This week, there’s been a ton of skill work done, and of course the thousand year battle of the GUI rages on. Menus aren’t exactly the most exciting thing in the world to show, and they aren’t even fully implemented yet, so this week we’ll treat you with two animated screencap gifs of the new skills!
Click it!This here spell is our first summon spell! It will summon a lightning cloud which hovers around, doubling as damage dealer and moral support (dat smile)! This is the first level of the skill. Later levels include features like targeting flying enemies, more damage, faster attack speed and less glee.
While it’s not set in stone, we’re toying with the thought of having summons be permanent (until you dismiss them). Instead of costing mana as you cast them, they would “block out” a part of your mana bar. That is, if you summon something which costs 30 % of your mana, for as long as you have that summon in play, those 30 % will not regenerate!
Click this too!The gif above showcases one of our one handed weapon skills: Blade Flurry*!
It’s basically a series of very fast hitting strikes right in front of the character. It’s superb for exploiting openings in duels, like versus this lone Halloweed. It also has a very quick charge speed to offset its limited area of effect. The speed and duration of the move changes as you charge it, and later levels will have a fierce finishing strike to add even more damage!
For those of you yearning for another video… stay tuned! Some day, when the planets are aligned, it’ll appear!
*Working name :DI follow you blog often but I never posted any comment.
I only want to say that this game looks extremly nice. And this for many reasons :
1). It’s beautiful,
2). It’s co-op playable,
3). There are many skills ! As a player of DotA i love that type things.
I hope there will be a cool loot system and a lot of items. It would be great if it can be easly modable.
Ok, great job and good night.
I have to say I’m quite enjoying the thought of mana allocation for summons etc, but I have to ask the inevitable question; (IF) it’ll be implemented, will it be based on total percentage of mana or a set amount of mana?
I’m just asking because “which costs 30% of your mana” is a tad ambiguous as is, with a lot of the stats still shrouded in a veil of eerie caffeinated programmer mystery.
Well 30% of mana says to me you will lose 30% of your maximum mana. How could you implement a 30% of a set cost? That would always be a constant mana cost, just 30% of what you set it to… lol
Secrets of Grindea (administrator) wrote at 24/04/2012 21:06:Thanks all :D
@Kevin: Agreed, it’s pretty ambiguous! The current state of the discussion is a percentage of maximum mana. Actually, the mana system itself might become the subject of a major overhaul, but more on that if and when it happens :P
Permanent summons, please! It’s always fun to have a helper to follow you around, especially when that helper is a smiley-face cloud.
All of this looks incredible… I can hardly wait to give you money so I can play it! All the best as development continues!
Everything looks amazing as per usual :D
The animations are flawless and that cloud is adorable :P
I think the idea of having summons take up a percentage of mana is a good idea.
They implemented a similar system in Kingdoms of Amalur, where you could cast a shield on yourself which would basically reduce your maximum amount of mana until the shield was taken off. This was illustrated to the player by greying out part of the mana bar:
http://i2.lulzimg.com/369445ec44.jpg
This basically gives the player a choice; do they want to have the bonus (the extra defence in this case) and sacrifice the mana or keep the mana so that they can use it for other things (skills etc.). Personally, I kept the shield on the whole way through the game :P
Keep going guys, the game is looking truly amazing!
I also like the idea of greyed out mana, however it seems like a set amount, instead of a percentage, is more apropriate, better separating the summons strengths..
Unless they can get stronger with you too, then % would make more sense and it would be AWESOME!
this is absolutely fantastic. i hope there is an android version for this. plss port one. plssssss.
Looks great guys… I wants alpha/beta access!! :)