[Thread] Death shrink event ideas

[NiroDev]

The intention of this thread is to collect ideas of possible events that occure when shrinking an enemy to death.

Why do we need events?

Shrinking an enemy to death is extremely powerful.. too powerful, it shouldn't be that easy to get rid of threats. Even more for those, who are usually unkillable like the jester, worm and more. There has to be a drawback to make this feature balanced, and this is where events come into place.

What if the enemy doesn't have an event?

When shrunken to death, two of the same kind will spawn somewhere close to the death location. This is mainly targeted for custom enemies, to balance this feature.

Current ideas

This list will be constantly updated when feedback is received. Enemies that aren't in the list already have an event, which we are fine with.

• SporeLizard: Drop his pearl as item, which has a high chance to explode when dropped (er even at spawn)
• Masked: 50% chance to throw mask at shrinkray holder, making them immediately a masked.
• Earth worm: Drop loot & change direction back to starting point, scaling back to full size.
• Jester: Get's resized back to 0.2 size while jumping against the ShrinkRay and poofs when touching it, together with the ray. Spawns another jester somewhere.
• Giant: Alert "you get a strange feeling", wait 5s, then spawn 1.5 sized giant with increased speed, particles around, insanity damage and focus on you
• GhostGirl: Disappear and re-appear at a random time or when leaving planet, first with a giggle sound, then after one second spawn at camera direction + distance of 3, instantly charging player
• Snare Flea: spawns a cocoon, that hatches a hoarding bug after X seconds, which has the ability to spawn a tiny snare flea every minute
• Nutcracker: no idea yet
• Eyeless Dog:
  • Idea 1: Final roar/bark which attracts other dogs, even from far away. If there are less than 2 other dogs around, then the missing amount of dogs will spawn in the near area.
  • Idea 2: An "Alpha-Dog" will spawn, which has increased speed and once found someone, will call other dogs for help

[catlabeler]

nutcrackers panic fire their shotgun in the offending players general direction eyeless dogs let out a final roar which can spawn extra eyeless dogs in retaliation (sort of like a dog whistle cause they are small)

[NiroDev]

Nutcracker seems a bit powerful, while dog-one sound like a good idea.