When venturing across the desert plains or through long-abandoned temples in search of forgotten artifacts, you may sometimes find yourself in tough situations - and tough situations often require tough choices to be made. We call these situations, Events. In this devlog, we’re going to dive into Events, and expand on how your characters abilities might influence the outcomes…

The Old Sewer

Here we’ve discovered an old sewer, and the group has decided to dig deeper after hearing some shouting and gunfire. When we reached the bottom, this is what we found; a gruesome display of soldiers’ bodies among strange plantlife. When presented with the choice of examining the soldiers’ corpses, searching the side corridors, or leaving the scene, we decided to search the side corridors…
Well then, it turns out the plants were carnivorous and deadly to humans! Fortunately, we made it out safely and apparently we were rewarded with some loot for our troubles.

Lone Temple

The Lone Temple Event is a more intricately designed Encounter, which has many different outcomes depending on the path you choose to take.
Let's enter!
Notice, we have an option to use a Raw Strength Perk to try and “Stop the stone” - that seems a bit risky so instead we’ll just jump to the next fork...
After escaping the boulder trap, we make our way to the center of the Temple, where we are able to find some items to take with us before moving on...
Now, let’s go back to the start of this event and see how it could have played out differently. This time, we’ll use our Language Perk to “Read inscription” rather than simply entering the Temple...


This action enabled us to bypass the boulder trap and find the throne room more quickly. However…
We run into some German Officers this time, and are forced to engage in a shootout!

Events Wrap-up

What would have happened differently if we had investigated the front of the temple? What if we had failed to dodge the boulder trap, or had chosen to back up? All of these considerations come together to generate a new, adventurous narrative each time you replay a scenario in Pathway.

• Often times, your Event choices will have a ‘chance of success or failure’ being calculated in the background, so keep that in mind when making your decisions.
• Your Event choices may play a brief animation sequence in the left panel of the Event window. This helps immerse you into the action!
• There are over 300 Events in Pathway (so far), and there are also many different types of events: Combat, Trading, Resting, Recruiting, Encounters… which sometimes result in Experience Gain or Loot (or both).

That’s all for now - until next time, adventurers!

[ 2018-09-12 15:00:32 CET ] [ Original post ]