since the last update ive either been sleeping or reviewing games, so much that ive not done a whole lot of work on my game. so what have i done on my game?
i realized 3rd card in that my system of dieing needed to be reworked. as it stood for two cards you could just die and be rehealed with full hp/mp and all status ailments cured. as wondrous as this maybe, it doesnt work well with balancing and can force the very kind of gameover i did not wish to create (during event battles if you wernt properly leveled then youd never be able to continue). as restarting the game is something i really wanted to avoid, and even wanting to give the player a better edge through a recovery type of system, i decided on a new system.
from the 3rd card onward you will receive penalties from death like you would in bof3. as i cant govern what happens in battle, rather then having each person who died lose a set amount of max hp, your party will receive a set amount of max hp loss (15 hp per death, per char).
of course after a while the system would break as you cant go below 1 hp and recovering the lost hp would net you additional hp. to fix this i made it so that when you use the recovery system (dieing) more then 3 times, any battle you do thereafter will result in a game over.
now that you have a hp reducing death, how do you recover it? simple, you can either buy back the hp at a designated spot, or if youve prayed at 5 or more athena shrines then you can access it through those. ive controlled it so you cant get any more hp then what you started with.
in the future the amount to pay to recover will rise, and perhaps a more advanced system will need to be implemented when you're able to choose a different party (perhaps i will make every char be deducted rather then singly). for now i rather like this change though i really should of focused my energy on creating more of the game and less of the features. i can even add a wonder essence type item like in alundra.
i realized 3rd card in that my system of dieing needed to be reworked. as it stood for two cards you could just die and be rehealed with full hp/mp and all status ailments cured. as wondrous as this maybe, it doesnt work well with balancing and can force the very kind of gameover i did not wish to create (during event battles if you wernt properly leveled then youd never be able to continue). as restarting the game is something i really wanted to avoid, and even wanting to give the player a better edge through a recovery type of system, i decided on a new system.
from the 3rd card onward you will receive penalties from death like you would in bof3. as i cant govern what happens in battle, rather then having each person who died lose a set amount of max hp, your party will receive a set amount of max hp loss (15 hp per death, per char).
of course after a while the system would break as you cant go below 1 hp and recovering the lost hp would net you additional hp. to fix this i made it so that when you use the recovery system (dieing) more then 3 times, any battle you do thereafter will result in a game over.
now that you have a hp reducing death, how do you recover it? simple, you can either buy back the hp at a designated spot, or if youve prayed at 5 or more athena shrines then you can access it through those. ive controlled it so you cant get any more hp then what you started with.
in the future the amount to pay to recover will rise, and perhaps a more advanced system will need to be implemented when you're able to choose a different party (perhaps i will make every char be deducted rather then singly). for now i rather like this change though i really should of focused my energy on creating more of the game and less of the features. i can even add a wonder essence type item like in alundra.
