum Anschauen bereit. Die ersten 1:30 Stunden sind noch gefüllt mit Testbild und Sonstigem, danach geht es los, mit Brian Fargo, Chris Avellone, Familie, Freunde und spezielle Gäste.

Link:
Wasteland 2 Wrap Party, Twitch TV

Ein neues Wasteland 2 Kickstarter Update wurde veröffentlicht: Diesmal wird angemerkt, dass die $30 Stufe um einige Extras aufgewertet wurde.

Also we have spent some time thinking about and asking fans what we could put into the $30 tier to make it more interesting and to not disrupt what has already been offered. I think we have come up with an interesting list that may persuade a few people to upgrade. Based on your top requests and a forum poll we now offer the following as part of the $30 tier:

• An extra digital download of the game in any format. Many people wanted to be able to get a Mac AND a PC version, or PC and Linux, or even an extra PC version for a friend. Now you can.
• Access to a collection of exclusive Ranger portraits that will double the pool of character portraits you have to choose from at the start of the game when you are rolling up your Rangers. This unique image collection will not only give you more Ranger portraits, but more Ranger icons used to display your party location on the world map.
• Access to a four-episode Video Development Blog that will show you an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the design and development of Wasteland 2. Sit in on designer meetings and art-review meetings to see the process behind how the game is made. See interviews with Brian Fargo, Chris Avellone, Mike Stackpole, Alan Pavlish, and the rest of the development team as they explain to you what they are doing and why they are doing it.
• A novella by Chris Avellone based on the universe of Wasteland.
Of course, all backers who are in at higher levels will also get all of these added items too.

In Kurz: Extra digitaler Download für MAC, PC und Linux, die doppelte Anzahl an Portraits für die eigene Desert Ranger-Truppe, Zugang zu vier Development Blog Videos und eine Novelle, geschrieben von Chris Avellone persönlich. Alle diese Extras sind natürlich auch in den > $30 Stufen enthalten. (Wie Brian Fargo twittert, haben bereits 700 Kickstarter-Backer ihre $15 Stufe auf $30 erhöht.)

Des Weiteren wird es am Montag zwischen 10pm-12am EDT eine Party samt Onlinestream geben, bei der sich das Wasteland 2 Team und einige Überraschungsgeste einfinden werden. Hier könnt ihr weitere Fragen stellen, etc. etc.

Also we will have a live streaming party on Monday night (16th) from 10pm-12am EDT to celebrate the green light of production on the game. Our Kickstarter does not close until 5am the next morning, but we wanted to get some of our friends and family together to celebrate this little bit of history and share it with you. On attendance will be Nolan Bushnell the founder of Atari, Chris Avellone and a few other surprise guests. We will be answering questions received through live chat on the Twitch TV stream as well as from Facebook fans. I will tweet the URL Monday afternoon as well as post it here on Kickstarter.

Link:
Wasteland 2, Kickstarter Update #13

Kurz notiert: Wasteland 2's zweite Konzeptzeichnung, von Andree Wallin, ist in die Existenz getreten und vor einigen Minuten von inXile veröffentlicht worden:


Nachtrag: Außerdem hat Wasteland 2 just die $2,5 Millionen (Kickstarter + PayPal) überschritten.

Kurz notiert: In wenigen Minuten werden Brian Fargo und Chris Avellone auf Reddit ein Ask Me Anything veranstalten. Solltet ihr also Fragen über Gott und die Welt haben und einen Reddit-Account besitzen, tobt euch aus.

Link:
Reddit AMA

Brian Fargo hat ein neues Update inklusive neuem Video auf der Wasteland 2 Kickstarter-Seite veröffentlicht. Das Video behandelt einige der am häufigsten gestellten Fragen zum Spiel, die von Brian Fargo und Chris Avellone beantwortet werden. Außerdem spricht Fargo ein wenig über Wasteland 2's Story und Spielmechanik.

Link:
Wasteland 2, Kickstarter Update #11

Heute wurde die Wasteland 2 Kickstarter Seite mit einem neuen Update beglückt. Im ersten Teil geht es darum, wie ihr Wasteland 2 helfen könnt, in der Rolle des PR-Teams, um das Budget zu erhöhen und damit das Spiel größer und besser zu machen:

Did I just hear all 43,000+ of you say ‘How can we help?’

I am glad you asked!!

One thing you will notice in that list of potential jobs above is that nowhere in that list do you see ‘Marketing Lady’ or ‘PR Guy’. That is because we don’t have these positions, nor do we plan to hire them. We want to spend the money on the game, and only the game.

This is where you come in…

All 43,000+ of you are our marketing and PR team. We need your help to get the word out that the Kickstarter countdown is on.

• Post to your Facebook pages with links back to the Kickstarter.
• Follow @BrianFargo on twitter and retweet my Wasteland related tweets.
• Post it to forums where you think it is relevant.
• Send emails out to everyone you know.
• Go to our website and put our Doomsday countdown clock on your website.
• Get a friend or family member to buy in.
• Shout it from the rooftop.
• Do some early shopping for Christmas 2013!

Im zweiten Teil veröffentlicht Fargo die erste Desert Ranger Konzeptzeichnung, gezeichnet von Andree Wallin:

Links:
Wasteland 2, Kickstarter
Wasteland 2, PayPal

Just in diesem Moment wurde in der laufenden GOG.com Spring Conference angekündigt, dass ab jetzt für die nächsten 48 Stunden Fallout 1 kostenlos über GOG.com zu beziehen ist. Solltet ihr also hier herumhängen und aus was auch immer für Gründen noch kein Fallout besitzen, dann ist jetzt eure Chance gekommen.

Link:
Fallout auf GOG.com

Ganz große Kunde von der Westküste: Wie Rock, Paper, Shotgun berichtet, werden inXile und Obsidian Entertainment Wasteland 2 in Kooperation entwickeln, wenn am Ende der 17 Tage $2,1 Millionen zusammen kommen.

Zitat, direkt aus der News:

Here’s a big, bouncy ball of unexpected good news for you. Brian Fargo and his studio inXile Entertainment are, as you well know, working on a sequel to the seminal RPG Wasteland, and have successfully Kickstarted it to the tune of $1.6 million. Since exceeding their initial target of $900,000, they’ve been able to add Mac and Linux versions to their masterplan for the post-nuclear roleplaying game. But that’s not all. They’ve just been in touch to say that, if they can reach $2.1 million during the 17 days remaining on the funding schedule, they’ll be bringing in Obsidian Entertainment, including Planescape: Torment mastermind Chris Avellone, to help them make the game.

Oh my word. The minds behind Fallout and Planescape, together. A veritable RPG supergroup. This has to happen.

Says Chris Avellone, “Wasteland is one of my favorite RPGs of all time, and when Brian asked if I wanted to work on the sequel, I jumped at the chance. While I’ve worked on Fallout 2 and Fallout: New Vegas, getting the chance to work on the spiritual successor to the Fallout franchise is a honor.”

Brian Fargo observes that “I have a history with the guys at Obsidian that dates back to the days of Interplay’s Black Isle studios. Together we created some of the greatest RPG’s of all time, from Fallout 1 & 2 to titles like Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment. It is great that we now have a chance to reunite on a project like Wasteland 2.”

Der aktuelle Geldstand, Kickstarter + PayPal ist bei $1.673.428 + ca. $10.000 von RPG Codex + ca. $1.000 von NMA. Das fehlende Kleingeld sollte in den verbliebenen Tagen auf jeden Fall noch zusammen kommen. Also worauf zum Teufel wartet ihr noch?

Links:
Rock, Paper, Shotgun News
Wasteland 2, Kickstarter
Wasteland 2, PayPal