Suggestions

This idea came from a discussion with grand and deterraleon: right now some players play without shiftstones as a debuff on themselfes, but what if there were actual debuff shiftstones? It would be crazy cool to have debuff shiftstones (maybe they could let you earn double gear coins while active for some upside?) Some ideas: Start with 15 hp instead of 20 Straight only applies 0.5x force on grounded structures Disable <any move> (could be e.g parry or any structure like wall or pillar or cube) Take 1 more damage from structures that hit you in the head Lose the iron boots effect (take damage from structures you land on top off and break) Get a delay on all poses registering (maybe approx equal to client ping or a set amount to simulate being on client too in a way) there's so much that can be done with this that also allows high level players to keep challenging themselves even when fighting less experienced players!!

When attempting to use straight/uppercut/kick on a structure that is simultaneously being hit by a disc, the structure does not move. I admit there are ways to fight against this, but I am frustrated that this is such and easy thing for the opponent to do. On the Ring it can't last for long as the opponent loses space with every disc, but on Pit they can have their back to the wall without repercussion. If I recall correctly, in a future update to the damage system the player will take damage from being forced into the environment/structure. This may help.

The Student stone (or any other name) would be a shift stone aimed at beginners / people practicing a pose. With the student stone you would be able to activate the pose ghost (preselected pose, maybe an extra button in the book of poses "save to student stone" with a button press (outside of the training area/in battle) I think this is would be especially nice for new players since the shift stones don't really become too relevant until higher ranks and this way you have some salvation if you happen to not remember any poses in your first few battles (so it's less punishing to new players)

Howard is extremely limited in its moveset. It always reacts the exact same when you attack it by just moving away. The attacks it preforms are also extremely limited. First of all, even at the highest difficulty the pauses it does between attacks, and when it stops moving, are by far too long. It is also not able to do pillar, since every time it preforms the move the pillar instantly breaks, probably because it is colliding with the track. Another issue is that due to the track having collision, it can be difficult to hit Howard with grounded moves, especially grounded discs. I think that removing collision from the tracks would both help to make sure that Howard's moves come out without breaking, and to make the player actually hit Howard from grounded objects. I assume that the most logical thing would be to increase the difficulty slider by a couple of values, but maybe there could also exist a seperate slider, since the suggestions I am going to make are quite different compared to how Howard usually behaves, so maybe a toggle would be good? The details on how this should work aren't really that important to this suggestion; you will probably come up with something sensible if you ever plan on including this idea. Anyways, here are some behavior changes I feel would make Howard way more useful as a practicing aid: The pauses it does between attacks, and when it stops moving should be decreased. For the highest difficulty the pause should probably barely be noticeable. Although maybe different moves have different pause durations afterwards. A heavier attack like "wall" should probably make him have to recover for longer than disc or spawn ball, since having literally every move have a cool-down of for example 1 second would make it flow really weirdly if it does a bunch of "huge" moves at the same speed as trowing discs. Make Howard react to attacks in more varied ways. Instead of just trying to move away from the attack to dodge it, it should be able to spawn wall, and spawn pillar. For the highest difficulties it should maybe be able to parry>straight, ground>straight, or maybe even parry>hold right>straight. Make it have a way more varied move set. Howard has a very limited range, and if you put up a wall at a decent distance, it can literally not do anything against you, except maybe uppercutting balls if you are at that exact range. What I feel would be really good to train against (at least at Howard's highest difficulty) would be if he was able to straight>kick walls, since that would cover a very large distance, and which is able to break walls. Another way he could play against the players walls would be if he could utilize explode, and for example do spawn ball>explode>straight, to get rid of the walls. Maybe he could do disc or wall>explode very shortly after, to hopefully hit the player right as their wall falls away. Some more moves he might be able to preform could be hold right, since that would give him way more range, and also makes its attacks way more threatening and fast. It could for example spawn cube>hold right> straight, and maybe even apply explode to it? Another thing it should be able to utilize would be ground. It could for example spawn ball>ground>straight. For the highest difficulties maybe also spawn cube>straight>uppercut, wall>straight>kick (as mentioned before), disc>straight, disc>kick (if you jump). Make Howard have way more situational awareness. If it for example spawns a wall, and moves away from it, it can later sense that there is a wall somewhere close to its track, that it can move behind to be safe from the players attack for a while. It could even potentially start doing spawn ball>uppercut from behind the wall to pressure the player whilst it is safely behind the wall. If the distance between Howard and the wall is too small to spawn a ball, it could maybe straight the wall to give more room for the ball? Give Howard more space. This idea is definitely quite a stretch, but maybe it would be possible to have Howard (Or maybe a replica of Howard) have its own arena, where it has a completely (or at least almost completely) 360 degree track in a circle, so that it can for instance go around a wall, with a hiding player behind it. I feel that it is important being able to play against someone who isn't a real life person without the difficulty of it being absurdly easy. Personally sometimes I get a bit stressed from playing online, and I just want to relax offline, but still have it be difficult and fast enough for it to be interesting. As of right now, whenever I play against Howard I barely ever attack. Most of the time I just stare at it for what feels like ages, until it attacks where I can try to block it and counter. Nothing even remotely interesting is happening. I just created my account for canny.io , and I am not able to change my username. If I have still been unable to do so in the future, I want to just mention that my username should be baksoBoy, and if you were to for some reason want to contact me, my Discord username is baksoBoy#0001, and I am a part of the Bucket head Entertainment Discord server. Thank you for reading through this long suggestion! I really appreciate it!

just think it would be a nice little touch, simular to how grounded objects make a rumbling sound.

Some players keep spamming the "disc throw" move so the match becomes annoying. Adding a little delay between two discs would be appreciated

I was thinking a shift stone that was helpful for flick would really spread out the meta of this game. The idea I had in mind was a stone that increases the damage (by one point) of whatever you have flicked if you swing it fast enough. Imo this would really help flick moves be more viable, so there's a reason to go for the risky flick flight moves so you can get that extra point of damage and brake through more anti air. Let me know what you all think!

I've been trying to get back into Rumble, but oh my god, the moves are so tedious. I know how to do them, but I just keep trying to do them at an angle the game doesn't like. i really wish there was a larger margin of error for doing poses when your rotation is slightly off.

So, I thought 'hey, if we're all earthbenders, why not bend different kinds of earth?' so maybe you could select your favorite kind of dirt in the station. Could just be a cosmetic thing, maybe they could boost some stats? clay could spawn faster but not do as much damage, obsidian could do something cool like not being able to be ungrounded, maybe there could be some metals thrown in there, just a thought.

A lot of people play without shiftstones to not be dependent on them. That being said shiftstones are really fun so a possible solution is to be able to choose in shiftstone "random" and then every match they will switch to another stone, by doing that people can use shiftstones without worrying about being dependent on them.