jhrino

Desperado Stuff

Had time to flesh out the heat actions at last

Beast Rememberance

And that should be the last of them. I will likely return to them later in the future to possibly improve the particle effects/sounds but for the moment being, all 3 essence of rememberance heat actions are complete! considering going back to desperados heat actions and finishing them

More Rememberance

These came along better than i expected, i havent finished beast one yet

Let me cook

Essence of Rememberance time... Its gonna take a while to turn these heat actions to be suitable for realtime combat, but im gonna get to it eventually! The plan is to give these heat actions one for each style when you are locked at enemy on critical health. You will be able to increase its damage by button mashing

Brawler (Legend): Mine's haymaker

Rush: Nishiki's kick

Beast: Ryuji's uppercut

Dragon of Dojima: Essence of Dragon God (i have shown this before)

2024-11-24 02:11:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Working on things

Nothing much to show right now since i'm working on upgrades for Kiryu and Ichiban (what abilities unlock when etc...)

To that end, what should i do for Kiryu's upgrades?

Linebacker Stuff

Gave it Shibusawa Beast's attack combo for now, plus, when you are doing the Meteor Tackle as Linebacker now you do some great damage if you hit other enemies with it as you are tackling

Kiryu Tutorial

Adding tutorials for moves Kiryu can perform during Extreme Heat Mode. Current plan is to make Tiger Drop only available on Extreme Heat Mode but will eventually unlock on his default legend style as well once he reaches a certain Soul/Awakening level

Two More Heat Actions

One day i will run out of heat actions to add

More Kiryu Stuff

Back at it on refining characters. I find designing jobs to be stressful (since there is so many of them) so i'm sticking to perfecting the players again for the time being. I dont remember if i have shown Kiryu's double quicksteps yet but i did add this new heat action which i'm sure you are familiar with

Kiryu Extreme Heat Mode Song Preferences

Was wondering which soundtrack you guys prefer for Kiryu's extreme heat mode where he switches to his Yakuza 0/Kiwami 1 Dragon Style, i initially gave it "Bring It On" from Gaiden because i felt like it was a really good soundtrack conveying power and anger and was super energetic. I routinely get people asking me to replace to with Recieve You Tech Trance Arrange though so i was wondering how much of you want this

Cursed with burnout

Won't be able to work on Like A Brawler 8 for the next few days because my body refuses to. On very good news though, we are slowly reaching the point where there's fewer things to add to the mod which means the mod is just about to enter refining stage. I'm also gonna be working on my modding tools in the meanwhile which should indirectly benefit Like A Brawler 8 of course

What would you like to see 2

I made a post asking about what you would like to see in the mod a while ago, now that new people seem to have joined us i'm asking again. Perhaps it's a heat action, maybe a moveset, perhaps something else? If you have any ideas, let me know!

chef

Current goal is to go through every job and give basic movesets and heat actions to whichever ones i can. Then i'll return to the ones that are promising and improve on them hopefully. This one is based on kenzan dual swords, i would like to keep the salt shaker heat action but replace its current trigger with something else so i'll see how i can make that work

More desperado stuff

This time playing around with heat actions. I find it pretty overwhelming to finish the heat actions in one go so i'm experimenting with just adding the very rough outline of them and making them good later on.

Desperado tests

Experimenting with gunman on desperado, would it be okay for you guys if the shoot range was small? Since that seems to be a limitation of the game

Working on weapon movesets

As you may know, if you are Freelancer Ichiban or Dragon of Dojima you are able to equip nearly every single weapon in the game, so i'm currently working on movesets and heat actions for those.

New VFX and SFX

You now get a pretty cool screen effect when you defeat a strong enemy just like in Judgment/Lost Judgment! I also gave Kiryu his finisher sound effects from Kiwami 1 although i may end up changing them in the future, unsure if its good enough yet

Crunchy New SFX

I was working on trying to port walljumping from LAB7 to LAB8 but that didnt work so i was heartbroken but i did manage to give Ichiban's finishers some really meaty sounds! Really like them

Release Date Predictions and Where Mod's At

So, as you may know, the full story is now beatable with Like a Brawler 8 with no problems or hiccups. Movesets of Kiryu and Ichiban are largely complete, with just heat actions and visuals left to complete. Movesets and heat actions for jobs are not finished and have a long way to go but progress is being made on that end, i predict the mod will be fully released on January 2025 the earliest and around March 2025 at the latest

Working on things

Things are moving slow but steady, my attention is focused on heat actions right now, i'm aso updating Like a Brawler 7 on the side and making the combat better, trying to port combat features from it, great progress has been made including making Ichiban way more nimble, reintroducing perfect guards, and reducing stunlocks in the mod.

Double Finishers

Ichiban gets double finishers (wow!)

Meteor Tackle

Planning on adding Shinada's meteor tackle for Ichiban and Linebacker job, naturally, the Linebacker version would be faster, more powerful and also ideally hit enemies Ichiban collides with

I'm back

Back to regular-ish posts. I'm not that interested in movesets at this moment so i will likely be posting heat actions i'm working on. If there is anything you guys wanna see particularly (maybe for a job) lemme know!

Short Break

I'm nearly burnt out from porting various movesets for the mod the past few days so i'm gonna take a quick 2-3 day break, the regular updates will resume after that

Start Action Star

I was thinking of giving this job two movesets, one for nunchaku which you can pull out which is Yagami nunchaku moveset, and one for unarmed which would be Yagami tiger, if i dont end up going with that idea, i'm still happy with how this style turned out, feels super powerful to play

Starting on Samurai

Porting animations from Yakuza 3-0 to Dragon Engine is always a huge pain. I got the most annoying parts out of the way though, will be using the ishin swordsman as a base

What job movesets would you guys like to see

Considering im close to be finished with the full Infinite Wealth story, i will likely start making movesets for other jobs, was wondering which ones you guys want to see first

Working on Ebina

Gave him a heat action for when he is nearby a downed enemy. It does not kill but it hurts pretty bad.

Beast Upgrade

Kiryu can now automatically pick up nearby weapons while attacking, and can run with heavy weapons (yes, that includes an entire motorbike)

Kiryu Backshots

Dont get the wrong idea. I recently made back attacks more powerful in the mod, allowing you to perform Yakuza 3 style combos on enemies, very powerful when performed on goons. I also made juggles longer lasting when performed on weaker enemies but thats an update for another day!