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dravidious · 11 months

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General idea for a turn-based combat system that I thought about like 3 years ago and never wrote down: There's an "element clock" that has like 3-6 slots on it that store elements. When you use an elemental skill, the element in the currently active slot affects it; if you use a fire skill, then having fire in the slot boosts it, water weakens it, and grass also boosts it probably more than fire idk. Then the active element turns into fire, then the clock rotates to the next slot, so the fire element that you put in will come back around in like 3-6 turns. The clock may or may not rotate when a non-elemental skill is used, or maybe there are no non-elemental skills, idk. Anyway the idea is for it to encourage you to plan ahead and improvise and consider the enemy's abilities and attack patterns.

#asks #a kinda problem in some games is when you can ignore what the enemy is doing and just treat their attacks as gradual damage over time #that's how xenoblade feels a lot of the time #i've been thinking about this system again after i played final fantasy 14 and every enemy felt exactly the same to fight #the game would probably have that thing where the turn order is random but it shows you what the order will be for this round and the next #idk what popular games do that but i saw it in Tokyo Mirage Sessions #it lets you plan ahead without having the turn order be The Same Every Time which could lead to players doing The Same Thing Every Time #which is exactly what i'm trying to avoid #there'd probably also be skills that mess with the clock in different ways like rotating the clock extra steps #or changing all Waters to Earths #also non-damaging skills could have special bonuses for if you get the element boost #i think non-damaging skills mostly not caring about the clock is neat because then you can use them to set elements without penalty #like fire over water #and it makes a neat thing where those skills freely manipulate the clock to set up for the damaging skills #but having a special bonus for if you get the perfect fire over grass bonus means you get rewarded for Doing The Elements Good #anyway i gotta stop talking now this is the kinda stuff to save for an info document

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