Ability Ideas

A list of abilities and a description for how they can be used to unlock new areas of the map

• Dash
  • Break through walls
  • Cross gaps where you don't have enough headroom to jump
• Air Dash
  • Extend the distance of your jumps by adding an air dash in the middle
  • Careful timing to dash into small gaps while jumping
• Sprint
  • Extend the distance of your jumps
• Hookwire
  • Change direction of jumps by targeting a point and pulling yourself in that direction (mini grapple)
  • Range can be extended.
  • Similar to batman's grapple gun in Arkham games or the grappling hook from Sekiro or Tenchu
• Heat sword
  • Melt specific obstacles
• Glider
  • Extend the range of your jumps by reducing fall speed
  • Increased mid-air maneuverability
• Wall jump
  • Ability to jump when in contact with walls as well as floors
• Wall run
  • Ability to run on a wall for a short period of time as if it were a floor.
• Warp Grenade
  • Throw a grenade, press button again to switch places with the grenade. The grenade then explodes.
• Blink
  • Instantly teleport behind target. Useful for attacks, as well as warping to statues
• Balance Beam
  • Ability to stand on narrow ledges, like beams and flag poles.
• Zipline
  • Ability to slide down ropes and ziplines
• Zipline X
  • Ability to slide UP ropes and zip lines quickly
• Power Glove
  • Ability to lift and throw large objects
  • Can be coupled with the hookwire to cross gaps
• Telekenisis / Mag Gun
  • Pull objects towards you
  • can jump off them while they are falling.
  • Can use hookwire to pull you towards them
• Concussion Sweep
  • Adds a burst of concussive force to a sword swing pushing things away from you
• Water Run
  • Ability to run on water
• Pogo Jump
  • Add extra height / distance / speed when jumping off enemies.
• Closing Strike
  • A sword slash that pulls you towards your enemy. Can be used in air as an additional distance burst.
• Vorpal Strike
  • A sword slash that pulls other things towards you. Can be used like telekenesis.
• Phasing
  • Pass through enemies and certain obstacles.
  • Cannot change directions while phasing is active.
  • Will die if phasing ends and you are colliding with an object.
• Armor
  • Can protect against environmental damage.
    • Radiation
    • Acid
    • Heat
    • Etc

Combos

Cross a room with a pile of crates without touching the ground.

• Sprint towards a ledge
• Jump
• Midair dash towards pile of crates
• Telekenesis a crate towards you
• wall jump off the crate mid air to bring you into range of a support beam
• hookwire a support beam to pull yourself towards it
• balance beam to stand on the support
• Jump and glide onto the ledge on the other side of the room.

Traversing a space using a thrown object and hookwire / dash

• User Power Glove to lift a block
• Throw block towards destination
• Ground dash in that direction, catching up to the block
• Jump then air dash
• Combo hookwire and wall jump while the rock is in flight.

Hookwire onto a zipline

Use warp grenade to teleport high into the air, then use glide to reach a destination

Use concussion sweep and blink to traverse a room.

• Concusson sweep an enemy, pushing them away from you
• Activate blink on them while they are mid air to appear behind them