Interesting enemies

I think the struggle with land enemies in a game like this is that cool and fresh become old and annoying really quick

and then rng tends to be too thick so it really gets irritating for the day to day activities over time.

I don't even know if there is room anymore with what we already have flooding islands so often.

Personally I think skeletons should just be expanded into animal hybrids based on island lore and have abilities based on what they are mixed with

devil's ridge would have boar skelly hybrids with a charge ability
plunder valley would have eagle skellies with a jump/dive attack
snake skellies, shark skellies, etc

this allows some rng replacing rather than adding so it doesn't just flood land more with enemies

2 of the 3 crawlers just don't fit in imo. to me the plant skellies and shadow skellies were more in a direction that fit with the game

phantoms are just terrible outside of visually imo. They are pretty but when it comes to fitting in with gameplay I just don't find them compatible as they are currently.

Annoying players on land just leads to less loot production and less land usage in general. People adapt when they get tired of endless land enemies and then just stick to the sea.

I do think there could be a few random land boss enemies added similar to what a meg is to the sea. Would add some loot and something that just wasn't constantly bugging people.

@prescafatty said in Interesting enemies:

@wolfmanbush I agree, land enemies just aren't very fun to fight.

And I'd say land enemies should still be skeletons 90% of the time. I'm proposing enemies for specific scenarios.

For instance:

A fort heist with sneaking and stealth. It's guarded be the giant skeleton and the blind dogs and you have to creep past instead of fighting.

A mission where you hunt down and capture a ghost. This is where you face the invisible creature and the quest is terrifying: a night mission with spooky sounds, ghostly footsteps, and jump scares.

The other two (smell creature and siren) could be emergent creatures, but ones designed around clever avoidance, rather than fighting.

Long story short, I'm sick of fighting and I want variety! I agree these shouldn't be annoying—there must be a way to make them additive to the core gameplay loop.

it's always good to throw some specific ideas out there
maybe the devs will see something they like and it'll turn into something

with the smell creature on land how do people navigate the wind situation?

I really like the idea of a giant skelly fight, but i have a somewhat different idea for it.

So imagine in some tall tale you have to find a skeleton lord hiding in one of the ancients many ruins. After going through some puzzles and different challenges you find him or her in a room with one of those giant statues you find on the Shores of Gold or the one in the Shrine of Tribute. The skeleton lord then preforms a ritual and fuses themselves to the statue, which gives them the power to use the statue kinda like a fantasy mecha. Some sort of unique mechanic would be needed to beat it, as bullets and swords would do nothing to it. I think this would be a interesting way to implement such large scale boss battle.

If it wouldn't be part of a tall tale then it could be like a meg or kraken, and would rise out of the sea and try to destroy your ship. A mechanic for this type of encounter could be that you have to hit certain weak points on the statue when they glow. Once defeated, it would drop Gold Hoarder loot and a unique treasure like a giant ancient crown or core that would sell for a very good amount of gold.

@prescafatty I wrote the full mechanics down in a seperate post called New Boss: Ancient Statue, and it goes into abit more detail. Check it out!