Drones are Killing the Shadow Theme

[Ugur01]

Why do we end up with hook-handed drones for looting or scanning robots for combat after inserting a Shadow Heart (Atrium) into our chassis? The previous iteration was far more thematic: crawling shadow hands would emerge and collect items, much like the Lazy Forager. Additionally, the damage boost functioned as a debuff applied to enemies, similar to Abigail’s Vex effect.

Now, autonomous drones handle everything, but their mechanics have absolutely nothing to do with shadow magic. They retrieve items just like Winona’s Winbots. The previous effect looked incredible and was perfectly in sync with the shadow theme

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Edited Sunday at 01:21 PM by Ugur01
Re-uploaded videos for better playback and formatting

[OrangeNibble]

Yeah, old affinity seemed great. Thematic and cool. The old affinity design had so much going for it:

- Felt a nice contrast to the lunar affinity

- Had a really cool and thematic progression: Shadow Fuel -> Shadow Atrium -> Possessed Shadow Atrium

- Had nice visuals

- Was interesting and unique, but also simple to use

I really dislike the new drone setup. It seems way less interesting.

Edited Sunday at 11:11 AM by OrangeNibble