Weakness Stunning

[Chaos Avian]

Hi there, I've been trying to figure this out, but I've been trying to make hitting a weakness create the benefit. Like Persona 3 and 4, where hitting a weakness gives you another turn except I want to make the result of hitting a weakness a chance of stunning rather than an extra turn. If this can be done, I'd appreciate the help.

 

[whitesphere]

Could you add a state which gives say stun status a 200% susceptibility? Would that work?

 

[Wavelength]

I think this is a cool idea; the ability to Knock Down characters when you hit their weakness in P3/4 added a ton of danger and strategy to battles.

Took a little while for me to get this working correctly, mostly because I didn't realize I needed to hit both sides of the "if it's a normal attack" branch... but here's a scriptlet that I made for you.  Paste it anywhere below 'Materials' and above 'Main'. I tested it out in a clean project with a fire attack, spell, and item against the ogre (which is weak to fire) and it's working perfectly.

Be sure to replace the "33" with whatever state you want to add to the target when their weakness is hit.

This is something that I may want to turn into a full script so other people (and you) can use it more easily.  Given that the entire mechanic is from Persona anyway, I assume you'd be okay with me doing so?

class Game_Battler < Game_BattlerBase  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------  # * Get Element Modifier for Skill/Item  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------  def item_element_rate(user, item)    if item.damage.element_id < 0      the_rate = (user.atk_elements.empty? ? 1.0 : elements_max_rate(user.atk_elements))    else      the_rate = (element_rate(item.damage.element_id))    end    if the_rate > 1.0      self.add_state(33)    end    return the_rate  end end

 

[Chaos Avian]

Oh most definitely! This is awesome thanks~

 

[Wavelength]

You're very welcome.  Enjoy making a strategic battle system with it!!

((EDIT: I edited the previous post to correct where it should be pasted - ABOVE Main, not below.))

((EDIT 2: I just saw you wanted the effect to be a CHANCE to stun upon hitting a weakness.  You can do this by changing the self.add_state(33) line to the following:

if rand(100) < 40 (or whatever percentage you want instead of 40)

self.add_state(33)

end

 

[YaMaskSey]

Can this be done with critical hits?

 

[Wavelength]

Can this be done with critical hits?

Yes.


Here's the method in Game_Battler that runs when it is determined that the attack/skill DID Crit:


#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
# * Apply Critical
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
def apply_critical(damage)
damage * 3
end




So you'll want to modify that method.  Something like:


#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
# * Apply Critical
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
def apply_critical(damage)
add_state(33)
damage * 3
end


If you're pasting this as a new scriptlet in Materials, rather than modifying the current script, be sure to place class Game_Battler < Game_BattlerBase before it and end after it.


I started making a Battle Effects script a while back, which allows you to apply all different kinds of effects when certain conditions you specify are met on-hit (critical hits and hitting a weakness/resistance are among them).  However, I only completed about half of the possible conditions/effects and the script overwrites several methods so the compatibility is kind of weak.  Right now I'm only continuing progress on this script in the places where I need it for my own games (since I can control my own compatibility issues), but I do plan to write or commission such a script for MV at some point, in which case I'll pay much more attention to compatibility.

 

[YaMaskSey]

Well the script works, so I messed around with it and wanted to see if the player can get an extra turn for landing a critical hit using the Free Turn Battle system from Yanfly website, Instead the game crashes when I get a critical, I tried adding both self and user to the add_state but both of them crashes the game. Is there a way to modify the script so the user get's that state?