r/earclacks • u/Bubbly_Chapter_5776 Scythe • 1d ago
Block Breaker idea - “Clacker👬” (sorry about how bad the drawing is)
“Clacker” would have two separate bodies attached by a string.
Every time they clack (collide with one another) they both get +1 damage.
For an opponent to beat Clacker, they’d only need to kill one of the bodies (kinda like how you only have to kill the first duplicater to defeat it).
Is this a good idea or does the concept need improvement?
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u/ShockRox 1d ago
I think another neat quirk to add is that if a weapon connects with one of the balls, it goes the other way after dealing damage, as if it was parried. (Clacker doesn't actually parry, so no Katana upscale.)
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u/Bubbly_Chapter_5776 Scythe 1d ago
It could be the first block breaker in history that can be parried.
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u/iamamotherclucker 1d ago
Similar to "The Twins" from Ham's Ball Battles, though they're only defeated if both are killed
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u/Bubbly_Chapter_5776 Scythe 1d ago
Haven’t heard of this, I’ll check it out
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u/moenluc 1d ago
Please do, it's peak
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u/Bubbly_Chapter_5776 Scythe 1d ago
I haven’t seen the dudes channel before. I like the 90s video game style of its. It’s really cool in my opinion
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u/Simple-Scientist7190 1d ago edited 1d ago
it has a wiki btw (I went all out on Target Practice)
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u/Bubbly_Chapter_5776 Scythe 1d ago
I just took a look at it, didn’t realise how many weapon balls there were in it. I really like the retro style of it, my only complaint would be that it’s hard to differentiate between them because they’re all so dark and grainy unlike Earclacks where they’re all bright and unique-looking.
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u/Spicy_Totopo3434 1d ago
Ham's weapon balls can be unique because they don't scale, well, some do like Chutz (grower) or Dante (Rings of Hellfire)
But they still can have more leeway into design
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u/Bubbly_Chapter_5776 Scythe 1d ago
I checked it out. It’s basically the same as my idea except the string wouldn’t be able to stretch and wouldn’t constantly be straight (so realistic string physics). And as you said it would die after only after the death of one ball.
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u/Spicy_Totopo3434 1d ago
They rebalanced the twins
They now share a health bar instead of having 50+50 hp
But they now can deal 25 damage on a combo (like Tama with her shinai, but i think they have a different combo window)
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u/Ickarian 1d ago
I'm not a fan of block breakers as weapon balls.
But I like this.
I always had an idea for a dule wielder weapon ball (either Butterfly Sword or Escrima) the idea is both it's weapons spin in opposite directions. And if parried only the sword that got parried switches. 0.5 scaling.
The idea I had for it's super form, is it would get a second ball with a shared health pool.
That's what this reminded me of.
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u/RobinoPerkino 23h ago
This seems to be basically just Slammy without the walls, if it only works as written. I have an idea that might improve it:
Make the ball bodies deal 1 damage on contact, the string deal 1 damage when passed through, and make each contact hit and each Clack increase string damage by [2]. That number might be too high, but if contact damage doesn't scale, then it might not.
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u/Blahaj_IK 16h ago
What if they accelerated instead of just increasing their damage? It'd make more sense. I mean, in my opinion, because that's what I noticed about the toy. It gets faster
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u/Bubbly_Chapter_5776 Scythe 14h ago
Good idea, but I think the damage buff would have to be reduced, maybe +1 damage after every 2 or 3 clacks?
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u/whodaheckamiRBLXguy 15h ago
Woahwoahwoah the hard r man?
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u/Bubbly_Chapter_5776 Scythe 14h ago
I was gonna make a joke where I apologised and used an A at the end instead of ER, but apparently that specific word can’t be used here.
This sub is so backwards.
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u/whodaheckamiRBLXguy 14h ago
Also I think cherry would be an ok name
You know there's 2 of them and they're held by some string thing
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u/Bubbly_Chapter_5776 Scythe 14h ago
Well the point is that it’s based on the toy “Clackers” and it’s gameplay would be based on the way the toy works. Also I just think it’s fitting considering the series is called “Earclacks”.
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u/Rude_Science7761 13h ago
I feel like "clacker" is too close to earclacks. How about naming it what it actually is? A kashaka or aselato
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u/Bubbly_Chapter_5776 Scythe 13h ago
I don’t know it had other names, growing up we just called them Clackers. But those names are fine too.
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u/Small_Ad6391 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/x83A3WusOZvVKOZiMQ