Here we are! The violent and technologically advanced Tsihu race is revealed. Read more about it here:
http://crixa.io/2016/08/the-tsihu-first-contact/
http://crixa.io/2016/08/the-tsihu-first-contact/
What I described is far from hand-holding. As usual implementation is key, that is what I intend to stress the most.
Games like devil may cry 1, 3 and 4 are notoriously punishing on their harder difficulty settings. Their brand of telegraphs are about readability. The gears of war series has relatively slow characters in cover based combat. Without an indicator that the one shot was a potential threat it could be used to insta-gib with minimal counterplay possible.
Very different types of games but in both cases it's about putting the conditions for victory or failure in the hands of the player as opposed to the system.
To apply that kind of thought process would require an Ember specific examination of where/when/how it would and would not fit.
Games like devil may cry 1, 3 and 4 are notoriously punishing on their harder difficulty settings. Their brand of telegraphs are about readability. The gears of war series has relatively slow characters in cover based combat. Without an indicator that the one shot was a potential threat it could be used to insta-gib with minimal counterplay possible.
Very different types of games but in both cases it's about putting the conditions for victory or failure in the hands of the player as opposed to the system.
To apply that kind of thought process would require an Ember specific examination of where/when/how it would and would not fit.
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This is an interesting part of the topic.
A constant, "red cone" based telegraph system in the vein of wildstar's would probably be out of place in a game like Ember.
But more subtle or organic Telegraph-esque effect have been used in many genres in many forms.
Some shooters have a beam shown in the direction of where a powerful shot will go. Like gears of war's One Shot weapon for example. Some melee action games have the enemies do a specific stance or flash before sending out an attack. Like most of the bosses in devil may cry series for example.
So there may be something worth examining in the idea here....as long as we look at the many different expressions it could take.
A constant, "red cone" based telegraph system in the vein of wildstar's would probably be out of place in a game like Ember.
But more subtle or organic Telegraph-esque effect have been used in many genres in many forms.
Some shooters have a beam shown in the direction of where a powerful shot will go. Like gears of war's One Shot weapon for example. Some melee action games have the enemies do a specific stance or flash before sending out an attack. Like most of the bosses in devil may cry series for example.
So there may be something worth examining in the idea here....as long as we look at the many different expressions it could take.
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