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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0004524 | Valley 1 | Suggestion - Spell Ideas | Oct 3, 2011 9:38 am | May 10, 2012 8:28 am | |
| Reporter | zebramatt | Assigned To | |||
| Severity | major | ||||
| Status | strongly considering | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 0.513 | ||||
| Summary | 0004524: New spell idea: summon sentry | ||||
| Description | For substantial magic cost, summon a critter who hovers above and behind you, with its own health (or duration, or both) and launches projectiles at closest enemies. Like a friendly Lightning Esper who follows you about for a while. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Internal Weight | Feature Suggestion | ||||
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I've always been a fan of summoning spells |
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As long as it's useful in a practical without being overpowered, I'm all for this idea. And the summon spells that ARE in the game already are fun to use and can be quite useful, so seeing more is definitely a good thing. |
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It may be best to implement these similarly to the concept of "Options" in Gradius. Basically, instead of giving summoned sentries their own AI, which would cause a problem in Anachronism missions (because how would it know who to target? It would be useless or way too good), make it stay relatively still next to the player (making it move when they move) and dumbfire in the same general direction you are firing at every time you fire an attack spell. I would suggest giving them a duration instead of health. If incredibly ambitious, allow the player to summon multiple sentries, of mixed types (up to, say, 3?) and allow the player to cycle through possible sentry formation settings with a button. |
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I'd love to see it as a technology-based satellite, not magic-based. |
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What Tallgeese said, "Options" like Gradius are the way to go. This would be a cool feature, and I'd like the extra firepower. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Oct 3, 2011 9:38 am | zebramatt | New Issue | |
| Oct 3, 2011 10:12 am | tigersfan | Internal Weight | => Feature Suggestion |
| Oct 3, 2011 10:12 am | tigersfan | Status | new => strongly considering |
| Oct 5, 2011 8:00 pm | Jerebaldo1 | Note Added: 0015838 | |
| May 8, 2012 5:10 am | Misery | Note Added: 0023737 | |
| May 8, 2012 10:21 am | Tallgeese | Note Added: 0023757 | |
| May 8, 2012 10:24 am | Tallgeese | Note Edited: 0023757 | |
| May 8, 2012 10:30 am | Quaix | Note Added: 0023758 | |
| May 8, 2012 10:33 am | Tallgeese | Note Edited: 0023757 | |
| May 8, 2012 6:16 pm | twowinds12 | Note Added: 0023793 | |
| May 10, 2012 8:28 am | zebramatt | Category | Suggestion - Gameplay => Suggestion - Spell Ideas |
