SBurb Strife Simulator (Free sprite resource!)

[Ebon_Heart]

I can not beat a medium computer! Even when that computer has a very basic weapon. :/ It really seems like all the computer does is follow you and button mash, but it's brutally effective!!!!

[Diin]

I can not beat a medium computer! Even when that computer has a very basic weapon. :/ It really seems like all the computer does is follow you and button mash, but it's brutally effective!!!!

Dodge.

[variousVerse]

Memo #SBURB_STRIFE_SIMULATOR on Pesterchum at 9 PM EST each night until unneeded (Will remove notice when that happens)

Do you think a pre-memo itinerary would be a good idea? I'm sure we'll all be on different time scheduals so we'll have to be on topic >90% of the time.

[variousVerse]

Last minute updates

Terezi (finally) +1

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Kanaya +1

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Vriska (edited tiger arms)

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[littlequietguy]

This is quite a bit of fun! In the future, can nobody brag about how they were playing it when it was still in the very first Alpha build? Can people bragging about that not be a thing?

[Diin]

Fuck

I completely forgot about the memo

Sorry, a lot of really really stressful shit happened recently. Will do best not to drop the ball tomorrow

[variousVerse]

Fuck

I completely forgot about the memo

Sorry, a lot of really really stressful shit happened recently. Will do best not to drop the ball tomorrow

No worries man, hope you can iron out whatever's going on.

[Staff Deployment]

This is quite a bit of fun! In the future, can nobody brag about how they were playing it when it was still in the very first Alpha build? Can people bragging about that not be a thing?

Aw man remember when there was no win/lose condition so you could just endlessly wail on the AI?
No? yeah that's right no I'm just kidding with you

[DoctorIcePopCat]

Fuck

I completely forgot about the memo

Sorry, a lot of really really stressful shit happened recently. Will do best not to drop the ball tomorrow

It's fine, shit happens. I think everyone can relate to something like this.

This is quite a bit of fun! In the future, can nobody brag about how they were playing it when it was still in the very first Alpha build? Can people bragging about that not be a thing?

OH HO, LOOK AT THIS NEW GUY! PFHAHAHA! REMEMBER BACK IN THE DAY WHEN YOU PRESSED DOWN AND X TO SPECIAL ATTACK? THERE WAS NO DIFFICULTY SETTING AND YOU ENDLESSLY FOUGHT THE AI? HAHA!
No, I'm just joking, don't take this seriously.
Besides, I don't see why people brag about getting to play a game first when the newer, updated versions play a lot better and are more polished. It's the newcomers that get to see all these updates on their first go.

Anyways, I'm going to start working on adding in arms to the sheets now.

[Staff Deployment]

Anyways, I'm going to start working on adding in arms to the sheets now.

Right now I'm compiling a huge armsheet based on weapon proficiency.
It would be good to update that each time new arms are added.
At the bottom is gonna be a list of every unique arm as well.

Right now it's not too comprehensive because most of the troll sprites use Terezi's arms... for some reason?

EDIT: here ya go. EDITEDIT: no go look at the other one this one is outdated blah blah blah

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Do NOT take every one of those 54 arms on the bottom and add them to every single character. That would be stupid.
This sheet exists for the purpose of cataloguing and narrowing down all the arms so it's easier to pick and choose which would be most relevant for a type of weapon or character. I specifically chose samples with solid colours (not white) so that it's easier to swap the colours around, with the exception of Davesprite's arms because fuck you.

[Diin]

Armsheet

Dude, that's sick as hell. However, what would be best is actually dividing the categories into "Weapon held", "Melee", and for Sollux, "Psychic." This is because all characters that hold any sort of weapon, be it a hammer, staff, sickle, wand, trident, etc., can use the same arms. Melee can be used by Vriska, Nepeta, Equius, and possibly Eridan (I might be forgetting one or two). Nepeta can use melee because closed fists work fine, as I can just add a claw sprite and make her all Wolverine-ish. And then Sollux needs open palms for his psychickz, but he his arm supply is pretty fine, don't worry about him.

[Staff Deployment]

I've arranged them like this so that if you decide to implement a custom character creator, the arms and respective animations are already laid out depending on which strife specibus is chosen.
But I'll extend it to the side and categorize it by fighting style as well. Gimme a second.

[Diin]

I've arranged them like this so that if you decide to implement a custom character creator, the arms and respective animations are already laid out depending on which strife specibus is chosen.
But I'll extend it to the side and categorize it by fighting style as well. Gimme a second.

Oh shoot you're right, I forgot about that. Hell, you're more on top of all this then I am. :P

[Staff Deployment]

a second gimme'd sufficiently. I also added every single possible weapon I could find, including the quills of echidna, that Unbreakable Caltana I made earlier, and the real version of the Sord.

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EDIT: Another reason this could be useful is Vriska.
Because.
Instead of having her be a non-canonical melee fighter
You could

Have her fight with every weapon. Randomized.

Her choice would be her normal white dice, or her blue dice, with the difference being power. And every time you play as her it randomizes which strife specifibus she uses in the fight.
Then her 'x' could be her throwing down the dice, and her weapon changing randomly, in case you're stuck with i dunno spoonkind.
This means that you'd pretty much have to do her sprites and animation last, and also you'd need a white and blue vriska-version of every weapon. Which is... deceptively difficult I suppose?

[Diin]

Have her fight with every weapon. Randomized.

Ha, that'd be pretty cool I suppose, but let's not get into any sprites for that yet. Actually, I would prefer we just stayed on the subject of ideas and suggestions, because the sooner we plan this out the sooner I can finish coding and the sooner I can begin animating and the sooner you can get a sequel (a sequel that is completely separate from this)

That sheet continues to be sick as hell however, great work on it

[DoctorIcePopCat]

Daaamn, Staff Deployment...

[Staff Deployment]

ideas and suggestions

Well I wrote down some stuff earlier so I guess I'll update that.
As well, remember how down-z used to be the special attack? You could reimplement that and make 'x' an alternate weapon attack, most often ranged. Like for instance Jake's 'z' would be a series of kicks and pistol whips, while down-z is a knockback and 'x' fires bullets.
Anyway here's a preposterously long list of attack ideas.

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(Jack is shorthand for 'enemy')

SPECIAL ATTACKS are used to gain a strategic advantage over......... Jack.

John: Blows Jack away with a tornado, long cooldown.
Dave: Dave barrage. Bunch of alt-timeline Daves come to join the fight for like 2 seconds and then immediately die.
Rose: Throws a needle into Jack and lassoes him closer if you hold it down. Low damage but short cooldown.
Jade: Teleports Jack away. This affects Jack and not her because I'm fairly sure Witch is an active class, not a passive one.
Jane: Regains a bit of health. Should work even after death. Ooohh, achievement: come back to life and defeat Jack.
Jake: Knocks Jack back to gain a bit of distance.
Dirk: CAL. It's a stun.
Roxy: Places a pair of windows on the ground. They teleport all players from one window to the next on contact.
Karkat: Trips Jack. Instant to the ground.
Gamzee: Smashes Jack up into the air. No cooldown but takes a second to warm up.
Tavros: FAIRYBULL SWARM.
Terezi: WALLOP (she wallops Jack, which catapults her over Jack's head and onto the other side)
Sollux: Throws Jack up into the air psychically.
Vriska: Changes weapon randomly. Huge cooldown and needs an uninterrupted second or so to work.
Nepeta: Cartwheels over Jack (like Terezi's thing)
Equius: Shrouds himself in a black cloud. Jack cannot make an attack while in the dark cloud, but Equius can. Alone, it's not really all that great, but with teammates, especially ones with huge warm-up attacks, it would be the most useful special in the game. Not that teammates are gonna be implemented in all likelihood, but imagine.
Kanaya: Drains Jack's health, regains her own. Not nearly as potent as Jane's recovery though.
Aradia: Freezes Jack in time for as long as the button is held down (immobile while doing so). In god-tier it'd show that red time clock, but in any other outfit it should just look like her holding Jack there psychically.
Feferi: Smashes Jack up into the air, I guess.
Eridan: Does some cape thing. Counter-attack of some sort, maybe?

SMASH ATTACKS are for straight-up damage, and should hopefully be complemented by their respective special attacks.

John: Hammer Smash. Just smashes the hammer. Like what Dave's moving-x currently does.
Dave: Dashes forward with a stab that can be followed up with a combo.
Rose: Smashes needles down to the floor and makes sparks capable of knocking Jack into the air a bit. Close range.
Jade: Fires her gun. Harpoons and Rifles take a second to warm-up followed by a strong ranged attack. Machine-guns sustain fire (but don't hinder enemy movement). The green sun gun shoots green suns. Which I guess is overpowered? It'd have a much lower rate of fire but a significantly greater damage output than the machine gun, but it still shouldn't hinder enemy movement.
Jane: Identical to Dave's, I guess. The spoon doesn't seem powerful enough to convincingly pull off a big smash or whatnot.
Jake: Fires pistols. Semi-automatic. Faster you hit x, more bullets.
Dirk: Big stab. Pulls sword back, stabs it forward.
Roxy: Identical to Jade's.
Karkat: Jumps up, slices down. It's a more powerful attack but can be interrupted.
Gamzee: Spins clubs, then hits Jack with both. It takes comparatively a long time to warm up, but it also would be indisputably the most powerful attack in the game (reference what he did when he fought the black king)
Tavros: Lance charge. Obviously. In fact, what else can he do with his specibus? I guess he could kind just, like, hit them with it. Just whack them in the head. That would be what his main 'z' does. Just wallops them with the broad side of a lance. Tavros is kind of pathetic and his specibus sucks.
Terezi: Identical to Dirk's. References her killing of Vriska.
Sollux: Laser beams. If he's in the air, he shoots them down diagonally. Huge warm-up. If they connect with Ahab's Crosshairs' beam, you get an achievement.
Vriska: Entirely dependent on her strife specibus.
Nepeta: Identical to Karkat's.
Equius: STRONG PUNCH. (Identical to Dirk's, but shorter range and higher knockback power).
Kanaya: Chainsaw spin. Spins around with a chainsaw. You should be able to do it indefinitely, but it's easy to interrupt and has a short range. Then again, it should also be steadily moving in one direction.
Aradia: Takes a long time to warm up, but she grabs Jack psychically and quickly tosses him up and smashes him down to the ground if he's in range. It'd be just like, waaaaarrrmm-uuppp TOSSMASH.
Feferi: Prod. Cull. Prod prod. Cull.
Eridan: Identical to Jade's, except he can only use Ahab's Crosshairs or his magic milk-coloured wand thing.

YAP THAT'S IT THASSALL I GOT

EDIT: When I say thassall I got, I mean that quite literally. I mean there's literally nothing more I could say in regards to ideas and suggestions that I haven't already written down. I guess I should probably go back to work on the few school assignments I've got left and that damned book.

[variousVerse]

Fef with an additional pose and metric tons of arms

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Also, troll attack ideas & playstyles, all of which are subject to scrutiny critique n whatnot, preferably in tonight's memo. Adheres strictly to the 'defined strengths & weaknesses' mantra.

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Karkat: lots of knockdown and attack canceling abilities. He shouldn't be smacking people with the sickle because that's not how actual sickle fighting goes down. The sickle should be used to grab while the free hand deals damage. Attacks should not be aspect related because what even is knight of blood.
+knockdown +disarms +close range

Tavros: Instead of a chain, Tavros' attack strength should depend on how fast he's moving before the attack hits, as lances are used on horseback as opposed to being grounded. His other attacks should be stab(s) or thrusts can create distance to make way for an effective charge. Technically a long range fighter
+knockback +lunge +long range

Sollux: Lots of stuns from several optic-related abilities, his special obviously being the charged optic blast. Any close range attacks should be used to stun, allowing sollux to run back.
+long range +stuns +charges

Nepeta: Very quick claw slashes as opposed to stabs, uses tackle-pounce to close gaps between herself and the opponent.
+lunge +close range

Kanaya: Chainsaw is revved before going into the standard chain, requires another change to perform subsequent chains. The lipstick can be incorporated in SOME WAY.
+charge +heavy hits +close range

Terezi: Lots of binds. Uses the collaspable cane + nooses to hold opponents, but the binds have limited short range
+binds +close range

Vriska: If the octet changes her weapon set, then each set should focus on different fighting styles or else the change is entirely useless. Otherwise the octet can provide damage buffs, self inflicted debuffs or control scrambles. The problem with the idea that the octet alters her weapon is that canon doesn't really reflect it. The known octet outcomes are as follows: Musclebeast, Weasel, levitation, nap-time, guillotine, duttle, reroll and ancestral awakening, meaning only one roll actually gives Vriska a tangible, wield-able weapon. With 16 million combinations, we can infer that the octet could yield more weapons, but it's reaching into the realm of speculation. Three of those, however, can be implemented by some kind of debuff.
+???

Equius: Strong yet slow punches. Easy to interrupt but difficult to tank. Causes knock back. Very difficult to close gaps between opponents.
+power + charge + knockback +close range

Gamzee: Moveset should reflect his perpetually intoxicated nature. Sobriety should be increased through specials or other means, which in turn would increase damage or whatever.
+???

Eridan: Charged rifle attacks. Rifle can be used at close range to stab with the harpoon to cause knock back and increase the gap between players
+charge + long range + knockback

Feferi: 2x3dent combat should closely resemble staff fighting. Instead of swipes, Fef can rotate the 2x3dent and perform stabs and disarming maneuvers. Playstyle should mirror Karkat minus the knockdowns.
+close range +disarms

Terminology
knockdown: knock the opponent down (obviously), disables ability to attack or move
disarm: Disables attack ability for x amount of seconds
stun: disables movement for x amount of seconds
bind: disables movement longer than stun
knock back: pushes opponent away

[variousVerse]

Gamzee with canon sleeves and edited codpiece

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[Diin]

Eugh. I'm really sorry again. The Pesterchum thing isn't going to work out, we're going to need a common chat program.

[variousVerse]

Eugh. I'm really sorry again. The Pesterchum thing isn't going to work out, we're going to need a common chat program.

Hmm, can't think of any other chat programs off the top of my head, what's your issue with Pesterchum?

[variousVerse]

Double post because euurghh

[bludragon976]

really really good

[variousVerse]

God tier Kanaya (technically canon)

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[Staff Deployment]

Yeah, what we really need is some sort of way to post things at any time along a specific threaded topic, where anyone can join in on the discussion. Maybe some sort of forum system oh wait