Curving Projectile Paths

This may not be worth it in terms of effort, but adding the mechanics to curve a projectile path sounds curious.

You could make a "decoy" totem that pulls projectiles towards it so that they don't hit you.
You could make a support gem that lets your projectiles home in on a target after firing.
You could make a unique item that bends projectiles slightly away from or towards you, making them easier or harder to dodge.

Slower projectiles will curve more.
Multiple attraction/repulsion fields can stack additively.

This. Please.

I was thinking earlier today of how gnarly the curving projectiles are in Torchlight II and all the cool things you could do with homing projectiles in PoE. More specifically, I was thinking of a support gem that spawns homing projectiles on skill usage. Image throwing down a flame trap that, when triggered, explodes while firing a barrage of projectiles. I'm also hoping for more melee skills like lightning strike that spawn projectiles on hit. I'd really like more ways to shoot things while playing a melee character.

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echephron wrote:

This may not be worth it in terms of effort...

I beg to differ. Some simple 2D physics for pushing and pulling game objects around would add a ton of interesting possibilities on top of the great ones you mention. To name just a few:

- Gravity well skill (call it Singularity?) that draws things to a point crashing them together to deal physical damage (see Sacred 2's Inquisitor skill, Clustering Maelstrom).

- Enemy corpses could be knocked back when hit with overkill damage, say 150% to 200% of their max life.

- 2D physics coupled with a modified gory death that explodes enemies into a bloody mess when hit for 200% of their max life would really take that extra gore mod to a new level of awesome.

As an added bonus gravity wells would enable a Ghostbusters build using Arc as the main attack and a combination of Cold Snap traps set on top of a Singularity remote mine. You can't tell me that isn't worth the effort.

Oh please yes! +1