Goonhub
10-29-2022, 06:18 AM
Currently, the katana is hugely outclassed by the c saber, largely due to the c saber's ability to deflect projectiles when blocking with it. My solution to this is to give a similar ability to the katana, but angled towards melee.
The best way to approach it would probably be a kind of 'parry' ability where, when blocking, incoming melee attacks are instead deflected onto the person who dealt them (for example, if someone hits you with a stun baton they would be hit with it instead, stunning them). To make sure this is obvious there could be a unique sprite for when someone is blocking with a katana so you can actually tell if someone's attacking or blocking. This could be as simple as making the katana sprite sideways in their hands or something.
You could also put limits on this if it were to become too good, such as having the block be broken when an attack is deflected so you have to block again, meaning having multiple people attacking you is still very dangerous. Or, make it rng-based, such as a 50-50 chance to block the attack or not (and either having the block completely fail if unsuccessful, or having it simply negate the attack but not deflect it onto the attacker).
You could also make it even more intricate if you really wanted to, such as making it so you have to block within a certain amount of time of the attack (and this timing could be rewarded by making it into a counter-attack, cutting off the arm of the poor soul you managed to successfully time a block with).
I think this would encourage more people to buy the otherwise awesome weapon and balance it a bit with what's kinda supposed to be it's antithesis, the c-saber. Especially considering as it stands right now, there are not many times where someone has managed to cause a lot of damage using a katana - few people even buy it nowadays.
The best way to approach it would probably be a kind of 'parry' ability where, when blocking, incoming melee attacks are instead deflected onto the person who dealt them (for example, if someone hits you with a stun baton they would be hit with it instead, stunning them). To make sure this is obvious there could be a unique sprite for when someone is blocking with a katana so you can actually tell if someone's attacking or blocking. This could be as simple as making the katana sprite sideways in their hands or something.
You could also put limits on this if it were to become too good, such as having the block be broken when an attack is deflected so you have to block again, meaning having multiple people attacking you is still very dangerous. Or, make it rng-based, such as a 50-50 chance to block the attack or not (and either having the block completely fail if unsuccessful, or having it simply negate the attack but not deflect it onto the attacker).
You could also make it even more intricate if you really wanted to, such as making it so you have to block within a certain amount of time of the attack (and this timing could be rewarded by making it into a counter-attack, cutting off the arm of the poor soul you managed to successfully time a block with).
I think this would encourage more people to buy the otherwise awesome weapon and balance it a bit with what's kinda supposed to be it's antithesis, the c-saber. Especially considering as it stands right now, there are not many times where someone has managed to cause a lot of damage using a katana - few people even buy it nowadays.