Holy shieeeeeeet that stream today. I'm blown away by how much work they've done.
-VERY fleshed out singleplayer/lobby overworld mode
-Bunch of pixel art assets already made for it.
-Walk around, talk to and fight NPC ponies.
-Find chests and pick up items to recover HP/Magic/Meter after fighting.
-Each character has their own unique special ability that they can use in the overworld. Arizona can stomp to stun approaching enemies, Velvet's elf carries a lantern that lights up dark areas, Pom's puppies are with her in the overworld and can sniff out hidden items.
-Level building tools made specifically for the lobby mode so the feature can be iterated upon and completed even faster.
-COMPLETELY NEW FIGHTERS in the form of RPG predator enemies. No more pallete swaps to imply mooks, these are ALL NEW ASSETS.
-Predators will be simple fighters with a handful of animations, each one embodying a certain mechanic/strategy of fighting games.
-Common trait among Predators is that they have low health but deal very high damage.
-First Predator is a basic shadowy wolf enemy, three attacks, basic, super telegraphed mid, low, and high attack. Goomba essentially.
-Overworld has music, two tracks so far.
-Very wip basic level shown off in detail.
-AI has taken leaps and bounds in complexity, AI has instructions on what to do based on distance from opponent, how much of each bar it has, what you're doing.
-AI building looks similar to Mabinogi Pet Custom AI if you've seen it.
AI has groundbreaking reaction programming based on hitbox positioning. Will jump or armor projectiles based on where the hitbox is and how fast it's moving.
-AI can apparently learn, don't remember the details
-AI is performing combos the devs haven't taught them yet.
-AI can be programmed to have perfect 1 frame reactions to all attacks and to learn very fast, so at some point Nigh Unbeatable "Skynet" AI Opponents can be created.
-Accessories for lobby sprites in the works, something like 56/120 accessory tier backers have responded so far.
-Palletes in the works, something like 30/100 Pallete tier backers have responded so far, with 20 requests for Oleander palletes.
-A few backers have told the devs to just freestyle and make whatever accessory they want, Cheeseburger hat for Arizona discussed.
-Faust was on the stream before i tuned in, not sure what happened.
I prob forgot something but dang, that was an epic stream. Should i spoiler this to conserve page length?