《骑马与砍杀2：霸主》开发日志（112）——死刑（这个角色有点眼熟）

贤狼赫萝 · 发表于 2019-6-8 05:02:46

Greetings warriors of Calradia!
卡拉迪亚的战士们，大家好！

In Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, you need to keep your head about you at all times. And with the game’s new death system, this rings especially true, lest your adventures come to an abrupt end to the executioner’s axe!
在《骑马与砍杀》里，你时时刻刻都要保住自己的脑袋。而游戏有了新的死亡系统，这个听起来就更真实了，免得你的冒险经历是在刽子手的断头斧下结束的。

Executions make for quite a natural addition to the series. The medieval period is infamous for some of its troubling, if rather inventive, methods of execution. From dealing with treacherous vassals to striking fear into the hearts of the ruled, executions were a simple solution to otherwise complicated problems.
死刑是这个系列很自然的补充。中世纪是一段臭名昭著的时期，其死刑方式令人不安却又富有创造性。从处理奸臣到以恐惧为核心统治手段，死刑是解决其它复杂问题的简单方法。

Our approach to this feature is like with most systems in the game: it should be simple enough to understand and use, yet achieves complexity through its interaction with the larger simulation.
我们对这个功能和其他大多数功能一样：用简单易懂，容易上手的方式，但又通过更大的模拟交互性来实现其复杂性。

As shown in the screenshot above, players are able to execute characters through a button on the party screen. Choosing to do so leads to another interface for confirmation that the player wants to carry out this action, with a short animation that follows if the player decides to press ahead. The execution itself has a number of consequences that help to ensure that it is a powerful, yet costly action. These consequences differ in severity depending on whom the player chooses to execute. Executing a dishonourable lord is a lot more acceptable in the eyes of your peers than killing an honourable one, but it is still frowned upon. After all, lords are part of the ruling elite, and such punishments are not befitting of their status! Likewise, the executed character’s clan and faction won’t take too kindly to seeing one of their kin slain in such a manner, and as such, relations between the two sides will be severely affected. What’s worse, executing an honourable lord will decrease your own honour rating, so you may end up being marked as dishonourable yourself.

从上面的截图可以看到，玩家可以在部队界面里将角色处死。然后会出现另一个界面来让玩家确认是否执行，如果玩家下定决心点下去，那么就会出现一个短动画。死刑会带来很多后果，能让这个行动变得很强大而代价也很大。这些后果的严重程度取决于玩家处斩的角色是谁。杀死一个不值得尊敬的领主比杀万众敬仰的领主要更容易被他人接受，但这依然会让人感到不快。毕竟领主是统治阶级的精英，而这种惩罚不符合他们的地位！同样，被处死的角色的家族和阵营也不会很愿意看到自己的亲戚就这么被杀，因此，双方之间的关系会受到严重影响。更糟糕的是，处死一位受尊敬的领主会减少你的荣誉度，所以你会变得不那么光彩。

If you do end up as dishonourable due to executions you carry out or for any other reason, it’s not exactly the end of the world. You’ll receive some penalty to your relation with most other nobles, but you can still make it work. However, you will now need to be very careful. Executions are an option available to AI lords as well, and now that you are dishonourable, your enemies will be much more likely to chop your head off if they manage to capture you. When deciding whether or not to execute the player, the AI lord’s personality, the honour rating of the player, and the relationship between the two are all taken into account.

如果你因为处死了领主或者因为其他原因荣誉度下降了，这也并不是世界末日。你会和其他多数贵族的关系交恶，但你依然可以弥补回来。不过，你现在要非常小心。AI领主们也可以处死角色，你的仇敌很有可能在抓住你后把你的头给砍了，AI领主的性格，玩家荣誉度，还有双方的关系都计算在其中。

In the end, we think that executions are a solid addition to the game. Like many of Bannerlord’s mechanics, if used wisely, it can help to further your goals within the game. Likewise, it opens up new avenues for roleplaying and feeds into the emergent narrative that the sandbox encourages.

最后，我们认为死刑是游戏的一个扎实的补充。和《霸主》的其他机制一样，如果你用的好，就能帮你更好地达到目的。同样，它为角色扮演玩法开辟新的途径，并用沙盒来鼓励创建新的故事。