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Speaking of satisfying, do you know what would be incredibly satisfying? Impalement and weapon-breakage!

Impalement kinda implemented but taken out for further polishing since it turned out to be incredibly frustrating to have a weapon stuck in you every time you accidentally run into one.

weapon breakage stuff

I'm considering a "softer" weapon breaking mechanic where rather than breaking and becoming completely unusable, weapons only have bits and pieces chip off, becoming "duller" and having less width+reach.

Is there a way to ditch weapons so you can pickup others?

Why yes, and there's more!

Terrain destruction only on very specific objects for now.

Time Dilation happens whenever someone takes happy damage. No plans on amplifying it via powerups yet.

edit: meant *heavy* damage but I like happy damage as it is.

What plans do you have for weapon durability and ranged weapons? Deployable structures(walls, shields)?

I find it quite interesting that you and many other people I've shown this to have asked about weapon durability. I recall weapon durability being one of the more annoying aspects of some of the games I like to play (Dark Souls, Monster Hunter, Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild) and I was originally planning to just have unbreakable weapons. Having second thoughts about this though. Possible that I'd make a prototype breakable weapon.

Ranged weapons in the making. Crossbows, blunderbusses, explosives and the like.

Nothing yet for deployable structures but they seem to have potential.

Needs more halberds and flails. Reminds me of hammerfight.

Hammerfight was a big inspiration. Flails unfortunately are somewhat cumbersome but still looking into their potential.


Don't have any spinning weapons yet. Would be another thing we'd like to try out.

That is over 4 years ago, so thread title should be corrected

Still technically +3 years so I'll leave it be

At a glance I see minecarts and bigger trees.
Any other major changes I should watch out for?

This actually looks like it would work quite nicely (at least conceptually). Ty for the piece of code.

Sorry for unclear title (not really sure how to express this idea without examples).

For a personal programming project, I'm trying to find some kind of math function/formula that reduces larger numbers by a greater amount than it reduces smaller numbers.
eg.
function(small number) -> slightly smaller number
function(big number) -> small number
function(very big number) -> small number marginally larger than function(big number)

An example would be getting the square root of a number, but sqrt tends to be computationally slow.
Getting the logarithm of a number also works, but log is even slower computationally than sqrt.

Division doesn't quite reduce larger numbers as sharply as I want.

Does anyone know any functions that can achieve this goal while remaining relatively quick to compute?