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[Rince Wind]

I don't really think they guard those corpses. They just happened upon them and killed them. And now they see a new potential victim...

[Fniff]

I meant from a design perspective. As a gameplay mechanic, I don't like it.

[IcyTea31]

I don't really think they guard those corpses. They just happened upon them and killed them. And now they see a new potential victim...

No, no, they just want to take you on a research expedition across the universe. Doing that is much easier when your brain is in a jar and not in that meatsack, though... At least, that is how Lovecraft originally wrote them.

[Rince Wind]

Ah, cool. So they don't want to kill you but just get you on the Galactic Tours bus, like the other people lying around. Fine as well. Not much difference from our perspective, but a huge one from theirs I bet.

[Fniff]

They might be one of the most well-intentioned enemies around, really.

[Egan_BW]

Would make more sense if they acted like NPCs, wandering around the map and interacting with the player in more subtle ways than KILL.

[Fniff]

But they are talking to you, it's just at they're using the alien version of Babelfish which turns "Hey baby, wanna ditch this post-apocalyptic joint and get on my intergalactic pimpmobile?" into random nonsense and translates your panicked screams as "Yes, I would love to, scrape out my brain so we can do the thing!"

[Descan]

So basically they're using the alien equivalent of the Bing translator.

[Rolan7]

But they are talking to you, it's just at they're using the alien version of Babelfish which turns "Hey baby, wanna ditch this post-apocalyptic joint and get on my intergalactic pimpmobile?" into random nonsense and translates your panicked screams as "Yes, I would love to, scrape out my brain so we can do the thing!"

Here from the OOCQ thread and this just reminded me of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6chxuovrbCI

But also, dangit, just lost my place around page 80.  Oh well.  PTW!

[Kaitol]

How are Mi-Go boss class enemies? They're jokes. Any normal person with something resembling a weapon who isn't a cripple/crippled can kill one or two of them. Either make more combat capable characters or stop trying to beat stuff to death with a pair of pants.

[Gentlefish]

How are Mi-Go boss class enemies? They're jokes. Any normal person with something resembling a weapon who isn't a cripple/crippled can kill one or two of them. Either make more combat capable characters or stop trying to beat stuff to death with a pair of pants.

...The hell you on about? my day 7 character who was kicking ass left and right with a quarterstaff got rekt by a solitary Mi-Go.

[Arcvasti]

Any normal person with something resembling a weapon who isn't a cripple/crippled can kill one or two of them.

Any normal person with a decent weapon and combat skills can kill them with only minor damage. That's not most early characters. They're really only obnoxious for the first week or so, and mostly because they're really fast. Definitely not boss-class though[I'd reserve boss-class for stuff like Triffid Queens and Shoggoths] and they've got NOTHING on turrets, chicken walkers or tank drones[Which you can ALSO find smack dab outside your starting shelter].

[heydude6]

Triffid queens are easy though. All you need is a decent gun that isn't a pistol and they'll be dead with little effort. Melee may be more challenging though.

[Micro102]

Won't a molotov cocktail do the trick? Heck, I've killed one with a bow.

[Fniff]

I guess it's my character set-up; I'm based mainly around dodging so any enemy that combines high-speed and hard hits is a death sentence. I recant my claim about them being boss enemies. Still, they're still too aggressive to fulfill their purpose on the surface: to guard high-value corpses. There really should be a critter that's more territorial in their place.