Boot Hill Bounties Update 03.07.2018 Cheat Engine
Rubie Mccloughan
The Immovable Force, Unstoppable Object expansion sees the arrival of the 5th and 6th faction vying for control of Gomorra as they set up in force. One of those outfits, the 108 Righteous Bandits, include among their numbers practitioners of the martial art of Kung-Fu, which is our most radical endeavour to re-imagine the mechanic and make it work in a flavorful way that is nevertheless impactful in your games to see a significant amount of play.
A good sample of this is Many Speak As One. While nominally it is a normal spirit that attaches to a shaman, its effect is tied to a specific location each turn, providing a way for shamans to take control of the town with fewer dudes on hand.
Shamans rely on guidance rather than direct manipulation, so their out-of-play effects focus on increasing their throughput. This in combination with the first Eagle Wardens outfit can allow the shaman player to quickly find what they need each turn.
We have only barely begun to scratch the surface of what Spirits can do, and The Light Shineth and further expansions will heavily push Spirits to catch up with the other skills, providing even more awesome options to solidify your control of Gomorra.
In our first spellcasting design diary, we delved into the seedy world of Hucksters and explained the kind of disruptive tricks they employ to gain the advantage in Doomtown: Reloaded. In the process, we also explained our approach to clearly differentiating one skill from the other by focusing on three distinct areas of gameplay. If you missed it or just want to refresh your memory, you should go ahead and read the first design diary now.
Now that Faith and Fear is right around the corner, the news might have started arriving that the Blessed are starting to arrive in town, bringing their own style of support into the chaotic life of Gomorra. It is high time we explored what this will mean for you as a player.
We decided that the design guideline for Miracles will exemplify the more supportive areas of spellcasting: the buffing, healing, and divine assistance that feels thematically appropriate for their type. The Blessed will be evangelists, medics, and a generally amazing way to keep your gang going.
Miracles tend to involve moments of divination and inspiration and as such they tend to bring you exactly what you need when you need it. A Blessed will tend to pull out little Miracles at opportune moments to turn the tide.
Holy Roller is the first Miracle which can provide an amazing advantage to a super-shooter. Give it to a good fighting Blessed and not only do you get some extra strength, but it allows you to fight solo without fearing ties or an opportunistic Taking Ya With Me. Not only that, but it can also serve as buffer to avoid cheating, by allowing you to go for a slightly lower hand rank and still have a chance to turn the table in the next shootout round.
Furthermore, due to their proximity to Law Dogs and generally being on the side of good, Miracles tend to have synergistic effects with hunting wanted dudes and abominations. So we have only barely scratched the surface of divine power as Faith and Fear spreads all over town.
One of the features of Doomtown: Reloaded is the significant strength of action cards to change the outcome of a shootout. With the release of three new Saddlebags and the upcoming Pine Box, Faith and Fear, bringing more great shootout actions, we thought it might be a good time to explain why we first looked at the role and effectiveness of shootout cards.
Free and unrestricted action cards that are Noon plays tend to have the smallest opportunity costs since you can get rid of them immediately to make more space in your play hand. Reserves is a classic example; for a simple Noon play, you gain 1 ghost rock. You can always play it, and it is always useful.
The first case is the easiest; one merely improves the power of an action card until it actually feels worth holding on to, even for use in a shootout two turns later. The latter option can be achieved either by loosening the restrictions, or by widening the situations where a card will be useful, thus making it possible and worthy to play out of your hand earlier.
Say your opponent sends their influence-heavy weakling to your important deed. You send a shooter to protect it. Unexpectedly, the weakling calls you out. You just know a Pistol Whip is incoming, so you Unprepared the opposing dude first, making them easy pickings. Even simply booting an opposing dude in the town square to prevent further movement can be useful. Unprepared has arguably just surpassed its opportunity cost.
Similarly in Election Day Slaughter, we have added Tail Between Yer Legs, which you can use as a simple bullet reduction to bypass cards such as Hiding in Shadows, but also in more defensive scenarios, where you want to see what your opponent will commit to the fight before you do. This makes it an excellent choice for town square campers of all kinds.
For hexes, we decided that their design guideline will exemplify the seedier aspects of spellcasting. Hucksters, at least in Doomtown, would be mostly tricksters, manipulators, and disruptors. Thus hexes would need to display those attributes.
Of the cards available in the core set, Blood Curse and Soul Blast perfectly exemplify these effects. The former can hit your opponent in both bullets or influence, while the latter has the potential to either make them useless at home or get rid of them forever.
Ace in the Hole will cheat a card from your play hand into your draw hand while Raising Hell will cheat an abomination from your boot hill (or even your play hand) into play. Both effects strongly illustrate how hucksters manipulate the very essence of the game to suit their purposes.
The design of the P-996 LAZER is mainly derived from the F-16C Fighting Falcon, evidenced by the entire fuselage, from the nose to the rear, with the two rear downward vertical tail fins, cockpit (with side-mounted control stick), landing gears (main and nose) and wings. The air intake is also derived from the aforementioned aircraft, albeit split into two separate intakes, similar to a Eurofighter Typhoon. Its forward swinging canopy (with zig zag canopy detonation cord), twin vertical stabilizers and horizontal stabilizers are derived from the Lockheed Martin F-35 and X-35. Unlike the F-16, which has only one cannon mounted on the port side, the P-996 LAZER has dual cannons on each side, similar to fighter jets such as the F-20 Tigershark. The Lazer is depicted as carrier-capable, which could possibly be a homage to the Vought model 1600, the carrier-capable version of the F-16.
The aircraft assumes a very aerodynamic design, where the frontal section consists of a sharp nose with an air data probe on the end, a long glass canopy that swings forward, and dual intakes below, while the lower area has a single hatch for the nose landing undercarriage. The middle section consists of large triangular-shaped wings with the corresponding ailerons on the rear, air brake flaps ahead of the ailerons, and large mounting pylons below and on the tips of the wings, while the lower area has dual hatches for the main landing undercarriage and what looks like an additional mounting pylon in the center, together with two external fuel tanks on the innermost wing pylons. The rear/tail area has triangular-shaped stabilators, large vertical stabilizers with a slightly angled position, and a single black jet turbine, while the lower area has small fins.
The interior of the aircraft has a rather compact flight instrument panel, using various dials and gauges around the lower area, a large console with numerous switches, and two control sticks on each side of the cockpit, which the character uses when piloting the aircraft. In the enhanced version, the aircraft uses a dedicated dial set, which is a derivative of the one used in helicopters such as the Maverick, the Police Maverick and the Annihilator, but adds green animated display screens around, the main dials in the center, and two "Gear Up/Down" displays on the right side.
The aircraft is only available in a light gray color with a subtle camouflage paint, similar to the two-tone ghost gray scheme worn by most naval fighters. It also bears safety warnings near the cockpit canopy and a registration code on the tips of the vertical stabilizers, including a larger 996 number. It uses a set of industrial wheels similar to the ones from trucks such as the Benson, the Mule and the Phantom.
In terms of armament, the P-996 is equipped with dual cannons on each side of the canopy, and six radar-guided missiles on both wings appearing to be modeled after the AIM-120 AMRAAM, a common air-to-air missile fitted on several fighter jets, including those that inspired the Lazer (although it uses smaller rockets derived from the Rocket Launcher).
Being a fighter jet, the P-996 is an extremely fast aircraft with a top speed of 170 knots / 316 km/h while flying above 250 meters / 820 feet MSL and with the third highest acceleration (after the LF-22 Starling and the Besra). In addition to that, it has excellent maneuverability, and is extremely responsive and able to quickly pitch and roll; however, rudder handling is poor, as it takes 37.5 seconds to perform a horizontal loop by only yawing. Add to that a short take-off and landing distance and the P-996 is an ideal aircraft for traveling around San Andreas quickly and efficiently with little threat from opposing players, it also does not stall out during a vertical climb, whereas other aircraft will.
However, the P-996 can be lethal to the inexperienced. The fighter jet is sensitive to minor inputs to the ailerons and is very fragile, as the jet can be quickly disabled using a Minigun or a Heavy Sniper. The jet is very nose-heavy, and if the engines are not on the plane will quickly fall out of the sky, as the jet does not glide particularly well. It also frequently "wobbles" in flight due to turbulence and its small size, and thus requires minute corrections to its flight. On land, sharp turns can easily lean the jet to a side due to the narrow undercarriage setup, thus increasing the risk of the jet colliding with small obstacles and damaging it in the process.
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