Wildcat - Dynamic Combat

Weapon combo framework, smooth movement and other combat adjustments to improve the combat experience.

Wildcat - Dynamic Combat

🎯Mod Overview

This mod is designed to transform the combat experience from a simple button press to a more strategic and dynamic experience, allowing players to demonstrate their operational skills and build-building abilities. Revolutionize the feel of combat with the introduction of a multi-hit combo system inspired by the Haunted Chocolatier trailer, as well as adjustments to how attributes other than base damage affect combat performance.

⚠️ **Please note: This is not a casual mod**. It makes combat more difficult and challenging overall, but also feels more rewarding.

⚔️ Combo Frame

There are many problems with weapon combos in the original game:

• Attack is always the best defense, rendering the defensive attributes and special blocking skills of the sword completely useless
• The attack speed bonus has limited impact, only affecting 1/4 to 1/5 of the frame in the attack animation
• The knockback effect actually becomes a hindrance because enemies that are pushed away cannot be attacked continuously.

**Combo System Solution:**

• **Sword Weapons**: Up to 4 horizontal slashes by default
• **Stick Weapons**: Default 2 attacks (one horizontal slash + one downward smash)
• **Dagger weapons**: remain unchanged, theoretically unlimited combos

Now you have a reason to intersperse your normal attacks with special abilities! **Emerald** The attack speed bonus provided by rings and weapon forging now reduces both the cooldown between combos and the duration of each frame of the attack animation.

🎮Control adjustment

Smooth movement

Attacking while running maintains momentum, allowing you to glide in the direction of movement as you attack, creating a faster-paced, smoother combat experience.

Facing the mouse cursor

When using keyboard and mouse, enabling this feature will cause the farmer to swing his weapon in the direction of the mouse cursor. Combined with fluid movement, you can glide in one direction while attacking enemies behind you. Mastering this mechanic is crucial to dodging attacks.

📊 Attribute adjustment

Defense mechanism redone

The original linear defense formula is replaced by the hyperbolic formula:

```

Damage *= 10 / (10 + defense)

```

Each point of defense reduces 10% more damage, ensuring that the defense attribute remains equally useful throughout the game (albeit with diminishing returns).

The defensive attribute also increases reflected damage, including the sword's blocking special skill and the effect of the Ring of Thorns. Defensive builds focusing on **Topaz** rings and weapon forging are really viable now, and are even effective offensively.

Enhanced knockback effect

Introducing an environmental collision damage mechanism. When the character is knocked back and hits a wall or object, he will receive additional damage. This adds a new strategic dimension to combat, where fighting close to rocks, walls, or other objects may be more advantageous than in open areas.

Optimization of critical strike system

• **Crit hits ignore defense**: Provides countermeasures against high defense enemies
• **Backstab Critical**: Doubles the critical chance when attacking an enemy from behind

🎲 Enemy adjustment

Optional sliders are provided to adjust enemy attributes (health, damage, defense), as well as random encounter options based on daily luck, creating a more diverse dungeon experience.

🔗 Related modules

**DaLion Module Series:**

• Walk of Life - career tree and skill progression system overhaul
• Aquarism - Make fish ponds truly useful
• Serfdom - Real income and property taxation mechanism
• Springmyst - Adds fun new enchantments
• Mineracoustics - Gem ring mechanic overhaul based on music theory
• Chargeable Resource Tools - Chargeable axes and pickaxes

🙏 Acknowledgments

Special thanks to DjStln and NormanPCN for th …