Which way, turn-based combat man?

>>714467121 (OP)
>press left
>can't tell if the cursor will move to top-left or bottom-left
Square

>>714467254
>2025
>not owning a hexagonal keyboard

>>714467121 (OP)
Hex grids are great for TTRPGS, if you're on the computer you can do better than the hex grid by not using a grid at all, so it loses its advantage over square.

Squares make placement and movement decisions more meaningful.

>>714467121 (OP)
hidden tile system like total war

this sort of hex
your team on the left, foes on the right

>>714467414
>keyboard
This thread is meant for gamepads, faggot

>>714467434
speaking of computers, i do recall renowned explorers having a pretty neat system with arbitrary tile adjacency
granted, the system is pretty simple and doesn't even have charge read: charge an enemy in a line moves

hex gives more movement

>>714467121 (OP)
square but with 8 direction targeting

Square. Whenever I'm interested in a game but see hexagons I just mentally filter out the game. Square grid means fun tactics gameplay like FFT and Tactics Ogre, hexagon grid is for boring map painters or deckbuilding crap.

>>714467121 (OP)
Square, but human units occupy a 3x3 grid space, allowing for more nuanced movements and to facilitate a partial line-of-sight system. Other objects and creatures may occupy more or fewer squares.

>>714467121 (OP)
Remove the grid, and give each unit a radial distance they're allowed to move.

Hex

>>714467121 (OP)
Square or no grid like BG3, Hex for me feels a bit weird although i played some game with hex system

>>714467121 (OP)
rectangles

>>714469110
That's hexagons.

Hex divided into triangle slices

>>714467121 (OP)
I like both

>>714468496
oh boy, pixel hunting for that one tiny area that's juuuuuuuuuust inside cover

>>714468208
then use the joystick dumbass

>>714467121 (OP)
How about some heptagons

hex grid on hyperbolic geometry

I like square
hex is tolerable in H-games

>>714469516
Knowing whether or not you're in cover is actually pretty easy. If you want baby mode, then the developer can cast out the detection zone like pic related.
but personally, I believe that if you make the player have to eye it on their own, then it creates natural layer of randomness. As the player might make a mistake and think they're in cover when they're not.

>>714467121 (OP)
Por que no los dos?

>>714469889
What did you think "H" in "H-game" stood for?

>>714467121 (OP)
hexagons are too hard to understand for modern gamers

>>714467121 (OP)
Grid based targeting with freeform movement and mechanics. Games like this?

Square using both diagonal movement and every-second-diagonal-is-2-points-of-movement.

>>714469953
You just reinforced everything that poster was mocking.

>>714470075
Hentai: HExagoN T(a)iles

>>714467121 (OP)
Hex makes maps look like beehives, so square

>>714467121 (OP)
Why? The benefit of a tile map is that it makes visual estimation of distance easy.
This is a computer game.
You have a computer to do the math for you.
We are beyond the use case for discreet tiles.

>>714467121 (OP)
squares with 8 directions

>>714467121 (OP)
Hexes for wilderness, squares for dungeons.

>>714471875
After playing both of the Mario + Rabbids games, I disagree.

>>714467121 (OP)

The best strategy game of all time uses hex but I prefer squares in general.

>>714467254
>turn based games on controller
there's your problem

>>714471208
I don't see what his problem is. Complaining about nothing.

>>714472186

>>714467121 (OP)
Hex, obviously.

>>714467254
You're supposed to use a mouse.

i like hexes but in games you have to animate the movement between tiles and because hex pathfinding is retarded it looks bad
on a table top game where you just pick up the unit and move it it's fine though

Hexes for sci-fi/modern settings, squares for fantasy.

Octagons.

Hypercubes.

>>714467121 (OP)
I like triangles.

>>714470075
hexhentai
the panda isn't as sad but is now covered in generic sci-fi armor

>>714470075
Hail Hexagons!

>>714467121 (OP)

>>714467121 (OP)
hex because im not a brainlet

Hexes are fucking rancid pseudointellectual garbage. I'm so glad that we can just skip pretending like hex cultists are people and just raise their insurance premiums for being disgusting subhumans.

>>714475134
Yes, Hexes are only good for specific types of structural integrity, not navigation.

>>714467121 (OP)
why not both?

>>714467121 (OP)
Hexagonal is more fluid, squares is more rigid.
On squares you've got diagonals, on hexs you've got neighbours.

Legitimately no reason to use squares unless you don't know how to map the coordinates for a hexagonal grid.

>>714467121 (OP)
For me, it's diamond.

>>714467121 (OP)
I'm sure hexes are fine, maybe even better, but since I've only ever played systems with squares the alternative looks wrong and it makes me uncomfortable.

>>714469284
what the fuck

>>714467121 (OP)
I play Battletech and Pathfinder 1e. Both.

>>714480104
the point of hexes is symmetry between distances, and it's a nice quirk in theory, but kind of a worthless footnote in practice

>>714467121 (OP)
Movement Circle
BrB Makai Kingdom

>>714469540
Looks awesome. What game?

>>714472196
>>714472534
No.

>>714480670
it's hyper rogue

>>714482542
Squares don't make sense if you want to implement diagonal movement.
You're always moving "faster" in some directions with squares. This is only acceptable in games where movement is irrelevant, such as the overworld in Pokemon games where you're out of combat.

>>714483056
this is a non-issue and people can just deal with it
it's preferable to being unable to display straight walls or square anything

>>714483056
You can just make moving diagonally cost more action points.

>>714467121 (OP)
Neither. Action economy and free, gridless movement.

hexagons if you're serious about simulating ranges

>>714467121 (OP)
both

>>714472327
>I don't see
No sar, you don't understand his point.

>>714486954
>random racism out of nowhere, over 4 hours later.

>>714467121 (OP)
objectively, hexes should be better, but im fond of squares

>>714474882
this is Homestuck isnt it?

>>714480670
Hyperrogue, it's great. I can't the dice biome though. Crossbow ftw. Save the turtles. Fuck the running dogs.

>>714467121 (OP)
dodecagon are the best

>>714484980
>this is a non-issue
>people can just deal with it
So it is an issue.
>being unable to display straight walls or square anything
It depends on the game.

>>714467121 (OP)
im a pentagon guy myself

I only play Octogrid and game with 5 dimensional thinking

Octagons

>>714467121 (OP)
hex gives single units too much adjacency
also makes aoe shit like spells/auras really difficult to scale because youre forced to do it radially outward at an absurd rate (1 -> 7 -> 19) or just abandon grid alignment entirely, whereas standard squares have all sizes of rectangles to work with
i really like these kind of hypothetical design discussions

>>714467121 (OP)
Neither