New Year: 2018 -- Loose Roadmap!

[HavelTheRock]

Any word on when the new world is going to hit?

[Vassteel]

Not sure what properties you ascribe to dungeon crawler combat, so I can't really either affirm or deny that.

have you never played Diablo ??? probably the best known dungeon crawler with a combat system like the one you might be thinking of give diablo II a short whirl and see what ya think

[MagicManICT]

Not sure what properties you ascribe to dungeon crawler combat, so I can't really either affirm or deny that.

have you never played Diablo ??? probably the best known dungeon crawler with a combat system like the one you might be thinking of give diablo II a short whirl and see what ya think

"Dungeon Crawler" ranges everywhere from turn based rogue-like games to action rpgs and FPS. Specific terms are wonderful, aren't they?

[boreial]

My guess for the next dungeon creature feature would be rabid rabbits and assorted rodents

Welcome back Jorb and Loftar, and once again, many many thanks for the awesome world you have given us to explore.

[Ozzy123]

Ah also, we need a better targetting system for fighting multiple targets

Perhaps it wasn't obvious from the description, but "directional attacks" is supposed to mean that they target a direction rather than an opponent, making targeting of opponents obsolete. Think how attacks in Salem worked, I guess, except we're probably going to approach the windup of attacks in a different way than there. The idea being to 1) sidestep the problem of targeting, 2) make area-effect attacks work more naturally, and 3) integrate movement into attacks in a more natural manner.

I'm so afraid of this, please guys make it good

[KeTo]

wipe!

[hazzor]

Perhaps it wasn't obvious from the description, but "directional attacks" is supposed to mean that they target a direction rather than an opponent, making targeting of opponents obsolete. Think how attacks in Salem worked, I guess, except we're probably going to approach the windup of attacks in a different way than there. The idea being to 1) sidestep the problem of targeting, 2) make area-effect attacks work more naturally, and 3) integrate movement into attacks in a more natural manner.

I do hope you can get this right, it'll be fantastic if you can but definitely has the potential to go horribly wrong. Like someone else said, lots of testing including with some induced latency.

[CTheRain]

Not sure what properties you ascribe to dungeon crawler combat, so I can't really either affirm or deny that.

have you never played Diablo ??? probably the best known dungeon crawler with a combat system like the one you might be thinking of give diablo II a short whirl and see what ya think

"Dungeon Crawler" ranges everywhere from turn based rogue-like games to action rpgs and FPS. Specific terms are wonderful, aren't they?

Well H&H isn't turn based nor FPS. Its closer to action combat. So when I used the term dungeon crawler I meant action combat style. *"directional attacks" is supposed to mean that they target a direction rather than an opponent, making targeting of opponents obsolete.* Its not hard to understand.

I have an old post where I wondered why archery was more action combat and melee was tab targeting. viewtopic.php?f=42&t=54187

[iamahh]

Spiral Knights has 2 movement styles in options, you can move using ASDW or you could hold mouse button to move in that direction... attack/block would default to mouse or keyboard depending on choice...

moving with ASDW would give better precision but making your hand tired faster... moving with mouse pressed was more relaxing but it was continuous move, and you couldn't move back while shooting the front...

[TheOriginalFive]

Would object-controlled-objects also open the possibility of exotic pets?