I'm trying to make a story-focused game, but I don't want to skimp out on the combat. Any ideas?
Also, obligatory coombait, because that's the only way you can get comments on a thread, nowadays.
How do you make fun turn-based combat without adding things like QTEs or flashy animations?
Jonathan Howard
Gavin Taylor
Give the player a way to manipulate turn order.
>Haste, Slow, Stop
>Delay attacks
>Air/knockdown states skipping turns
Samuel Sullivan
speed format tcg
Josiah Sullivan
your coombait sucks
Ayden Wilson
turn-based combat isn't fun
Joseph Taylor
Well, I've heard action combat isn't good for a budding dev. I'm not Itsuno, Myazaki or Kamiya.
William Phillips
Give the players lots of movement and abilities, just abstracted with turns. Try out Metal Gear Acid 2, which has a fully function melee combat system in a turn based card game. It has even more combat options than most other MGS games. You can suplex enemies.
Blake Flores
Kill yourself incel.
Charles Price
I had an idea for an ability to dropkick an enemy, doing damage to both characters, and stunning you for 1 turn, or holding one hostage, and negotiating your way out of combat.
Oliver Morris
>lartoria
shamferru
Jayden Powell
You're not contributing to the discussion at hand. You're even worse than Coomers.
Mason Rivera
I really don't know who this is, I just snatched it from Titty Tuesday.
Anyways, what's your advice?
Parker Brown
Early Fallout and Heroes III had fun turn-based combat. It's just nips that suck at it.
Elijah Robinson
LArtoria > flat Seiba
Benjamin Kelly
mainly what said. The main issue of turn based is that it often forces you to take hits. This basically makes build about health buffing the norm. Hearthstone might be a trainwreck of a game nowadays but it has some good concepts for it. Things like taunt and spells that can prevent the enemy from attacking are good ways to not make combat such a slugfest
William Scott
make it an SRPG like FFT instead
Jordan Clark
less is more user
Connor Clark
mommi
Brayden Sullivan
just make a fucking turn based game its fun for me jesus christ fuck off zoomers
all RPGs are switching to this weird hyprid shit nowdays its pissing me off i just want my classic final fantasy experience back
Luis Robinson
Fuck modernism.
Less is a bore.
Joseph Butler
Make the battles long but limited.
What people don’t like is having to fight the same enemy formations every 20 seconds in a turn based game. Nobody complains about SRPG’s being turn based because those tend to be less repetitive
David Morales
>veins
Grayson Smith
so you make a thread to discuss something vidya related, good and all
then you turn it into a waifu discussiong
why did i even bother responding i dont know
Hudson Powell
Like this
Camden Sanchez
Dragon Quest never went away, user. XI S is coming to PS4 and PC at the end of the year.
Nathaniel Cox
What if I made combat fairly rare, but made each encounter unique, quick, and lethal? Let's say even a boss should only take like 5 minutes, but they could just as easily kill you.
Grayson Kelly
Literally just copy XCOM and/or Divinity Original Sin 2.
Evan Reyes
It can be considered a QTE, but Shadow Hearts has a good turn based combat system.
Easton Carter
I didn't. I just laid out effective bait so people would even respond.
Grayson Hill
this. FGO is terrible because 95% of combat is the same line of 3 mooks over and over.
Look at FF Tactics, it has got great encounter design.
S.Alter > those other saberfaces
Charles Baker
>Turn based combat isn't fun
What happened to this place to fill it with such retarded casuals?
Xavier Barnes
>ut they could just as easily kill you
leads to repetitiveness because you die and fight it over again a bunch of times.
Remember that most people aren't Zig Forums
even our absolute shitters tend to be better at games than the average player.
David Russell
>rare/limited combat
Yawn. People want to flex their character's power.
Brandon Sanders
I wouldnt call 13 or 13-2 turn based considering you can act before the bar is full
Kevin Cruz
I work at a small strategy game company and all the old guard devs really seem to hate turn order manipulation for whatever reason. I'd love more games with all those things. Getting through an encounter where you deny the enemy as much as possible is such a satisfying feeling.