Wood Man Updates (RMM)

[O Ilusionista]

I am working on some updates for Wood Man and I never liked how Leaf Shield works on him (and on Mega Man too), so I have some questions:

1- Should Leaf Shield cause touch damage? or only when thrown?
2- Once the leaf touches, should it be destroyed? or can cause multiple hits?
3- Leaves should shield the character only from projectiles and not from any other type of move, right?

[LoKoLoKo]

Great perspective. It is very good to optimize the Leaf Shield as a protective shield against all attacks and damage to the touch with the leaves causing multiple hits destroying only those who receive contact. But I think a new Leaf Shield could only be triggered if all the leaves were used, otherwise it would be very powerful.

[Mistah Jorge]

My opinions, but first, what do you dislike about it?
Hm... i don't think it should, only when thrown.
Maybe multiple hits, like, the 8 leafs.
Maybe, or maybe not... after all if you want to shield it only from projectiles, make it shield at least a few hits.
Other wise i think it's okay as it is now.

[O Ilusionista]

But I think a new Leaf Shield could only be triggered if all the leaves were used, otherwise it would be very powerful.

It already works that way - you can't call a new leaf shield if the old one is on the screen. There is an invisible helper which controls all the leaves (they are a single image for now, but I will change it to 8 separated entities) and the leaves are bound to it.

If it will cause touch, I think each leaf shoud cause 1 hit and get destroyed after that, because there are 8 leaves

And I think they should nullify (get hit) only by projectile-type attacks - like a hadouken - but from special attacks - like a shoryuken. Makes sense?

My opinions, but first, what do you dislike about it?

Right now, its not a...shield, . It doesn't shield you from anything.

[Mistah Jorge]

What? i don't get it... it always worked as a shield for me, each time i hit woodman with the leaf shield active i'd actualy hit the shield instead of woodman himself. Am i missing something?

[O Ilusionista]

Sorry, I mixed both characters. In Wood Man, it acts as a shield - its on Mega Man that it doesn't.

[Mistah Jorge]

Ah ok, i get it... then why don't you just improve woodman's leaf shield and copy it to mega man, with wood man, you're halfway done already... i guess?

[LoKoLoKo]

It seems pretty cool to individualize the leaves, and you say it has an effect against special non-projectile attacks ... that sounds like a good idea. And when we launch Leaf Shield it will perform several small hits ... well ... it is much more effective.