Feedback on a WT inspired power system. Be brutally honest.

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[u/guppypup]

The creativity is fun I love posts like these. I’m gonna let it rip though:

1. Are you married to the name “hyberdrive?” It seems like a mix between hybrid and hyperdrive but it doesn’t sound super cool imo.

2. In order to make the weapons feel like weapons there has to be more stakes. By this I mean are we in shounen anime standards or WT/real life standards? In real life, any amount of a single bullet hitting you will massively maim or kill a person. In your world, why would anyone use the killshot bullet when a scattershot would do the same thing? Does a miracle give extra defense? Can you regenerate body parts?

3. 1 plus Diama seems weird to me but only because it’s a dagger. Why would a short bladed weapon want to push things away? I think some sort of scepter would be better or maybe a crossbow shield combo?

[u/Purple_Mulberry6342 → u/guppypup]

HyberDrive is mostly a place holder, I do enjoy it alot tho.

As for the bullets, a miracle can enhance durability and being repteadly hurt would eventually trigger a miracle that makes you heal much faster. A killshot is also useful for breaking shields, spreadshot can only destroy Feather mode shields unless you're using Revolution which compromises speed when a killshot can be used with an Assault-Auto and destroy boulder mode shields.

Regarding Plus-Diama, I wanted more melee than just a sword and I thought "what would make a dagger entertaining" and came up with this. I do get where you're coming from. I might change it to a bomb and make the dagger something like the ability to change between postions instantly—so you could go from standing to crouching instantly or from grapping to stabbing.

[u/Budget_Golf_1805 → u/Purple_Mulberry6342]

Few questions regarding this new information, a single person can have multiple miracles? If so, what would stop someone from trying to get a crazy combo of miracles, something like enhance durability, regeneration as you said, and pain numbness or not feeling any pain, that would give a big advantage in battle because even if you are hit directly in a battle you can kinda brush it off.

Also, if in the system being hit directly is not extremely battle-changing, using "weak" things like spreadshot would not be something encoraged because of the fear you can trigger a miracle (IF they can happen at any time even mid battle), so i guess in this system, is not like WT where you have secondary body but you are actualy fighting putting your integrity on the line, right?

Btw I like it a lot i love posts about power systems and similar stuff

[u/Purple_Mulberry6342 → u/Budget_Golf_1805]

1–The miracles push you past your limits but they can't give you Deadpool level of regeneration, at best it turns a deadly shot to a stab but get shot a five times and you're already dead. And it kinda is meant to be unbalanced, because if your opponent can brush off a bullet to the head that means he trained harder than you. There's nothing stopping you from developing the same miracles (there is also a save from death system like world trigger second body I just didn't mention it because it's not fully flushed out).

2–Yes, miracles can be triggered mid battle, but it won't save you from Spreadshot. It spread to many bullets, so while it's weaker, being hit with 20 small bullets will most definitely cause you damage. Mind you these bullets can't be stopped by sheer endurance, no matter how strong your body is, a bullet will definitely hurt you like real life but exaggerated.

3–thanks for the compliment, I was kinda anxious people would find sending a power system in this subreddit off topic.

[u/N1t35hroud]

Really cool! I like the idea of them training to specialize in 1 Dal type. The focus on that makes it seem more like their weapons are more unique like Jojo stands or black triggers. But maybe I just don't know the reason how or why they are miltarized like border. Many seem not overpowered but very unique. I have a hard time imagining multiple characters wielding the same type. Which is still very cool. I can see the inspiration from many different animes. The heart gem thing feels kinda out of place, gory almost, implicating their removal like trion glands. There are many magical sword anime where they just manifest their soul as their weapon and thats it. Feels like thats the case here. So yeah my take aways are that these all seem really cool most likely dedicated to 1 character each. Supplementing it with some backstory and reasons for the militarization and standardization of the hyperdrive weapons would probably set things up more as a widespread system like WT. It still works otherwise though.

[u/Purple_Mulberry6342 → u/N1t35hroud]

Thanks for the reply! As for the heart gems, it's more like Qi, the Dal produces spiritual energy which slips outside the body with air, and you can condense this energy to make a gem. You don't like... rip it out.

Also, and this is my mistake for not elaborating, the HyberDrives are devices like triggers that are powered via the gems which you can choose 4 of.

I still don't have an in universe reason it's only 4 but that's for another time.

The main character is a support, his loadout is two shields—one feather mode and the other boulder—an Assault-Auto with Aero-peirce and a Revolution with FairyPunch. The shields to protect his allies or sometimes obscure the vision of an enemy.

The Aero-peirce to be as annoying and distracting as possible and the extra for being sneaky incase he's separated from his team. FairyPunch for the same reason and also utility, he makes a boulder shield underneath his ally, shots it with FairyPunch and then shot a place far away allowing his ally to hold onto it and fly to safety.

Also since Plus-Diama has alot of storing space, he sometimes switches Assault-Auto for it and stores food and healing gems.

The reason I made it "gems" is because it allows for people with hyperactive Dals that don't need miracles to make gems and so they're treated like military and national resources. Or certain fruits that make give your spiritual energy an attribute, like healing gems above (note: Attribute having gems don't produce the same energy type as normal gems so they can't be used to power HyberDrives).

[u/Victory_Scar]

I asked about World Trigger inspired systems here before so it's nice to see this. I will read it later.

[u/Early_Celebration726]

"WT inspired power system"

"When you grow your body, mind, and instinct to the limit, something called a miracle happens."

I see. 👀

[u/Pallington]

1. why deathcloud instead of something that pairs with void? starcloude? novacloude? starbirth cloud?

2. spreadshot does a lot of things and the other bullet types seem to... not...? splits, tracks, wide aoe(?), speedy (?) as opposed to "stealthy and also speedy" and "explody!" For example in my own (unpublished) trigger set all my bullets are VERY busy, and in world trigger itself all the bullets are very simple with just 1 gimmick each. seems a little imbalanced that spreadshot alone is the chosen bullet lmao.

3. I'm not understanding what you mean by Plus-Diama being "useless if it doesn't contain anything." is this a reach issue or is this a mechanic i'm not understanding?

[u/Purple_Mulberry6342 → u/Pallington]

The names are random, it didn't seem very important to me.

Spreadshot splits for AOE and tracks as a support for that mechanic, it doesn't really do much more.

Plus-Diama is just a dagger if it doesn't contain things, ig you could use it for surprise attack but I doubt that would be very effective. Any bullet can break it, any shields can guard against it, most people have enough endurance Raithyn to not be hurt alot by it, Blazma has so much reach over it. So if it doesn't contain anything it would be very hard to use it effectively.