Battledome Alpha

I am looking for ideas for weapons, equipment, abilities, and drones for the Battledome. As you read in the previous blog, upon leveling up, your Battler is granted a random powerup, which takes the form of a weapon, equipment (which can have an ability), a straight-up ability, or drone (up to 3 drones max).

Before you can really brainstorm, you'd probably need to know what makes up a battler stat-wise, and what options there are for weapons, equipment and drones.


Who am I?

Here is a break down of the pertinent attributes of a battler. A drone is also a battler (but with the restriction of having no drones of its own, and not getting powerups upon level up).



What are all these things?
-HP: health. If this is zero, you lose.
-NRG: energy. If this is zero, you are stunned.
-ATK: attack. Base physical bonus damage.
-AGL: agility. Your turn speed.
-PHYSICAL, ENERGY, FIRE, COLD, ELECTRIC, SONIC, CORROSIVE are the different damage types. I can add more (if they make sense). Each battler, weapon, equipment, drone can have any combination of damage type and min/max damage amount. IE- a sword could have 1-6 PHYSICAL damage + 1-3 COLD damage.
-Damage types have a minimum and maximum range.
-Evade is chance to dodge an attack, resulting in no damage being done.
-Block is chance to block an attack, resulting in no damage being done.
-Pierce is chance to get through a block, resulting in a block being ignored
-Parry is chance to block an attack with a weapon, resulting in no damage being done.
-Intercept is like a preemptive counterattack. IE- while you are attacking, the enemy intercepts the attack before it lands, and counterattacks immediately.
-Accuracy (default 10000, IE- never miss) is chance to miss an attack.
-Critical is chance to do extra damage, based on critical multiplier
-Fumble is chance to do less damage, base on fumble multiplier
-Disarm is chance to destroy the enemy's weapon when you do an attack
-Stun is chance to disable an enemy for 1 turn
-Numberofattacks is the number of attacks.
-Lifesteal is a percentage of life stolen during an attack
-Energysteal is a percentage of energy stolen during an attack

Stat Growth
These are the numbers I have used in the latest demo, as a base. They give an idea of the scale of numbers I want to use....for now.

LEVEL 0 STATS

BATTLER	HP	NRG	ATK	AGL
Base	70	25	10	15
Fighter	70	25	15	20
Lithe	60	20	10	27
Brute	95	30	13	10
Crawler	85	37	8	12
Johnny5	66	50	7	15

*All battlers start at level 0 with a set of base values. Each build has its own tweaks to the starting values

LEVEL 0 TWEAKS

MODES	HP	NRG	ATK	AGL
Fighter	0	0	5	5
Lithe	-10	-5	0	12
Brute	25	5	3	-5
Crawler	15	12	-2	-3
Johnny5	-4	25	-3	0

LEVEL UPS
Each level up results in a fixed increase in stats. Each build has its own small fixed increments to each stat.

MODES	HP	NRG	ATK	AGL
Fighter	3	0	1	1
Lithe	0	0	0	3
Brute	6	0	1	0
Crawler	3	3	1	0
Johnny5	0	6	0	1

Here is the increases by growth type. Eventually, I want the user to be able to choose which kind of growth they want each level up.

GROWTH	HP	NRG	ATK	AGL
Balanced	6	6	3	3
Brawler	4	2	4	4
Tank	12	6	3	1
Specialist	2	10	2	4

Weapons

Weapons are used to increase your battler's damage output. Battlers start a battle with a cache of weapons, and can deploy them in battle. Only 1 weapon can be deployed at any given time. A weapon does not have to be deployed. Weapons can be deployed, undeployed, discarded, disarmed, or stolen. Weapons never run out of ammo or energy.



Here is what I have so far. Keep in mind I am just pulling these numbers out of my ass.
As a general rule for damage modifiers, I made melee weapons inherit 1.0 damage modifiers for all damage types, and ranged weapons inherit 0.0 damage modifiers except for that weapon's type, which I set the damage modifier to 1.5. So the Firevolt would have a 1.5 FIRE and 0.0 everything else.

WEAPON	Damage Type	Damage	Notes
Crab Hands	PHYSICAL	4-8	high intercept, high fumble, x2
Stun Baton	PHYS, ENERGY	1-6,1-4	chance to stun
Propelo	PHYSICAL	2-5	multistrike, up to x10 attacks
Vibrocutter	PHYSICAL	2-6	small knife, high retaliate, multistrike
Vibroblade	PHYSICAL	4-16	basic sword
Electric Mace	PHYS, ELEC	3-18,1-18	heavy damage, low accuracy
Quarium Whip	PHYSICAL	1-15	high disarm, intercept, critical
Sabre of Light	ENERGY	2-20	pure energy attack
Thunder Katana	ELECTRIC	1-25	pure electric
Charge Blade	PHYS, ENERGY	2-6	energy steal
Discharge Blade	PHYS, ENERGY	2-6	uses energy to inflict criticals
Stun-o-rang	PHYSICAL	1-8	multi target
Plasma Staff	ENERGY	5-15	high intercept, disarm, chance for 2x attacks
Drill Spike	PHYSICAL	8-28	high pierce, disarm
Nintendium Spike	PHYSICAL	12-15	pierce
Impact Hammer	PHYS, SONIC	1-36,4-6	high crit
Energon Axe	ENERGY	8-21	pure energy
Toxic Dagger	PHYS, CORRO	1-4,0-25	can inflict periodic damage
Frozen Fists	PHYS, COLD	7-9,3-4	cold damage, x2 strike
Sonic Disruptor	SONIC	2-7	target all
Chaingun	PHYSICAL	2-4	multistrike (x4 to x10 attacks)
Repeating Blaster	ENERGY	2-8	x3 to x5 attacks
BFG-9000	ENERGY	15-65	highly inaccurate
Sniper Rifle	PHYSICAL	12-24	high crit, highly accurate, piercing
Bio Rifle	CORROSIVE	3-30	periodic damage
Flak Cannon	PHYSICAL	6-24	heavy damage, target all
Shotgun	PHYSICAL	18-24	heavy damage
Shock Rifle	ELECTRIC	1-10	v.high crit, can stun
Laser Rifle	ENERGY	2-12	high accuracy
Missile Pod	PHYS, FIRE	5-15,5-10	x4 missiles, low accuracy
Firevolt	FIRE	5-20	Jet of piercing fire

Abilities
Abilities are special attacks that consume energy on use. Abilities can be granted by certain equipment, or just learned on their own.

The logic behind abilities are underdeveloped, and would be open to expanding their stats/modifiers/etc... to accomodate neat ideas.

An abilility can have completely custom logic in a battle, unrelated to any of the stats below. For example, Rust Gel (in this game) just automatically stuns enemy battlers AND completely disables their drones.



I only have a few abilities implemented, more as a proof of concept than anything else. These numbers were especially pulled out of my ass last minute, and definitely need refinement.
As a general rule, I made abilities non-parryable and non-interceptable. Damage modifiers were 0.0 except for their damage type, which was 1.5.

ABILITY	Damage Type	Damage	Energy Cost	Targets	Notes
Beam Cannon	ENERGY	15-40	15	Random Enemy	one time use, reduced accuracy
Flamer	FIRE	5-20	4	All Enemies
Rocket Punch	PHYSICAL	10-20	2	Random Enemy	small accuracy boost
Rust Gel	PHYSICAL	n/a	5	All Enemies	disables all enemy drones instantly, and stuns enemy battler.
Flash Freeze Bomb	COLD	5-10	8	All Enemies	high chance to stun, high accuracy
Shock-Kick	ELECTRIC	1-50	12	Random Enemy	also inherits PHYSICAL damage modifier at 1.5
Shockwave Pulse	SONIC	5-10	8	All Enemies	v.high accuracy, chance to disarm weapons
Flashbang	SONIC	0	2	All Enemies	v.high accuracy, v.high chance to stun

Equipment
FULL DISCLOSURE: I have not fully implemented equipment in the game yet. So it's the perfect time for your input!
I have a list of equipment I that I brainstormed from actual Battledomes we've held (plus a few extras). I put in parentheses the associated ability the equipment would grant.



QUESTION: can a battler have duplicate equipment? or maybe some of them could be duplicate? Having 10 E-Tanks could be cool.


Drones
Drones are special-case battlers. They level up to the same level as their host, but do no get powerups, and have their own custom builds and growth.

My thinking on them is that each drone would have either a single ability or weapon, and then just use that every time their turn comes up. They would have significantly less HP than real battlers (except for maybe a damage-sponge drone?). They would be very limited and focused in what they do.

A battler would be limited to 3 deployed drones in a battle. Right now, battlers are limited to at most 3 drones total. I might change it such that you get to pick which 3 drones to take into a battle from your stable.

I have made a Minibot, Turret, and Hoverdrone archtypes, but they don't do anything special yet. They don't even have abilities or weapons yet - they just mindlessly attack.

Ideas please!


Conclusion
So there you have it - all of my ideas and their implementations laid bare. The interplay of weapons, battlers, abilities, and drones is what will make this game fun. So help me make Battledome fun!