i dont trust that the forums wont be biased towards aether lightning (lmao), also i had a plan of adding “Aether Lightning” onto the name poll list
Idk how I feel about the concept of a very good “powered-up” mode, since that’s usually hard to balance and will either be way way too op or too mediocre, feel like a guage system would be better but not in the traditional sense, ex abilites are powerful but take up a decent bit of the guage % and the guage recovers slightly passively and if you use basic attacks (m1s/m2s if those exist in your game), if the guage is completely depleted you get stunned/start an animation for a few seconds where the characters appearance changes somehow and you take 50-75% more damage and deal 10% more damage (making it a not very worth trade off but can still be used strategically)
This is very inspired by that one guy from guilty gear with the whole blood meter or whatever, this way it just feels more fun than oh i deal baby dick damage time to just wait till i get my transformation and then spam moves for the dmg, might be asking for too much tho
kind of i guess but its not like the traditional bars where you can use a very limited amount of moves before you need to wait/recharge it, you can always just use them but the player has to becareful not deplete it cuz they’ll go into that mode that can be punished + takes more damage for i dunno like 10 seconds or so, depends on the type of game ur makin
oh and this system makes it more skill based so its up to you to decide if you want that or want it to be more new player friendly (also forgot to say this but its veeeeeery ambitious especially considering i dont believe you are a super experienced dev, buuuuuuuuut the moves could be altered slightly in terms of visuals and hitboxes being slightly bigger/longer)
ay no worries when it comes to ideas for abilites or stuff in games in general my brain goes anywhere and everywhere
sounds p cool, tbh you dont have to consider anything i said at all, just sum ideas, i’d be really impressed if you could implement systems complicated like that into ur game at all, good luck my friend
