Bladestorm Clones - How Could This Be More Epic?

[Umbranox]

By letting us watch how each clone is kicking &#! during the ability!

 

Ash - (coming around a few more corners, likely to follow the rest of the above changes at a later week):

 

-Shuriken: Added forced bleed proc to attacks, no change to base damage. This should help buff the damage to Shuriken without making its direct damage over-the-top.

 

-Teleport: Enemies are now open to finishers when teleported to, giving it more aggressive utility in order to make Teleport more appealing for use in combat.

 

-Blade Storm: Now produces clones of Ash, enabling him to kill more targets quickly. Ash will also re-attack targets if they survive the initial attack. Added forced bleed procs to Blade Storm strikes.

 

The change to Blade Storm should also shorten the amount of time a player is stuck in Blade Storm dramatically, without a reduction in damage or looking cool.

 

 

Right now, we look cool buzzing around, stabbing mooks, but when we get the update to Bladestorm we'll get a shorter burst of the awesome. What if we could have all the awesome we'd miss from the clones going off?

 

I propose a split screen with each portion following a different clone.

 

Quick mockup:

 

What say you, fellow Tenno?

[Firetempest]

Too busy and disorienting.

[AVEOX]

I was thinking more of a Comic kind of split screens, irregular shapes, crazy angles.

[taiiat]

do eeeeet.

 

 

also we should be able to increase the number of Clones.

 

fill your screen with smaller screens.

 

HUE.

[SquirmyBurrito]

No thanks, that would further break the flow of combat. I thought that was part of the reason this change was happening.

[shut]

I think that seeing your own Ash in action, as we do now, but with several identical Ashes in the background doing their own crazy ninja killing-spree thing would be pretty hard to top in terms of badassery. Splitscreening it would only distract from how awesome the animations are.

[TheImmortalHotDog]

For like, the re-attacking if they don't die, I think the player(Ash) should attack.

 

 

while he lay on a chair drinking lemonade as the clones do the initial attacks

[(PSN)Crackle2012]

Yeah.. I don't know-- If it was splitscreen at all-- it would have to be a "flash" thing where maybe 3 max are up at a time but one fades in as another fades out etc.. sort of blending the idea and making it not look purely "split screened"  which might prove too much work- as I think they can do something just as good if not cooler.  Like (SortaRandom) said above, seeing clones in the background while hopping from enemy to enemy in maybe a more "smooth" manner would be insane!

[R34LM]

Bladestorm just takes too much time; plus, it is still buggy in some cases. Ash is slowly becoming less of a ninja frame and becoming more of a slAsh frame, since his abilities force slash procs and generally are about sharp and unforgiving agression.

[AVEOX]

Maybe something like this?

 

[GStonez]

Don't you think split screen would be a Lil confusing