After having a weird dream last night i came came up with the following idea:
Whenever a knight sees the giant kats, they should get a 'scared' mark(maybe make it a 1/5 chance). This makes them drop their weapons(cant attack) but increased run speed. Any block they touch when runing is destroyed and any enemy is stunned(because they are going sooooo fast, lol). Candles would remove the condition.
This idea could be adapted to graveyards and ghosts too.
well if you wanna know about my dreams... i was in a dark place with a divine avenger, the sword was to heavy to carry so when the kat appeared i started to run and slap wolvers (?)
The actual reason i posted this is because some people hate candlestick, so i wanted to give them a chance to rush the whole level by getting scared and run like crazy through monster and blocks.
And OOO can reuse this if they want a boss to be a Lovecraft shout-out! Brilliant!
As for dreams... Well, I've never had any Spiral Knights dreams. Not yet anyway.
But I've had one where I'm in a giant pale pink liquid-filled balloon/bubble (it had a large solid spherical core suspended inside it, so I guess it sort of looked like a Lichen) with a shrine maiden and a bunch of soldiers and we're trying to somehow get the thing to fly by running around and jumping inside it. We need to get it to fly so we can enter a blinking red,yellow,blue portal in the sky that leads to another universe, so that we can kill the shrine maiden's counterpart in that universe. After repeated jumping and running around we're still ground-bound and my dad has to kick us into the sky to get the thing to finally start flying into the portal.
1st-Juances: U LIAR!!!!!!!!
2nd- Mejez, what were u on?
If that would happen, we would never be able to kill the monsters in graveyard because of the "scared status"and miss out on the money we would get form the undead group. -_- which would make it completely useless since you cant attack and can only run. if u happen to run into a explosive box? lol you would bomb because we would be able to smash through anything due to the speed we r traveling at. also if we r at vanaduke what will we do? since hes a "kind-of the undead group" we would behave a scared status throughout the whole stage. are we gonna smash them to death with our speed? lol
but the 1/5 chance to get the scared status is quite dumb in graveyard because we r meeting another undead at the second we move to another spot so its kinda like u miss one then scared throughout the whole graveyard stage because there is "NO CANDLE" in graveyard.
My dream was kinda lol. i was doing a JK (jelly king) run and when i was killed by jelly king i said in actual real life DAMN YOU JK!!!!!! after a second after i said it, it became cursed and died of killing my other friend who survived but had no vials. after we won, i have 17 tokens and i was hoping to get it up to 20 to get a antigua but oh, god damn you JK, you were poor(Because of my curse) so i got only 2 tokens. right after that dream, i was at vanaduke dunno how i got there with 2-4* equipments and lag usually kills people but not for me in my dream. it helped me! right when vanaduke was gonna hit me head on, i got laggness and dodged outta the attack. next, when i killed him he came back afer the mask came back then it had some red things around it and when i got hit by it, lagness took me outta the bomb and not get attacked. then i ran up to him and slashed him and he died. pretty weird dream than i was teleported somehow to snarbolax and then i felt my ascended calibur felt as heave as snarbolax so i took it off and stole one of snarbolax's spikes and use it AGAINST him. well, i didnt have to stun him since the spike i took out was really sharp so it just peirced through its shield and snarbolax died. xD weird dreams.
but before all of that i had a calibur then i dreamed of having a ascended calibur then a week later, i got an ascended calibur in my inventory.
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Maybe this status can buff movement and attack speed but nerf damage dealt, shield health, and defense to shadow, instead of outright disabling anything?
@kraanox
My boy, I haven't even finished describing all of the dream rofl. It gets crazier. I recommend eating cheese right before you sleep. it helps.
So what I didn't say earlier was that both shrine maidens are anime characters with a Roger Rabbit effect on them, and look to be about 10~11 years old and roughly the same physically save for a few traits (the "main" maiden has black/dark long hair with bangs, pale skin, eyes in the same color as her hair, and looks like Furude Riika and the "alternate" maiden has brown short hair and fair skin but not pale).
As we enter the portal the orb splits up and we land in several places, with me landing in Batman: the Animated Series. I escape and run through a charred battlefield dodging missiles and sleeping soldiers to rejoin the rest of my crew.
We capture the alternate shrine maiden without much of a fight at her hideout (which resembles my grandmother's house), and some revelations are made about the relation between the two shrine maidens (They were apparently friends at some point in the "main" universe's past) and the main shrine maiden tells me she doesn't give a horse apple about her former 'friend' and I am permitted to do whatever I want with the alternate shrine maiden. Cue messy decapitation scene as I decided to keep her head as trophy... and discovering that she pulled some ninjutsu on us and it turns out I decapitated a Cabbage Patch Kids doll with black pigtails that was stuffed full of very raw beef.
i really like this idea. it is like we take the feeling in games such as Amnesia and express it in the cutesy spiral knights universe.
I like the movement speed increase because of the better mobility to avoid the bigKats, the stun and block duration are fun but can be abused, specialy the stun so i think that as an additional penatily it would be good to introduce: "on recieved status, shield breaks and does not regenerate untill the status effect is removed".
other than that we must define a more specific way to get the status. just looking at bigKats is a too frequent event- a bit less frequent is when a bigcat tries to bite the knight but fails or when a bigkat spawns near the player. Also we should have a mark system similar to what the recon does in lockdown when on the first mark recieved the knight enters the nervous mental state, on the second mark recieved the knight is in the agitated state and when the third and final mark is on stack the knight enters the terrified state and recieves the scared status as you described. after the status is removed the mark counter is reset to 0.
also it can be made that the end of the status "scared" does not reset the mark counter but only candle light. What is the diference in this is that we can have the scared status to be timed and not unlimited in dark places and the effect of the status to be reaplied if the player still has not reached a safe zone in the candlelight(candlelight still removes the status "scared" ignoring the time left of the effect) .