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Feature request/suggestion: make skeletons spooky again #25282

Open Blithering opened 4 years ago

Blithering commented 4 years ago

Currently the main racial upside for skellingtons is moving fast, while this is strong, it's also got nothing to do with skeletons whatsoever.

I thought a more fitting feature for them would be if on death they dropped all their items and collapsed into a standard pile of bones, similar to slime people and golems collapsing on death. The difference however would be that skeletons, like other undead would be able to reassemble themselves and revive after a timer unless the head is taken from the pile.

While this sounds ridiculously op at first, it really means one extra click on an unresisting corpse to an antagonist, and if used to cheese space exploration, the fact that you wake up naked in a squishy skelebody would likely result in endless death loops to simple mobs. It would however mean touching a shocked door in an unexplored part of maints, or getting slam jammed with huge brute multiplier is not game over forever, which is a decent upside considering skelton is a super power.

Caboozles commented 4 years ago

Honestly, between this and no-bleed, this would make skellies just the king of simple mob combat. Make an added downside too.

Kurfursten commented 4 years ago

If any race needs an overhaul because its powers have nothing to do with its identity, it's Diona. Go from fast speedster that can eat weeds to... NOBLEED behemoth with no hydroponics link?

Alas, fruit hair never

Caboozles commented 4 years ago

I’d like to see Diona be a “weire race”. Like a Mommi without ventcrawl and a more distinctly unique physiology.

SirSkeleto commented 4 years ago

also consider that ZAS means that ur heads gonna move prolly and skeletons take 2x brute in no way are they kinds of simple mob combat prolly dionas

Blithering commented 4 years ago

I think even with this change, dionas would still edge out skellingtons as the kings of simple mob combat. Near-total brute immunity with infinite regen, spaceproofing and sharp fists beats being able to get back up and try again naked while taking 200% brute. Plus most simple mobs will be encountered either on the roid or in spess vaults, both of which will result in horrific pressure damage the moment the skeleton gets back up suitless.