Should the upcoming mini boss in the caves beta, be a full fledged boss

[Wormboi]

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Chirsg, I think you just need to take a break from the forums or something if you getting this heated over this update.

[DownloadADuck]

13 minutes ago, chirsg said:

Not if I'm right.

proving their point ngl

[Waywarbler]

52 minutes ago, chirsg said:

Not if I'm right.

"Right" about your opinion?

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with what you're saying about the worm, it's just that...

7 hours ago, chirsg said:

I feel like I'm the only person who employs critical reasoning.

7 hours ago, chirsg said:

Worst part is, I'm the only person who sees it this way, even if I explain it

People are less likely to agree with what you say when you act as though everyone else is sheep.

[abrocator]

19 hours ago, HowlVoid said:

Dropping things like from ruins set pieces for example to signify they swallowed a camp/survivor. Even spitting out a miner with a latern/miners hat would be accurate (along with the normal.meat ofc).

This makes them interesting loot bags lol!

The devs are too fond of random loot opportunities. It doesn’t make for nice gameplay.

[FluffyBun]

Personally, I think that the worm boss should act like deerclops, spawning only on one player, and with a far longer warn timing. It's too griefy for a periodic worm wave but also too weak to be a real raid boss (Red Hounds don't count because they can be completely countered with Ice Flingomatics). I think turning it into a deerclops-esque boss monster is a good enough compromise fitting for this boss's abilities (can grief base, but don't need prep to kill)

Additionally, if there are multiple players, the length of the boss can increase and even split into multiple parts when enough damage is dealt.

[Bumber64]

Boss is subjective. One metric is if they drop blueprints, but some of the monsters that don't are stronger than those that do. Another metric is spawning, but there can be multiple meese/geese active.

What's important is that it deserves a unique drop relating to wormholes or something. Even spider queen and LotFF have unique drops.

Balance is another issue. If it's going to spawn often, it needs to be less of an ordeal, otherwise it's going to become tiresome very quickly.

[DegenerateFurry]

On 8/24/2024 at 8:53 AM, Atkvin said:

Oh, that's so pessimistic.. I would probably die of happiness if the devs put an idea of mine into the game.

This idea was stolen from an old document of ideas I made for a seasons update back when I was obsessed with the game, actually. It felt like it'd work great for a unique drop for this wormhole-lookin guy too, so I suggested it. That's why I jokingly referenced the Wholeworm earlier, like anyone knows what it is lol

In the doc, there was a wormhole enemy called the Wholeworm that would only attack by sucking players into it and popping them out of the nearest wormhole. When two were slain, the Wholeworms would form a new pair of connected wormholes in the world. It also had a beardling-style counterpart for insane survivors called the Woeworm... which would drop a heart you could use to revive and reposition poorly-placed Wholeworms, as well as world-generated wormholes, reviving them into Wholeworms. It was probably my favorite idea in the whole dang doc.. And it was still pretty clunky haha

It's already been said, but please make a thread for this. It'd be great to have an item that lets us reposition wormholes as the unique drop from this miniboss.

10 hours ago, FluffyBun said:

Additionally, if there are multiple players, the length of the boss can increase and even split into multiple parts when enough damage is dealt.

The problem with this suggestion is that Klei doesn't seem to like the concept of bosses scaling. They'll do it with the amount of hounds in a wave, though, so maybe? 

[Mike23Ua]

1 hour ago, DegenerateFurry said:

It's already been said, but please make a thread for this. It'd be great to have an item that lets us reposition wormholes as the unique drop from this miniboss.

The problem with this suggestion is that Klei doesn't seem to like the concept of bosses scaling. They'll do it with the amount of hounds in a wave, though, so maybe? 

Being able to reposition wormholes in a MULTIPLAYER game is just begging for trolling shenanigans in every single way possible..

The “Boot Legs” were okay because those added their own portals that weren’t already there…

But if you could MOVE someone’s hole they used to travel to or from their base and place that dead center of IDK something that’ll instantly kill them when jumping out of, that’s going to make everyone hate & delete the game.

This would of course be GREAT to have if DST was a single player game, but because it’s Multiplayer Klei has to consider Multiplayer Shenanigans in the process.

[Kwaik]

7 minutes ago, Mike23Ua said:

Being able to reposition wormholes in a MULTIPLAYER game is just begging for trolling shenanigans in every single way possible..

The “Boot Legs” were okay because those added their own portals that weren’t already there…

But if you could MOVE someone’s hole they used to travel to or from their base and place that dead center of IDK something that’ll instantly kill them when jumping out of, that’s going to make everyone hate & delete the game.

This would of course be GREAT to have if DST was a single player game, but because it’s Multiplayer Klei has to consider Multiplayer Shenanigans in the process.

100%

Plus Klei has done quite a bit of QoL on Beefalo, the bootleg. Winona skill tree, all things ocean, and still has Wanda and Wortox left. 

I think a wormhole thing just isn't appropriate at this time because it essentially supercedes all those things in usefulness. 

I think adding some way to make a wormhole appear that takes you to the lunar continent (after defeating CC) would be a fantastic thing though. But even then I'm not sure of Klei would like that because Ocean