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Yay! Fantastic OP. I'm half-eager and half-dreading making those tuckboxes for myself when all my stuff finally arrives.
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I would, but I'm already running two games. If anyone else would like to try their hand at modding, it honestly doesn't take that much time or effort! It can be fun to see inside the twisted brains of Battlecon players too. All you need to do is check out those wonderful links in the OP and you'll find a directory full of all the files you need to get a game up and running! Speaking of which, my computer just died a death. About to run a system reset, which should fix everything right up, but in case it doesn't and I take a while to update games, you know why!
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Jul 11, 2015 08:18
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ActingPower posted:Speaking of double newbie fights, was anyone curious to try playing the PnP version of Exceed that just came out? I would be willing to mod it if people wanted to give it a shot. What's that?
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Jul 11, 2015 18:29
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The default bases are the ones the fighters are actually balanced around. Beta bases are significantly less balanced but probably also more interesting - the Dash variant especially, as it involves actual decision-making rather than just being a panic button for you to mash. No idea what Delta is. EX and Almighty are basically there if you want to play around with multiple fighters teaming up against one super-strong fighter - if you're a KoF or Skullgirls fan, you may get a kick out of this. IMO, EX/Almighty aren't particularly balanced either and only good for a couple novelty matches. To each their own of course, though, and it never hurts to try it out! If you're really looking for a variant play mode, pick up Strikers! It's quite a lot of fun, adds a new dimension to the game without messing up the carefully balanced system too much, and is basically the only way to play Tag Mode IMHO.
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Jul 12, 2015 03:07
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Saguaro PI posted:Yeah, they're the new set that comes with Armoury. The wiki has them. And it has base power 4, lmao. Not sure why he thought that was a good idea.
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Jul 12, 2015 06:00
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Shadow225 posted:If you don't mind potentially slow updates while I figure it out, I can mod this. Alright alright alright. It'd be pretty unsportsmanlike of me to choose a character while already knowing who my opponent is playing, so roll me a random please!
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Jul 14, 2015 05:42
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I don't suppose Pixel Tactics versions of Lymn and Thessala Three are lurking behind a corner somewhere? I decided to collect all the Pixel Tactics sprites of Battlecon characters into one place for easy use, and those were the only two I couldn't find.
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Jul 14, 2015 14:58
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Saguaro PI posted:They're in two of the mini sets, I believe. Oh thank goodness. I was not looking forward to having to make a Lymn sprite. Poison Mushroom posted:Wol, don't go totally random. Pick one of your best characters. You get what you ask for. I choose
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Jul 14, 2015 15:32
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I think a player of Gutter Owl's calibre is going to be an unholy terror on Alumis, but we'll see! Jager certainly doesn't lack for tools.
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Jul 14, 2015 18:10
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I don't think I've played any character more than 3 times, but if I had to choose from among that list, I think I'd go with: 1) Tatsumi: My absolute fave, a hell of a lot of fun to play, and with enough moving parts that she can adapt to anything. 2) Rukyuk: I see the fighters as puzzles more than anything else, and I think Rukyuk is one of the most interesting puzzles to solve. He has a lot of weaknesses, but he also has a lot of brute force, and trying to find out how to squeeze out every last bit of that power every beat is frankly exciting. 3) Lixis: I don't really do "stand and fight", but in every game I've ever played, resource denial is one of my winningest strategies. Lixis is great at that. I'd really rather put Kajia in this slot, but Kajia is far too matchup dependent. Sad that my other favourite character, Gerard, isn't on the list. Not really sure why, either, he seems pretty balanced.
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Jul 17, 2015 06:36
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Trasson posted:You'd have to be insane to want to play someone like Eligor True words.
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Jul 17, 2015 07:48
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Tolly and I were talking and he brought up the possibility of Xenitia using her Finisher while above 7 life, but Drawing herself below 7 in that same beat. Someone who's going to GenCon should ask Brad if that's meant to happen, because if so, that's really drat strong.
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Jul 20, 2015 05:58
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Mad Fnorder posted:The Special Action card doesn't care about intent, though. Incidentally, I forgot to mention but Welsie vs. Mikhail has ended! Another loss for Welsie, but she acquitted herself very well against someone understood to be one of the strongest characters in the game. I maintain that with some level of character-specific mastery, Welsie will be quite strong. She has solid set-up ability and once she is set up, being able to trap someone in an Anomalous loop is pretty ridiculous.
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Jul 21, 2015 16:35
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I have bought those and they're very comprehensive. The Devastation ones even include stuff like arenas and bosses.
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Jul 25, 2015 16:59
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I swear, most of these problems can be fixed by sitting down, making a glossary of all your terms, then re-applying them consistently so they conform completely to the glossary. It may take a bit of time, but it's not hard.
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Aug 4, 2015 19:05
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I'll mod. Send me your character choices! Or say "random" as usual and give way to the wicked whims of Wol.
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Aug 6, 2015 08:29
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Christ on high.
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Aug 6, 2015 21:43
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Gutter Owl (Iri) vs OmegaGoo (Tanis) is up!
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Aug 7, 2015 01:32
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If you like the sheets looking good, I also update the sheets from time to time - usually when someone runs a match with a character and I realize the assets I made are massively ugly, like the old cards I had for Iri's Forms. If anyone cares, I could put up an update log in the folder?
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Aug 7, 2015 22:33
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Hi all! I made more pixel assets to increase readability in matches (and to make things look cooler). Everything's uploaded to the Google Drive, including blown-up official sprites for every character, but here's a summary. Tokens and counters, i.e. things that don't go directly on the board:  If you want to use the board images I use, here's the markers that do go directly on the board, as well as a couple alternate-form character sprites that don't already exist (Juto, base sprites edited for clone Arec, Gaspar and Sarafina, and doggie Karin and Jager by Fabio Fontes, not by me):  I also updated the following character sheets in order to make cards easier to fit into posts / to make cards look better / not use official BattleCON card art on any card graphics: Anath, Clive, Gerard, Lesandra, Malandrax, Runika, Zaamassal.       
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Aug 11, 2015 10:54
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AMooseDoesStuff posted:If Runika is hit for 0 thanks to Soak or whatever, does she still lose an artifact?
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Aug 11, 2015 11:34
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Aw yiss they're starting off with K&J and Rukyuk, so that's at least 2 characters I really like! Very tempted to pick up one of the custom costume backer options, but that really banks on me being able to find a job ASAP. Edit: Honestly, not a fan of how those Shekhtur style graphics look. The high contrast primary colours in the art look really busy set in the style frames, which are also bright primary colours. Spiral in particular is pretty hard to look at. Wol fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Aug 17, 2015 |
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Aug 17, 2015 22:41
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Saguaro PI posted:Money given. I don't know. I can't see Sagas as being any harder to implement than anything else. Granted I don't know anything about coding, but wouldn't implementing all his tricks simply be a matter of checking markers on opponents' effects and moving the ones with relevant markers around?
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Aug 18, 2015 01:39
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 What happens if Eustace antes Frostflow and uses Elementary's Start of Beat effect? Does the Frostflow range reduction make sure maximum range is always reduced to equal minimum range throughout the whole beat, or does Elementary's later timestamp override the Frostflow ante's earlier timestamp?
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Aug 18, 2015 05:15
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AMooseDoesStuff posted:e: I also wanna say he looks really weak in general. Gutter Owl posted:Just got my copies of War and Fate! Yay!
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Aug 18, 2015 05:36
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Gutter Owl posted:Miscut along the card edges, meaning the card backs bleed over into white space, or are majorly misaligned, enough to be recognizable when the cards are face down. 
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Aug 18, 2015 05:55
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Aaaaalright, send me your character picks
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Aug 23, 2015 23:15
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Gutter Owl posted:I was just thinking, has anyone actually taken Evil Hikaru out for a spin yet? He looks hard to play well, and might be an interesting challenge. They have not. I keep waiting for a matchup where both players opt into Random Select so I can bust him out, but alas, not yet. Will wait for Ldsity's response.
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Aug 24, 2015 07:53
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stabbington posted:
Wonderful choice of crotch fireball to illustrate Shot
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Aug 24, 2015 22:48
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Iri v Tanis has ended! You should really read this one.
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Aug 25, 2015 06:40
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Aaaand Ldsity (Joal) v Gutter Owl (Evil Hikaru) is up!
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Aug 25, 2015 07:02
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Gutter Owl (Iri) v OmegaGoo (Tanis) REMATCH is up!
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Aug 26, 2015 02:20
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I dunno how this discussion of best attack pairs has gone this long without mentioning Juto's Fuzzy Staff or Borneo's Slippery Knuckle im ten
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Aug 26, 2015 23:30
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Gutter Owl posted:Hikaru's ante is also simple. But his unique tokens, and the unreliable means of recovering them, means a new player will be skittish about spending. And because they don't ante, they don't learn. With S&E , however, you feel punished for NOT playing the ante game, because your token pool constantly overflows. 
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While we're doing trip reports, I finally got to play a couple Battlecon games in person for the first time in a long time the other day. Took down Adjenna as Pendros and Aria as Gaspar. It's only my second Pendros match (the first being against Gutter Owl's Aria) but I think I really like him. His start of beat movement and decently large range of priorities allow him a lot of flexibility while still out-speeding or out-slowing opponents as needed. Being able to Dash slower than Adjenna really came in handy, and thanks to all my movement, she didn't get to land a single Petrification counter on me. Will need to try out Pendros against harder-hitting opponents, though - neither Aria nor Adjenna are really capable of activating his "lack of Soak" weakness, so I'm very eager to try him out against someone who does put that kind of pressure on me. The Gaspar game was similarly one-sided - Gaspar is way faster than I remember, holy crap! I also learned that he really appreciates Strike as an attack, since he doesn't necessarily care if he personally gets to hit an opponent as long as he gets a couple clone whacks in. Managed to get an 8 damage turn in with Bladestorm, too, which felt great. He's another one I really want to play more of, though primarily because I don't have any idea where he fits in the roster. He's certainly one of the characters I've seen played the least, and that's including Fate. Anyone else have experience with Gaspar and have any insight into how his matchups are?
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Sep 16, 2015 08:34
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I'd love to play
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Sep 16, 2015 09:12
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All in! Would prefer playing via Skype, though I can't pick up my physical copy until (Canadian) Thanksgiving.
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Gutter Owl posted:A few notable things about force: Being able to start with force gauge in your discard sounds like absolute stupid garbage. Also seems like my whole strategy of wearing people out of options then grinding them down with hard-to-answer attacks is pointless now, since nothing is hard to answer anymore when you can turn every character into a heavyweight or a speedster as you please. Also, with everyone having a resource that goes up over time, people are even more encouraged to dash at every possible opportunity...which doesn't sound like fun gameplay at all. Idk. If people who've played with Force Gauge say it's not awful, I'll give it a shot...but it seems like a great way to wreck the careful balance that makes this game so versatile and fun.
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Sep 23, 2015 21:30
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Sefer posted:Eh, from my experience modding updating using graphics is not that big a deal, so long as they're all made ahead of time. I don't know how many characters don't have stand ups for the standard set, though. I know there were some fights using text only representations on here because the mod was phone updating most of the time, and the difference in readability is huge. Haven't bothered putting together chibi standups for the Fate crew but I could if you really want. What I'd much rather do, though, is tweak this pixel board to make it easily usable without having to do any image editing at all.
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One of my games just ended and the other doesn't have long to go, so I'm DTM (down to mod)
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