Travian 4: New Hero System

Hey Guys,

Well I know I promised a blog post about the new Natarian Independent Villages in the next version but when I saw the latest developer post about the new hero system I decided to drop that idea because this is way, way cooler. What you'll immediately notice from my writing today is that it's no where near as critical as normal on the upcoming changes, because this is one I really like so I've kept the negativity at the minimum. Travian have redesigned the hero system from scratch, it's almost as though the original never existed and they've come up with a very new concept for them (although there are similarities you'll notice). For example a hero is no longer trained, it starts the game when you do and is not tied to a unit. Anyway here we go:

Customisable Heroes

Like what you see? Well what you are looking at above is one of the many options for what you can make your hero look like, yep you heard me right, from Travian 4 heroes will come with a number of customisation options. Although currently they are limited and you only have a base choice of a tall, muscular male the options that cane be customised are:

• Head Shape
• Hairstyle
• Ears 
• Eyes
• Nose
• Beard 
• Mouth

With these customisable options for your hero, players will be able to show their individuality through their heroes or, if they prefer, create a group of identical heroes with their friends or alliance members to show how united they are. I think this part of the change is very nice although might just prove a distraction at the beginning and while it isn't the most needed game play change it is rather cute and there's nothing wrong with improving visuals.

Tribe Specific Attributes:

With this addition to heroes, each tribe's hero shall have a different special ability which will help make sure each tribe is still very different from each other. The attributes seem to have been based on what each tribe is already good at in order to help keep the essence of the tribe and help create strategies which can be truly tribe specific. Roman heroes are going to be slightly stronger, Gaul heroes will move faster & Tueton heroes will allow the 20% plunder bonus in raids if they are included. This means that although not all raids will have a Tueton plunder bonus it is now back in the game just with a little bit of a twist and will mean Tuetons will have to think just a little bit harder when deciding to use their hero.

Hero Specifications Upgrades:

Hero upgrades are still here, however for each level the hero will only recieve 4 attribute points. Along with this the specifications that can be upgraded have been changed slightly to give a wider (and potentially more important) range of selection for how to use your hero. The specifications now become:

• Strength - This is now the combination of the hero's offence & defence, each point gives an 80 strength increase, although Romans will get a 100 strength increase.
• Defence Bonus - Like before it goes up to 20%
• Offence Bonus - Also goes up to 20%
• Resource Production Bonus - For the village the hero is in

The production bonus for me is the most major change, supposedly the bonus can be split between all resource types in a village or be set to just one resource type (perfect to boost production in a crop capital). However what we haven't been told is how high the bonus will go, hopefully we will be told in the next chance but there's a chance it's going to be a 'wait & see'. Also we have been told that the Regeneration specification but cannot be upgraded by the player so we've got to hope we'll be told about that soon.

New Heroes Mansion

Well guys, we've been told there will be at least one other post about the hero system, however following the current developer blog posting trend we won't be seeing it for around a week so I hope you've enjoyed this post of mine and just remember to check back regularly to read our other posts.

Steve
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