Turns out you don't need a phone to get on the discord anymore. It's so active though, it just yoinked 2 hours of my time like wtf lmao. Seriously, how can people be moderating that server, you'd have to be a full time moderator. Like, good lord man.
Viewing post in Character Concept: The Operator (Formerly "Soldier")
The comp server and mod server are really cool. Honestly much better at serving a purpose and way more manageable to be a member of, relative to the official server. Way less obnoxious shenanigans and not so much activity you get sensory overload. Even if the main server serves as a community hotspot, I think it serves best as a way to absorb a bunch of people so the other servers don't get totally bloated lmao.
I've been rather busy these past couple days, and I predict I'll be pretty busy in the coming days. But I'm getting work done on and off. It's also come to my attention that there is a modded "Soldier" character. I'm gonna change the name. Either to "Veteran" or "Operator". The former is cool, and I have a lot of respect for IRL veterans. But I think the latter is even cooler and even more referential to the source material this character is based off of.
Anyhow, one of the bigger updates has been to a normal. It's come to my attention that Cowboy's normal bullet shooting move, is not a stupidly fast projectile, but instead basically a hitscan attack. If you know you know. I've changed the handgun's shooting attack to make more sense given that context:
> Shoot!:
"Today is Friday, in California." "Guh?" References aside relative to what you're used to this is a weird projectile. You cannot aim it, and it doesn't auto track onto enemies. It fires a single projectile bullet per use that flies at a speed slightly faster than a full speed shuriken. And fires at an angle determined by a cone of random spread facing forward from the character's chest. With each shot getting less and less accurate than the last if used repeatedly in a combo or in a row. Low damage, low base knockback. Prolly good at mid range, if only as a pestering tool. More likely to hit the ground or sky than your enemy if you use it foolishly though.
The Rifle's bullets will probably be just really fast projectiles. I think this makes them more balanced but also makes them more tricky to use as anti projectile as they are intended to also be used for. You might have to lead your shots to some extent sometimes. This also makes them less abusable in neutral in the event you can pull off a charge in neutral somehow. But of course at a close enough range the bullets will be so fast they will reach your target before they can react. But of course then you'll still have to aim it, and there's room for error there. Unlike cowboy.