Brainfreezing hammerheads: A suggestion about making hot stuff cold and that doing stuff.

[jbox1]

Short answer: Make hammerheads have brainfreeze! (The deadly kind!)

Long answer: Hammerheads have made a great addition to Nimbatus, don’t get me wrong. The far more challenging battle strategy really does add a healthy amount of difficulty to the game. However, I would have assumed that as a lava based creature, it should be challenged by colder conditions, such as cryo guns. However, since hammerheads have two parts, a head and a tail, you still need to freeze the back half to have a significant effect, and it is mostly undeterred by cold climates. I believe that freezing the head of hammerheads should have the same affect as freezing the tail, and even have cold conditions cause damage to them, as you would expect for a lava based creature. Same goes for the mini-mmer heads (which seem to have no counters and are extremely painful).

[Markus]

Good ideas. As for now, we plan to only have certain enemy-types biome specific, so you won't find a lava hammerhead in a cold climate (which, like you pointed out, would damage it).

The reason why we made that you have to freeze both parts was that it would be too easy, if you just freeze the head, and then everything stays locked. This way, you still have some risk of getting hit by the hammerhead and have to proceed cautious. This is a new mechanic, because up till now every enemy was shoot and kill it as fast as possible, and with this one, it's more of a evade and proceed cautiously (especially with the newest update when it damages you when hitting).

It's interesting that you mention the mini-hammerheads. Do you mean you have trouble with the fireflies which they spawn when you attack them? Try to not shoot at them. They are friendly creatures when you don't bother them - but of course, they might bother you slightly  

[jbox1]

9 hours ago, Markus said:

It's interesting that you mention the mini-hammerheads. Do you mean you have trouble with the fireflies which they spawn when you attack them? Try to not shoot at them. They are friendly creatures when you don't bother them - but of course, they might bother you slightly  

The flares are painful to deal with, there seems to be no counter, which is just annoying. They don’t even seem to be affected by magnets.

[Markus]

They had the mechanic that if you use the freeze weapon, they would instantly vaporize. But after playing we thought that it was too strong and they posed no problem to the player. They can still relatively easily be killed by normal kinetic weapons (fire and freeze make only 10% normal damage). And they are faster killed with freeze than fire.

So to counter these small enemies, you have to kill them quickly and if they heat you up, in the worst case make you burn, you have to use coolers to cool yourself down. Going to the lava biome we recommend using coolers anyway

With the lava biome we tried to introduced an a lot higher difficulty. Not sure if we succeeded in this mission. Things should be difficult, not annoying  A lot of balancing needed