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tihon19731 year ago

Guys, I've just look at some comments here and have so much questions. The main one - really? Someone have problems with fight's? There's one trick, wich you can use to easy game/fight. In fight, you use most of the time special move. If special move get 2 hits in 1 boar, you can easily kill him in one common attack That's for first.

Second - when in fight you had only 1 boar - it's better to meditate, and then kill him with common attack's.

Out of the fight, you can go in "menu", and use you're own skill - to heal yourself. It's costing some MM, that's why you need to meditate with one boar. Cuz, you've get less damage.

It's simple. Repeat all the time. And easy win, without using any item's.

Btw, I was using block only at Boss.

And obly in second run I've use item's. I've just eas bored, to repeat all of that =^=

bitshiftgames1 year ago(+1)

To be clear, the items DO have a purpose: the health ones allow you to heal in combat if you screw up, and the energy ones allow you to top off energy going into a fight so you don't waste time on the focus move right away. But yes, overall it is pretty straightforward if you've ever played an RPG before. While generally you just steamroll with the special and the recharge (focus), there are situations where regular attack is useful, as you mentioned, because it hits faster and doesn't need to be recharged. There's a fun dynamic between the special, regular and the recharge because of that, and I'm playing around with it a bit more in 2 as I work on the new battle system. Still won't be super complex, but should have a LITTLE more depth to it than currently.

Also to be fair, keep in mind that depending on how far back you go, you may be reading comments from before the game was balanced the way it currently is (although it was actually EASIER at first, so I suppose that doesn't really hold).

"I was using block only at Boss." I'll have to check this at some point. I can't remember now if my original intention was to make it impossible to win the boss fight without the special dodge, or just a huge pain. Also if you were hoarding healing items until the boss, that probably helped a lot.

tihon19731 year ago

Ow, yeah. I saw some results of your balance in game. Yeah, it was TOO easy, when the game was started here. But i think, that was on purpose. Kinda - for beginners of this type of game, or kinda - we fighting as a good warrior, against regular bandit, which only have their muscles, but no brain or technic (Like our rabbit warrior, with 7-8 lv at start)

Ow, and I'm so interested in the drug, which was on the ship, just before boss fight. And the mechanic, when enemy can call their friends.

Btw, maybe you can try to combine this mechanic with map? Kinda, if we got stuck between 2 patrol wich already see us and trying to fight wit us, can combine in 1 fight, and will replace each other... Like in Boss bar, whith wich we can fight and lose...

Or this too much for code of the game? ^^"

bitshiftgames1 year ago(+2)

It could be done, but wouldn't really be worth it, because the game essentially does that already: if you get caught between two mobs on the map, you'll have to fight them back-to-back with no rest inbetween. There's definitely some big fights in 2 though.

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