Thought it would be a good idea to start a thread containing all the in-progress progression and WIP content I post to Discord. As the forums are a little more grounded and persistent compared to an endless scrolling list of short-form content; it might make for a better place to discuss ideas and the development of the game's parts, art style, scope etc as it happens. When things are resolved enough I'll post em as their own threads as usual :)
I'll kick things off with the first look of...
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Beyond the Sun
Up to now, every star in KSA's sky has been a dot on the skybox. Pretty, but totally out of reach. That changes now with two new starting systems: Solar System + Interstellar and Earth Only + Interstellar.
Both add three neighbouring star systems, placed where they really are:
Star Distance What's there
Alpha Centauri A 4.344 ly Alpha Centauri B, Proxima Centauri, and Proxima b and d
Barnard's Star...
The story director is a survival-mode system that quietly tilts a round toward staying fun. It watches every living player, scores how much pressure they are under, and reacts in two directions: a player in real trouble gets a hidden helping hand (the game rolls slightly in their favor), and a player who has gone quiet and settled in gets a small surprise delivered to their doorstep. It only exists in rounds whose mode data enables it, PvP modes will never use it, and nothing about it is...
Honors are superlative awards handed out on the end-of-round board. Each one names the player who topped (or bottomed) a stat tracked over the round, in the style of "APEX PREDATOR: most zombies killed". They appear as colored chips in the honors panel of the end-of-round screen (hovering a chip shows what it was awarded for) and in the HONORS table of the Discord round-end post.
How honors are drawn
Up to 6 honors show per round, a little more on a big round.
The pool draws in tiers...