{"id":307,"date":"2012-08-25T06:04:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T06:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/?p=307"},"modified":"2012-08-25T06:04:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T06:04:50","slug":"weapon-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Special attacks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So as I implement all the character upgrades, I&#8217;ve been re-thinking a few of them.<\/p>\n<p>One of the changes I made this week was having the special attacks occur after you charge your weapon with zombie hits, rather than at random intervals. This has the benefit of making special attacks a reward for fighting skill, while also allowing the player to strategically decide when to use them (because after you charge your weapon, you won&#8217;t go into special-attack mode until you tap the weapon icon).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an animated .gif showing how this works (the overlay text is for illustration only):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/stuff\/zombox_cap_79.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/stuff\/zombox_cap_79.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So as I implement all the character upgrades, I&#8217;ve been re-thinking a few of them. One of the changes I made this week was having the special attacks occur after you charge your weapon with zombie hits, rather than at random intervals. This has the benefit of making special attacks a reward for fighting skill, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombox.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}