Combo Systems?

OmniOwl · February 15, 2017, 6:38pm

Juice-Tin;666658:

I’m working on a game with combo attacks (Not a fighting game, but combos are combos).

This can get pretty complex depending on how complex your system is, IE: A, B? Or Down+Forward+A, B.

Regardless a pretty important factor in making it feel smooth is input timings. You want the player to be able to press B, During the A attack, and have B come out after.
This way people who type in the combo quickly will see it unfold smoothly.

The way I handled that is by keeping track of a queued action with a timer.

So attack A is in progress and player presses B. It queues up B and starts a timer (if another button is pressed, it’ll replace B with that button and reset the timer). When attack A ends, it sees that B is queued up, and was only pressed 0.5 seconds ago, so it immediately does attack B.
If attack B was pressed 2 seconds ago, then it ignores it.

I’ve got it a bit smoother, when attack A is about 70% done, it’ll start the queued up action for that fast combo speed. However, if the player didn’t input anything, they’re still able to until attack A gets to 80% done, after that point they failed to combo and the attack does it’s full completion animation.

And obviously you’ll be keeping track of the current combo number so you can modify which attacks come out when, and at what button presses.

Ah, right. That’s one way to do it at least!

I’ll give it a look, thanks!