[Open Assets] 2.2 Shield Abilities

[Lach]

Title pretty much says it all.

Press spin while wearing a Force Shield, Attraction Shield, or Elemental Shield to perform a Force Stop, Attraction Shot, or Elemental Stomp respectively.

Explanations, as taken directly from the SRB2 Wiki:

• The Attraction Shield's new active ability is the Attraction Shot, which allows the player to dash towards nearby enemies, similarly to the homing attack but without cancelling the player's horizontal momentum after hitting the enemy. To indicate which enemy is targeted, an arrow marker will appear above the enemy when the ability can be used.
• The Elemental Shield's new active ability is the Elemental Stomp, which makes the player quickly dash towards the ground.
• The Force Shield's new active ability is the Force Stop, which cancels the player's momentum. Additionally, the shield has been recolored to a purple hue.

Obviously I can't guarantee that these abilities function exactly the same way as they do in 2.2, but I got some helpful tips from a couple of the developers over on the Discord server so they should be pretty close!

 

[Prime 2.0]

Welcome to Releases!

 

[Simon_T]

You don't have to create another Thing to replace the Force Shield Monitor, just rename that FRTV frames into BLTVC0, D0 and E0

 

[sluggard]

Seems like Force Stop will be the least useful of any SRB2 Shield Abilities.

 

[Lach]

You don't have to create another Thing to replace the Force Shield Monitor, just rename that FRTV frames into BLTVC0, D0 and E0

The Gravity Boots Monitor and some custom monitors (e.g. some from Monitors Plus) use BLTV frames to display the icon when burst open, so I made the pink icon a separate object to avoid that conflict.

 

[Petit The Hedge]

Awesome! Since the 20th anniversary trailer went out, i wanted these shields, they're awesome, except for the force shield, i just liked the purple hue. Anyways, congrats Lach, you sure did a great work!

 

[Biielz]

the elemental shield could have 2 abilities, the elemental stomp, and a ability inside the water like an dash (not like the elemental stomp)

I love cheese

 

[shalpp]

>force stop
>cancel momentum
So I can stop mid jump like in Sonic Adventure now. Schweet

 

[Smoke-le-Bloke]

Seems like Force Stop will be the least useful of any SRB2 Shield Abilities.

*ahem*


1. Force Shield takes two hits, not one
2. You could use its ability to stop yourself from missing a jump (Or in some cases to stop yourself from running into an enemy)