Genuine Pieces!(new Shadow Pieces in the form of Shadow Rifts bosses)

[Creatorofswamps]

My suggestion is to add "genuine Pieces" as shadow rift bosses. since the shadows on the surface are weaker, they show true strength in the Underground with an open fault.(This is also equivalent to how moon strengthened the old bosses)

 

They have first form but which surpasses all their previous ones. Spawn in ruins (or in a more open place) when the rift is open and if the player rings Shadow Atrium to the ruins (the appearance condition can be changed).

 

Items, found in the @-Variant code may fall out of them:

 

The Knight would've dropped the Shadow Crest. 

 

The Rock, the Shadow Lance. 

 

And the Bishop, the Shadow Mitre and Sceptre.

 

External view Genuine Pieces:

Shadow Pieces for comparison:

 

If klei takes my idea, I will not mind, but on the contrary I will be glad!

[Gashzer]

Pure horror knight is giving me Carnage vibes from spiderman 

[Hornete]

It's a fun idea, though I feel that the Ink Blights are meant to be Kleis twist on pure horror shadow pieces but with unique twists to how these pieces usually move in chess. Rasp being the Rook, Shriek the Bishop, and Jitters as the Knight.

Still, fun drawings!

[Szczuku]

The edits look cool! How'd you make them?

[BalkanCockroach]

9 minutes ago, Hornete said:

It's a fun idea, though I feel that the Ink Blights are meant to be Kleis twist on pure horror shadow pieces but with unique twists to how these pieces usually move in chess. Rasp being the Rook, Shriek the Bishop, and Jitters as the Knight.

Still, fun drawings!

I think it would be nice and fit the theme. I even set up the scenario in my head. There's a new setpiece in the ruins same as sussy marble statues but made from dreadstone (it only appears after the rifts) you repair them with dreadstone this time instead of carrying the pieces. After they are all repaired and and there's a rift active (new moon or not) 

Jitters: Smashes into knight the statue rolling going full speed.

Rasp: Stretches its giant mouth swallowing the rook statue.

Shriek: Same animation as the brightshade haunting corpse.

Then the dreadstone crumbles and the fight begins.

 

[Gashzer]

Any one ever play prey (2017)? The shadow rift should release a creature like "the nightmare" from prey. Its a big scary monster that hunts you down and is very hard to kill. 

What if klei introduced a giant new pure horror tentacle boss that is invincible, chases you and you are forced to run from it until you find and kill 3 tentacles that are leeching power from the shadow world rifts. These tentacles dont respawn and can spawn anywhere in the caves forcing you to explore while running for dear life from the horror boss. 

The horror boss would despawn if you got too far away but would slenderman teleport back to you every once in a while with the sound of a big gong. Dst doesnt use enough sound cues.

After destroying its tentacles you can fight the boss head on.

It would feel great to be made truly powerless against a boss even with all my new found op gear. Bringing back some fear to DST.

Edit: the horror boss would also speed up like phase 2 CC depending on ur speed boosts (like wx, beefalo etc..)

[Creatorofswamps]

34 minutes ago, Szczuku said:

The edits look cool! How'd you make them?

thank you! The Ibis Paint application, sprites from the game and a lot of patience and desire)

 

[DegenerateFurry]

While this is an interesting idea, I'd like to see actual new bosses for the shadows rather than just reskins of the Shadow Pieces that do planar damage. All the lunar rift Host of Horrors bosses are very different from the original ones they're mutated versions of, after all. 

[Creatorofswamps]

1 minute ago, DegenerateFurry said:

While this is an interesting idea, I'd like to see actual new bosses for the shadows rather than just reskins of the Shadow Pieces that do planar damage. All the lunar rift Host of Horrors bosses are very different from the original ones they're mutated versions of, after all. 

their behavior will differ from their usual versions , just as the behavior of the crystal cyclops deer and the usual one differs

[BalkanCockroach]

18 minutes ago, Gashzer said:

Any one ever play prey (2017)? The shadow rift should release a creature like "the nightmare" from prey. Its a big scary monster that hunts you down and is very hard to kill. 

What if klei introduced a giant new pure horror tentacle boss that is invincible, chases you and you are forced to run from it until you find and kill 3 tentacles that are leeching power from the shadow world rifts. These tentacles dont respawn and can spawn anywhere in the caves forcing you to explore while running for dear life from the horror boss. 

The horror boss would despawn if you got too far away but would slenderman teleport back to you every once in a while with the sound of a big gong. Dst doesnt use enough sound cues.

After destroying its tentacles you can fight the boss head on.

It would free great to be made truly powerless against a boss even with all my new found op gear. Bringing back some fear to DST.

Edit: the horror boss would also speed up like phase 2 CC depending on ur speed boosts (like wx, beefalo etc..)

Prey is such a good game. I love all the thyphons they all have such good concepts and designs.

[Gashzer]

3 minutes ago, BalkanCockroach said:

Prey is such a good game. I love all the thyphons they all have such good concepts and designs.

Yeah it really is. Didnt get as much mainstream attention as it deserved tho.

[BalkanCockroach]

7 minutes ago, Gashzer said:

Yeah it really is. Didnt get as much mainstream attention as it deserved tho.

I thought it was pretty popular. If anyone reads this it's a great game don't spoil yourselves from videos try the game, 100 percent worth it. It's pretty challenging has phenomenal story and awesome mechanics. The graphics are great too.

[Creatorofswamps]

5 hours ago, BalkanCockroach said:

think it would be nice and fit the theme. I even set up the scenario in my head. There's a new setpiece in the ruins same as sussy marble statues but made from dreadstone (it only appears after the rifts) you repair them with dreadstone this time instead of carrying the pieces. After they are all repaired and and there's a rift active (new moon or not) 

Jitters: Smashes into knight the statue rolling going full speed.

Rasp: Stretches its giant mouth swallowing the rook statue.

Shriek: Same animation as the brightshade haunting corpse.

Then the dreadstone crumbles and the fight begins.

Interesting idea

[MrMNWorm]

This is a pretty cool idea Creator... and sure, there is the Inkblight Trio... but what if...

To start the fight, players have to go into the Caves by a Void Rift and build the three statues like they do topside to start the regular fight... but in the Caves, they build the statues by the Void Rift... then wait for Infused Shadelings to "infect/possess/crawl into" the three statues. As each statue gets possessed, it starts shaking around like they doing during a New Moon... and then once all three statues are "infected"... the player hammers the statues to start the Void Shadow Chess Pieces fight...

Might be kinda fun.

Or is this too dark and scary...? Is there too much goopy ooze coming out of their eyes? Maybe just the red dots instead?

[Creatorofswamps]

1 hour ago, MrMNWorm said:

To start the fight, players have to go into the Caves by a Void Rift and build the three statues like they do topside to start the regular fight... but in the Caves, they build the statues by the Void Rift... then wait for Infused Shadelings to "infect/possess/crawl into" the three statues. As each statue gets possessed, it starts shaking around like they doing during a New Moon... and then once all three statues are "infected"... the player hammers the statues to start the Void Shadow Chess Pieces fight...

 This is an extremely interesting idea! Everything is quite easy and ingenious in this

[Antynomity]

Very nice idea, however, the current pure horror trio already are kind of based on the rook, knight and bishop, so how about 3 more pieces being represented? We haven't had any new chess pieces being represented in the game for a looooooooong time.

[BalkanCockroach]

4 hours ago, MrMNWorm said:

This is a pretty cool idea Creator... and sure, there is the Inkblot Trio... but what if...

To start the fight, players have to go into the Caves by a Void Rift and build the three statues like they do topside to start the regular fight... but in the Caves, they build the statues by the Void Rift... then wait for Infused Shadelings to "infect/possess/crawl into" the three statues. As each statue gets possessed, it starts shaking around like they doing during a New Moon... and then once all three statues are "infected"... the player hammers the statues to start the Void Shadow Chess Pieces fight...

Might be kinda fun.

Or is this too dark and scary...? Is there too much goopy ooze coming out of their eyes? Maybe just the red dots instead?

No infact there isn't enough goopy ooze. There can never be enough goopy ooze.

[MrMNWorm]

@Creatorofswamps lately I've been thinking about how to do the Lunar Rift version of the mutant bosses in the Caves with the Void Rifts... and I keep thinking/seeing an Infused Shadeling creeping out of the dark and burrowing its way into the boss carcasses... but the main problem is which bosses in the Caves are feasible for "Shadow Mutant Versions"...

Probably won't see it happening to Fuel Weaver because deer gawd that fight is already hard enough...

Maybe Toadstool but then the question is do they need to make one for both the normal Toad AND Misery Toad... or is there just going to be some crazy 200,000 hp boss that you would have to fight AFTER completing either the normal Toad or Misery Toad... to me that seems a bit much... that's just painful considering what the normal put you through.

Ancient Guardian and Werepig are both good options... and this idea of yours would make for an interesting third option with those two... pretty creative way to add a new Caves Boss in the process.

Now... if we could just get Variant to mock up the artwork for that new Shadow Gear... we'd have a solid start for the Devs to build off of.

Copy that @BalkanCockroach... *makes a note* more... goopy... ooze. Gotta go big or go home right...

 

[BalkanCockroach]

2 minutes ago, MrMNWorm said:

@Creatorofswamps lately I've been thinking about how to do the Lunar Rift version of the mutant bosses in the Caves with the Void Rifts... and I keep thinking/seeing an Infused Shadeling creeping out of the dark and burrowing its way into the boss carcasses... but the main problem is which bosses in the Caves are feasible for "Shadow Mutant Versions"...

Probably won't see it happening to Fuel Weaver because deer gawd that fight is already hard enough...

Maybe Toadstool but then the question is do they need to make one for both the normal Toad AND Misery Toad... or is there just going to be some crazy 200,000 hp boss that you would have to fight AFTER completing either the normal Toad or Misery Toad... to me that seems a bit much... that's just painful considering what the normal put you through.

Ancient Guardian and Werepig are both good options... and this idea of yours would make for an interesting third option with those two... pretty creative way to add a new Caves Boss in the process.

Now... if we could just get Variant to mock up the artwork for that new Shadow Gear... we'd have a solid start for the Devs to build off of.

Copy that @BalkanCockroach... *makes a note* more... goopy... ooze. Gotta go big or go home right...

 

AG and Daywalker are already shadow related tho, i think converting a non-shadow boss would be better. But there isn't a good candidate in the caves ;(

[MrMNWorm]

12 minutes ago, BalkanCockroach said:

AG and Daywalker are already shadow related tho, i think converting a non-shadow boss would be better. But there isn't a good candidate in the caves ;(

This is also true... I guess the only options left are regular mobs like Snurtles/Slurtles and Depth Worms... it would be pretty cool to see/fight giant mutated Slurtles and Depth Worms, imo.

Maybe a giant mutated Batilisks... but only if they can breath/spit magical, purple flames/fire.

[gamehun20]

20 minutes ago, MrMNWorm said:

I guess the only options left are regular mobs like Snurtles/Slurtles and Depth Worms...

i mean moslings, grass geckos and koalefants are potential gestalt targets so i don't see why snurtles and worms can't be a shadow target

[arubaro]

never forget

[Creatorofswamps]

48 minutes ago, gamehun20 said:

mean moslings, grass geckos and koalefants are potential gestalt targets so i don't see why snurtles and worms can't be a shadow target

It seems to me that shadows are not a mutation, like the moon. And you see the shadow creatures are amplified (a small example is a Resting Horror) so Terrifyingly Nightmare Werepig and Horror Ancient Guardian may well be.Just like other shadow bosses

[BalkanCockroach]

4 minutes ago, Creatorofswamps said:

It seems to me that shadows are not a mutation, like the moon. And you see the shadow creatures are amplified (a small example is a Resting Horror) so Terrifyingly Nightmare Werepig and Horror Ancient Guardian may well be.Just like other shadow bosses

They corrupt/infuse, Alter well alters/posesses.

[Valase]

I mean, we can also get a brand new boss that does not require any other mob, the lunar menagerie are just ghosts possessing organic matter(dead or alive), while the shadow trio "possess" a fissure in the ground and the shadelings come out of the shadow rift. What I mean is that we don't have a clear theme yet of what the shadow(rift) side does.

And, there is nothing stopping them from adding new creatures in the caves so they can be possessed.