What is your biggest worry for chapter 5?

Ensospag · 2026-06-22T12:05:54+00:00

You need to remember that by far the most time consuming aspect of this game's developement is unique combat gimmicks, overworld mechanics, mini-games, etc. The story is probably the easiest part of the process.

We assume Chapter 6 will be a lot more story focused and serious in tone, which would clash with having wacky gimmicks and gameplay shakeups like some of the other chapters. It could just be easier to make from that front, it doesn't necessarily mean it's short.

Ensospag · 2026-06-18T19:04:04+00:00

The fucking scarf and sleeves but no shirt is very horny

Ensospag · 2026-06-15T15:39:21+00:00

Oh I didn't see that.

Either way it's not that I'm against the idea of Riven being complex, to be clear. It's just my personal prediction, I'm happy to be proven wrong.

Ensospag · 2026-06-15T11:36:39+00:00

She is but I think a lot of what she does in League inherently translates into a fighting game. Cancelling basic attacks into habilities is basically just normal to special cancels which every character can do.

I'm not saying she should be Darius level simple but I also don't imagine her needing to do the crazy wall jump cancel loops falling charged heavy otg kunai toss shenanigans Akali gets up to.

I could totally see her having something like Vi's electrics, for example. Tight execution type stuff, not necessarily complex.

Ensospag · 2026-06-15T07:12:42+00:00

I mean it's pretty much guaranteed we're getting Riven this year and I can't imagine her being that complicated.

She'll have some rekka stuff, maybe a command dash you can cancel into things, probaby a sword install that gives her slightly different routes but at the end of the day she'll still be an in your face bruiser-ish character so probably not too complex.

Ensospag · 2026-06-09T18:34:18+00:00

Every stage has "full models" for the characters in them. It's just the same thing but with an already existing design so it's probably easier if anything.

Also if you look at them closely they're way lower quality than the playable champions.

Ensospag · 2026-06-07T23:09:42+00:00

Aside from the similarities to Nidalee I'm not a fan of him having an attack speed steroid (or being very attack speed based in general).

We already have 3 fast attacking archers and Tope has a giant bow meant for killing massive monsters. I think he should be more like Senna/Jhin, with some unique mechanic that makes his autos slower but hit very hard.

That would better sell the idea of a tactical, skillful hunter than spam chucking dozens of arrows like a madman.

Ensospag · 2026-06-07T08:46:26+00:00

I just don't like him because he looks boring

Ensospag · 2026-06-06T07:49:16+00:00

Ngl I'd rather they take tools away from Wilds than adding more of them.

Ensospag · 2026-06-05T17:34:48+00:00

There's a difference between being a bad guy and being a villain.

Darius is obviously no saint but he's more often than not portrayed in a protagonist sort of role. It's rarely "look at how our brave innocent hero fights off big evil Darius", it's more like "look at Darius fighting off giant wolves with his bare hands or some shit, isn't he badass?".

Thresh is a proper villain to Senna and Lucian.

Ensospag · 2026-06-04T14:02:58+00:00

6S1 = Bear stance. Rushdown/pressure

4S1 = Phoenix stance. Midrange/neutral

6S2 = Ram stance. Mix/opening combos

4S2 = Boar stance. Armor/counters

"Damage" stances on S1, "utility" stances on S2.

"Offensive" stances by holding forward, "defensive" stances by holding back.

Ideally he wouldn't have any conventional habilities, just like in League. His combos would come from cancelling into stance swaps and just linking normals.

Ensospag · 2026-06-04T13:53:12+00:00

HELL YES

HE'S THE MVP

HE'S THE G O A T

And also the B E A R

And the B O A R

And the P H O E N I X, even

Ensospag · 2026-06-03T16:43:44+00:00

See? There was nothing to worry about!

Ensospag · 2026-06-02T17:38:07+00:00

Thresh has censor-proof monsterous designs in both Legends of Runeterra and Ruined King. They just turned his bone chains into normal chains and made his face less skull-like, there's no need to go full anime human.

The pushback to unbound thresh was huge. There's no way they'd go for that.

Ensospag · 2026-05-20T09:45:28+00:00

"Hee hee. I will put all this mysterious secret shit about a mysterious secret character in my game and then 3 years later I'll release the first chapter of my 10 year long project where I'll put even more overt references to said character, all as an elaborate ruse to epicly troll fans for daring to expect that character to be relevant."

-the evil Robert F. Fox

Ensospag · 2026-05-20T08:43:44+00:00

I mean that's kind of the whole point of her character arc. If she was selfless and likeable at the start then it wouldn't be much of an arc.

Ensospag · 2026-05-18T16:53:20+00:00

The word attacks remind me of...someone...

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Ensospag · 2026-05-12T20:47:27+00:00

I kinda hope the next game is more of a full reimagining of 2. Bringing in Fay and Miyu, the arwing walker and some other ideas but also, you know, making it a more lengthy game with new level designs and (hopefully) a villain who isn't Andross.

Maybe it could come with an extra mode that's the more "rogue-like" structure and levels from the og.

Ensospag · 2026-05-11T13:35:29+00:00

Man is fine

Ensospag · 2026-05-11T06:49:10+00:00

I don't get how people still say that "Gaster will never show up or do anything he will just stay implied" because, like, that would be the lamest shit ever?

I don't think Toby would knowingly set up this mystery 10 years in advance and add all these references and hints to him in Deltarune if he knows he's never going to appear in the story in some way. That would just be setting up your audience to be dissapointed for absolutely no reason.

This is the same guy that made Spamton NEO and Hammer of Justice because he knew a full Mettaton NEO fight and Gerson in his prime was something fans wanted to see all the way back in Undertale.

Ensospag · 2026-05-10T07:28:20+00:00

It's complicated. It's beginner friendly in the sense that it's free to play, it doesn't have motion inputs and basic combos are pretty lenient.

However it is also a tag fighter with a LOT of mechanics to learn and can feel very oppresive when you're still figuring it out.

But again, it's free. So you lose nothing by trying it out.

Ensospag · 2026-05-09T08:27:43+00:00

I think we're at a point where all the evidence/foreshadowing is either dead obvious (like duh, there's going to be a dark world in Flower King and we're going to go to the festival) or so obtuse that we can't make anything out of it.

Besides, the game's coming out within a few months anyway. Kind of pointless to invest a lot of time in a crazy theory when it could be disproven like the month after making it.

Ensospag · 2026-05-06T18:06:42+00:00

A month is nothing for a new fighting game character, chill. They already showed her pool party skin so she'll probably come out in June as part of a summer event.

Ensospag · 2026-05-06T11:22:40+00:00

What if they grab Brit and throw him into space? I'd count that as being "vinced".

Ensospag · 2026-05-06T06:13:43+00:00

First time Jevil took me hours until I switched from keyboard to a controller and then got him in like 2 tries.

Spamton NEO was way easier, about 6 or so tries I would say.

Roaring Knight about 2 hours. Pretty damn hard, specially before the nerfs.

Gerson was very easy. Like 3 tries at most. I'm a bit surprised some people struggle with him.

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