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Sundering Artifice

Ohhh right right right

Yeah. You won't be able to take down the big bosses single handedly, unless you become a very powerful individual with building knocking powers or something. Which probably won't happen.
But for beginner days you'll just see cannon fodders.

Yeah, your idea seems neat.

@AlternateMan

Basically the reason why I am asking is because fundamentally in a world with guns, and presumably automatic guns and lots of killer robots wielding them the reason why I took super speed isn't so much because I want to play the flash but because I figured it was one of the few ways I could actually get into melee range at all. The others being less cool. And this way also allows me theoretically to play support and help the others get into range. Well that and again, cool. But cool goes without saying.

Sundering Artifice

I'll just repost it.

Mmm, acceptable. But do keep in mind that you won't be fighting dumb cannon fodders forever.

@AlternateMan

It's not so much cannon fodder as it is anything that does not have superhuman reaction time, aiming ability and rapid turning. Like basically my idea is that her skills should work vs anything that isn't a heavily superior to a modern human soldier. But that's about it, yes.

Either way though I imagine we will run into such threats later on. But at that point won't those also invalidate a lot of our team anyway? Starting with the melee girls. I mean, regardless of my power level what ever it wall you put up that makes it so that I can't get into close combat is most definitively going to stop them, won't it? So at that point I guess the only solution is going to be teamwork.

That's why I want the main power of the character to be in her ability to build and deploy interesting explosive effects. So like maybe she'll drop a smoke bomb or a flash grenade or something to confused and disrupt the smart ones or something. Or maybe you'll let me go all ham and build say a freezing bomb or stun bomb or something to make that approach possible. Or maybe I can get our sniper to take down the smart ones or something while I run from cover to cover trying to get their attention for the rest of the melee girls to sneak up and jump them.

I mean lets be real we basically only have one character that can do the smart thing and sit in cover shooting from a distance. xD Everyone else needs to get in reasonably close.

Or pick up a grenade launcher down the line if all else fails. A knee mortar would do wonders, so much so that I deliberately don't want to take one early on as it'd be OP.

Sundering Artifice

Bob Stuart, the Circuit Scourge

@AlternateMan

Beats the name I still haven't figured out. Also, what's the verdict on my important question from last time?

Sundering Artifice

Technically, I have to write down info for some of the NPC's.

@AlternateMan

I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Sundering Artifice

Nah, just like this one robot that really really hates just US and keeps trying to murder us. Runs away when it's beat up, comes back with upgrades.

@Jade Kiyo

So evil robotic team rocket?

Dragon Ball: Shattered Worlds

Also if @Chev has the rona and survives he still has to get the vaccine later on. Just surviving it does not confer long term immunity. I checked with my resident WHO expert.

Sundering Artifice

Because the Star Wars franchise is now a Dumpster fire....Minus Rogue One I liked that movie.

@Blackmist16

Not sure how we went from magical girls running around tossing bombs out of a bag like a villainous confetti dispenser to star wars but I concur. I literally watched only the first of the new movies and swore the franchise off.

And it's not because of any sentimental reason either. Like I ain't one of those "oh they ruined my childhood" guys. No, I just thought that it was a genuinely bad movie. Like I have nothing against changing Star Wars if they did a good job at it. But the new one just felt like a bad remake. Like when they take one of the classic cartoons and make a live action version only now it sucks. And I took that as a sign of the direction they were going in.

Sundering Artifice

I'm going to celebrate the New Year by not curling in the fetal position and saying "Why J.J Abrams" *Sob* "WHY!!!"

@Blackmist16

I am not sure I understand the reference. Than again I am not a huge fan of the guy so maybe I missed some news.

Sundering Artifice

Mmm, acceptable. But do keep in mind that you won't be fighting dumb cannon fodders forever.

@AlternateMan

It's not so much cannon fodder as it is anything that does not have superhuman reaction time, aiming ability and rapid turning. Like basically my idea is that her skills should work vs anything that isn't a heavily superior to a modern human soldier. But that's about it, yes.

Either way though I imagine we will run into such threats later on. But at that point won't those also invalidate a lot of our team anyway? Starting with the melee girls. I mean, regardless of my power level what ever it wall you put up that makes it so that I can't get into close combat is most definitively going to stop them, won't it? So at that point I guess the only solution is going to be teamwork.

That's why I want the main power of the character to be in her ability to build and deploy interesting explosive effects. So like maybe she'll drop a smoke bomb or a flash grenade or something to confused and disrupt the smart ones or something. Or maybe you'll let me go all ham and build say a freezing bomb or stun bomb or something to make that approach possible. Or maybe I can get our sniper to take down the smart ones or something while I run from cover to cover trying to get their attention for the rest of the melee girls to sneak up and jump them.

I mean lets be real we basically only have one character that can do the smart thing and sit in cover shooting from a distance. xD Everyone else needs to get in reasonably close.

Or pick up a grenade launcher down the line if all else fails. A knee mortar would do wonders, so much so that I deliberately don't want to take one early on as it'd be OP.

EDIT: For some reason I posted the wrong quote. WTH?

Sundering Artifice

What's a video game circle strafe speed

@AlternateMan

Circle strafing is a technique in video games, in particular shooter games where when facing an enemy that fires projectiles the player tries to run around in a circle faster than the enemy can turn to face him always staying ahead of his tracking. Preferably this is done via strafing sideways so as to also allow you to shoot back. It relies on the player character having a higher strafe speed than the enemies rotation speed.


In that case the speed to beat is basically how fast the enemy can turn to track me and take aim. Both of which take time as it's not just the act of turning but also taking aim and thinking about the lead the shooter has to make which takes time to mentally process. The actual speed of the projectiles is irrelevant because if he does manage to beat me and get a decently aimed shot off I am hit.

This being said in my case the technique used would be more akin to zigzaging to confuse enemy fire which is actually a somewhat viable technique even for regular humans (assuming we aren't dealing with full auto fire) as it relies not even on beating the time needed to take aim but on the idea that you will change direction and speed back up quickly enough to throw off the enemy as he tries to figure out how to lead you properly. So his shots always land just where you would have stood a second later had you not changed direction.

Either way it's not dodging bullets so much as confusing/dodging the shooter. If that makes sense. So like we are probably talking something in the range of what you might consider peak human performance more than anything.