Weighty Charged Attacks (OpenMW Lua)

Note: This mod's been bundled up with most of my other mods into one easy to use Combat Pack!

Weighty Charged Attacks

For OpenMW 0. 48. 0+

Get weightier charged attacks! You'll be slowed while you're charging them up depending on weapon weight and your strength, but you'll get a different attack buff afterward, for grounded or jumping attacks, depending on weapon weight and your charge time!

My other weapon-combat-buff mods may be used with this one! Charge Attack Parry in particular is highly recommended.

Timed Directional Attacks: Time your attacks well for buffs depending on which directional attack you use.

Staff-Spell Stat Buffs: Get spellcasting bonuses if you use a staff when you start spellcasting. Or at least have one equipped.

Charge Attack Parry: Turn your weighty charged attacks into backpedaling blocks or sidestepping dodge attacks.

Unzip the mod subdirectory wherever you put your mods, or on a datapath listed in openmw.cfg (default Windows location C:\Users\...\Documents\My Games\OpenMW), and check the checkbox in OpenMW Launcher > Data Files > SolWeightyChargeAttacks.omwscripts

This mod uses what Lua API hooks currently exist for OpenMW 0. 48 to debuff you while you're charging an attack, and buff you for a short duration once you release it, depending on whether you are in the air or on the ground at that time.

As it stands, the buffs are as follows:

• []    While charging, lose speed and agility, scaling with (1+sqrt(weaponWeight)) and with (50/strength).

  []    On release, buff, scaling with (1+sqrt(weaponWeight)) and min(2, chargeTime*weaponSpeed). If in their air, buff strength and endurance. If on the ground, buff weapon skills, increasing accuracy.

  The logic is as follows: Charging an extra heavy attack exposes you to danger and keeps you from dodging well. You can either put that focus into aiming your attack perfectly, or expend extra fatigue doing a powerful swing, aided by your extra cool in air momentum. That's how it's supposed to feel at least.

  Every frame, the script checks whether you're using the use action. If so, then the very first frame of that, it checks if you've got the correct weapon setup. If so, it debuffs you and sets your state as "charging". Then, when you release the use key, on the first frame of that, it kills the "charging" state, removes the debuffs, and applies the buffs, triggering a timer to them remove them after buffDuration has passed.