{"id":1278,"date":"2021-03-01T17:25:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T22:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/badecho.com\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2021-06-06T21:38:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T02:38:29","slug":"apocalypse-system-adding-fatalis-debuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badecho.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/01\/apocalypse-system-adding-fatalis-debuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding the Fatalis Debuff to the Apocalypse System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Prior to the creation of the Apocalypse system<\/a>, Omnified<\/a> games, for the most part, exercised a simple maxim: if you get hit, you die. Indeed, my very first Omnified hack was to kill the player dead whenever an enemy managed to inflict any damage at all. If I didn’t simply have some kill code go off when the player was struck, I’d achieve the same goal by multiplying all damage done by 69x, or by some other catchy number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, one fateful eve…the Apocalypse system was born!<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

It was the result of me setting goals for myself to learn more and more for each game that I hacked. For every new game, I needed to do something a bit fancier; changes that relied on more complicated rules getting set up, as well as deeper and more complicated injections into code found through intensive sessions of reverse engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, ever since the Apocalypse was born, Omnified gameplay consists of random effects going off in response to the player receiving damage. Many of these effects can easily kill the character, but, more or less, there is technically a smaller chance we end up dying immediately from Apocalypse rules than when there was a simple “one hit == kill” hack implemented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, don’t get me wrong, I love the Apocalypse system, the kind of gameplay it offers is amazing and always keeps me on my toes. Still, I sometimes pine for the incredibly frantic days of old where I had to fear damage from anything<\/em> killing me very dead in one hit. So, I started to think to myself: is there any way to enjoy the best of both worlds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this line of thought inspired the latest addition to the Apocalypse system: the dreaded temporary status effect and malady known as Fatalis<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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