Environment Attack

Environment Attack is an aspect of Enigma's battle system.

Main Aspects
The Environment Attack idea is a battle system in itself, allowing the player to perform combos and special attacks using the environment around them. For example, during a battle near a water, the player can use a Lightning elemental attack or spell and the water will cause the attack to do extra damage. Interacting with the environment depends on what type of abilities you have. For example, you can cause landslides or avalanches to break out and the only requirements are any shockwave based ability (i.e. abilities that cause shockwaves to erupt in all directions, such as Earth Render or Quake) and you aiming at (or being near) the mountain, then pressing the button to activate.

Enemies can be defeated with environmental attacks only, ranging from tutorial-level enemies all the way up to bosses.

Command Input
The command input system from the battle ranges between different classes and environments. Dragoons, for example, will be able to perform more aerial and jumping attacks due to their being the class with the highest jump height. Aspects like these are boosted in different situations. However, other classes, like the Black Mage, can perform magic attacks with ranging strengths and additional effects due to the environment, like earth elemental attacks being boosted in rocky areas, but do not have many boosts in commands like jump.

Abilities
There are many different abilities in Enigma, most of which can have different effects, strengths and animations depending on which environment the player uses them in. Each role has their own exclusive abilities, but some can be customized into other roles to perform special combos, for example, the Dark Knight's Darkness and the Paladin's Chivalry. Even so, many combinations do not fit together to become more powerful and some even get weaker when combined, so the user must experiment themselves to find abilities and combos useful for different areas and enemies.