Let's Play LFT

Newbie Newtype · Post by **Newbie Newtype** » Thu May 06, 2010 6:59 pm

That Electro battle looks more creative than 90% of battles in the OHR at that time period, heh.

"Volcano Elixer" - Excellent.

JSH357 · Post by **JSH357** » Fri May 07, 2010 7:07 pm

The Electro battle actually surprised me. I wasn't expecting any of these to be more than generic damage trading.

Too bad it doesn't stay creative. Here's Part 8!

Newbie Newtype · Post by **Newbie Newtype** » Fri May 07, 2010 7:51 pm

"Icee and Sam Maxwell have some pretty good fire attacks"

*MISS* *MISS* *MISS*

The flame thrower attacks didn't even appear to do more than 100 damage. I'm guessing the snow enemies weren't actually that weak?

JSH357 · Post by **JSH357** » Sat May 08, 2010 9:22 pm

The main issue is their evasion. A Quack! followed by a flamethrower should have taken the wolves out, but I never hit them. It took me many, many OHR games to understand how Accuracy and Evasion work. Heck, nowadays I just leave it out entirely; the formula is just too stupid and complex to rely on.

And here's Part 9!

TwirlySocrates · Post by **TwirlySocrates** » Sun May 09, 2010 1:51 am

I'm under the impression that a lot of the battle math will be customizeable in the near future, but ... people hardly know what to do with our existing freedom of setting hero and enemy stats.

If someone came up with and shared some well-functioning battle templates, would that save everyone a bunch of time, or would it simply suffocate the uniqueness of battles in future games?
Templates. Things like - stats for a strong but inaccurate brute. A fast, but well-calculated ninja. A powerful but unhealthy wizard. An easily defeated minion who finds strength in numbers. A strong lvl 5 warrior boss.

I am not a battle stats guy. I suck at that stuff - especially when you start dealing with levelups. You need to re-balance everything all over again!
I'd use templates all the time if I could, and then, with that stable base, I could change numbers as I saw fit.

Newbie Newtype · Post by **Newbie Newtype** » Sun May 09, 2010 2:00 am

Having a template of heroes isn't going to ultimately bring balance because it ultimately falls on how they interact with enemies. Duck & MJ 1 just needed more playtesting.

That, and Moogle1 added new accuracy formulas to help balance accuracy. Simply make most weapons give +90 or +80 accuracy.

Hachi · Post by **Hachi** » Sun May 09, 2010 3:22 am

Newbie Newtype wrote:Having a template of heroes isn't going to ultimately bring balance because it ultimately falls on how they interact with enemies. Duck & MJ 1 just needed more playtesting.

That, and Moogle1 added new accuracy formulas to help balance accuracy. Simply make most weapons give +90 or +80 accuracy.

"Aim math: Bad" is actually incredibly easy. All you need to know is if ACC = EVD, the attack has a 50% chance of hitting. The only 'problem' is that ACC and EVD would have to start out in the triple digits to make small changes to them possible without being game breaking.

JSH357 · Post by **JSH357** » Sun May 09, 2010 9:23 pm

Episode 10:

Newbie Newtype · Post by **Newbie Newtype** » Sun May 09, 2010 9:34 pm

This is probably my favorite episode for the information ont he Duck & MJ Tabletop game.

JSH357 · Post by **JSH357** » Mon May 10, 2010 7:57 pm

Yeah, I'm sorry I can't answer too much about it. If you have any specific questions about characters / their origins / weapons / implied plot elements, I can probably answer them though.

Here's Part 11:

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Mon May 10, 2010 9:23 pm

When I have the battle system code cleaned up sufficiently, i hope to embed a test battle into the enemy/hero/attack editors. You would easily be able to swap in/out heroes and enemies, and there would be no waiting between turns, so you could rapidly test attacks in different scenarios.

Don't expect this very soon... I will have to do a *lot* of clean up before this is practical.

JSH357 · Post by **JSH357** » Thu May 13, 2010 2:35 am

I didn't expect this to turn into an OHR feature thread, haha. Do continue.

Here's part 12:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D650owyzA-Q

Newbie Newtype · Post by **Newbie Newtype** » Thu May 13, 2010 3:24 am

Bards useful in a JSH game? Who would have thought!?

EDIT: I've NEVER seen an inventory screen filled up in an OHR game before. That is amazing.

JSH357 · Post by **JSH357** » Thu May 13, 2010 4:19 pm

I guarantee the bard is not useful intentionally. Total mishap.

Here's yet another part:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ0ZKjYmauc

Next episode will likely be the last one. There might be 15, though. I grossly overestimated the length of the game after cutting random stuff out.

This has been lots of fun, though! I'm considering doing another. Duck and MJ 2? Another JSH game? Perhaps another OHR game? Hm.

JSH357 · Post by **JSH357** » Sat May 15, 2010 3:46 am

... And here's the end of it all!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1xdtG2oC0Q

That about wraps it up. I want to get in more practice doing this before I LP Motrya (to advertise), so I'm thinking about covering another game. Perhaps Duck and MJ 2, Super Joe RPG, Query 1 or another OHR user's game such as Walthros. Open to ideas! Thanks for watching, the 10 of you who did.