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Offline Souls-Stream

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Limited Earth Magic ?
« on: January 16, 2012, 09:23:40 pm »
Hi all,

I love this game however in every game where you can use earth magic, it is always limited and so it is in this one too sadly :(

The main idea is to reinforce earth magic to make it feel like you really control earth and have fun with this element and not limit it
to projectile and armor...

Those spells could be created on other elements too but earth would be the best.

Spells that are missing and that should be included should be
-Golems (any elements or elementals)
-Earth Wall / flame wall ... A combinaison ? (on one or both side of the character) it would be a defensive spell with limited time / hp
-earth spikes (on one or both side of the character) : spikes rise from earth damaging ennemies bellow them.
-earth floor (creating a temporary floor that would work like a wood platform)
-earth grasp : a hand come out of the ground and trap the targeted enneny (closer) to forbid him to move

Just give ideas of what kind of earth spells you would like to see and maybe the devs will listen and succeed to implement them...

Also, I was thinking about more transformation spells for the character like werewolf, golem, adding defensive arms or adding a scorpion tail (like castlevania) adding winds...

Just some ideas, I know how ideas go in games but I wanted to give mine still =)
« Last Edit: January 16, 2012, 09:28:13 pm by Souls-Stream »
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Offline Mánagarmr

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Re: Limited Earth Magic ?
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2012, 11:08:47 am »
If you have suggestions, the correct place to put those are at the mantis bug- and feature tracker. Check my signature for the link!
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Offline Souls-Stream

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Re: Limited Earth Magic ?
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2012, 02:01:45 pm »
Yes, I'm really sorry  :( I noticed that the mantis post this morning only ! I took a look at it and was so amazed to see so many suggestions !  :o
I'll take a look at it to post my idea if I get some time ! Which is not easy :/
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Offline x4000

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Re: Limited Earth Magic ?
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2012, 08:22:47 pm »
Cheers, no worries!

We definitely have plans for a lot more earth magic, and a lot of the general sorts of things on your list.  Usually for mantis we prefer one suggestion per issue, so that we can actually treat each one individually and then file them or complete them individually.  Not a big deal, but sometimes you'll find a suggestion gets implemented even a year or more after it was made (because we get so many of them), whereas others get implemented very quickly or not at all.  It really varies, but mantis and so on helps us keep up with them.

Anyway, never fear that this game won't have enough in terms of earth magic -- we'll definitely be trying to keep it roughly even between all six elements, so there is something interesting no matter what your favorite color/theme is.

Welcome to the forums!
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Offline Souls-Stream

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Re: Limited Earth Magic ?
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2012, 08:34:39 am »
First of all let me say WOW !!! And thank you for your welcome :)

I never saw a dev. Of a game talking so nicely and being so encouraging :)
I am really glad to hear what you say because that's why u bought AVWW, it looks so promising and I heard about it on impulse, well, I actually saw it on impulse and jumped on it when I saw how promising it was ! I'm definitely surprised that I didn't see that project anywhere else when AI War received so much praise :( I hope lots of poeple will buy it and give you the money you deserve :) this is truly a fantastic game like we don't see anymore or rather never saw !

The system and everything else is amazing though I still feel a bit lost sometimes and that's what got me kind of away from the game as soon as I tried it ... But then I decided to try it seriously and wow ! What a slap in the face this game is !!!

Some parts are repetitive or empty, I'm talking about the dungeons or houses but I'm so confident that it will be changed and that you're all working hard at it :)

So thank you for this fantastic project you work on, thank you for not letting earth magic being dull like in so many games when actually you can do great things with it (I think the cartoon avatar got it right) and thank you for the way you answer :)

Last, I tried mantis, I posted this idea but I don't see it in there... Well, it's there but not there at the same time, I just wonder if other poeple saw it... Oh anyway, you already answered me and reassured my fears :)



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Re: Limited Earth Magic ?
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2012, 08:46:12 am »
I saw your Mantis report, it's there. We use those for new ideas in the games. Like Chris said, it might be a year before we actually do it, but we do look at all the suggestions for the game.
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Re: Limited Earth Magic ?
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2012, 01:20:49 pm »
I hope I didn't come across as rude there in my post, Souls-Stream. I was merely trying to help ;)
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Re: Limited Earth Magic ?
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2012, 05:51:07 pm »
Why am I getting flashbacks of Avatar: The Last Airbender TV series in this discussion?

What movie? 

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Re: Limited Earth Magic ?
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2012, 07:03:24 pm »
No offense taken moonlight ! It was my fault for not understanding / seeing the idea thread with mantis ! I should have paid more attention to it !

As for avatar, you got it right :P I love avatar and it's the first time I see something interesting with earth magic ! It would be amazing in AVWW :)

And with that, when you look at 99% of the games that involves magic, it's just dull ! There's just a spell to throw a stone and another to make an earth quake and another for stone skin... And ... That's all :( which always make earth magic the less interesting magic ever except if you are a warrior maybe :/

Then avatar came and it was simply amazing ! I am a PnP rpg player and we Play "ars magicka" where you are a Mage and do whatever you want with any elements ! It has limitation but you can still do stuff like avatar and earth bending :) its all about imagination but it's way fun. Sadly video games never really exploited this possibility (I know you need coding and it takes time) but it could make Smth really fun and amazing without entering in too much complications. The video game magicka is great with those ideas and you have a great time playing with spells but they could still have gotten it a little bit better (wonder if they'll do more dlc?).

Anyway, just to say it would be really fun in AVWW :)
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