“We talked at one point about doing older actors and the de-aging them digitally,” “Midnight Mass” creator Mike Flanagan told TheWrap. "The Coon is a Ninja Maninal, so that one's pretty hard.” Schroeder says, “He's not super enthusiastic about having another Ninja Manimal on the team."įor all of our coverage for South Park: The Fractured But Whole, click the banner below.‘Midnight Mass’ Ending Explained by Creator Mike Flanagan
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Ideally, the malleability of the class system should let players have more control over how to play the game, and maybe even allow you to build your way up to Cartman’s class. Cartman is always trying out different names on you, nearly all of them themed around butts or farts, but the public learns to identify you as the Farting Vigilante. You also earn a name beyond simply the new kid, and it changes throughout the course of the game. We didn’t learn more about it, but the character sheet also tracks your detective level. Schroeder didn’t go into too much detail about the economic level, but referenced the season 13 Margaritaville episode of the show, which examined the complicated process of attempting to save money. There is also an economic level on the character sheet that has to do with how much money is in your pocket, and how much you have in savings. Some of those aspects you can declare, but others, like holy alignment, are based on how you play the game and will affect dialogue and cutscenes, though it doesn’t have major bearing on the overall direction of the story. The sheet also details your character’s custom aspects like race, gender, religion, as well as who your arch enemy is, what your kryptonite is, and your power source, which is always your butt. You have stats like Spunk (your magic and special abilities), Brawn (your physical strength), Dexterity (aiming and accuracy), Speed (how much you can move in the tactical grid, and where you place in the turn order), and Fortitude (defense). It functions as a progress tracker, with your missions and side-quests showing up on one side, and your character definitions on the other. You can’t edit their abilities, but you do get a chance to rearrange the party at the start of every fight if there are certain abilities you need to take advantage of in a particular fight.Īs part of your character’s development, you also have a character sheet you are filling out through the course of the game. You can even choose to shift your class make-up to complement your buddies, who’s abilities are set in stone when they join your party. "As your understanding of the tactics games becomes more sophisticated, the classes give you a different range of tactical choices you could be making," Schroeder says. The whole idea of shuffling class abilities is to make your character more malleable and customizable.
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We don’t know the full list yet, but we know Elementalist and Mystic classes will appear, as well as psychic and healing classes. Other classes will open up later in the game, as well as the option to mix and match between more than just two classes. "You can say, ‘I’m going to take two Brutalist powers, a Speedster power, and the Speedster Ultimate and make a character mixed toward that direction.” Schroeder offers as an example of how to mix and match abilities. So it's a little bit of a choice you need to hold on to."Īfter you’ve picked your class and made your way through the game’s first narrative day, Cartman gives you the option to start multi-classing. "It's a little more of a measured choice than that,” senior producer Jason Schroeder says, “Cartman is your dungeon master, or your game master, so you kind of need to go to him to change it. You likely won’t be changing constantly, however. This means you are never locked into a class and can always change. You level up your base stats as you progress through the game, like power and health, but you are not upgrading your abilities, or pouring points into stats related to a specific class. You can actually try each class out before making your final decision, which is indicative of how classes play out for the rest of the game. After you make your choice, Cartman explains your backstory and you get a quick tutorial on the abilities of your chosen class. The Brutalist is the strong class, the Blaster is the ranged class, and the Speedster is the fast class. Each of those classes has four abilities. What class you choose and how it affects your player, however, is much different from South Park: The Stick of Truth.Īt the game’s opening, after you’ve customized your character, you choose between three classes: Brutalist, Blaster, and Speedster. You will still find many elements of fantasy role-playing games in its structure, and one of those elements are classes. South Park: The Fractured But Whole may be a game about super heroes, but it’s still an RPG.