Co-op Boss: Neo Metal Sonic

[tall hearth]

I'll be making a concept on how the stage it should work like. Time limit 5-10 mins (no elite ver or could be lot harder)

1st Phase (Neo Metal Sonic):

• Fast paced attacker (50-100 rings after attack landed)
• Speedful menace
• By adding his feat of Bio data copying, he gets all the debuffs that is currently in the game and to make up more, he gets a counterattack animation to respond any upcoming homing attacks from players. (Can be animated with Chaos Control time stop)
  Items for stage: multi red star capsules, red star capsules, chest that contain rings, speed booster and shield.
  1st Stage looks: on a ship from Sonic Heroes originally but we have limited space and we can get hit off the ship and lose more rings.

2nd Phase (Metal Overlord):

• Gimmick of this boss stage: Top 3 will be the only ones to attack and others will be supporting by shooting with cannons items, rings to Top 3 allies and attacking Metal Overlord to weaken it (although, supporters will get more score, the more they give, they can be top 3 or top 1 by just aiding the 1st Phase Top 3 players)
• Slower menace but tankier.
• Attacks will be dealing heavy damage and bigger AoEs. (100-200 Rings)
• Critical state must activate after landing a cannon to the weakpoint that is damaged frequently by the Top 3 players. (Or alternative is after enough hits by top 3 players or synergized attack)
  Items: rings, shield, speed booster, red star + blue stars.
  2nd Stage: for Top 3 players, it's a seemingly limitless space to run for in the air with thundering clouds from Sonic Heroes and non top 3 players are in the ship with their cannons and items mentioned before to aid top 3s.

[rain rune]

I believe you mention 3 people only attacking the boss cause Heroes had 3 member teams, but I don't think players would like being canned to a more passive role even if possible to have higher score.

I think a better way to do this is to have a "stamina" akin to ring count. Staying longer against this "high pressure" boss, the character might tire and then kicked towards or going yourself over towards one of the cannons you mention, which would recover you and be able to launch back to the fight.

To make the three member Heroes mechanic, you could be "teamed" with other 2 players in there (prioritizes real ones over bots) and have a bonus damage/score if all 3 are in the same position, be it cannons or outside.

[tall hearth]

Yes, top 3 gimmick was meant to reference up to Sonic Heroes original battle against Metal Overlord

[rain rune]

Hmhm! So let's have directly a synergy between 3

[tall hearth]

Sounds good

[tall hearth]

New addition for 1st Phase since Neo Metal Sonic feats of copying all lifeform data

He will get all type of debuffs in game and instead of shield, he can counterattack during one of his animations to block upcoming homing attacks to strike back with his own response.

[cyan prairie]

ngl this is a pretty good idea!🔥

[kind cloud]

I would love to see some stage details added here , like how the stage should look/feel.

[tall hearth]

Alr, i'll cook it

Added some info on how the stage looks like
Mainly needs to be like Sonic Heroes originally

[kind cloud]

Thanks!

[tall hearth]

[tall hearth]

Transformation sequence is where Neo Metal gets back and fuses the tower with him to be Metal Overlord