brightshades Make the Evil fruit flies help counter Brightshades

[Jakepeng99]

I have said this in replies of multiple posts regarding this but i should make it a seperate post. Allowing evil fruit flies to help counter brightshades (I am being specific with evil, as i don't think letting the friendly fruit fly do this is a good idea). This would undirectly buff the flytrap perk, and make a fun and creative way to counter brightshades, fighting farm threats with other farm threats.

My Idea of Inplementing This (Klei can do whatever way they want)

The way i think this could be implemented is letting the flies taunt the brightshades like what they already do to plants to stun them individually, leaving them free for hits just like you have destroyed the vine. The lord only needs to taunt them once to stun, but for balance the little ones need to taunt them more times in total. After they are stunned the flies will attack them, but it is not enough damage where you could just drop a few and have them automatically kill them, the player will need to help. The fruit flies will prioritise brightshades over everything else, even over wormwood with the flytrap perk. I think the fruit flies should take some reduced damage from them aswell so they don't drop like... flies.

I still think a shadow weapon that is good against them is needed, but i think this is a neat flavourful, but practical thing to add. Also i repeat, the friendly fruit fly shouldn't be able to do this as it goes against the flavour, and removes the fun design of fighting fire with fire, which don't starve often encourages.

 

P.S: Let us catch fruit flies with bug nets please.

[Wonz]

That requries too much luck for shades to spawn just before lord.  Shades come more often than lord too and they're annoying to fight as almost anyone. If anything should be changed about shades it should be directly done to them, not to character. Also shades might spawn no on farm but also on grass sapplings bushes etc which could be away from lord.  

But i get you want the perk to be usefull the problem is you don't see fruit flies that much and catching and feeding them would be a chore which probably should be bested by whatever they will do to saladmanders I hope.  

[Jakepeng99]

4 hours ago, Wonz said:

That requries too much luck for shades to spawn just before lord.  Shades come more often than lord too and they're annoying to fight as almost anyone. If anything should be changed about shades it should be directly done to them, not to character. Also shades might spawn no on farm but also on grass sapplings bushes etc which could be away from lord.  

But i get you want the perk to be usefull the problem is you don't see fruit flies that much and catching and feeding them would be a chore which probably should be bested by whatever they will do to saladmanders I hope.  

You can use rotten giants which drop 2 fruit flies guarinteed when picked. Also bundles do exist. I don't think there is a reason an interaction like this shouldn't exist.