Boss Monster

[3verybody]

or mabye something like centaur and 3 leg combined?

[Plankie]

How about Subject 617 from Hidden: Source? XD

[3verybody]

that's fucking retarded and stealing.

And look, who's talking.

Mabie some licker kind of thing, that can climb walls and ceilings, like spiders in Dark messiah. Just a biig four legged geko looking thing with no long tail and scary ass head.

[Grim]

The only thing I keep thinking, is the thing from Resident Evil, the thing with the brain showing and all that? Yeah, that thing, whatever it is.

[zombieButcher]

'Licker'

[darkonxy]

that would be a sweet boss just make it bigger and creepier

[Blue]

And how would it move around? You´d have to give a "licker" kind of boss monster a whole new set of waypoints so it actually uses his wall climbing ability instead of just following other zombies around. This would mean having to add new waypoints to every map out there.

The only other thing I can think of is some kind of script that makes him frantically move around and up walls if he gets spotted. Gotta say I´ve got no idea of scripting at all, though, so I don´t know if that´s possible.

Another thing: I´ve had this idea of a ghost type of boss monster. It would have the ability to just fly/walk through certain parts of the map, like doors or thin walls. If limited to doors it could even use the old set of waypoints. I´m thinking about adding limited invisibility to that, since you would still know where it is coming from if it´s just using the doors. Partial invisibility in my sense would mean that it could become invisible for, let´s say 5 seconds at a time every 15 seconds.

Well, I´m not sure if it fits the whole KF-theme, though. These ghosts could be one of the more experimental specimen, not being able to cloak themselves long periods of time at a time and all. At least I´d be sort of stressed by the knowledge that there are some things out there which can´t be kept out by doors and maybe not even walls. Plus they might even be in the same room already, having one of their invisible periods .

[3verybody]

Why not waypoints? Strider in HL2 has waypoints too!!
scrip the monster so if he spots you, he ignores the waypoint system and comes and kills you.

[Grim]

They're all basically that way youk now. They follow way points to get to you, then they just go after you. You'd just have to see about making a special waypount variable or some thign that allows it to do it's specialness without making the others attempt it, and getting stuck.

[Dragontear]

I was thinking, maybe a long shot, but you all know how the aircraft waypoint works?,that how it links with other aircraft Waypoints via a sphere radius, maybe something similar? Such as altering the behavior of the monster, so that it thinks that the normal waypoints are different?

Like if a wall is within the radius, the climbing monster could use the wall until it reaches the radius' edge,if another waypoint similar is close enough, then it will continue using the wall until it needs to move away from it, using it's own possible initiative to decide how to get to the next waypoint, same as ceilings (if said ceilings are close enough).

Just my thoughts.

[harton]

I think that the best idea is to change the color to enemies as in Final Fight. XD

[zombieButcher]

Yes, pink/yellow zombies ftw.

[killerhell]

i like the idea,you know...killing specimens is borring me but killing a boss iS REALLY FUCKING HELL COOL ROFLOL!!1

[zombieButcher]

killerhell said:

i like the idea,you know...killing specimens is borring me but killing a boss iS REALLY FUCKING HELL COOL ROFLOL!!1

Why do you insist on making yourself look dumb trough spelling?

[faust]

I think Diablo-kinds of monsters would be cool. Just like having a colour-overlay over them + more health + damage and being surrounded by a big squad of the same kind of monster. Might make a good mutator and actually not that hard to code...