squad formations

[T6R]

This is a squad based game. Is there a mod that allows a custom party formation? or is this a planned feature? I'd love to stick short weapons in the front, and fragment axes in the back. or with custom mods, put spears in the back, and wakizashis in the front.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

set squad to fallow or set the walk animation top the two stick figures. and they should form a loose formation when you have the group selected.

as formations like your requesting.
no, the game currently will not have that and it is not planned for detailed military formations as you requested.

[T6R]

Ah. Is there a mod of some sort that enables it? I feel like it would be pretty cool.

[Peregrine]

Originally posted by T6R:

Ah. Is there a mod of some sort that enables it? I feel like it would be pretty cool.

One question..... Why are you maining Wakazashis? Katana are far more General Purpose, as are Longswords.

[yippeekiay]

There is a formation option available in settings. Not used it myself. Think it's set to random as default.

[Sput]

There is one workaround for formations that I've experimented with in the past. It's a bit fiddly, though it works pretty well once you're up and running,.

Bare with me, this may sound complicated, but you're really no more than a handful of follow orders away from getting this to work.

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First squad. Place all your guys using katanas, or short weapons, in first squad and set everyone else in first squad to follow the leader of first squad.

Second squad, same thing, have everyone in second squad follow the leader of second squad. Only this time have the leader of second squad set to follow the rear guy of first squad.

Third squad. All in third squad set to follow leader of third squad, and the leader of third squad set to follow the rear guy of second squad.

When it's set up, simply issue move orders with your main guy, i.e leader of first squad and everyone else should auto follow in formation. You can set all to military formation in the SQD tab, in AI options for better grouping, caravan or random works fine too, but military does the job :)

A little thingy below to summarize.

[SQ1 leader leads SQ1]
[SQ2 leader follows SQ1 rear guy]
[SQ3 leader follows SQ2 rear guy]
[SQ4 pack animals leader follows SQ3 rear guy]

Some action screens.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1139413131
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1139413166
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1139413197

While leading the whole group with just your main SQ1 leader, if you set him to sneak, all squads will go to sneak also. There are probably other features work like this too, for instance running versus walking, your main guy should issue the same orders to everyone. I never tested this but I'm assuming it does.

A custom formations addition would be nice in the future, but this is the best we have for now.

[T6R]

Hey I like that, thanks! i never thought to try that.

[Sput]

You're welcome!

Just an after thought here - if you spot a hostile, be it a Girillo, Skin Spider or two, or even a small bunch of bandits, you could quickly set the rear squads to Passive, then I'm guessing SQ1 would rush off ahead and deal with it, thus less micro managing after a conflict when the formation gets disrupted.