Return of the Sith

First of all, I'm really surprised that in the few days since my re-submitted gamepage was approved, it has already gotten more hits than my other project which has been up here for over a month.

Now for the insanity. After my most recent test play, I decided that the combat was a little lacking. Once you have a Force user or two, difficult fights boiled down to buffing the party, buffing your main damage dealer, and then just wailing away with weapon skills and physical attacks until the enemy was dead.

I decided to spice things up a bit by implementing something from the re-make/updated version. Attacks and weapon skills now have different attributes that effect the enemy in different ways.

Rapid - Deals minimal damage to armored enemies, but double damage to fast enemy types that are hard to hit with some other attacks. Some damage to shielded enemies.
Piercing - Deals extra damage to armored enemies, less to unarmored, and usually little to nothing against fast enemies. Deflected by shielded enemies.
Phased/Edged - Deals normal damage to shielded enemies, and minimal to armored and fast types.

I'm also in the process of reducing the insane damage output that occurs when using master level attacks with the main character's ultimate weapon. I underestimated the effect that the stat bonuses gained during creation could have. With the right skill build, I was able to solo the last third of the game with it. While it kind of fits with the character's growth as a Jedi, it isn't actually a lot of fun to play through it like that. Battle with X enemies. Buffed Mind stat + Force Wave or Saber Toss. Instant win. It also put my other characters at a distinct disadvantage due to an end-game portion where the team breaks up into three groups. With everyone else under leveled, it was a hell of a chore getting through the area.

Hopefully the combat system re-shuffle will make battles a little more engaging, and hopefully I'll be able to complete the overhaul by the deadline.

Also, some stats from my last play. My time spent in the non-combat portion of the game was 3 hours 56 minutes. I fought a total of 163 of the almost 200 possible enemy encounters including one of three optional bosses. I saved the game 193 times, though that was mostly due to me saving every time I hit a glitch/piece of missing content that I needed to address. I do love save anywhere though!