Avonturen

Welkom bij onze nieuwste en grootste toevoeging aan het spel, avonturen! Een avontuur is een live, turn-based multiplayer spel dat gespeeld wordt op een isometrische kaart. In tegenstelling tot fortgevechten zijn er meerdere spelvarianten en het is afwisselender dan eenmaal per ronde kunnen lopen en schieten. Groentjes en veteranen zullen het nieuwe "3D" perspectief kunnen waarderen, in plaats van een perspectief van bovenaf. Deze uitleg zal je helpen de basis van avonturen te begrijpen voordat je begint met de eerste strijd.

Voordat je aan de eerste strijd begint volgt hier een korte samenvatting: avonturen zijn verdeeld in een aantal rondes. Elke ronde heeft elke speler de kans om acties te gebruiken om te bewegen, genezen, schieten of tegenstanders te blokkeren. Acties zullen een of beide stamina punten kosten, waardoor het aantal acties per ronde wordt beperkt. Afhankelijk van de speelmodus vechten spelers om een overwinningsvoorwaarde te volbrengen binnen een rondelimiet.

Starten van een Avontuur

Er zijn twee manieren om een avontuur te starten, via de koppelingsfunctie of door toe te treden tot een zelf aangemaakt spel (deze functie is momenteel uitgeschakeld). Om de koppelingsfunctie te gebruiken klik je op "Join Queue", wanneer er genoeg geschikte tegenstanders zijn gevonden zal je automatisch in een lobby worden geplaatst en je zal daarbij een browsernotificatie te zien krijgen.

Bij het groeperen van spelers in lobbies wordt er gebruik gemaakt van een matchmaking ranking ("MMR"). Als er genoeg spelers in de wachtrij voor een spel zitten zullen spelers met ongelijke MMRs niet in dezelfde lobby worden geplaatst. Momenteel is de MMR gelijk aan het level van de speler, dit kan in de toekomst worden uitgebreid om ook persoonlijke statistieken in acht te nemen. Het winnen of verliezen van gevechten zal momenteel de MMR niet beïnvloeden.

De Lobby

Het lobby scherm toont beide teams en stelt je in staat om je voor te bereiden op de strijd. Als je geen fortwapen aan hebt zie je een 'geen wapen' indicator staan naast jouw gebruikersnaam. Tussen jouw gebruikersnaam en de indicator die aangeeft dat je gereed bent zie je 3 lege vierkanten onder de kolom "Acties". Door op een van deze vierkanten te klikken zal je een actie kunnen kiezen, als je jouw muis boven een actie houdt zal je daar verdere informatie over zien. Als je klaar bent om te beginnen klik je op de "Ik ben gereed" knop, als genoeg spelers gereed zijn zal er afgeteld worden tot de start van het gevecht.

Let op: Als een speler de lobby verlaat zal deze gesloten worden en zullen alle spelers naar het startscherm worden teruggestuurd, denk aan de andere spelers en verlaat de lobby niet zomaar.

De Kaart

Like fort battles, the map is divided into small squares called fields, which can hold one and only one player at a time. Although there are no fixed sectors limiting movement, there are a number of shaded areas across the map, with different meanings:

• Vacant areas are non-shaded; you can walk and shoot through them.
• Valid spawn locations for your team are shaded in green.
• Valid spawn locations for your opponents are shaded in grey.
• Obstacles block areas shaded in yellow; you cannot walk or shoot through them.

The bank; a neutral, uncaptured objective.

In game modes where territory or objectives can be captured, there are three additional types of areas:

• Uncaptured, neutral territories are shaded in white.
• Areas captured and held by the Dalton Gang are shaded in red.
• Areas captured and held by the Cook Gang are shaded in blue.

Internally, the x-axis spans southwest to northeast and the y-axis spans northwest to southeast.

De Basis

As previously mentioned, adventures are organised into a series of consecutive rounds. Each round lasts just under thirty seconds, giving players time to use as many abilities as their stamina points allow. When the round timer reaches zero, the actions of the round will be animated and then the next round begins.

Stamina & gebeurtenis volgorde

The abilities bar after the walk ability has been used, leaving one stamina point free.

Every player has two stamina points to use each round. They are reset at the beginning of each round, and cannot be accumulated for use in future rounds. Abilities may consume one or both available stamina points, allowing you to use up to two 1 point abilities or one 2 point ability. If you cancel an ability, you will receive back the associated stamina points.

Each team takes turns performing one ability each, in the order they were scheduled. For example, if a player from the Dalton Gang moves and then shoots before a player from the Cook Gang uses area heal, these abilities will be performed in this order: move, area heal, shoot. This pattern applies even if there are an uneven number of abilities used by each team, so remaining abilities of the team who scheduled more will all be performed in a row once the other team has finished their turns.

Acties, bewegen & schieten

Down the bottom of the adventures screen you will see two to five abilities, depending on what you selected in the lobby screen. This will always include walk, attack and three others of your choosing. Be careful of the direction you shoot in -- friendly fire is enabled!

	To walk, click this icon, then click a field on the map within the shaded area surrounding you. You will walk there on your next turn! [Stamina: 1]
	To attack, click this icon, then click an enemy on the map. You will shoot in their direction next turn! [Stamina: 1]
Optionele acties
	Heal: heal your target by 5% of their maximum health. [Stamina: 1; Cooldown: 3; Range: 5]
	Area Heal: heal all nearby units by 10% of their missing health. [Stamina: 2; Cooldown: 5; Range: 5]
	Quick Shot: fire two distinct shots with 75% damage. [Stamina: 1; Cooldown: 3]
	Inspire: buff the damage of all nearby friendly units by 5%. [Stamina: 1; Cooldown: 3; Range: 5]
	Barrel Roll: spawn five barrels in a direction of your choice, absorbing one shot and blocking movement. [Stamina: 1; Cooldown 3; Duration 1]
	Eagle Eye: your next shot will have 25% greater accuracy and 10% greater critical hit chance. [Stamina: 1; Cooldown: 3; Duration: 1]
	Snake Shot: fires one regular shot and bleeds 10% of your target's health for the next three rounds. [Stamina: 1; Cooldown: 3; Duration: 3]
	Snare: there is a 50% chance your target is rooted so they cannot move for the rest of the round. [Stamina: 1; Cooldown: 5; Duration: 1; Range: 3]

Kritieke schoten

There is a small chance that any shot will hit critically, inflicting 25% more damage than usual. The damage shown for a critical hit during the round animation is coloured yellow, in contrast to a regular hit shown in white.

Overwinningsvoorwaarde

The victory condition depends on the game mode. In some game modes, this requires knocking out all enemy units. In other game modes, such as domination, you respawn into the game upon being knocked out and must race to a different victory condition. If a game sees no activity for several rounds, it will be closed even if the victory condition has not been met.

Vaardigheden en bonussen

There are two primary factors that influence your adventure stats: your character level and your fort battle weapon. Unlike fort battles, two players with the same level and weapon will have the same effectiveness, even if they have differing health and skills.

Warning: Currently, due to a bug, this may not be true.

Karakterniveau

Your character level determines your base health. This type of health does not penalise your effectiveness in other areas.

Fortwapen

Only the damage, attributes and direct fort bonuses of fort weapons improves your adventure stats, not the skills or other bonuses.

Schade

Your weapon damage determines your base weapon damage.

Kracht

Strength provides the primary bonus to your bonus health. This type of health penalises your hit and dodge chances.

Beweeglijkheid

Mobility provides the primary bonus to your chance to dodge.

Handigheid

Dexterity provides the primary bonus to the damage you inflict.

Charisma

Charisma provides the primary bonus to your chance to inflict a critical hit.

Fortgevecht aanval

Fort battle attack, eg from the Golden Gun, provides the secondary bonuses to the chance to hit and damage you inflict.

Warning: Currently, due to a bug, your fort battle attack from all your items, sets and buffs are used, instead of just your fort weapon. Buffs are not consumed.

Fortgevecht verdediging

Fort battle defence, eg from the Golden Gun, provides the secondary bonus to your bonus health. This type of health penalises your hit and dodge chances, however a small bonus to the chance to dodge is provided in this instance to partially offset this.

Warning: Currently, due to a bug, your fort battle defence from all your items, sets and buffs are used, instead of just your fort weapon. Buffs are not consumed.

Afstand

The further you are from your target, the lower the chance you will successfully hit and the less damage you will inflict.

Beloningssysteem

As your team makes progress towards the game mode's victory condition, you reach reward stages. Reward stages mark progress intervals towards the victory condition, such as reaching 7, 14, 21, 28 or 35 of 35 points in domination mode. As its name suggests, reaching a higher stage provides a greater reward to the participants of the adventure. You are rewarded irrespective of whether your team wins or loses, even if the victory condition is not reached within the round limit or the game is closed due to inactivity.

Veteranenpunten

Veteran points are a new game currency created specifically for adventures. After an adventure concludes, you will receive a number of veteran points depending on which reward stage you reached. (If you quit the adventure early, you will not be rewarded.) This scales from 250 veteran points, for reaching the final reward stage, to none at all if no stage is reached.

Veteran points can be spent in the Union Pacific Shop. From the main tab, click the adventures/veteran points banner on the right hand side. If you see an empty frame where the banner should be, you need to add an exception for the domain *.the-west.net in your adblock whitelist.

Currently, your veteran points are only shown in the UP Shop.

Buit kisten

Loot chests are a new item created specifically for adventures. They contain a variety of buffs as well as a brand new item set. Loot chests are awarded for reaching the final reward stage of an adventure, plus they can also be purchased from the UP Shop using veteran points.

Spelvormen

Adventures offers a variety of game modes, but currently only one is enabled, domination.

Overheersing

In domination, players must capture three strategic points: the bank, the saloon and the oil well, then hold them as long as they can. Every building your team controls at the end of the round will provide your team with one point. The team that accumulates 35 points first is the winner, or if this is not achieved within the round limit, the team in front. You can see the scores and building control status in the top central bar.

Gebouwen overnemen

Control levels: -3, +2, +1

All buildings start in a neutral state. To capture a building, stand in the shaded area that surrounds it. The more of your team in the area, the faster the building is captured. Once your team has captured a building, you do not need to remain in the area; you will only lose control of a building if your enemy moves in to capture it in the same way.

The current control status is shown in the top central bar. The background colour of the large outer circle represents the current team that has captured the building, if any. If the building is in the process of being captured, an inner circle will be shown, representing the control level. There are two levels between neutral (±0) and captured (±3), one represented by a small circle (±1) and another by a medium-sized circle (±2). Specifically, each player in the area influences the level by one point. Upon turning neutral, however, the control level will not continue rising in your favour until the next round. This means that outnumbering your enemies by more than three people is always ineffective, and it always takes at least two turns to capture an enemy building from scratch.

Opnieuw levend worden

Unlike other game modes, if you die in domination mode, you will respawn three rounds later. However, during this cooldown time, your team will be at a disadvantage with one less fighter!

Overwinningsvoorwaarde

The team that reaches 35 domination points first is the winner. If both teams reach this amount at the same time, or neither team reaches this number within 35 rounds, the tie is broken in this order:

• The team with the highest number of domination points wins.
• The team that knocked out the most opponents wins.
• The team that inflicted the most damage wins.

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