Crits in games

 Welcome to the long form subject where were going to tackle crits as of right now! Strap in folks.

Mini crits

These in games such as TF2 or in other games being a damage based crits you have players being rewarded/ a bonus damage effect being stacked on top of already existing damage.

Random crits

This from TF2 is a game mechanic that isn't liked and can be manipulated by high damage dealers which I can understand the community not really liking a game mechanic that effectively really only given to the highest damage dealers in the game where players are given this unfair swing of the match where for more casual folks it's, "meh" but for those who climbed from the low skill floor to the higher skill ceiling that this is much more of a punch to the gut.

D20 crit

This kind of crit state having it where players often use the homebrewed rules for crits where the said damage is being rewarded for max possible damage on a two times multiplier with having it where extra damage being rolled being a taking the wind out of the sails as the damage is dealing little to nothing upon the hit.

Percentage change to crit

With this kind of system having it where often it's split from the check itself to see if something lands like in XCom where the given hit is seen if it lands then see if the crit happens and it does feel sweet when that low change lands and you have it where the enemy is vaporized but it is also teeth grinding when such a game encourages you to take it down just enough to grab the said creature and to bring it in for research which makes it so annoying to deal with at the end of the day.

However the crit system is fine and fits to the game.

Critical misses

Missing is already punishing enough but in games where that failure can hit even harder is just... oof. Look; it's not a bad system, especially when you have good rolls or a good string of luck but on days where you're just not going to land it, having a bit more of a forgiving system could help make this less painful.

Crit weakspots

This kind of crit system I love the most; having it in an RPG FPS to FPS in general you're rewarded for hitting the hardest to hit crit spots and getting it down to hit them right in the head! It's less cool and rewarding when the said target area you hit is because your weapon lacks sway, lacks any actual challenge to hit said weak spot.

For crit systems the colors white are used for the common generic damage but the sweet look of the red to pop out and really stand out from the white is great because you can see the results of the hit like in Borderlands really rewarding you at the end of the day.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Psychological manipulation #2 Big numbers

 This is a fine balancing act for players but the goal of the matter is to keep going for the big numbers and keep the big numbers with them getting bigger, and bigger then you get the picture. With this not only having one set of numbers get bigger but having the other numbers get bigger as well. You need some form of system to keep the players wanting the numbers to get bigger. For idle clicker games you use the reset system to get the player coming back; with the MMORPG system you scale down those numbers in updates so you can keep numbers getting bigger or use the shared power system for the players to use. Personally I like using an XP reset system; once the XP hits max for the level, the XP subtracts from the XP cost bringing it down to 0 and as thus allowing that big number of XP to still feel big. Then you might be asking about the player leveling up which there is always the COD reset level system where once the level hits a big enough number you have it where the progress...
Read more

Power Creep

 Power creep can be both a good and a bad thing. With power creep you have it where players are being fed more powerful items or cards where they ditch old equipment for the new toys and make it so players will actually use it. On that same note you're trading the learning the items/ understanding how to make oneself more powerful through strats by relying on your given powerful new toys and making players throw them away again once more toys do show up. It's a useful investment strat for card games but does get boring for games where the only thing you have to look forward to is bigger more powerful numbers instead of different strats/ tactics you've never seen or used before with the bigger numbers feeling meaningless. Person experience; with Yu-Gi-Oh playing the rogue format was more fun even if I lost because I wasn't losing to the FTK format and actually scaled down in power with having fun seeing different strats/ tactics, that the limitations that were self impos...
Read more

Deck Size matters

 Small decks These kind of games make it where the game is being given a more consistent/ predictable strategy. The outcome being much more predictable but having it where players are dealing with mill and burn strats far too often making them busted. Large decks These kind of games make mill/ burn strats basically useless but have less reliance on consistent drawing what you want; however in a game where search abilities exist with the more search power the more options that open up and remove the down side of having a larger deck becomes.
Read more