This would be fantastic in another way. Just imagine if you or your friends have mutations. Gives a perfect reason why folks don’t trust mutants while allowing that distrust to have merit of threat. I can see that part of the prequel where the dude in the helicopter is being air lifted out, because is sick. While the dude sitting on the other side of him is actually the monster and eats the sick guy that ironic as it seems wasn’t the monster lol
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for the grins
Having NPCs accuse other even the player would be nice too.
SHAPESHIFTERS! That seems like a great idea to me!
“Here NPC, I’m going to help you not die like a moron by giving you this large axe. AAAAGGH!” In the case of this type of situation, a Shifter will only activate when it considers itself to be ‘x’ amount more powerful than you and there are no non-shifter NPCs around. If you happen to have multiple Shifters as followers, they will turn on you at the same time.
We also need bush ninjas. Ninjas, that attack from bushes. The only thing worse than a bush ninja, is a space ninja, then a space bush ninja!
But in all seriousness, all those bushes you see around are perfect candidates for ambushes.
Illusioneers appear as regular objects/furniture, but when you get to close, its facade will fade and you’ll be faced toe to toe with a dangerous beast!
You cleared out all the zombies, but did you clear out all of THESE guys?
So, horrifying/revolting thought: what happened to all the women with late term pregnancies who got zombified?
Any random zombie could have a chance of a zombie baby come clawing its way out upon death. Major morale penalty upon even seeing this happen, and another for having to kill it even worse than killing zombie children. Maybe a gross out debuff or something that makes you vomit.
Similar to zombie children, in that if you see enough of them emerge or kill enough of them, you get used to it.
I’d just scan the room with infrared googles or the cbm. They are alive, they should put off heat from their metabolism. Shoot any furniture that isnt the same temp as the environment.
Worst case, use tactics like in Prey, and just shoot everything once to make sure its not going to try and eat your face.
But you do actually need to find those things, and, presumably they aren’t going to be too common. Illusioneers aren’t meant to make it so looting houses is like putting you inside Prey. I was actually thinking a bit of that game too, but Illusioneers don’t actually turn into objects, they simply put up an ‘illusion.’ They shouldn’t be common enough that it’s a good tactic to shoot up every house you enter. Although if that did happen, you should probably just throw rocks or something instead of using ammo. At least early game anyway.
Heh, ya, I managed to get infrared once, and only used it once. I probably should have tried using it more, eh.
That would be extremely disturbing to see. A tiny zombie climbing out of a zombie’s belly. Or, you know, not the belly…
Wait, what if all bloated zombies are actually just women that were pregnant when zombified? The zombification process is different on a pre-porn baby. Cuz science.
Just to mention, from my point of view, you should never get a mood debuff, or maybe even a mood BUFF when killing zombie children. I don’t understand how you could be sad about killing a disgusting, rotting, little creature that is literally trying to eat you. You are putting it out of its misery. Killing a child is bad, but this, thing is no longer one.
Yup, it would easily fit inside the game too. It shouldn’t be anywhere near as common as the mimics in Prey, but now I’m starting to REALLY want that in here.
“Start counting your batteries everyo- Wait! Bob! Not the gun!” Batteries fly everywhere
“What. Have. You. Done.”
Yes. I wish to play Prey at some point. I have seem somebody play through a portion of it, but my knowledge of the game is relatively minimal. But I do know about mimics, and how all players end up attacking literally everything in a room to ensure that it isn’t one.
Wait a sec.
Morgan and Gordon sound very familiar. They both have to do with aliens. They both have cool suits. They both have cool hi-tech guns. They both worked in/at/for a scientific establishment that got rekt by aliens…
Infared does have a few uses currently but its mostly only useful if you play with PK’s mod. Lets you see that gang of nightstalkers before they get to you so you know who you are dealing with or helps you know where exactly those trapdoor spiders or walking triffid C4s are at to avoid. If you like fishing it also lets you see if there are any fish around although you can usually figure that out even without infared.
All of the above only applies to the Infared vision mutation, the IR goggles suck and drain to much power to actually be worth using.
