Comments on: Godfall: Combat Mechanics I

By: Dyrak

Dyrak — Tue, 25 May 2010 04:17:54 +0000

Couldn’t have done it better myself. Godfall will be awesome.

By: Meteor

Meteor — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:20:45 +0000

I don’t know tbh, i liked the lack of evasion stats, because it let me get 100% hit rates, even when i used Hail of Arrows or Ensorcelled Blade. Opponents with high evasion stats would suck, especially if they also ignore armor.

The Stances stuff sounds great though, i allways licked skills, that don’t use MP, Mana or whatever. I was a huge fan of Final Fantasy 8 because of that.

By: Hollows

Hollows — Mon, 24 May 2010 09:20:39 +0000

I like the idea of terrain, you should throw in some terrain changing monsters/spells.

Short request long explination:

Could you make it in MDGF that the less characters you start with the easier it is to play?

I was playing and I just wanted to run thru the den with a conjurer because his wall of shadows spell is more usefull and I didn’t like messing around with a big group like the first time so I tried it and it didn’t go very well. It was impossible for me to kill any group of six and I only made it to the third level and than gave up.

PS: Wall of Shadows is Awsome!

By: garin

garin — Sat, 22 May 2010 04:46:39 +0000

Currently, reduction is still percentage-based.

I think having diminishing returns on most stats is kind of unintuitive and difficult to convey to people, even if it’s somewhat better for balance. An approach like that might work for armor rating though, which already goes into a black box to emerge as damage reduction.

By: Ghaleon

Ghaleon — Sat, 22 May 2010 00:48:51 +0000

Do you plan on making all forms of mitigation scale in a linear fashion? Or are you going to try and make it so you need 2X more of a mitigation stat when you’re at 50% already than you would if you were at 0%?

Or maybe both, given its source? (skills add, equipment multiplies, etc)

By: ChaosBladeDC

ChaosBladeDC — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:52:20 +0000

Is reduction percentage or number based? (aka. -15% oder -20 damage)
If I think of terrain, there are likely positive and negative effects. (If you take cover, it’s difficult to use melee attacks sorta, and unstable ground would sort of protect you from melee, because rushing at you becomes more difficult. But logic can be dropped for balance though)

By: James

James — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:38:01 +0000

Good stuff man, now more stratagizing.

Keep it up.

By: DaemonNic

DaemonNic — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:53:07 +0000

That seems interesting.
Stances: That looks like it’s going to be one of those things that will make non-sword (or bow for ranger, or knifes for rogue, or swords for mage, you get the picture) weapons usefull for the warrior, will you be able to pick your stance before entering combat?
Terrain: Cool, but I think that there are situations that wouldn’t need it, for instace, generic hallway: (O= open, M= Mook, H= hero)
OOO
MOM
——
HHO
OHH
So there are only two enemies, thus terrain wouldn’t change much.
Mitigation: Yay! An actual dodge stat! Yay! Poison Reduction! Yay! Overall clarification…. wait. Is there going to be a accuracy stat that isn’t entirely based around weaponry?

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 21 May 2010 10:34:09 +0000

Stances… stance dancing?

Terrain… intriguing.

Mitigation… clarified.

Mmmm… mechanics.