Fast-paced strategy with an (Oliver) Twist. Bribe, blackmail, and assassinate your opposition. · By
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Thanks for checking out First Access for Antihero. While we hope you have fun and a great experience, please let us know what you think could be done better, or what could use some tweaking to improve the experience. We're open to any and all feedback from every skill level. Thanks for all of the support.
Sadly our official Linux plans are "probably not" (unless you count Android -- we'll be launching iOS and Android versions later next year). But desktop Linux is tricky because our framework (Adobe AIR) is not Linux friendly. A Linux version would have to be a rewrite in e.g. Unity - which, never say never, but is unlikely.
Actually rather than restart the tutorial from the beginning(it would be nice if you could save it, or there was an autosave) I just jumped into a skirmish game and found that with the basics I was pretty much able to pick the rest of it up on my own. I still lost to the AI, but by only one point, which isn't so bad, I guess.
Re Linux: Ah, that's a shame. There are ways to get AIR to run under wine under Linux, though it looks like the distributed version of Antihero doesn't work with it. I think it requires distribution in the form of an "AIR package": http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/build/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7fcb.html
Having played the tutorial, a skirmish game against the AI, and a few turns of multiplayer,I have a couple of thoughts and questions:
1) Zooming in and out of the map should be in the tutorial. I didn't know I could until I discovered it by accident.
2) Cursor placement needs fine tuning. When placing it over a building it sometimes brings up the option to scout the square next to it.
3) Charity is overpowered and makes some victory points too easy to get. Perhaps allow it only before any other actions and have it end the turn.
4) Are games with more than two players in the works?
5) LIkewise, how about a perk for each playable Master Thief?
That's not a bug (though the game doesn't do a good job explaining this) - it's meant to discourage "urchin hoarding" (also "thug hoarding") where you all of a sudden swamp the board with characters your opponent wasn't able to see coming and therefore couldn't counter. (Originally, the game didn't work this way, but after a bunch of internal play testing we changed the rule because that strategy was no fun.)
Is there any way to rotate the map? I ask, because the money bag that's displayed above buildings can be completely obscured by minions (I clicked on the building to see if it could be burgled, and it could, despite me not being able to see the money bag icon).
Question: what determines how far one's Master Thief can move with a single AP when scouting?
Narrative question - do I get to name myself, or am I always "You"
Also, online account nicknames must start with a capital letter?
"There was a problem talking to the Antihero servers. Please check your Internet connection or try again in a few minutes. IOErrorEvent errorID=2032 type="ioError" text="Error #2032""
Is there a way to tell if my opponent is doing actions? On the first turn it was unclear if there's someone there. (Ah they just finished their turn)
It seems that burgling some buildings gives me lanterns... is there a way for me to know which is which?
"Waiting for <Nickname>" draws in front of the description for "Scout"
For PC builds, I dumbly assumed that I could use the mouse (without click-dragging) to pan the screen around. Now that I know about arrows/click+drag I can work around it, but my first assumption was wrong.
(Hey there!)
The IOErrorEvent you saw was from a web request timeout - are you on a flaky wifi or something? Maybe the server hiccuped. I think in general the game needs to be a little less sensitive to that stuff, and just retry (the timeout is stupidly low).
This computer isn't even on wifi, it's wired. It didn't happen when I retried, though. So I'm good.
Ah! You're not the first to be confused here. So - the multiplayer is entirely Words With Friends-style asynchronous -- you get your opponent's entire turn once they hit submit, but not their individual moves as they come in. (You can quit the game in the middle of a match and come back.) This probably needs a popup explaining it the first time. There's an experimental synchronous mode that I've disabled in this build because it's buggy, and because I'm not convinced it would be healthy for the game (since it would require a bigger player pool), but we're still making up our minds about that...
Sounds good. It would still be nice if it had a status for the other player: {offline, active, idle} but I'm sure it's not a top priority.
Issue with submitting turn: I exited after submitting (assuming it would finish appropriately) so that I could switch to another game, but when I was at the menu it said it was still my turn. I went back in and it had undo everything I had done. Including letting me burgle different places. This seems pretty broken / OP if someone wanted to abuse it.
Edit1: Ah - it literally displays a submitting message when it does that. That said, you probably will need to submit after every single player action otherwise they will be able to guarantee that they explore the specific building they want on the first try every time.
Edit2: It seems to reconstruct the turn if I haven't pressed submit. So maybe the bug is limited to post-submit button during the end of turn update before it actually submits? The only way I see this happening is if you are saving the individual turn actions locally deleting that local save file on submit-button and then sending the local save to the server after the post-turn-update. If this is the case, someone will find and delete that local save file to undo turn actions. Safest to submit every single action, before the action is revealed to a player, just like Fire Emblem.
If I'm sitting on the Online screen, it would be nice if a sound played when an active VS game changes from Waiting to Play. I'm tabbed out while all the matches are waiting, and I know from previous async multiplayer games I don't like having too many games going at once. So I'd rather just get notified when a game is ready.
Yea - from here.
http://i.imgur.com/b2kP3Ma.jpg
Or to be honest, any time the game is open that the player is not already in a different online game. e.g. skirmishing while waiting for the opponent to make their move.
Minor inconsistency: the description of the Saboteur is not consistent across all instances:
General notation comments:
