Gooood.......Saturday morning/afternoon/evening everyone!
Apologies for the slightly delayed post this week. Internet was not on my side yesterday..
Once upon a time, we had a realisation..
In Vahrin's Call there are so many ways to crush your enemies (no pun intended) with brute force and power, but not really a way to sneakily get the drop on them. We wanted to introduce something like that.
So! What did we have in mind?
How about the ability to crouch down and sneak around undetected and then stab an enemy in the back for some big damage?
Well, there were several things we needed in order to pull this off, primarily consisting of a lot of new animations..
As you can see from the above gifs, a lot of time was spent working on new animations for both backstabbing and sneaking. Just one animation would not suffice, as we had to take the different weapon types into consideration.
Once we had the movement and stabbing feeling right, it was a case of getting everything set up and functioning together correctly. Things like:
- Setting up the backstab animation to play when you attack an enemy from behind
- Setting up the backstab to actually deal damage
- Ensuring each weapon type is using the correct animation
etc etc...
After this, it was just a case of polishing everything as much as we possibly could, and we finally had a new way for you to approach combat a little more discreetly.
Can pay to have some magic on standby, just in case that backstab doesn't immediately finish them off..
I hope you guys enjoyed today's update, taking a look at the implementation of sneaking and backstabbing, a stealthy way to gain an advantage on your enemies in battle.
I'm curious to hear if you think you'll give these stealth attacks a go, or if the guns blazing approach is more your kind of thing. Be sure to let me know!
Either way, have a lovely rest of your week, and I'll catch you all again next Friday~