Hello, fellow gamers!

I have a few questions about the game;

1. What's the game like?
2. Can I learn multiple jutsu's?
3. How do I pick a village?

1. Downloads to pre alpha. The movement system takes a little getting used to.

2. yes there are currently 4 fire breath, wind bullit, chidori, And earth dome.
The jutsu are activated with a array of numbers from 0-9 example is 867 I think that was chidori, but it’s bin a while. You can check the jutsu list with the j key.

3 currently the villages are just forum concepts.

Question about the engine overhaul?
You have done all this work for networking, so you’re likely not talking about switching engines, are you considered refactoring to ECS with Unity 2019 LTS? If so I’m for that one!! I think this game could really benefit from the newer production benefit and performance benefits of The DOTs work flow!

So I have done it I have started implementing the Chakra system I set out to make using the ECS pattern with the Job system.

Some of you will recognize the math varents.
And I have all the components laid out for experience and Stats.

Now that I have a handle on the concepts I think I can start building more systems even the exp systems and a custom health system.

P.s. the fist job is using the wrong execute job interface. I will change it soon.
Also this was off the top of my head... so I forgot the Body type component that gives you your correct value for your physical energy.
And I have set the max energy’s = to the max experience in stead of current. And will control how much of the chakra is used on a per jutsu basis. You will also be able to replenish chakra up to your max trough chakra control.

This is yet another benefit of having a accurate chakra system based on spiritual and physical energies.

Having attacks that could one shot someone is fine when you have low level jutsu that negate all damage like the substation jutsu. However, if you have infinity replenishing chakra then there is 2 potential problems.

You need to limit how fast the chakra replenished- potentially slowing the pass of combat so you can’t infinity spam these jutsu.

Or

you maintain the fast passes combat and keep the charge rate fast but then you have a the problem of trying to do damage faster then the target can negate it.

If there are limitations to how much chakra a player can use - you get the fast pass combat with high damage, and damage negation- and it adds more depth to combat because you have to be thoughtful about how you use your chakra.

The only slowdown you get is from how fast you can  analyze and execute your strategy, making combat completely skill based.

Stick with the PS4 till FF7 comes out then switch.

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@Itz_RogueShadow

Well let me explain my ideas that can utilize  DOTS and why DOTS is the Only way to do them.

Combat needs to be smooth! Having dedicated threads for combated is essential for rendering multiple Jutsu activating, colliding, and damage calculations over network connections. But for a sandbox ecosystem to be functional in the background controlling hundreds of thousands of entity in an open world, that is just to much to ask of object oriented organizations design.

So why is an ecosystem like this needed. Because we are promised NPC animals trying to survive. This means wild animals that hunt for food and water. Also eventually Animal summons should be a thing. Studying animals should provide you with Taijutsu stances, venoms and sensery skills that should not be available otherwise.

But that means animals with stats like age, sex, hunger, thirst, speed, strength and Intelligence and behaviors like search, evade, attack, and sleep. With a data bass of dropped resources, as well as a ecosystem rebalancing event that spawns our version of Bijou, essential World Bosses.

This also creates more missions to keep the ecosystem in balance or to farm resources to the point of an imbalance, causing the Bijou attack.

The only way to accomplish all this is to use the Jobs system available with the new DOTS Design to schedule the AI behavior running on the server side. Leaving the main thread open and dedicated for player inputs and rendering jutsu and animations of attacks.

This project is not that far along, it would be easier to convert what we have to ECS then to start over with another engine. If he uses the hybrid system, when the engine goes full ECS in 2020 all he will need to do is drop the game object entity components and implement the prefab names as shared entity components.

The up shot to this is no more Lag hits!!