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Sail your ship, explore islands, fight monsters, choose your abilities, and craft legendary gear to hunt for deadly bosses. Play Triarchy your way! Activate Boss Challenge Modes or enable Assists to suit your playstyle.

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Experimenting with Higher Player Counts

27 Apr

What should Triarchy’s co-op player cap be?

We started by aiming to support 1 to 3 players. This already meant quite a lot of work, especially with game balance - Triarchy is quite different playing solo than playing in a duo or trio. Just modifying health or damage numbers doesn't give a good experience. So instead, we’ve given enemies and bosses new attack patterns, and sometimes even different additional mobs in fights. Which means you then have to separately test the solo vs duo vs trio experiences.

With larger player numbers, it's hard to balance the fight’s difficulty while keeping it fun. If playing with 5 people means a boss has 5x the hitpoints, it can feel really bad to hit a boss with your sword and barely see their health bar move. Even if that's the 'correct' mechanical balance.

And not everything in game balance has a linear relationship, which makes supporting such a wide amount of player numbers in a game like Triarchy even harder. Aggro from enemies and bosses is an interesting example. If an enemy is designed to attack only a single player at a time, then it becomes trivial in multiplayer to have one person kite it while the others dump damage.

Imagine how much bigger a 32-player boat would have to be.

If we build that bigger boat, and get it feeling great for 32 players - how will that boat feel with only 2 players on it? And if the boat grows, channels and islands and docks need to change to fit it. It's extremely hard to have something that neatly scales with player numbers. Most decisions around the player cap are like this - simple at first glance, but with cascading impacts that can easily compromise the vision for the game.

It also impacts how the UI's work, and performance for the host, as well as networking. Generally, as player numbers go up, performance goes down - in an escalating fashion.

But, clearly, some of you have a group of 4+ that want to play together. And picking who can't join sucks. So we've been asking ourselves:

Would raising the player cap still keep the vision for Triarchy intact?
Can we actually do it? (development time, and balance complexity)

And we think the answer is yes to both. So, we're going to try some things out.

We're still not sure if we will be able to get the balance precisely right for all group sizes. But, with the upcoming playtest we're aiming to raise the player cap to…

8 players

If any of you have larger groups that you'd like to play Triarchy with, we'd really appreciate any feedback on how this Alpha build plays with your larger group size.

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Triarchy: When Ambitions Crash Against Game Design

Triarchy: When Ambitions Crash Against Game Design Triarchy is yet another attempt to break into the survival-coop territory. While it looks promising on paper, in practice, it feels like a collection of poorly fitted mechanics. After a few sessions, one thing becomes clear: the game is in a state of "deep raw-ness," where complexity is mistaken for depth and bugs are passed off as "hardcore" difficulty. 1. Coop That Divides The game’s cardinal sin is its implementation of cooperative play. In a proper ...

John_Linder☆

1 Apr @ 7:10pm

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Fighting Crustalok

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Pete now fights un-armed

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Sacred Mushroom Grove Gate

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Triarchy - Big Fat Playtest

27 Mar

This weekend brings a playtest with a focus on testing more of the bosses, enemies, weapons and armor in the game. This playtest will be open for approximately two days.

Already in the playtest? Invite your friends to play with you!

Wishlist & Follow Triarchy to keep up to date with future playtests and news for the game.

New Boss: Flubgrum, the Gribble Quartermaster

Gribbles have a diverse ancestry, while some are small they come in many types and sizes. There is talk of a gigantic, bloated Gribble champion - protecting their treasure from marauding pirate clans.

Can you take the treasure from its protector?

New Boss: Cragmaw & Marinox

Volcanic serpents are solitary by nature, their hunger too great to share. Yet within flooded calderas, where heat is constant and the stone remembers fire, a rare exception is made.

Marinox and Cragmaw have claimed such a place, not as rivals, but as brood-keepers. Here, the vents keep their young warm, and the enclosing rock shields them from the open sea.

They lure prey with the promise of wealth.

Patch Notes (highlights)

Added Bosses:
- Cragmaw & Marinox
- Sea Spinner
- Flubgrum, the Gribble Quartermaster
- Cephalomaw
Added Elites:
- Gruk
- Chef Gore'Don
Added Enemies:
- Ash Worm
- Vaellarmite
- Ventrapod
- Reefskimmer
- Crab Rider
- Barrel Bomber
- Skwob
15 New Armor pieces
4 New Weapons
3 New Shields
4 New Islands
Some secret areas made more awesome
Added Gribble fart VFX
Mudley's home is now more civilized, but players can make it awkward
Added greatshield run animations
Scrolls of Revelation are now used at the Research Desk
Significant optimization of install size (16GB -> 8GB)
Buildables now start facing a more intuitive direction

Menus

Lunar flux system now visually shows the odds for modifiers
Added volume setting for ambience
Added 'Attention' system so you can see what new items are available within crafting, building, and inventory
Journal is now gamepad navigable

Fixes

Stopped Mudley from being kidnapped off the pier by ambitious boat builds
Fixed collision on Pete's cannon crush attack
Fixed bad collision hole on Daggerpoint
Fixed duplicate research success sound
Fixed Air Slashes VFX hanging around forever if it missed
Fixed crit damage not showing correctly in some cases
Fixed summoned skeletons living on beyond your death
Your summons now only show on your HUD, not teammates'
Fixed AOE status cancelling incorrectly when inside multiple similar AOE's

Key Balance Changes

Healing now adds to threat
Shield bash now does physical damage
Poise damage now adds to threat

Join our Discord[discord.gg] and let us know what you'd like to see more of!

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Triarchy - The Big Fat Playtest is Imminent!

25 Mar

Triarchy has reached 50,000 wishlists! Thanks so much for your support, and we particularly appreciate all the great feedback you've been sending in.

The Big Fat Playtest - our 4th Steam Playtest is coming up soon, and we're planning something HUGE. How massive? This gargantuan:

Added Bosses:
- Cragmaw & Marinox
- Sea Spinner
- Flubgrum, the Gribble Quartermaster
- Cephalomaw
Added Enemies:
- Ash Worm
- Vaellarmite
- Ventrapod
- Reefskimmer
- Crab Rider
- Barrel Bomber
- Skwob
- Gruk
- Chef Gore'Don
15 New Armor pieces
4 New Weapons
3 New Shields
4 New Islands

We'll be letting an extra-large batch of you through to play in this playtest. Sign up with your friends now to guarantee your spot for the playtest on Triarchy's Steam store page.

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Triarchy Playtest

Is there any way to do the playtest? I have lot of time on my hand because i lost my job and the game interests me much. So if there is chance, please send me invite. (i applied)

Shrek

2 Mar @ 3:02am

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The game feels unrewarding

TL;DR: - Add cool looking clothes, badass armor. Drop the goofy Grounded style of armor sets. - Add serious and tense music, drop the Disney goofy music. - Actually reward exploration im done finding secret treasure chests with nails. - Add verticality to the game - Let me jump attack (not just drop attack) - Let me hold on to ledges 3h in and the coolest item i found was the pirate hat right at the start. The game doesnt reward exploration: every chest you find or boss you defeat only drops fiber, bronz...

flipx94

28 Mar @ 11:16am

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Thoughts about playtest anybody?

So for me, i did enjoy the game, its interesting. There are some problems with game crashes. i got about 5 of them. Had fun truoble getting on top of mountain to the chest, you should playtest that part little bit more and change it little bit. Game itself was fun, bosses were different,got the best armor and weapons already. Didnt enjoy that anchor weapon from boss. That was a slow and had problems. I will wait for the game to come out and for the price. Because Windrose already had put love spell on me p...

Shrek

23 Apr @ 2:20pm

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EOS

Why does the game use epic services on this platform? Remove: Engine/Binaries/Win64/EOSSDK-Win64-Shipping.dll Ty

Dark70

27 Mar @ 2:50pm

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