I feel like the early feedback will be much better for me in the long run than trying to blitz through development like I did with Hilly Hills.
And I'm actually SUPER thankful that all of y'all have been so nice and supportive! Very grateful that the majority of my interactions have
been so courteous.
I have no enemies... yet...
of cource that people are being nice and supportive, in my honest opinion the game has both great story(3 in the matter) and high expenctacy of the fetish content that will arrive later on
and yea it good ya have no enemies yet, things can be troublesome when there someone out there with a grudge agains't you
Real kind of you to say, thank you! I'm not sure quite yet if the fetish stuff will show up in the next major update, I may want more feedback on
combat before I dive in to the sin subclasses since those would affect things pretty drastically, and I want to make sure the base system is working the way I want.
i got some feedback to say in relation to combat since i decided to play the game now with it update,here my thoughts for each character
Marcy skills are all good and dont seen need to be fixed as far i think so, only thing i can say about so is suggestion on her magic skill, but i dont think it need any buff at the moment as it kinda only need when necessary, but marcy can defeat all the knights with out using the bath once
you already buffed Vepar Abyssal Sting by adding a third stack to the skill,but i think due for the cost of the skill it can be bit slow to stack the poison,but i think instead of changing the TP cost,you could probrally increase a bit the damage the sting itself does, eitheir making it a 3-6 damage or 3-8 to patch up for the tp cost, speaking of her skills, her magic Obfuscation seen to rather lack the blindness, it maybe that the bats got luckier but through the uses,it seen that it almost they nearly never miss, idk for certain but it may need to increase a bit how much the enemies may miss from the skill status(the attack debuff is ok)
Lastly,while gremory magic is as good at it is, i think the flaw is on her skill Occultic Acumen, aside that it can restore the mp ,the hp healing not as effective,so far on the game play the skill can restore the mp enough for 1 use of her magic,but the healing is kinda low,only healing 2 points per use of the skill,but due for her lack of def,the knights can damage as faster than she can heal,which could be a problem that she would require other ways of healing(and idk if ya plan to give her a healing magic futher on the story),so the only fix on this skill is to increase the hp heal for a bit, 4 hp heal might be fine enough
Well bear in mind that a major part of the early game will be recruiting adventurers/mercenaries, so the imps are very unlikely to be running solo. I still need to design the enemies that they'll be fighting in the first region, which will be more varied than "two bats" or "one knight who's
kinda sleepy." And these skills will be upgraded as they level up, so I want to leave some room for improvement.
There's a small chance I debuff Cerberean Strikes, but I don't know for sure if that will be necessary. I'm likely going to make Cry Havoc affect
her whole party.
I think I'm happy with Vepar's skills for the moment. It's likely that she'll be able to recruit mercs who have poison skills of their own, and she
usually get around to applying another stack before it wears off anyway so I think it's fine. Obfuscation blinds enemies which gives them a
50% chance to miss, so sadly I think that was just bad luck there. It also debuffs enemy Atk by 1, just in case their attacks do land, but Bats only have 1 Atk to begin with and I'm not sure if that can go any lower.
Gremory's skills also play into the idea that she won't be fighting alone. She'll want to recruit tankier party members to take the heat off herself, and a few rounds of nothing but healing can make a pretty big impact.
I definitely overtuned Marcy a bit, since the imps aren't supposed to feel TOO powerful yet (pretty weak even), but I think I know how to get around that later on
well to be honest i wasn't aware you were planing on adding party members, i just said with what i had as impression as i played so i did not had in mind of the whole recruiting allies idea, so it fine if there are things you wanna keep that way
also as i read your message i decided to check the part where marcy fights the knights again so i could test out her playstyle again, it possible that the cerberean strikes may be a bit too strong,like it could deal 5 damage on each hit so i may could suggest to debuff it atleast to 1-2+atk,i did a second play run on the knights fight but this time only by attacking and not using the skill, marcy can take on a total of 3 out of 7 knights with no criticals involved before being defeated, which i think it fair for someone that is a warrior build but it your call mostly
Might nerf Marcy just a little bit, but I don't mind if she winds up being a kind of "easy mode" until the player can unlock their sin subclass. I think I'll at least remove its ability to crit, since those numbers get craaazy. I was considering just making each attack deal damage equal to
her Atk stat, but that makes it pretty useless against enemies with higher Def. The next major update will really start getting into the meat and potatoes of combat, so I think I'll keep the changes to a minimum until that's released.
fair, and not gonna lie when i first played the game, it did felt like from marcy to gremory it was like easy,normal and hard difficulty,
and a idea did just got up about removing marcy crits, maybe leave the ability to crit to vepar as rogue playstyle can rely on that, with marcy strengh it would be fair if to remove her ability to crit, and gremory dont exactly need crit when she relies on magic, but again it more your choice what ya do about it
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but uhhh there's not really going to be any human disguises in Impious
That being said, I have been thinking of making some human disguise designs for X2! Maybe that and making some human versions of the imps would be a good warm up practice, I might sketch those out and drop them over on dA.
Ayy, thanks! Glad those are getting attention, I love writing flavor text.
Truth be told I only have a fewof them kinda fleshed out, but here's what I got so far!
Queen of Gluttony, Beelzebub, is described in a few pieces of flavor text as being very friendly and outgoing (particularly by Archdemon
standards). She really liked to share the excess, so even her lower-ranking subordinates tended to have some extra padding. I kind of like to think of her as a sort of doting aunt that'd give you too much food since she's concerned about how skinny you are. But, being an
Archdemon, she was fully capable of being vicious and terrible when she felt she was being attacked. And Gluttony-blessed demons are
often very sturdy and robust, so she was pretty carefree when it came to battle since most conventional attacks did very little to her. This
wound up being her downfall when she tried to sail to Beleth's castle, as her ship was destroyed and she fell in to the blood ocean (demon fat
being very dense, she wasn't able to swim her way out of it).
King of Envy, Leviathan, was once a fairly archetypal schemer-type. After trying to lay claim to another King's, he was defeated by an up-and-coming Beleth! After this loss, the other Kings had him driven mad and exiled him to the mortal planes. Now he's little more than a mindless
sea monster that occasionally attacks mortal sea vessels. But even as a giant sea serpent he would present himself as a suave, eloquent, and
reasonable individual in spite of his relentless bitterness towards the other Archdemons; quick to hold a grudge and slow to let it go.
King of Sloth, Belphegor, is generally sat in his lounge rooms napping. He's not especially cruel or violent, and tends to spend his time leisurely
enjoying the benefits of his sovereignty. Those who deal with him usually describe him as being soft-spoken, affable, and generally well-accommodating, but can become incredibly impatient if these interactions keep him from engaging with his recreational activities and he'll
begin displaying severe irritation if they drag on for too long. He's also kind of flaky and not particularly interested in the politics of the Hells,
even to the point that he forgets to properly engage with the other Archdemons.
They're not very likely to show up in the story, but I do want to flesh them all out a bit more in the event that they do!
