[released][char]: Reaper.

[Lauli]

3. yes, I said I only used paint, because I don't know how to make it good with photofiltre. Thats why I'm writing in here. Its my first try on attacks.

If you use the spray tool, use noise-removal filters on these sprites then.

[Reaper]

...
That looks kinda awful. It's as if I used the blur tool on my old paint sprites.
I think in gameplay it would be very strange, because you don't have any black pixels in there. Maybe not really like smoke.
Maybe it works better with other values for the spray tool. I'll try it out tomorrow, but now I have to go off.

[Reaper]

hey, come on.
which soul should I use? And what is with the curse?
Btw: I tried to use different values for the spray tool + the noise-removal-filter sometimes and this is what came out:
Much rubbish in there.

Here the one's with the noise removal look quite good, but in gameplay? Maybe something like the first one( not circled) is better? what do you think?
Of course all of them would be smaller. But thats so much work to do it for all of them . And I have so much o do.

[Reaper]

trible post, lol.
Anyway: I didn't do so much in the last time, but I made some data for him. Not the adjusting of the wpoints etc. but some datas for the attacks. So if some of you want to see what his attacks will be or how he looks in the game you can download the attachment.
It isn't a real version of the reaper, more something like a v 0.1
Some sprites and some adjustings are missing( for example for his D>J or Dva attack the sprites aren't finished.)
However you can see how his attacks are going to be like. All of them aren't very good DC'ed as I haven't done it before, but the curse( grabbing + Dva) is quite funny. You can attach him to the enemy to slow him down or you attach it to you/ your friends to prevent them from attacks. But you can't freeze the enemys then... Only strange that the ball wants to be attached to you, not to your enemy. Don't know how.
So please comment the general idea, not a little centerx problem. I'll fix them too, but I won't work on that for the next time, so I thought I post it now.
Of course you can also comment the balancing. I haven't tried him out very often, but he seems quite ok.
Btw: you haven't said anything to which soul is the best. In the game I took the first one Lauli didn't like. At least it is LF2-styled.
Edit: datas:
id: 89 type: 0 file: data\reaper.dat
id: 510 type: 3 file: data\reaper_chase.dat
id: 511 type: 3 file: data\reaper_heart.dat
id: 512 type: 3 file: data\reaper_curse.dat
edit: The attachment in this post is an old version. Look at the first page to download the new version.

[XLittlebob252]

there is 1 tiny bit of problem
there is no data lines for data.txt...

please put

[Lauli]

I'm sorry I didn't reply to you concerning the filter-effect.


That's how I thought it might turn out. If you use it with colours it will surely look better. Also, use the Paint spray, not the Photofiltre one.

[Reaper]

oh, sorry, forgot the datalines
here they are:
id: 89 type: 0 file: data\reaper.dat
id: 510 type: 3 file: data\reaper_chase.dat
id: 511 type: 3 file: data\reaper_heart.dat
id: 512 type: 3 file: data\reaper_curse.dat

PS: I tried it with paint spray before, but then the whole fog was gone. Probably because it wasn't enough spray. I first made a big fog and then resized it to have those black gaps you don't like . Well, I try it out. The fog looks great, but I'm not sure wether it fits in with the attack.
Btw: do you know what's funny? If you try to let computer play against computer for balancing tests and use the character you want to test also for the summonig of the character. masses of characters disappearing and duplicating...

Edit: computer fighting against computer: random.
fights: 12
reaper won: 4
random won: 8
I think thats ok, as the AI isn't perfect( I used dennis') and as the computer player doesn't use his curse. So I don't know wether the curse and the heart( he used only a few times) are balanced, but the rest seems to be ok. In nearly every fight both players had bpoints. Just against deep he somehow had no chance...

[XLittlebob252]

by the way dude again you forgot something:
reaper_f
reaper_s

put that please.

[Silverthorn]

Edit: computer fighting against computer: random.
fights: 12
reaper won: 4
random won: 8
I think thats ok, as the AI isn't perfect( I used dennis') and as the computer player doesn't use his curse. So I don't know wether the curse and the heart( he used only a few times) are balanced, but the rest seems to be ok. In nearly every fight both players had bpoints. Just against deep he somehow had no chance...

Well, my technique to balance characters is like this:
I know that I can get up to stage 10 in survival mode on difficult (well, 10 is the exception, 8 or 9 is it in most cases) with the regular lf2-characters. So, when I can beat Firzen, Julian, whoever easily, the character is definitely overpowered. When I fail at like stage 4-7, I know that he has to be made a little stronger. Takes some time to figure out but
a) you learn to handle your character perfectly and
b) it's way more accurate.
Just use this method, it works pretty well

[Reaper]

@xlittlebob: oh, forgot to rename the face. However there should be a reaper_face5 or so. just rename it. And I haven't done a reaper_s yet, but he uses bat's.
@bluephoenix: Yeah, I don't play that much, so I'm not sure how far I can come. But I'll try it out.
Anyway I can't do anything today, maybe tomorrow.