can't decide between using playerstate or hitboxes

[slim wind]

trying to make a parrying system in my singleplayer story game, but i can't decide between

1 - using playerstate. for example if playerstate == isParrying then negate any damage if theyre colliding with an enemy hitbox
2 - spawning a counter "parry" hitbox that negates any damage if it collides with an enemy's hitbox

[worldly gorge]

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[blazing palm]

depends

what kind of combat are you doing?

realistic, go for hitbox style(you can add states for double check), otherwise, having a comprehensive fsm is really good

[slim wind]

trying to emulate ultrakill's combat system

so kind of fast paced/momentum-based

[slim wind]

so playerstate is the way to go?

tysm

[blazing palm]

state are definetly more accurate

momentum based means alot of moving? if thers alot of moving itll be harder for hitboxes since theres latency

[blazing palm]

yes, fsm is not really known but its really neccessary for market standard combat system

[slim wind]

thank you sm

[frigid flume]

yea also just want to add onto the whole finite state machine part that ayan mentioned. Make sure you make a REALLY focus on this part since its very useful this video has a good breakdown of hsfm. (its in c# but u can implement it in roblox pretty easily - minus the parallel sequence part since im too dumb to that so I cant say) https://youtu.be/c-XoTg6Fba4?si=6tQYf8t38jRpP_Sk

[craggy rain]

I'd go for playerstate definitely

[worldly gorge]

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[craggy rain]

because you can make it easier and have more control, less bugs

and still would feel good

[blazing palm]

oh my god i never knew this was what it was called, i thought its just another version of fsm

@slim wind if you're making state machine you need to use hsm

or else you're gonna have tons of states

group them up and you get hsm

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