Age of Giants DLC suggestion. UPDATED 15/05/15

[J20hawkz]

I was playing some Evolve on the XBOX and this crazy idea hit me. What if the developers are planning on letting us play as the Giants in their next DLC for Don't Starve Together?

my suggestion would be to have a mode where we all get play as our favourite characters for example Wilson, Webber, Willow etc... Player limit can be restricted to what ever Klei deems balanced.

Now the fun part. Every start of a new season, one of us gets randomly selected by the computer to be the giant of that season. The starting season does not count. So for example if we begin our game in Autumn, one of us will get to play as the Deerclops in Winter.

The remaining players carry on as normal knowing that their friend, now a giant, is out to get them. The person in control of their giant is spawned randomly somewhere on the map, they see no map and their goal is to find and kill all their friends.

If the giant is defeated, the player acting as giant gets the option to carry on as the giant or become his initial character. If the giant manages to kill everyone it's counted as a win and you are rewarded. At this point the game restarts.

What do you guys think?

[Asparagus]

There was already a mod for this...

(Let me check...)

[J20hawkz]

There was already a mod for this...

(Let me check...)

Yeah I saw and it's a very well made mod, but honestly this answer is over used now, as it can apply to nearly everything suggested on the forum. I use this part of the site to suggest ideas made officially by Klei. Not hating on modders but it's not like it's the end of the road for Klei with them around

Edit: updated the original post.

[leonseye]

Well, it doesn't really seem like it fits into the theme of the DST design, which is mostly working together to survive.  There is PvP certainly, but it's not even remotely balanced for this type of thing.

 

In this particular case, I think it's really better served by just using the mod that already does exactly what you're asking for.  <.<

[Trenix]

I don't like this idea because it doesn't seem like it would be fun for me. However I don't get why people are pulling the whole, "there is a mod for that" or "this doesn't fit the theme of the game". This is a suggestion and feedback forum, you should keep an open mind with all posts. Some people want the developers to add the vanilla touch of a suggestion and only Klei can truly say what's part of their theme of their game.

[Asparagus]

It's not like saying "there's a mod for that" dismisses the idea... it was simply to point out that there is indeed a mod for that. This is for those who didn't know about that.

 

*Re-read the edited mechanics*

 

That does sound like Evolve

 

It does add a bit of excitement to the game...

Having you (as the giant) teleported to a random location on the map without the ability to actually see the map does sound like a balanced concept... I have a question: does the giant have to eat?

 

But again, everything is a griever's tool...

EDIT: Add "This, however sounds like griever fuel"...

[leonseye]

This is a suggestion and feedback forum, you should keep an open mind with all posts. Some people want the developers to add the vanilla touch of a suggestion and only Klei can truly say what's part of their theme of their game.

 

Of course it's Klei's game and nothing that I say will really have any effect on that.

 

But to tell me that I'm not allowed to voice my opinion about somebody else's opinion seems a bit hypocritical.

[Trenix]

But to tell me that I'm not allowed to voice my opinion about somebody else's opinion seems a bit hypocritical.

 

Because you talking as if you're a developer, like you know what theme this game has and what fits and doesn't fit. It's one thing to not like an idea, it's another to make this sort of assumption. This game is too random to act like a certain feature shouldn't belong.

[leonseye]

I'm talking like a person who plays this game a lot...

 

All I said was that it doesn't seem to fit into the game's theme, and I provided my reasons for believing this.

 

There isn't any sort of disclaimer on this forum that says I'm not allowed to disagree w/ anything that is posted.  If I disagree w/ something, I'm going to call it as I see it and voice my own opinion on the matter.

 

In this case, there is already a mod that does exactly what the OP wants, and it doesn't feel like a feature that belongs in the base game to me.

 

If you disagree w/ my opinion, that's absolutely fine.  But you don't get to tell me that I'm not allowed to speak my mind.

[Trenix]

But you don't get to tell me that I'm not allowed to speak my mind.

 

I've never said that, lighten up. I just remember reading the same responses for Minecraft suggestions such as horses don't fit the Minecraft theme and we should use pigs instead. I don't see how any regular customer can make that kind of call, unless they're a developer. Few months later, horses got added and now they are part of the Minecraft theme. So as I said before, it's one thing to dislike a suggestion but it's another to speak like a developer and telling us that a suggestion doesn't "seem" to fit with the game's theme. Well lets leave it at that, we're not going anywhere with this.

[J20hawkz]

All you guys have raised very good points and I appreciate it.

In a sense yes this idea doesn't necessarily fit in with the games theme as a major part of Don’t Starve. What I didn't make very clear is that this suggestion "IF" Klei do in fact allow us to control Giants in their future DLC, can add a separate mode just for a bit of fun.

Honestly though Age of Giants DLC for Don't Starve Together will most likely include content focused on current Giants and/or (just speculation) adding more Don't Starve Together specific Giants. Don't Starve Together needs to have more exclusivity, their DLC will probably do that.

[leonseye]

Out of curiosity, what the heck is Age of Giants?

 

I thought the update they were working on for DST is called Through the Ages..?  Is this what you mean, or is there some other update called Age of Giants that I don't know about?