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Magic Boomerang
A purple boomerang, which turns into an energy disk when thrown.

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Bat of Bats
A black baseball bat, which turns into a swarm of bats when thrown.
Yes, this is a bad pun. Or should I say, "bat pun"?

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Meteor
Today's weather forecast: cloudy with a chance of meteors.
Meteors may fall from the sky.
Volatile magic can be barely sensed from them...
When agitated, fragments of them burst into flames and rise up.

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Cursed Scythe
This magical item will explode when thrown... But it will hurt allies as well.
Are you sure you really want to use it?

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Snowball
A large ball of snow, which can be thrown at enemies to freeze them.
Picture not available. Just imagine a snowball, surely you know what that is.

Spirit Items

When on the ground, these items move by themselves, almost as though they refuse to be picked up...
When thrown, they travel slightly further and faster, and will deflect most incoming projectiles.

Types of Spirit Items:
* Knife
* Shuriken
* Boomerang

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Molotov Cocktail

When thrown, it ignites enemies.
This isn't actually magic, but rather, science.

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Introduction of Magic Orbs!
Magic Orbs are items that may randomly fall from the sky.
They may be picked up and activated with the 'attack' key.
Activate them to cast a spell depending on the type of orb.

Types of Magic Orbs (Click to View)

Cyan Orb, the Orb of Angels:
Summons angels to heal your team.

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Orange Orb, the Orb of Devils:
Summons devils to attack your enemies.

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Purple Orb, the Orb of Protection:
Creates an Energy Shield in front of you.
Always use protection!

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White Orb, the Orb of Wind:
Attack enemies ahead with a strong blast of wind.

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John:
Multiple Energy Blasts (15% MP)
Input method: D + J + A
Fires a spread of three energy blasts with reduced range.

Retreating Energy Blast (10% MP)
Input method: D + v + A
Retreat while firing a short range blast of energy ahead.

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Deep:
Charged Blast (20% MP)
Input method: D + J + A
Charges up an energy blast, sending it flying further and faster.
May be released prematurely for reduced effect by pressing 'A'.

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Henry:
Imperishable Shooting (10% MP + ... )
Input method: D + v + A
Rapidly fire arrows ahead.
The shooting doesn't stop, until you press 'D' or run out of MP.
There's a reason I named it this, though (come on, tell us!)

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Bow Smash (0% MP)
Input method: D + v + J
Smash an enemy at close range with your bow.

Rudolf:
Veil of Swords (2% MP + ...)
Input method: D + ^ + A
Move around and slash surrounding enemies with such high speeds that they can't see you. (John Cena?)
Press 'D' to cancel.

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Swords Dance (0% MP)
Input method: D + v + A
Slash enemies around you with your swords.


Firen:
Spirits of Fire (12% MP)
Input method: D + ^ + A (+ A + ...)
Summons spirits of fire which seek out opponents.

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Freeze:
Bitter Cold Breath (30% MP)
Input method: D + v + A
Blows an icy breath ahead to freeze enemies.

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Dennis:
Vacuum Whirlwind Kick (15mp + ...)
Input method: D + J + A
Spin2win, creating a vacuum which pulls enemies towards you.
This skill sucks, literally.

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Woody:
Blink (8% MP)
Input method: D + J + A
Teleport a short distance ahead.
Can be used while rolling.

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Davis:
Multiple Energy Blasts (40% MP)
Input method: D + J + A
Fires a spread of five energy blasts.

Speed Punch (0% MP)
Input method: D + > + J
Dash forward and punch an enemy ahead of you.

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Stage 1 (Click to View)

Boss will change their attack patterns as you delete their HP.
Quantity and/or speed of projectiles increase as difficulty increases.
Defeat the boss multiple times until they run out of moves to win.

Look out for healing geysers! Seize control of these key points and get an advantage over your enemies!

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(07-23-2016, 07:55 PM)Hellblazer Wrote:  I like the Idea of the orbs and items, looks really neat and well presented.
However, the characters could use some separate sprites, the plain old edits don't seem to match the idea of a new 'character'. There are already plenty of colour variations of the characters present out there which seem all the same to me, so there should be something that makes them stand out from the others. Or are they still work in progress? Good luck!
Ps: You forgot to upload the gifs of the third character?

(07-23-2016, 11:31 PM)STM1993 Wrote:  Don't have to include the whole LF2 folder if its just 3 characters, 6 items & bitmap edits to lf2.exe with no other modifications...

Looks like a pretty fun mod emphasizing gimmicky but not overpowered spells as opposed to combos.

Seeing as this is an ongoing development, some tips on the data side:
* The weapons don't immediately delete themselves and summon balls when thrown, so if you throw them at point-blank you'll get the weapon back.
* The boomerang cannot be thrown unless you run or jump. This is because holding >A to throw is hardcoded to knife or boomerang's id. Consider changing the type in data.txt to the same type as baseball.
* The orbs still use baseball sound when they land on the floor.
* A lot of the balls & clones appear too low on the floor. Use a smaller(or negative) y-value when opointing them.
* You can hide Asche's teleport attacks' shadows by using firzen_ball or bat_ball's id as the teleporting ball.

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(07-30-2016, 11:45 AM)A-Man Wrote:  Nice!
In addition to giving your attacks different trajectories, try to make them vary better in the direction of their impacts (the itrs' dvx and dvy tags).

(08-04-2016, 11:52 PM)STM1993 Wrote:  

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Liking the music & sound effects, though some of the sounds last too long or are too delayed for the effect they're supposed to be. Didn't test the AI yet.

Characters:
Asche - "Defenseless" isn't much of a disadvantage actually. Try and see if you could make his defend not not gain momentum from a blocked attack and making his broken_defend last a bit longer.
Moeyy - wah piang, frail body is really painful; 7tu->9tu (which is actually +28.5% longer, not 40%; wait 1 is actually 2tu, wait 0 is 1tu). DOP duration 28->36tu(+28.5%)... that's actually not a good idea, it makes it even easier for your opponent to lock you in DOP infinitely. I suggest only making the injury last longer, the DOP is already painful enough as it is.
Markus - actual value is -29% injury & DOP as explained above.
Bart - I can cancel all his flute moves once the effect take place to shorten the recovery time.

Richie
* You shouldn't have increased the wait time on frame 61 & 66, it makes him hit the same person 2 times in a row. Also not really much of a disadvantage considering you'd primarily be using >>JA assuming you aren't using a weapon anyway.
* Using DJA with spirit sword makes the game crash, I've no idea why. Maybe to be safe make frame 102 use state 9998 and take out the "dvx" in frame 100's opoint.

Fire Meteor - Dayum, I think you're overdoing the burning_smoke effects during the on_ground frames. Give it a wait value bigger than 0. Might also want to make the frames where it is falling create some burning_smoke; either using state 18(not sure if it'd create problems in this case) or by using the opointed groundfire to make it.

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Changed all Traits to specify values instead of percentages, because I fail at LF2 math.
*Note: TU = Time Unit; 1/30 of a second.

Asche:
Inner Fire:
-9TU to frozen time (No change)

Defenceless:
-4TU to defend time (No change)
Added +2 TU to recovery when defence is broken.

Moeyy:
Frail Body:
+1TU to injury (Previous: +2)
Removed DoP penalty

Markus:
Vitality:
-2TU to injury (No change)
-8TU to DoP (No change)

Bart:
Reduced the delay after successfully playing a song.

Richie:
Weapon Expertise:
-1TU when armed (No change)
Now also applies to jump, run, and dash attacks.

Weapon Withdrawal Syndrome:
Fixed bug where normal attacks would hit twice.
+2TU to normal attacks (No change)
Now also applies to jump, run, and dash attacks.

Spirit Sword's Detonate changed:
"Spirit Bind": Stuns an enemy and pulls them towards yourself.

Detonate sound effects fixed, shattering sound now occurs when the weapon breaks.

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