I'd like to add supportive characters powers, such as Dende's healing power. But right now, it's only just an idea, because I didn't think about how it would work in the game. It's not as if I had the time 😛
So if you have a clever idea about how that would simply work, I'm all listening.
A simple way to make that work would be to use one bar of special in order to heal someone in the team.
But who?
It would make sense if it's the fighter right behind the healer in the line. Though it could work as a general heal for the whole team with the con of healing less the more fighters are on the team 🙄
It could be more unnecesarily complex that way so I would go for healing the one first in the waiting line 😛
EDIT: Seeing your edit I can say I like these two options:
Next in line: I do like how it would make team making way more strategic.
Least HP: I like this one as it is the one which makes the most sense out of all. And after all why wouldn't you as a player heal your most weakened fighter? It does take away the strategy factor that the first option have though.
How about this?
We play as the character which we want to heal. Then we double click both attack and charge buttons at the same time, and the support character will disappear from the team and comes behind us and heals us and then it returns to the team?
Also, get ready for the kids that will come and ask u to make every time a saiyan gets healed by the support, they get a boost... 😛
The idea in interesting. But it doesn't work with the Special bar being charged. For that to work, Dende would need a full SP bar, then do a team switch, then do the AT+DF that would call Dende for help and... That is quite complicated. And AT+DF is something I would like to keep for something else entirely.
But Dende, with a full SP, could use the power, same as everyone else, let's say UP+ATTACK. That would teleport him in the back, while we play the next in line, just like a team switch... mmm 🫤
What about DIRECTION+DEFENSE for this kind of moves? That would make sense. But I'm not yet convinced by moving Dende around.
Yo por mi parte prefiero que se cure al personaje del equipo con menos HP
Come to think of it, that is simpler to do, and it fits the way Dende is healing the almost dead ones.
That's good for me.
And Dende (or any healer) can stay in place l, with the arms raised, for healing instead of doing some complicated stuff like moving him to the background. We can make some +++ appear over the head of the hunted guy in the background, Final Fantasy style.
Now, regarding the DIR+DEF instead of DIR+ATT, the more I think about it, the more I like it. But that will complexify the helpers on the SP bar. So I need to think about it.
How about you make the DIR+ATK Helpers colored in red and DIR+DEF colored in blue?
That could work, but it's not simple to understand. Especially for color-blind.
So I'll start by adding that healing power to DIR+ATT, otherwise I would have to break the game to handle DIR+DEF, and it's NOT something I want to do right now.
If it helps I found this concept made by Zaza's for dende's healing:
It's based off this effect it had on the anime, which is supposed to got directly to the injured fighter, but due to the dev game structure I like the idea of him just rising his arms up like if he's castng a spell 😁
Do you want me to put this frame on Dende's spritesheet? If so, in which square?
Thanks but there's no rush. I'd like to work on BASTON for a while. Otherwise, it will never be done.
Nice pose, and we get the concept of the FX.
And before doing anything, we need to know who are the healers that will use that power and share the same FX:
Dende
Kami
Majin Buu
Kaioshin?
Others healers:
Kibito
Future Trunks (DBS)
Towa
Zamasu
Whis
Vados
Rest of Angels
PS: Kaioshins (ex: Shin) do not have the ability to heal, only Kaioshin apprentices can heal, ex: Kibito, Zamasu (manga) and Future Trunks DBS (manga)
I'm moving this to DEV section before fanatics starts debating on who can heal or not.
For example, I don't count Goku as a healer, even after resurrecting a bird that one time.
La propuesta más eficaz para que funcione esta habilidad es curar al que tiene menos vida en el equipo, suena bien ya que tienes un arma en qué confiar si pierdes mucha vida con un luchador importante.
Ahora, sería interesante que también curara al siguiente en la fila del equipo, y si el siguiente ya tiene la vida llena, pues puede recargarle las energías, si fuese posible (recordemos que en DB, los personajes con poderes curativos también recuperaban las energías perdidas de los demas) y en el caso de que tenga todo lleno, simplemente el efecto de curación no se aplica o regenera al de menor vida (en caso de que se puedan hacer ambas mecánicas).
I'm going to implement heal power with UP+ATT this morning. Because after two seconds of thinking, we can't use UP+DEF, since it's used for the transformation 😀
And it's going to heal the fighter with the least HP. By how much?
Something like HP += KI * 0.5, for starters, so One bar of Ki will give half a bar of HP.
Edit:
And it's working. It took a bit longer then what I expected because firing a special with a fighter having noKiBlast power is a pain to handle... I'll need to rethink how it is programmed.
Tomorrow I'll work on the FX.
And here's the list of healers that needs a healing sprite for UP+ATK:
Wow, this is so cool! Nice job!
Sadly I'm very busy with my Uni exams this week, which ends this Friday, so after that I could help you with these sprites. I'll tell the other devs to help in the meantime though.
There is absolutely no rush. Good luck with your exams 😉
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