Change Damage-Over-Time Effects to Per Combatant Turn

Leidustraum

(I'm not sure if this has been discussed before. If so, please lead me to the thread)

I am using a turn-based battle system. I have abilities/status effects that deal damage over time or refresh/healing over time. Currently, the game implements the heal/poison damage on every turn of the affected combatant ONLY, which means that the next tick of the healing/damage will be on the next turn of that combatant (after everyone else has taken their turn).

Is there a way to change this so that it happens on EVERY combatant's turn?

Or, even better, is there a way to change the system so that 1 turn = 1 combatant turn, NOT 1 whole round of all combatant turns?

Thanks in advance!

gamingislove

Technically, there is already a separation between the overall battle turn and a combatant's turn - but status effects are combatant turn bound. Having an effect's changes used on every combatant's turn isn't possible out of the box.

However, you could use turn start/end schematics so do it. Instead of the changes being done in the status effect, they'd be done in the turn start or end schematic. In short, the schematic would:

get all combatants in battle via a Combatants type actor (In Battle set to Yes)
use a Select Combatant node using the actor and get all that have the status effect applied (via filters)
do changes on the selected combatants (i.e. selected data via the used data key)

Leidustraum

I see. Thanks for the idea!

Leidustraum

@gamingislove

Sorry, can you expound more on this? I'm a very new user and have very little idea about using schematics yet, so apologies in advance. While I understand the idea behind your suggestion very clearly, when I tried to execute it, there are gaps in what I know what to do:-

1.) Where would I plug the schematic in? I checked the Battle Settings, and cant find any where where I can plug in a schematic to be executed at every combatant's turn start/end.

2.) What node should I use after Select Combatant node that filters all combatants with the status effect? Can I just directly use a Change Status Value node?

gamingislove

1) This is in Combatants > Combatants > General Settings in the Default Schematic Settings for all combatants, or each combatant optionally overriding them in their Base Settings > Schematic Settings.

2) Yes, you can directly use a Change Status Value node. Use Selected Data as the object and the data key you used to store the combatants in the Select Combatant node.