Feature

[davewadd]

For charged psychic attack, it will be a projectile that spawns at the cursor after all three charging stages. Once summoned it will stay in its place and effect all players to fall fast and have no fall damage similar to the portal gun physics in terraria (when holding the portal gun)
Enemies within this large range will get a buff that causes a visual and when any projectile hits them it summons a little psychic pellet that does 20 percent the damage of the projectile that caused it. This will be ran from global projectile so it will implant its own damage value onto the pellet.
Lastly an upgrade for this will be to be able to place three of these fields. They must act in a way where if another is near it, any enemy now gets that portals effects too. Soo if there are three, three pellets on hit, if five fields near each other than five pellets per hit.
Not sure on how to unsummon them separately. Maybe show their icons on the map and click them to unsummon

[T9es]

We implemented a prototype skeleton for the charged psychic field behavior, including field placement, linked fields, enemy tagging, pellet spawning, player fall physics, and map icon removal. It still needs in game testing and balancing, but the core structure is now in place.

Edit: In game it does work and tracks correctly.

[davewadd]

Note on some things I forgot to mention: we need to cut the charging time to about 3 seconds, we need to remove the projectiles it shoots while charging as that is an old idea that is no longer around, attempting to charge should remove the oldest room and place it to cursor location, and finally make sure the default is to only be able to place one. First unlock is to have three of them and the second unlock to change charging time to a single second.

Third upgrade will be unrelated so I'll get into that at home

[T9es]

Just pushed a commit with several fixes to the psychic field system:

• Fall physics reworked so it uses acceleration-based downward pull that only kicks in while youre actually falling. Jumping works normally now instead of fighting against the pull.
• Field linking has diminishing returns and a cap on the multiplier. Bosses get a reduced effect so theyre not instantly deleted by multiple fields.
• The debuff now lingers for 4 seconds after an enemy leaves the field, with a visible timer counting down.
• Pellets have proper phases now - they launch outward, search for targets, home in, and fade out cleanly.
• Removed the old LocatorR spawns that were firing during charge since that idea is gone. The charge timer now uses the proper constant from PsychicFieldSystem instead of a hardcoded 900.
• Fields now track their spawn order so they know their place.

[davewadd]

The cap should be 6. There will be a cap of two Saria's per team and they can only fuse if with another players portal and on the same team otherwise they should disconnect or stay disconnected from other ones. That would be 3 from one person and then 6 if you and another person both were in the same team, had the upgrade, then both used all 6 in the same location.
There will not be room for all upgrades so the max is like 24 and only 17 will be feasible by the end of it. 6 is cap