Mech RPG - Combat Prototype

In this build, heat is generated by using specific abilities, rather than generated automatically at the start of each round.

A very rough prototype of a turn based battle system. The primary idea being tested here is that each mech in the battle builds up heat over time. Holding a lot of heat increases the power of that mech's abilities, but if heat goes over the maximum, the mech starts to burn and take damage. Heat is therefore both a risk and a reward that must be managed carefully.

Controls

• Up/Down Arrows - Navigate Menus
• Left/Right Arrows - Select character to act
• Enter Key - Select Abilities/Targets
• X - Cancel targeting for an ability and return to ability selection
• T - During your turn, end the battle immediately and return to the main menu

Basics

• The goal of each battle is to defeat all opponents before all of your own mechs are destroyed
• A character is destroyed when their hit points (green bar) are reduced to 0
• Characters can gain shields (blue bar) that take damage before their hit points do
• Shields do not stack, and only the highest amount will be applied
•  Armor reduces the damage that characters take to their hit points by a flat amount
• Shields do not benefit from armor

Heat

• When characters use certain abilities, they gain heat (stated in the tooltip)
• When a character generates heat above their maximum (6), they gain 1 stack of  Burn for each point of excess heat
• All abilities have three tiers of effects based on the amount of heat the user currently has
• Abilities become stronger and gain new effects at higher tiers
• Some abilities will consume heat after being used, helping you to regulate that user's heat
• Some abilities that consume heat will consume a set amount and others will consume all available heat

Taking Actions

• All player characters act first, then all enemy characters
• The player can choose the order that their characters act
• Enemy characters act in a set order
• Each character gets to take a single action during their team's turn

Status Effects

• Burn - Deals damage at the end of a character's turn equal to the number of stacks, then ticks down (ignores armor but not shields)
• Boosted - Deal +2 damage with every hit of an attack
• Impaired - Deal -2 damage with every hit of an attack
• Fortified - Take -2 damage from every hit of an attack
• Exposed - Take +2 damage from every hit of an attack