Battle System Differences VisuStella MZ - Revision history

Yanfly at 03:34, 21 November 2024

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‎Structure: Action Economy and Turn Advantage

Yanfly at 21:12, 16 November 2023

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Yanfly: /* Why Battle Systems Can't Have Everything */

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‎Why Battle Systems Can't Have Everything

Yanfly: /* Turn-Based Battle Structure */

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‎Turn-Based Battle Structure

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‎Turn-Based Battle Structure

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‎Turn-Based Battle Structure

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‎Team-Based Battle Structure

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‎Difference Chart

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 In this section, we'll take a look at each individual battle system and address the various aspects that make it unique.
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 '''Turn Order Manipulation:''' Battlers can delay enemy turns and hasten ally turns through direct manipulation instead of through AGI. This opens up lots of potential strategies that can be utilized to bring the tides of battle into one's favor.
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 '''Exploit System:''' The exploit system (optionally) grants teams extra advantages when hitting an opponent's weakness or landing a critical hit. These extra advantages often come in the form of extra turns or actions. This rewards good gameplay and makes lucky hits have even more impact.

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-In traditional JRPG's, '''Action Economy''' refers to the quantity and frequency of how often a battler, an actor or an enemy, can perform during the scope of battle. The flow of battle determines the frequency of a traditional JRPG's action economy. This is extremely important to understand because the more turns a battler has, the more often he or she is able to apply pressure to the opposite team and move his or her own team towards victory.
+In traditional JRPG's, '''Action Economy''' refers to the quantity and frequency of how often a battler, an actor or an enemy, can perform during the scope of battle. The flow of battle determines the frequency of a traditional JRPG's action economy. This is extremely important to understand because the more actions a battler has, the more often he or she is able to apply pressure to the opposite team and move his or her own team towards victory.
 '''Turn Advantage''' refers to describing the advantage a participating battler has based on turn-order. Depending on the battle flow, most of the time, those that act more quicker and more often have a better turn advantage than their opponents. Those with more turn advantage are also more likely to win the battle provided both sides are relatively balanced.

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 '''Exploit Systems''' are very situational and fit only a select handful of battle systems based on their turn/action logistics. Getting an extra turn is a huge deal to some of these battle systems and in the sense of [[Battle System - ATB VisuStella MZ|ATB]] and [[Battle System - CTB VisuStella MZ|CTB]], when combined with AGI advantages, can result in balance breaking to the extremes.
-It's why mechanics like these aren't made global, but instead, we offer a more mild version called [[Break Shields VisuStella MZ|Break Shields]] to allow for stuns instead, a softer version of turn advantage. A softer turn advantage through stuns are far less likely to break the mechanical balance of a game.
+It's why mechanics like these aren't made global, but instead, we offer a more mild version called [[Break Shields VisuStella MZ|Break Shields]] to allow for stuns instead, a softer version of turn advantage. A softer turn advantage through stuns is far less likely to break the mechanical balance of a game.
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 == To Sum It Up ==

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 === Turn-Based Battle Structure ===
-Turn-based battle systems are seen in most [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Quest Dragon Quest] games, some of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_(series) Persona] games, and even the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_(video_game_series) Pokémon] games. Battle flow revolves around (usually) giving an equal amount of turns and (usually) actions to perform to each battle participant in a balanced manner.
+Turn-based battle systems are seen in most [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Quest Dragon Quest] games, some of the spin off [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megami_Tensei Shin Megami Tensei] games, some of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_(series) Persona] games, and even the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_(video_game_series) Pokémon] games. Battle flow revolves around (usually) giving an equal amount of turns and (usually) actions to perform to each battle participant in a balanced manner.
 '''Action Economy:''' Battle participants usually have one action they can perform each turn. However, in the scenarios where they can perform multiple actions a turn, the advantages given here are not as skewed as they would be in a tick-based battle system since every battle participant is guaranteed a turn within a set time frame (as long as they're able to act). Some games, like the SMT series, even allow performing multiple actions a turn without disrupting the balance and battle flow too much.

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 === Team-Based Battle Structure ===
-Team-based battle systems revolve their turns around their teams than the individual battle participants. You see this in games like many of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Emblem Fire Emblem] games, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgaea Disgaea] games, and even some mobile games like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granblue_Fantasy Granblue Fantasy]. Teams take turn performing for all of their battle participants at a time or as long sa there's enough actions to perform. AGI hass little influence in this battle system as it no longer determines the frequency of turns for each battle member.
+Team-based battle systems revolve their turns around their teams than the individual battle participants. You see this in games like many of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Emblem Fire Emblem] games, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgaea Disgaea] games, the main line [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megami_Tensei Shin Megami Tensei] games, and even some mobile games like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granblue_Fantasy Granblue Fantasy]. Teams take turn performing for all of their battle participants at a time or as long sa there's enough actions to perform. AGI hass little influence in this battle system as it no longer determines the frequency of turns for each battle member.
 '''Action Economy:''' Depending on the battle system, units usually have one or two actions to perform at a time, or as many as the team allows before the team's turn is considered over.
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 == Individual Battle Systems ==

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 '''NOTE*''': The battle systems in the chart above do not show which battle systems are "better" than others by having more ✅check marks. The number of ✅check marks is irrelevant to whether or not a battle system is fit for your game. Instead, you should be looking at where those ✅checkmarks are in order to determine which battle systems best suits your game design style.
 == Structure: Action Economy and Turn Advantage ==

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 == Difference Chart ==
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 '''NOTE*''': The battle systems in the chart above do not show which battle systems are "better" than others by having more ✅check marks. The number of ✅check marks is irrelevant to whether or not a battle system is fit for your game. Instead, you should be looking at where those ✅checkmarks are in order to determine which battle systems best suits your game design style.
 == Structure: Action Economy and Turn Advantage ==