Seppuku

A new ability for Bopl Battle: Seppuku. Drive a blade into your own belly and go berserk for 35 seconds. Every ability you have gets a bloody upgrade, and then you melt into a pool of blood.

Made by Poyraz Acarbaş, a modder from Turkey.

Contains cartoon blood.

Stabbing yourself

• Hold the ability button. A knife appears in the air, slowly comes closer, hesitates, then pushes itself into your belly bit by bit. It takes 7 seconds.
• You can't move or use other abilities while it happens. In the air you fall very slowly.
• Your other abilities stop recharging while you hold it, like during a time stop.
• Let go early and you cancel it. The knife pulls back out and nothing happens.
• The moment the blade goes in, there's a splash of blood and all your other abilities are recharged instantly.

Berserk (35 seconds)

• You run up to 1.45x faster and jump about 1.4x higher, with a meaty splat on every jump.
• Your abilities recharge up to 1.4x faster.
• Your bomb, mine and missile explosions are 1.3x bigger, turn red and leave a blood field for 3 seconds that slows enemies down to half speed.
• The knife stays stuck in your belly and you keep bleeding. Blood drips, sprays and stains the platforms you walk on.
• Your heartbeat gets louder and faster the closer you get to the end.
• Your power fades over time. Every 10 seconds you get more tired, and near the end your abilities recharge slower than normal.

The end

• In the last 8 seconds you limp like a wounded soldier: one step, then you drag your foot. You can't jump anymore and you get slower and slower.
• Then you fall to your knees and melt into a pool of blood that stays on the platform.
• There is no escape. Hiding inside a rock, rolling, teleporting or being somewhere else when the time runs out won't save you.
• If someone kills you first, you burst into blood.

Rules

• Seppuku can be used once per round. After that it stays dimmed in its slot.
• A revive flag still brings you back after you melt.

Berserk abilities

While berserk, every ability gets a bloody upgrade.

Shooting

• BEAM: 1.35x thicker, red, and you can hold it twice as long. It burns tunnels through platforms (see below).
• Bow: shoots 3 arrows at once. Wherever an arrow lands it leaves a poison cloud for 3.5 seconds that slows enemies down.
• Missile: flies 1.6x faster.
• Spike: a bigger sharp crimson katana blade, and two curved thorns tear out of it. Four small bloody spikes also burst out of the ground right next to you: they kill enemies but never you, and sink back after 4 seconds.

Explosives

• Grenade: splits into 4 mini bombs that scatter in every direction.
• Mine: explodes into 5 hovering mini mines that hunt down enemies.
• Smoke bomb: the bomb is bigger and the smoke cloud is twice as big.
• Black hole: starts much bigger, and doesn't swallow you for the first 1.5 seconds.

Movement

• Dash: 1.6x longer, and you run 1.5x faster for 3 seconds after it.
• Roll: charges in 1 second, you can't be killed while rolling, and it crosses water without ever dropping you in.
• Teleport: twice the area.
• Drill: a giant tip that also digs, and it starts super fast.
• Rock: lasts 2 seconds longer, and you can steer it left and right (even in the air) and hop a little.

Strength

• Muscle man: tears out a 1.25x bigger boulder, takes twice as much of the platform, throws it faster, and can carry the triple spike.
• Magnet: double magnet. It holds two things at once and throws them twice as hard.
• Push: twice as strong.
• Gust: 3x force and 1.5x bigger.
• Ground slam: full power right away, up to 2.5x stronger the longer you hold it, and it cracks the platform.
• Rocket engine: one huge triple-flame engine, 3x stronger.
• Platform: can grow twice as big and is much faster to shape and turn.

Protection

• Electricity (tesla) can't kill you.

BEAM tunnels

• The berserk BEAM slowly burns a tunnel through platforms, exactly as wide as the beam.
• The platform doesn't disappear: the burnt path turns charred black, glows like embers while it's hot, and cracks spread out around it. Rubble, sparks, flames and smoke fly out while it burns.
• You can see the BEAM going into the platform and coming out of the other side.
• It's slow: a normal platform takes a few seconds. Hold it long enough and it gets through anything, even a long platform from end to end. A tunnel you started stays, so you can finish it with your next BEAM.
• Only the burnt path is open. Aim somewhere else or from a different angle and you have to burn through again. Tunnels next to each other merge into one.
• Arrows, missiles, bombs, mines, rays (grow, shrink, clone, quantum, freeze) and other BEAMs fly through a finished tunnel and you can see them inside it. Players can't go through.
• A grow ray heals all the tunnels in a platform. Otherwise a tunnel heals by itself after a minute without being burned.
• Ice maps: icy platforms don't get tunnels, they melt. Water drips off them, they shrink, and they disappear completely if you keep the BEAM on them.
• Space maps: the metal space junk can't be drilled. Hold the BEAM on it and it glows red hot, smokes, shakes and explodes. The explosions are real and can kill anyone nearby. The junk comes back after 10 seconds.

Sounds

Seppuku uses real recorded sounds: the knife going in, blood splatters, flesh hits, bleeding, a heartbeat and a bloody death.

With Freeze Ray Plus

Seppuku works on its own, but it also works together with Freeze Ray Plus:

• Being frozen pauses your berserk timer.
• Hitting a melting ice platform with the Freeze ray makes it grow back a little and melt slower.
• Freeze rays fly through BEAM tunnels too.

Online play

All of the mod's game logic runs inside the game's own simulation, so it stays in sync online. Everyone in the lobby should have the same mods and versions installed.

Notes

• The ability icon can be replaced: put your own Seppuku.png (340 x 292 works best) into the mod's icons folder.
• The sounds can be replaced too: put your own 16-bit WAV files with the same file names into the mod's sounds folder.

Credits

Created by Poyraz Acarbaş (Turkey). Some sound effects come from Pixabay.