I know the game plan was to wait till Oblivaeon shipped before the content is added to the video game but have there been any updates now that we know it should be shipping in June? Haven’t been able to tune into the stream in a while and wasn’t sure if things have changed
The plan is the same they’ve said for a while. Mini Pack 4 will be come around the time OblivAeon ships. Then Void Guard is next once Handelabra has that ready. OblivAeon will be last.
Here is all information you need: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/handelabra/sentinels-of-the-multiverse-the-video-game-season/posts/2167702
ah that’s the info I was looking for. Was kinda surprised they are not further along on the Oblivaeon part but maybe they were waiting for play testing to wrap up?
Well, to get there, they've had to code 11 hero decks, some of whom have rules implications that need confirmation. Then they've gor 6 environments, even though they've been working on the Celestial Tribunal for a while. And then they've got 4 villain decks.
There are 22 hero cards to code up, and then to figure out how the heck they work with Completionist Guise and the Celestial Tribunal.
Then you've got OblivAeon himself and his three sides (Somewhat of a brand new mechanic needed), plue the Scions (also a new rule) and then you've got the fact that two environments have to be in play at once (which asks all sorts of questions) and rewrite a not insignificant part of the engine to accomodate all the rules for OblivAeon. It's a tough job and you can't start on it before playtesting finishes as quite a lot changed even late on in the playtesting. The fact that they're as far along as they are is pretty impressive from my view.
Not disagreeing with you. Just wasn’t sure what they had from stuff that was done based off what had been ready to go before with downtime since last expansion.
Handelabra has said that they have been working on the remainder of the content for Sentinels. They have even mentioned during a live stream that Benchmark and Stuntman may be ready to show soon but with no definitive date. But as pwatson mentioned, there is a lot of content that needs to be coded in. As a non-programmer, I can only guess that the order from pwatson makes the most sense of how Handelabra will handle the content.
As a side note, we do know Handelabra will be showing off Stuntman and Benchmark with Christoper on Sentinels Live tomorrow night.
this is good to know. what time is sentinels live tomorrow night? is it still 7 pm eastern?
Yes 7PM Eastern
I know Stuntman, Benchmark, and the Void Guard heroes were finalized/at the printers for a while now, so Handelabra has had plenty of time to get them put together. So, having them ready for when everyone starts having them in their hands makes a lot of sense.
As for the OblivAeon expansion, that didn't hit the printers until December or so, so they probably didn't get finalized content until that point. Even if they had nothing else to work on between now and then, I'd be frankly surprised if OblivAeon was done for the video game by the July timetable.
Not to mention Bottom of the 9th and One Deck Dungeon, which gave them something to work on while waiting for OblivAeon...like the rest of us. :)
Yeah, none of the mini-expansion stuff except for Representative of Earth (which Handelabra's has had a long time to work on) and In Medias Res are tremendously complicated. The only things delaying those should be >G's embargo date and their other work on One Deck Dungeon etc.
OblivAeon, on the other hand, is tremendously complicated. Even more so than Vengeance, which took them a long time to get working. And it's been finalized in print much more recently. So I'd be happy to see it in 2018. Hopefully we'll get the mini-expansion hero variants to tide us over until then.
We only have what we know and that is they’ve said on livestreams they’ve broken ground on OblivAeon and they have started work on it in their Alpha testing from the update posted above. As to how difficult or how long all of it will take is just speculation at this point. Handelabra will release the remaining content when they feel it’s ready
As promised, they showed off both Benchmark and Stuntman in the stream this week, and it was amazing and I am very hyped to play those excellent guys :D
(Also Ansel is distractingly pretty. Just saying)
Yeah, I caught some of the stream and they both looked very interesting- definitely looking forward to playing with them.
I was worried about how fast Benchmark could get his gear out, but the stream put those fears to rest. He's my favorite out of all the OblivAeon nemesis hero decks we've seen so far. Kind of wish I got a better look at his cards, though. The streams are either too low a quality to pick up details, or the cards go by too fast to really see much.
He's been one of my favorite decks to play overall; I've gotten a number of plays in through the digital beta, and he's an awesome take on the 'armored hero/cyborg' archetype.
„Games for countries other than the US, Canada, and Australia are on their way to Spiral Galaxy in the UK, with an estimated arrival of mid-July.“
Source: The latest Oblivaeon update https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gtgames/sentinels-of-the-multiverse-oblivaeon/posts/2188182
„Mini-Pack 4 DLC will be released no earlier than the start of the OblivAeon tabletop shipping process.“
Source: One of the latest Handelabra updates https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/handelabra/sentinels-of-the-multiverse-the-video-game-season/posts/2167702
If there won‘t be any more delays, does it mean we will see Benchmark, Stuntman and the Tribunal mid/end of July?
Three words of importance here :
"No earlier", meaning it could be as soon as the shipping process but it could be at the end of 2032.
Handelabra is pretty serious, so I'm pretty sure it will be as soon as possible, but if there is still bugs or interection problems with the card, they will wait until problems are solved to release it.
"If" ... considering it took so far a tad longer than expected ... well ... I can see other delay happening ... did anyone think about feeding the kraken ?