《骑马与砍杀2：霸主》开发日志（71）——卡拉迪亚百科

Hegen · 发表于 2018-8-10 09:44:44

翻译：Hegen@骑马与砍杀中文站

Greetings warriors of Calradia!

卡拉迪亚的战士们，你们好！

When it comes to strategy, information is key to success. It is important to know as much as possible about the current state of affairs in the game world to make the most of any opportunities that arise or prepare yourself for any impending threats. In this week’s blog, we take a look at one of the ways that we present information to players in Bannerlord: the encyclopaedia.

提及战略，信息是获胜的关键。了解更多游戏世界事态发展相当重要，这样你就可以充分把握机会防患于未然。在本周的日志中，我们将一览《霸主》中向玩家提供信息的：百科。

In Warband, the encyclopaedia is a useful source of information which players can use to learn more about the game as a whole, and, perhaps more importantly, the current state of the game during that specific playthrough. Functionally, it is perfectly sound and it contains a lot of valuable information for players to pore over. Players can use it to learn about game concepts, search for details about settlements and review information pertaining to characters in the game. However, these screens aren’t really as user-friendly as they could be and at times they can be a little difficult to navigate.

百科是《战团》一处有效的信息来源，总体上讲玩家可以用它了解游戏，或许更为重要的是在游戏特定过程中了解当前状态。百科功能相当完善，涵盖诸多重要信息供玩家学习游戏概念、领地细节、查看角色相关信息等等。然而它并未达到应有的便捷，有时候它不能有效地为玩家提供导航。

战团派系界面

With Bannerlord, we knew that we needed to work on making these screens more streamlined and enjoyable for players to interact with. One of the first improvements we made in this regard was the addition of a search function. In Warband, searching through a list of character names can be a tedious affair, but it is certainly doable. However, in Bannerlord, scrolling through a list of characters to find a specific person would be rather frustrating due to the sheer number of characters that are in the game. Likewise, there are hundreds of settlements in Bannerlord (over twice as many as Warband) and scrolling through to find a specific one would be mind-numbing. To help with this, if you aren’t entirely sure of the spelling of the entry you are searching for, then the search function also includes suggestions to auto-complete your search.

我们知道为了方便玩家互动，在提升《霸主》百科便捷度方面尚需努力。我们做的第一个改进是增加了输入搜索功能。在《战团》通过角色姓名列表滚动逐一搜索虽然可行，过程却是相当枯燥的；在《霸主》中由于角色数量众多，依靠之前的方法实在繁琐。同样，在《霸主》中有上百个领地（是《战团》的两倍多），滚动搜索特定领地会使人心烦意乱。为了解决这点，你们可以使用全新的输入搜索功能，如果在使过程中不确定拼写，输入搜索功能还拥有自动补全搜索的建议。

In keeping with the idea of making the pages easier to navigate, we added filters so players could narrow down their search criteria. When it comes to things like settlements, this will help you to separate villages out from castles and towns, which can be quite useful in itself, but when we look at this function with some of the other screens, then the ability to filter the encyclopaedia entries really starts to make sense. For example, if you were to open the Kingdoms screen, you could quickly see who you are currently allied with or who you are enemies with. The Characters screen takes this one step further by allowing you to filter the entries based on gender, culture, occupation and your current standing with each character.

为了使界面更容易导航，我们添加了过滤系统方便玩家缩小搜索范围。在领地方面这将有助于你们从城堡城镇中筛选出村庄，这项功能非常有用。我们以其他界面为例来谈谈过滤百科条目的重要意义：如果你们打开“王国”界面，你们可以很快地看到当前盟友与敌人。“角色”界面则允许你们根据性别、文化、职业以及当前与其他角色关系进一步过滤条目。

But we didn’t stop at just overhauling the look, feel and overall user-friendliness of the encyclopaedia. We wanted to expand upon the types of information that players could access and make use of as well. And this is where the Troops screen come into play. The Troops screen allows players to see the full troop tree of every unit in the game, allowing players to plan out their perfect army composition without needing to resort to wikis or other sources of information outside of the game. The trees show the branches which each unit can take during a promotion as well as the skill levels of each individual unit.

我们并未止步于仅仅改变百科的观感以及整体用户友好度，我们希望拓展玩家获得与使用的信息类型，“军队”界面在此发挥效用。玩家可以通过“军队”界面看到游戏中各单位完整兵种树，无需通过维基百科或游戏之外其他的信息来源就可以规划出最佳军队配置。兵种树显示了各单位晋升过程中可以选择的分支以及各单位熟练度。

Another new addition to the encyclopaedia is the Clans screen, which shows players detailed information about each clan in the game. This information includes information about clan members, settlements that the clan controls, and the details of any wars that the clan is currently involved in. It also contains the clan banner, which is something you might become rather familiar with over time as you develop friendships and feuds with the different clans of Calradia during your adventures.

百科的另一项新功能是“家族”界面，它向玩家显示游戏中包括家族成员信息，家族控制领地，以及当前家族参与战争在内的各家族详细信息。“家族”界面同时包含了家族旗帜，随着时间推移以及你在冒险期间与卡拉迪亚诸多家族产生恩怨情仇，你会渐渐熟悉这面旗帜。

Finally, the encyclopaedia wouldn’t be complete without the Concepts page. The Concepts page introduces players to and explains the various different concepts and mechanics of Bannerlord. If you don’t fully understand how something in the game works, or are confused by the outcome of one of your actions, then there is a good chance that the Concepts page holds the answer to your question.

最后，没有“概念”界面的百科是不完整的，“概念”界面向玩家介绍并解释了《霸主》各类概念机制。如果你无法理解游戏中某些方面如何运作，或者对某项行动的后果感到困惑，“概念”界面很有可能解决你的问题。

Overall, we feel that Bannerlord’s revamped encyclopaedia is a huge improvement over Warband’s. Essentially, it contains all of the useful information that players of the series will be familiar with while introducing new information to help you on your journey. And all of this is done is a much more approachable and user-friendly interface which is simple to use and easy to navigate.

总而言之，我们觉得改进后的《霸主》百科相比《战团》的有了很大提升，它涵盖了更全面的信息，这一切基于更为便捷友善的界面以及易于上手的导航。