This week I implemented a new enemy, the Soldier Swordsman. These enemies have much more health than the normal enemies. They have a chance to throw a Firebomb, which creates an area damage.
At the moment their attacks consist of two slow horizontal swings, and a side step where they can block player attacks (not implemented for now).
In addition, I created other destructibles such as chairs and tables, and placed them in the greybox level together with the Soldier Swordsman.
Hi there, Alessandro(or Ordnas if you prefer!). This looks interesting indeed-is there a backstory to this game just yet, or is that still TBD? Either way, this looks like it could be fun. Will subscribe for future updates. =)
This week I devoted it completely to gameplay. I introduced a visible health bar above enemies, with a second yellow bar to indicate the damage of the last attack.
Also, I added a strong attack, which, besides being an attack with a higher range, does much more damage.
I need to finish tweaking the attack, as it's too safe for me, since you can charge the attack from a distance with a nice range. Probably the charge of the attack will happen during a small dash forward, so that it is more unsafe to use it.
Also, I made several tweaks to the enemy balance, changing the health of enemies so that the Strong Attack damage has a significant impact, and reduced the hitbox of some weapons since enemies tended to hit you a little too much from a distance.
After the parry it is possible to frontstab the enemy. I was going to post a picture very similar to the backstab (but with the enemy turned instead of his back), so I thought I would do a series of screenshots with highlights.
I finally managed to post a new video about my progress! These weeks I implemented a couple of gameplay mechanics. I added the Parry, since in a serious combat system I think it’s an important mechanic.
The parry is active in the first 10 frames of the parry animation, in which any attack is parried, leaving the enemy in a state of knowback and possible counterattack by doing a Frontstab.
For the Parry animation, I edited an animation via keyframe inside Unreal Engine so that the player’s left arm moves to the left.
For the frontstab instead, I added some camera shakes, adding some forward-backward spring shakes, some rotational swings, and a slight camera zoom by tweaking the FOV.
Backstab mechanics, on the other hand, work similarly to Frontstab but must be done behind the enemy. To be valid, the player must be no more than 60 degrees behind the enemy.
So far I have used the same animation as Frontstab, but with an addition of an enemy throw. I don’t really like the enemy throw animation (a sort of a forward roll), I’ll probably replace it with a throw animation.
In the future I will fix the animation of the stabbed sword, I would like the hand to turn the sword in the flesh of the enemy, kind of like what happens in the Backstab animation of Demon’s Souls.
In addition, I changed the animation of the Hit Block knockback of the enemy, so that it is more distinguishable from when the enemy received a parry.
For now I’ve put an animation for the backstab, it’s temporary but for now it may be okay.
