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[DEVBLOG#174] Vanilla Psycasts Expanded - Psycaster paths
Added 2021-12-24 16:09:16 +0000 UTCHey guys! Hello ladies! This will be the last development blog of 2021!
I'd like to show you all the paths your Psycaster can level up in we have so far. There will be more - I have 20 paths in total planned!
I won't go into details of all the abilities, at least not yet, but the icons should tell you all you need to know!
Remember: Your psycaster doesn't need to be specialized in one path. You can pick abilities from all the paths, meaning you can have 20 level 1 abilities if your Psycaster is level 20!
EMPATH PATH
Empath psycasts are focused on enhancing the mood of others, one way or another.
Tags: Mood, Happiness, Family, Sympathy, Joy
SKIPMASTER PATH
Skipmaster psycasts are focused on using skipgates to change the course of battle or the life of the colony.
Tags: Skip, Teleport, Movement, Chaos, Portal
CONFLAGRATOR PATH
Conflagrator path is focused on manipulating fire, heat and energy to eliminate enemies.
Tags: Fire, Heat, Orange, Temperature, Destruction, Blaze, Burn
PROTECTOR PATH
Protector path is focused on providing aid and protection to your pawns, stopping them from dying and allowing you to escape from dangerous situations unscratched.
Tags: Armor, Health, Shield, Protection, Healing, Immunity
WARLORD PATH
Warlord path is focused on upgrading the warfare capabilities of the Psycaster and psycaster alone - as all the Warlord psycasts are to an extent self-cast.
Tags: Pain, Damage, Speed, Combat, Melee, Ranged, Kill
CHRONOPATH PATH
Chronopath path is focused on manipulating time, making things older, completing growth of plants, or de-aging your pawns.
Tags: Time, Clock, Seasons, Age
ARCHOTECHIST PATH
Archotechist path is a special path locked only for Empire-based psycasters. It allows spreading insanity, using psychic shock to down any wrong-doers, and to offload neural heat to others, as well as use neural heat in combat.
Tags: Insanity, Shock, Berserk, Neural Heat, Overwhelming, Neuroquake
NECROPATH PATH
Necropath is a path focused on distributing fear and death, whilst also gaining from death and corpses. You can resurrect fallen allies, prohibit them from dying and raise hordes of skeletons to fight for your cause.
Tags: Death, Fear, Sickness, Vampirism, Resurrection, Corpse
STATICLORD PATH
Staticlord is a path focused on blasting enemies with electricity, disabling electronics and controlling the storm itself.
Tags: Power, Storm, Electricity, Static, Lightning, Blast
ARCHON PATH
Archon path is the path of a psychic leader, providing various buffs to the entire colony, but also ruling with an iron fist. It’s also a path that allows you to drain enemy psycasters and gain Psycast levels this way.
Tags: King, Ruler, Buff, Group, Link, Light, Pain
FROSTSHAPER PATH
Frostshaper is a path about manipulating the elements, particularly the cold, to your advantage. Not only you get to use the cold to freeze and slow enemies, frostshapers also gain access to many utility psycasts that either construct shelters out of ice blocks, or create cooling crystals that can be used both as a temporary fridge, and a trap.
Tags: Cold, Blizzard, Ice, Crystal, Slow, Hypothermia
WILDSPEAKER PATH
Wildspeaker path is a special path locked only for Tribal-based psycasters. It’s all about controlling nature and animals for defense and survival.
Tags: Nature, Animal, Trees, Crops, Sprout, Bushes, Brambles
HARMONIST PATH
Harmonists are all about manipulating the balance of the universe. Their abilities are never a clear benefit or a drawback, and they always come with a price one way or another.
Tags: Balance, Transmutation, Harmony, Chaos, Order, Control
TECHNOMANCER PATH
Technomancers are masters of technology, knowledge and research, capable of using psychic energy to aid in concept exploration, but also to breathe life into small-scale constructs that can help and defend them.
Tags: Technology, Construct, Research, Knowledge
Special: These are another 4 paths planned. I just didn't draft abilities for them yet:
ANIMAT PATH
ARTIFICER PATH
GAUWALKER PATH
INSECTORATOR PATH
Artworks created by wombo.art.
Comments
I literally just subscribed just to see this post. This looks amazing, I can't wait. It probably was a bad idea to subscribe because I'm now hyped beyond normal levels.
ExBeNN
2022-03-17 00:10:38 +0000 UTCCombining with other features said in the diaries, this is going to make the psycast system a very lively part of the game. Shame on Tynan for being unable to make it in the base Royalty.
Shavius G
2022-03-12 00:11:02 +0000 UTCYeeeeeeeeeeeeeees, great to hear that!
Shavius G
2022-03-12 00:08:08 +0000 UTCThis is literally one of the reasons we’re doing this mod in the first place. The entirety of the mod will run on our ability framework, and as you might now from rim effect, enemies use them!
Oskar Potocki
2022-03-11 23:38:05 +0000 UTCAs some paths of psycast are pure combat oriented or self-buffing, could you make the npc also uses some of the psycast? I think this would be an important feature for a vanilla-expanded experience.
Shavius G
2022-03-11 21:52:23 +0000 UTCusing AI generated art is a very cool idea to portray the otherworldly qualities of psycasts!
jdp4him
2022-02-01 03:45:33 +0000 UTCwhy not? :p
Yusuf Tagari
2022-01-15 15:29:21 +0000 UTCBecause it is!
Oskar Potocki
2022-01-13 15:45:01 +0000 UTCThe art looks AI-generated.
FeralFerret
2022-01-13 15:21:16 +0000 UTCWe will try to get a system in place that converts existing psycasters into our ones
Oskar Potocki
2022-01-09 11:34:13 +0000 UTCWhat will happen when we install the mod to an existing save where we have vanilla royalty psycasts?
Mielga
2022-01-09 11:05:36 +0000 UTCEltex soup when? /s
2022-01-03 22:13:47 +0000 UTCI… I don’t think so. Why would Eltex be consumable?
Oskar Potocki
2022-01-03 21:44:43 +0000 UTCwill there be functionality and compatibility with other modules like cooking? e.g. consumable eltex?
Yusuf Tagari
2022-01-03 20:44:08 +0000 UTCWow Oskar. You have really blown me away with this one! Been silently, patiently, desperately waiting for years for you and your team to tackle a "magic" system like this! So happy to see it happening. I also absolutely love the art! It is a departure from your usual Vanilla style, but I actually really think it is very cool for this application. Could you share any details of how it was made? I am not super familiar with AI art but I would like to learn more. Thanks for all your hard work!
2022-01-03 01:02:06 +0000 UTCYes! That’s the plan!
Oskar Potocki
2022-01-01 16:03:13 +0000 UTCthe art for these is very surreal and eye catching, reminds me of disco elysium. a lot you can discuss seeing in it. will you have alternate art / names for the gauwalker path in the anima theme mod?
Natalie James
2022-01-01 15:27:31 +0000 UTCWere the backgrounds developed with wombo? They look amazing!
Ides Hatred
2021-12-28 00:29:36 +0000 UTCWhile the menu backdrops don't fit the vanilla style whatsoever, this looks pretty neat. Glad you were able to overcome your personal distaste royalty enough to give psycasting appropriate attention.
FeralFerret
2021-12-27 15:18:29 +0000 UTClove this art so much
SwoogyBoogy
2021-12-25 09:55:25 +0000 UTCThose artworks look awesome, and they really fit for what their subject. But there’s just something about them… it’s uncanny, and it freaks me out, I can’t quite tell what it is, but simultaneously, something seems… familiar… it’s awesome!
mrlee123456
2021-12-24 23:33:26 +0000 UTCMany of them share icons with Ancients super powers, I imagine they are gonna be similar?
Félix Dubois
2021-12-24 20:06:51 +0000 UTCThe scope of psycasts covered here is huge! Any plans on having psycasters appear in other factions besides { Empire / Tribal } such as a pirate Warlord psycaster or outlander Staticlord?
Ennek
2021-12-24 18:41:55 +0000 UTCGreat ideas. Rimworld is lucky to have your creative energies
2021-12-24 18:21:08 +0000 UTCAre you sure about the "CHRONOPATH PATH" naming? Don't get me wrong, I get the idea, but the final result looks and reads kind of weird.
ZenoLord
2021-12-24 18:16:02 +0000 UTCSuper hyped for the mod. Just a suggestion/concern. I feel like reviving a pawn needs to be a super exclusive or costly feature. I hope that whatever psycasts allow revive will have a crazy opportunity cost attach to it. Like sacrificing another pawn or multiple prisoners
Never Sink
2021-12-24 17:48:01 +0000 UTCNecropath ftw! Two questions btw, just curious feel free to ignore. Will the skeletons be controllable like pawns, and are they on a timer before dying or disappearing? Cool either way just curious as a necromancer fanatic.
Lennybolt7
2021-12-24 17:44:34 +0000 UTCDamn.. I'm in shock. I didn't think I could possibly want another mod more than I did Ancients, but this is seriously one of the coolest things I have seen in my opinion. I can NOT WAIT.
Michael Fisher
2021-12-24 17:38:54 +0000 UTClooks great, i love the really abstract artwork
jacob flynn
2021-12-24 16:42:07 +0000 UTCGood work! Speaking of drawbacks of some abilities: Any skills that are going to improve abilities? Like lowering costs for abilities, lowering chance of bad outcome etc.
2021-12-24 16:40:44 +0000 UTCThe art IS ai generated right? Looking at the empath artwork I just feel that there's no way a sober human drew this
Kyle Muir
2021-12-24 16:38:27 +0000 UTCAmazing artwork! Like, holy cow. Can I get all of these for phone wallpapers?
Jeffrey Hopple
2021-12-24 16:34:50 +0000 UTCPure baddassery.
Lyn the Cookie
2021-12-24 16:21:51 +0000 UTCAmazed as usual. Looking like an awesome addition / revamp.
2021-12-24 16:15:22 +0000 UTCNice proc generated art
Aiuno
2021-12-24 16:14:24 +0000 UTCNooooooiiiice
Noisy Koi
2021-12-24 16:14:08 +0000 UTC
