Combat and martial arts

Martial Arts

Martial Arts are combat styles that characters can learn and use in-game (illegally or non illegally) which grants them special combat abilities that are usually done through a certain action combo, but can also be passive abilities or action based.

These abilities can range from new defensive measures such as deflecting projectiles to combo attacks that can quickly incapacitate an assailant or deal significant damage in comparison to standard punches.

How to acquire martial arts are just as variable as the forms that are available, some martial arts are only available to traitors, others are used by certain jobs.

One can know multiple martial arts and are allowed to pick and choose which martial art to utilize. Some characters like changelings for example are unable to use martial arts at all.

Intents

As said before. most martial arts rely on performing a certain action combo on the opponent. There are essentially 4 types of "actions" in the game (most martial arts only use three), which will be referred as intents from now on. Intents are a concept from SS13, where instead of just one combat mod players would have 4 modes to choose the type of interaction from. SS14 only has one mode, the combat one, but it utilizes other buttons to compensate for that. The intents themselves are available to use for everyone, but martial artists can perform combos using them, comboed intents will disappear if you switch to another opponent. Intents are:

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