I've just unlocked the Combo Sphere, What is this?

[LewdGeek]

Title says it all...

[LewdGeek]

I can't find any tutorial or information about the combo sphere and it's use...

[Nyu]

after unlocking it you get combo time if you fast kill 10 enemies (a little purple bar is building up at the bottom for each kill) later you can change the trigger contition to other things.

if you are in combo mode you have a purple bubble around you and you hear a soundloop.
if you continue killing it extends the time.
you run faster you regen faster and i think also attack faster.
there is also a skillupgrade you can randomly get in your runs that adds shockwaves shooting around each secound helping to kill stuff while the combo is active.

timing your combotime and moving and killing to extend it can speed up the gameplay and sometimes specially on some bosses save you.

[altairian]

By default the way the combo mechanic works is if you get 10 kills in rapid succession you will activate combo, this gives you a speed boost and you won't move slower while attacking. This is just a passive ability that you have at all times now.

[Das Trojanische Pferd]

Originally posted by altairian:

By default the way the combo mechanic works is if you get 10 kills in rapid succession you will activate combo, this gives you a speed boost and you won't move slower while attacking. This is just a passive ability that you have at all times now.

if you take the combo for dash does it still extend with kills or do you need to dash?

[GogglezDoNuffin]

Originally posted by Das Trojanische Pferd:

Originally posted by altairian:

By default the way the combo mechanic works is if you get 10 kills in rapid succession you will activate combo, this gives you a speed boost and you won't move slower while attacking. This is just a passive ability that you have at all times now.

if you take the combo for dash does it still extend with kills or do you need to dash?

You need to Dash. But, if you have 3 Dash charges and enough Dash recharge from Athletics upgrades, you can keep it up permanently. It's very good tactic in every boss, especially if you have maxed out Combo Nova.

[FroBodine]

Thank you for the explanation of this game mechanic. I also just unlocked the combo thing, and had no idea what it meant.

These developers sure don't like to explain anything about their game, do they? They also don't like communicating with their customers here in the forums. Frustrating.

[Das Trojanische Pferd]

Originally posted by FroBodine:

Thank you for the explanation of this game mechanic. I also just unlocked the combo thing, and had no idea what it meant.

These developers sure don't like to explain anything about their game, do they? They also don't like communicating with their customers here in the forums.

well to be honest combo is something that you find out about after you have the sphere and you kill a bunch of mobs an suddenly you glow purple and are faster there is nothing really more behind it then that....

[DJDiceZ]

Originally posted by FroBodine:

Thank you for the explanation of this game mechanic. I also just unlocked the combo thing, and had no idea what it meant.

These developers sure don't like to explain anything about their game, do they? They also don't like communicating with their customers here in the forums. Frustrating.

Combo Sphere is a mechanic from the first game, so they expect players to be familiar with it, but that's a bit shortsighted.

Roguelikes are about discovering things by yourself anyway. That's half the appeal of the genre. Some explanations and dropping some clues like NPCs talking about combo spheres coud be a good thing, but people are a bit too used to having their hand held in games.

And they have no obligation to communicate in the steam forums, even if it is a good look. The reverse shouldn't be a bad look, it's standard and justified practice, meaningful dev to player communication isn't always simple, fruitful, or worth the effort.

[FroBodine]

I don't need my hand held, but I would like some explanation of important game mechanics.

And we'll have to respectfully disagree about the Steam communication thing. Especially for a smaller indie developer, they absolutely should be reading these Steam forums. They are selling their game here. Lots of small and large developers use these forums to great benefit. I will always support a developer who interacts with their customers here.

[Nyu]

after unlocking a certain building you get en expalantion how to trigger the combo
and i am pretty sure you will trigger it already before that just by playing the game several times and understanding what happends.

you just lack the info the moment you unlock it if you never played a single hammerwatch game.
its still in the game openly shown to you.
i just told him cause he asked and wanted to know NOW.

[derw4tz]

to be fair they give a lot of details on the stat paages and even have help text for some of the effects, its already a big improvement to the predecessor

they are also known for ironing out a lot of things and adding quality of life stuff so i think this will get improved over the next weeks (some effects are still missing help text etc.)

[paxtheconfused]

Originally posted by FroBodine:

Thank you for the explanation of this game mechanic. I also just unlocked the combo thing, and had no idea what it meant.

These developers sure don't like to explain anything about their game, do they? They also don't like communicating with their customers here in the forums. Frustrating.

The developers don't really like explaining core mechanics that have been a franchise mainstay since day one, yes, but that's mostly because in the tutorial they have an NPC tell you to talk to the NPCs to get explanations about things like the core mechanics, but too many people pull that crap of skipping all text and dialog because its not worth their time, then make passive aggressive comments in random online forums about how the devs won't write a personal email to them to explain what they skipped over and apologize for expecting said players to engage with the game.

[Pythios]

I found out today by accident that there is a tooltip for combo on the inventory/stats page. It comes up in one of the skill windows but there’s no icon.

If you mouse or scroll over the empty skill icons on character stats screen one should show for combo.

[FroBodine]

paxtheconfused - you talking to me? You said too many people pull that crap. Good thing I do read all the NPC dialog. Nothing about combos was mentioned as far as I've played so far. And talk about passive aggressive comments. You win the prize there. Sheesh!

Pythios - thank you!

[blob]

Yeah I read all dialogues and played the previous games but still, I couldn't remember what the effect of combo or exact trigger was: it really is unclear. Genuinely no idea what boost it does when you don't have the combo nova.