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Boss battle idea: Mobile heartstone (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world to c/drg@lemmy.world

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Imagine, if you will, a floating heartstone that appears in a level.

It floats around and comes after the dwarves, performing similar attacks as it does in the drilldozer mission- grabbing rocks from the terrain and smashing them down, calling crystals to grow and shoot lasers, and causing crystal structures to trap dwarves.

It has to be defeated in multiple stages, first by calling down a pod with special weapons which immobilizes it, and then by assembling a floating drill which acts like a larger version of the shredder drones to fly into the heartstone core.

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[–] Linkyu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

lots of balancing to be taken into account here, but that is a fun idea

the cave generation would obviously need to be adapted, and the lasers might be too much if they can target dwarves

the design could be very interesting though. It could be floating in the same way that core stones do, tying this into the upcoming themes of rogue core, but I feel like it would just be a mix of the current core spawn event and the mobile rockpox event.

what if the reason it's moving is because it grew out of the back of a large creature, say for example, an ebonite bulk detonator? now the first objective of immobilising it becomes more active. Maybe the legs have to be mined with power hits?

either, way, this is a fun idea to play with