Returning to the combat overhaul

Hello, everyone!  We've still not all been nuked, and so work on the game continues!

In the recent school council poll, "More Wrestling Content" scored very poorly, and so went down the list of priorities.  This was fine, as there is no such content planned for 0.5, giving me time to work out exactly where I want to go with it when we do come back to it.  Some of you may remember the solicitation on changing the combat system way back in December.   It actually produced a fairly healthy majority for keeping things more or less as they are, but with less RNG.

My plan for combat in the future is to have three slight variations on the theme - schoolyard fights and strip-wrestling matches you've already seen, and to this we'll add high school wrestling, in which you'll have to make your opponent submit, but can't take her clothes off.  Submission holds will also be available in strip-wrestling and possibly fights too.

This means nailing down how grappling is going to work.  So at this stage, I'm opening up the floor to further suggestions about how a less random form of grappling might look.  There may also be tweaks to the amount of poison damage it deals and how susceptible it makes the victim to enemy attacks.

Once that's done, I will look to recruit a small testing team, who will play a modified version of the game with the new style of fights and provide feedback.  No need to express interest now, as I'll put out a call nearer the time.  It won't be this side of the 0.5 release, as there's already unreleased content in the game file, and I habitually don't leave that in releases.  (Players who've been with me from the beginning may remember the bug with an unreleased scene for Emily playing in her bedroom because I forgot to move it.)

Discuss in the comments, or over on Discord.  I will need to finalise this in time to do Chapter 5, as there will be fighting in that!

Trinian