Re: Repel is broken.
 

Ahhhhhhhh. I guess I'd forgotten the details of the story, it being one of those predictable, cloyingly fatalistic Crouching Tiger clones like House of Flying Daggers.

Re: Repel is broken.
 

Hero isn't in any sense a Crouching Tiger clone, unless you mean that it's made with western audiences in mind.

That genre of film and TV had been popular in China for a looong time before CT came on the scene. You might have a case with HoFD, but again I think that's part of a different genre, with strong influences from korean adaptations of chinese historical drama. But this is off topic, so nevermind.

Re: Repel is broken.
 

And movies like Hero really stink. No sane Chinese will want to watch movies like that.

Re: Repel is broken.
 

... I do not consider Repel broken. From what I have seen it is very seldom useful. If it was broken everyone would be building pikeneers who I see very seldom.

Most of the spells are useless against a SC so what kind of argument is that?

Re: Repel is broken.
 

To me Hero is great ^^ It's so estetically wonderful I would like it even if the story was sh*t (and it isn't at all) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif Crouching Tiger, and the Flying Daggers, i didn't like.

To me shields make sense, you rise it and hope you are not hit, we can all imagine this as we've seen it in movies so let's not overcomplicate mechanics plz ^^

Yeah repel is a little worst. I can still imagine the game battle as an actual /sample/ of a real battle, so yes, maybe 3 or 4 subsequent attacks don't happen in 1 sec, but in some minutes for what we know, the defender moves the spear around. Still, things like the Dragonflies are supposed to be little, dodgy, and to attack in swarm, so really difficult to me imagining all of them impale all on the same spear like a kebab XD

Re: Repel is broken.
 

Actually, the dragonflies land on the spear, but it's so sharp that it cuts them in half just from the force of their own weight. That's how the spear got its name, Tonbo-Giri (Dragonfly Cutter).

...Oh wait, you meant an ordinary spear? Well, that shouldn't happen then. You should only be able to kill a couple dragonflies per round with it.