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PostSubject: Hyperlot's Fantastic Idea Thread   Hyperlot's Fantastic Idea Thread I_icon_minitimeMon Mar 30, 2015 4:19 am

Come one, come all! These aren't in any particular order.


Combat System Tweak

Generally, the idea behind this is to make combat feel more tactical, like Dungeons and Dragons or GERP, but with Kung Fu. Towards this end, I suggest adding a line of varied Physical attacks. This starts with this:

Seperate "Attack" into two different verbs: Jab, Kick

Jab would be a touch weaker than "Attack", but a little more certain to hit. Kick would be a touch stronger than "Attack", and a little less sure to hit.

Now, at this point, we can add to this concept with more attacks. They could be unlocked from increasing your OFF/DEF past certain hallmarks, or be tied to a race or rank! Some examples( With attack descriptions borrowed from wikipedia martial arts articles):

Roundhouse Kick: Unlocked with sufficient OFF. To execute, the attacker swings their leg sideways in a circular motion, kicking the opponent's side with the front of the leg, usually with the instep, ball of the foot, toe, or shin. The attack could pretty stronger than a normal Kick without being slower, but have the added disadvantage of leaving the user more open to being hit immediately after.

Axe Kick: This highly aggressive attack is taught exclusively by adherents of the River school of Earth martial arts. It begins with one foot rising upward as in a crescent kick. The upward arc motion is stopped, and then the attacking foot is lowered so as to strike the target from above. The arc can be performed in either an inward (counter-clockwise) or outward (clockwise) fashion. The strike would be a crushingly powerful blow to the head of its victim but would very easy to dodge, as the motion of the attack is hard not to telegraph, and would leave the user unable to square up to enemy counter attacks, leaving them more vulnerable to damage for a short time.

Tail Strike: A move usable by Shimo Henko and other creatures with a sizeable tail, it would be a strike -which would be no different than a standard kick, with the exception of it being much more difficult for non-tailed martial artists to block, as these fighters would only have experiencing guarding from 4 limbs, rather than 5.

I could come up with a lot of these, and I'm sure you guys could too. Ultimately the goal would be two fold: To make the game feel more strategic, making combat seem like less of the back-and-forth statgrind it often is, and also to make the game feel more Kung Fu action, like Journey to the West, and like Shonen Jump anime, like Dragonball.

Now, my next idea is tied closely to this one

Targeted Strikes/Limb Damage

So basically, different attacks could target different parts of the body, and would be either A) More effective targeting certain spots on the body or B) More likely to hit on others. Strikes to the jaw were more likely to do heavy damage, for example, but are more likely to be blocked because most fighters protect their head heavily. A strike aimed at a fighters leg might slip through their guard easier but wont be liable to do a much damage.

Of course, a fighter with a damaged leg might not be able to throw as effective kicks - and so on, and so on. Limbs could eventually become crippled, forcing you to stop using certain attacks, and making other attacks - like Ki waves - harder to use. Crippling the Torso or Head would be more difficult, but someone with a Crippled Torso or Head would eventually bleed out and die. The bleed out would be disabled with RP fight on so they'd basically just be un-regening during the space between turns.

Another tied in idea!

Improved Grapple System

The grapple system could be expounded upon, allowing numerous types of grapples. Some could be used to put the person in a clinch, allowing you to open parts of their body up for vicious strikes. Others could put people in various submission-type moves, which could slowly deal damage to certain parts of the body.

The clinch would basically work like grapple does now, except both fighters could -also- hit eachother inside the clinch. Neither could target anyone else, however, or the clinch would break. The person who was in control of the clinch would get a bonus to damage from his strikes, while the other person would take a cut to the damage of their strikes. Neither person would be able to block. If the person in control took significant damage, the clinch would break. Otherwise, a standard "Struggle" to leave a grapple could get the victim away. Otherwise, the Victim could also try to transition to a better position in the clinch, putting his OFF and his STR skill against his aggressor.

The submission would be like an attack to the certain limb, but would just be one persons STR stat against the others. ( THink like, Yamcha getting torture wracked by that mummy.)

Thats all I got for today. Bye!



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PostSubject: Re: Hyperlot's Fantastic Idea Thread   Hyperlot's Fantastic Idea Thread I_icon_minitimeWed Apr 01, 2015 10:05 am

All intresting ideas, the limb damage/removal ive been working on in my spare time, it requires icon work ontop of the coding so its been slow progress but I really would like to have it in personally I just havnt got the code to work how I want yet.

Different versions of attack, this is a very intresting idea that I do believe would not be hard to code in. As we currently have our verbs though it would be messy thus if Promo is for this idea as well as the players then I would like to hold off on it till I do some of the cleaning I have planned.

Grapple stuff...hmm this im sorta eh on, not sure we can get the system to work with one person holds another hits just them. Maybe I can maybe I cant I have yet to try such a thing. The clinch I suppose is possible, it would be kinda like fly lock though I would like to think of a downside to it otherwise ppl will try to abuse it for spars like they did the fly lock. As for the submission type stuff would need to create something for success or failure and have a downside to failing perhaps taking damage due to running into a knee, elbow, ground, something you know? On success probably have it drain energy on both ppl involved. The one pinned losing health as well?

Not too sure on the grapple would have to toy with the idea to come up with some fair and fun uses.
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PostSubject: Re: Hyperlot's Fantastic Idea Thread   Hyperlot's Fantastic Idea Thread I_icon_minitimeThu Apr 02, 2015 7:02 am

Yeah, the grapple stuff is a bit wonky, but all these are just ideas I got one night while I was watching a bunch of real professional martial artists. All the styles and different techniques employed, and I thought it could bring more tactical depth to Awakening, since like, as it is right now it's basically just two people exchanging their stats over and over till one collapses, xD

As for the clinch, to get rid of abuse I would say just take away stat gain in the cinch. I mean, ICly you would likely would learn by going into and out of the clinch but I can't think of way to make it not abused in spars. Tactically I think it's a really cool concept though.

And yeah, that's basically how I would imagine submissions working. Both participants would be draining, the person IN the hold slowly taking damage to the afflicted area. I think if the person broke free, they could choose to either A) Return to both participants standing or B) Reverse the grapple or C) Enter into a clinch. ICly even if both fighters had been RPing as being on the ground for the submission the clinch could still work, it could be RPed as being like, a Full Mount + Ground and Pound type of situation.
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