Gateway 'Antag'

[ErebusAres]

Coding Difficulty: Medium - Hard (?)

Coding Type: Add New Creature

Difficulty: Medium - Hard

Type: Predatory Creature / Antagonist

Objective: Feed to survive. / Feed upon X Creatures [for green text purposes (?)]

Brief Description: A gateway (or regular) antag, whose objective is just to survive by eating and maintaining a hunger meter.

Deeper Description:

• A monster like creature that would need to "go hunting" for food (aka: crew) to be satiated.
• It would probably need to be stronger, health or defense wise, than the "breeding" creatures/antags, such as spiders/xenos.
  • or 'normal' health/defense if balanced correctly (depending on if its gateway only or if it can come to the station)
• Since its a hunting creature, I'd say it would move quickly, like the hunter xenos.

I originally stated, on discord when i brought up the idea, that it was blind and saw through either echolocation or through things that made sounds.
Few examples:

• Crew Talking
• Crew Running
• Radio Chatter
• Throwing Objects
• Explosions / Gunfire
• Etc.

but, I feel like the creature would be an interesting and unique addition even without the 'blindness'

Additional or Alternative Ideas: 

• Evolution:
  • Devour to gain point/kills
  • Points/Kills = Evolve = Get Stronger/Harder to Kill
  • Speed Increases
  • Sprite Size Increase [Renault size --> Panther size]
• Alternative Vision Traits:
  • Normal > Thermal > X-Ray [Pair with Evolution(?)]
• Alternative Objectives:
  • Devour X People [Pair with Evolution(?)]
  • Devour ALL Crew [May be too hard to accomplish]

Foreseen Challenges:

• How strong is too strong? / how weak is too weak?
  • If gateway only, it could devastate people going on solo missions.
  • If gateway, but can travel through, it could cause chaos in an already chaotic round (eg: blob, wizard, etc.)
  • If station antag, it'd need to be buffed if we're expecting a 100 person crew to valid hunt it to death.
• If blind, how is this coded well enough to make it fun to play?

Final Notes:

Let me know what you think.

I've done minor coding, on a different game, so I'm not necessarily good at coding. Not sure Exactly how hard it'd be to add but it shouldn't be too hard to as I feel some of it could be copy/paste.

Thanks for reading.

 

Edited April 21, 2020 by ErebusAres
added objective option

[ErebusAres]

Added additional or Alternative Ideas

[Veterankyl]

This reminds me a lot of SCP-939.

[ErebusAres]

Yeah, I can see that.

Very similar concept.