#calamity-update-talk

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twin juniper
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Old Duke will now be replaced with invincible catfish

true oriole
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Wielder of the Ogscule Crown

steep path
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it's funny cuz I think duke fishron is one of the best bosses in vanilla
But I'm totally down to get something fresh and better - recolored duke wasn't very exciting

final pine
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plus we already have a knockoff duke fishron in yharon

steep path
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Real

dusk bronze
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unique ai gif

twin juniper
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Old Duke turning into banished baron

kind maple
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I mean Yharon feels more original than Old Duke

dusk bronze
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baron of the strait

dusk bronze
amber furnace
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what would make it good then? being super flashy with high resolution projectiles? being bigger? a boss doesn't need all that to be good

steep path
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banished baron (if I'm thinking of the right boss) has lasers and nukes and therefore is Cool

final pine
dusk bronze
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ha

steep path
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I just love the sentry weapon it drops. My favorite weapon in fargos so far (I haven't gotten past like early mid hardmode my friend and I have been procrastinating)

valid crypt
plush carbon
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Acidsighter mentioned

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another CCR W

final pine
steep path
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fandom wiki lowkey gets Ws now and then
pyrogen was a big W

final pine
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kulu yharon ku's page made me laugh

plush carbon
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Kulu Yharon Ku made me HOWL

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maybe its not that funny but it got me good

amber furnace
valid crypt
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Ok

amber furnace
final pine
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it is fine to like something but saying it's fine as is is just straight up wrong

steep path
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my honest take is I don't think old duke was too horrible - I liked the predictive dashes and stamina mechanic. compared to some of the more obnoxious bosses in this mod, old duke fared pretty well

now with all that said I'm cool with the replacement concept we've been hearing about. from what I've heard devs mention, they're interested in keeping stamina and predictive dashes in the new boss if possible - so I'm looking forward to see what we get from this

spark kiln
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predictive dashes are really fun

final pine
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i just find it annoying that in a mod plagued already by bad boss design we have a post ml reskin of a previous boss

amber furnace
final pine
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eternity old duke is the only good version of the fight and i will die on this hill

amber furnace
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what's eternity

final pine
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fargo's

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there's a crossmod mod

amber furnace
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dang what

valid crypt
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Imo old dukes boss design is shit
The sprite quality is fine

valid crypt
amber furnace
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I didn't know that

valid crypt
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Been out for quite a while
Not complete tho

final pine
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eh

final pine
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but it's good

valid crypt
final pine
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it is yeah

dry whale
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I am still at skeleprime in my masodeath run SAD

valid crypt
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Skip to plantera!

dry whale
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hell nah

lilac tundra
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Can i skip anihita or nah?

dry whale
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literally polter (blue plant)

steep path
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If nothing else I'm happy that calamity vanities will probably keep references to old duke - I like how that mod acts as a sort of archive for old boss stuff

final pine
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eternity/maso twins is some of the most fun i've had in terraria

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why are twins reworks always good

steep path
dry whale
valid crypt
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Cause the twins themself is also good in vanilla

final pine
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this is also true

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then again prime's pretty fun

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destroyer sucks though

dry whale
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destroyer got slaggsplitter pauldron'd

valid crypt
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Destroyer try not to get melted in vanilla challange

dry whale
final pine
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destroyer either gets melted in seconds or is a pain in the ass

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there is no in between

valid crypt
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Yeah

vestal osprey
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Destroyer is either getting melted or is a massive damage sponge

dry whale
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maso destroyer pulling a sans aah attack at the end

final pine
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eternity destroyer is cool

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i don't really like the contact damage considering the emphasis on dodging the balls

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and lasers

vestal osprey
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It was the weakest mech in infernum

dry whale
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disagree

final pine
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hard disagree

dry whale
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inf destroyer is easy but skele prime is there

final pine
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prime

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is

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yeah

vestal osprey
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I mean weakest as in quality

final pine
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i know

dry whale
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still disagree

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skele prime

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is there

final pine
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infernum destroyer actually did something different with the boss

azure oak
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how spoilerous

dry whale
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I mean skele prime is not bad

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just okay

amber furnace
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ravager rework tomorrow

final pine
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skele prime is still good but not as good as destroyer and definitely not twins

dry whale
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shit this isnt cat?

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okay bye

final pine
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meopw

vestal osprey
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I think we can all agree the twins the by far the best in infernum

valid crypt
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Oh lol

final pine
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whoopsie daist6

valid crypt
final pine
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anyways where do i annoy devs for patreon server

valid crypt
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Mod mail i think

dusk bronze
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you have to link your discord to patreon

final pine
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i did

dusk bronze
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and a bot should automatically dm you the invite

final pine
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i have server member dms off

dusk bronze
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byeah contact modmail if ur having issues

final pine
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that's why

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i thin

vivid hemlock
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just ask modmail for an invite if the bot doesnt work (thats what i did)

dusk bronze
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modmail just helped me through linking the accounts

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they didn't give me an invite directly

azure oak
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caalm ity

thick coyote
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you know

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unless the lore changes

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i kinda feel like the new desert scourge (as well as the currnet one) dont really fit the lore

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they dont look like filter feeders

valid crypt
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Desert scourge isnt a filter feeder iirc

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Aquatic scourge is the filter feeder

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Theyre different soecies

thick coyote
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lore doc says it was

fringe quiver
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lore doc is dumb and stupid

vivid hemlock
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why is ds a filter feeder

fringe quiver
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its not πŸ’”

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it eats MEAT its a PREDATOR it HUNTS THINGS

valid crypt
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Why are either a filter feeder

vivid hemlock
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aqua scoog makes sense

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but

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desert scourge?????

thick coyote
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im just saying even if da adapted to eating bigger creatures

fringe quiver
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it didnt adapt

vivid hemlock
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next thing youre going to tell me is that sunken scourge is a filter feeder πŸ’”

thick coyote
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that wouldnt change the way its mouth should look

fringe quiver
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it always hunted bigger things

still bluff
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Desert scourge actually just uses those big ass jaws to eat lots of sand

thick coyote
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no it didnt!

still bluff
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It's filter feeding is within its stomach

fringe quiver
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yes it did the lore doc is outdated and old and ahsn't been updated in 500 years

thick coyote
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the lore says desert scourge used to eat microscopic things

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thats not even lore doc exclusive

gloomy grove
fringe quiver
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the only source of that is yharim who notably is not good at biology given that they thought storm weaver was the same species as the devourer and if i had to guess it might get rewritten

thick coyote
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meat cutting teeth

fringe quiver
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desert scourge is not a filter feeder

thick coyote
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which is weird

still bluff
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Yea that's for rocks

fringe quiver
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yes it has big meat cutting teeth becasue it eats meat

still bluff
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Don't worry cheese I will always undermine you with ridiculous misinformation

valid crypt
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Ive never seen anyone mention scoog as a filterer until today

fringe quiver
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the singular yharim lore item

valid crypt
thick coyote
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it says it

fringe quiver
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which was not only one of the first things ever written for the mod and probably outdated at this point

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but also

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yharim literally has been shown to be bad at biology before

valid crypt
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Lore items from yharim the guy who sucks at biology

fringe quiver
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he thought storm weaver was the same species as devourer

which, it sint

fringe quiver
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they're still outdated, atleast a good few of them

thick coyote
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just feels like a stupid detail for them to make him wrong about

summer shore
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I mean didn't they say they won't be completely rewtitten again

still bluff
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(we do need to actually see any of this stuff written out in-game for it to finally be real instead of just plans)

fringe quiver
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because its outdated

fringe quiver
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Just a few lore items might be changed

summer shore
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I really just said rewtitten

fringe quiver
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empress of light is one of the most likely ones

summer shore
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I'm so washed

still bluff
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But yes DS is very clearly designed to eat giant rocks and break them apart for the juices inside smh

fringe quiver
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sends u to hell

vivid hemlock
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buffs snapthorn

fringe quiver
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nerfs snapthorn

thick coyote
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i mean inscisors still dont make sense for that

fringe quiver
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its a durophage

thick coyote
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it should have like huge molars

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if that's the case

still bluff
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They're to stab into the rocks and check them for juices

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The molars are further back

fringe quiver
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im sending you to hell

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9th layer

still bluff
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You have no in-game evidence that I'm wrong

fringe quiver
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You have no way of stopping my fists reaching ur face

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πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š πŸ‘Š

still bluff
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Wtf

thick coyote
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also to be clear i dont even care, i just thought it was interesting because the old desert scourge ironically looked more like a filter feeder than current ones

vivid hemlock
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i mean yeah

fringe quiver
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i dont think any of them looked like filter feeders

vivid hemlock
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it was written when brown ds was still ingame

fringe quiver
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they all had big ass teeth

thick coyote
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i dont think old ds had teeth

fringe quiver
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bird scourge in particular really didn't look like a filter feeder

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i can kinda see it for brown DS

vivid hemlock
fringe quiver
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im attached to this one d ont hate him

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hes goofy

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he sucks objectively speaking but im attached

dry whale
fringe quiver
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pre 2025 desertscourge designs dont just be a incredibly uninspired and generic sandworm challenge

vivid hemlock
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i just realized

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blue scourge is just

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red scourge but with mandibles

fringe quiver
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you know its kinda funny that like

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red scourge tried harder to make it look aquatic than most designs that came after

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and that's like a incredibly low bar

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because all it does is have little tail fins

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it's pretty sad in hindsight

pulsar cobalt
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was sunken sea even a thing back when red scourge existed

vivid hemlock
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no

thick coyote
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pretty sure red scourge was 1.0

pulsar cobalt
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it existed until 1.1.5

thick coyote
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ye

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but i mean when it was added

pulsar cobalt
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map icon was still red scourge for another update tho

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so lol

vivid hemlock
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sunken sea was 1.4.2

hot pebble
fringe quiver
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sunken sea wasnt a thing but im pretty sure the lore of DS being a water guy that had its home dried up had been a thing since its initial conception

thick coyote
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that would make sense

fringe quiver
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which again makes it pretty sad that literally none of its designs tried in any way to reflect that

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😭

thick coyote
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wdym!!!

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blue scourge is blue!!

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like water!!!

fringe quiver
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true................

cunning sequoia
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wdym things turn into sand when exposed to the desert long enough

vivid hemlock
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πŸ₯€

cunning sequoia
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thats how it works

vivid hemlock
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i love my abyss rock golems

fringe quiver
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more creatures that look like they're made out of the material their biome is made of for some reason

vivid hemlock
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garbo

thick coyote
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mods, add an electron

fringe quiver
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is it a leak

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or is it like one of those scam links

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unfortunate

lean relic
fringe quiver
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i see

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tragic

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yeah alright its the fucking mr beast scam

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😭

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mr breast

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givme em money mr breast

vivid hemlock
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curious how the abyss worldgen rework's gonna look

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since its wider than the current abyss

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also a terminus shrine

fringe quiver
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i hope it's a little less.,,, linear?

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like, i get that its meant to be a trench and all

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but its a tad boring to just

fall down

pulsar cobalt
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u only rlly fall down in layer 4

vivid hemlock
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it feels less like a trench and more like a cave

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also trenches tend to slope down, and theres kinda like, none of that

thick coyote
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i dont think theres room in the world for that

dusty tinsel
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Extra large world size

pearl sentinel
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abyss subworld clearly

azure oak
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add

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the subworld subworld

summer shore
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subsubworld

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a subworld within a subworld

pearl sentinel
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what about a domworld

terse dew
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Maybe the sunken sea is the ocean that sits below the beach that makes you old

fringe quiver
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ive been there

pearl sentinel
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im pretty sure its the rocks

terse dew
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sand is just tiny rocks

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πŸ™‚β€β†•οΈ

azure oak
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beach that makes you old subworld

modern grove
summer shore
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How

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You crazy

desert path
modern grove
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Yeah but I really doubt it's the reason why all those cal enemies are sprited like that

desert path
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Yeah I know that but I kinda like that all the sulphurous sea enemies look like they could hide in the sand and rocks

modern grove
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They can still look more visually interesting wegud wobbegongs irl also hide in sand and try to blend with it, but they don't literally look like sand

desert path
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That depends on which kind though

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tasselled wobbegongs absolutely blend very well with the sandy floor

summer shore
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Fish and squid and stuff that live in corals don't look like sand

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they look like coral

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they can still blend with the environment without looking like Just the Base Block

fringe quiver
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you can make something camo while still making it visually interesting

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and yeah that definitely wasn't the reasoning behind it

dense sundial
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great example: octopuses

fringe quiver
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specially when you consider that most of the monopaletted enemies aren't meant to camouflage, like, at all

dense sundial
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they rarely actually have camo for one specific environment, they just become camo whenever they want

summer shore
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The only vaguely camo critter is flak crab

modern grove
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In general I think that biome blending type creatures are a bit boring as enemies in terraria/terraria mod. Like yeah, creatures irl do that sometime, but they still have pretty cool appearance and not always use the same colors as their environment, they can still vary.

I #nooticed that when people come up with concepts for biome enemies, they often go for "mimick/blending with environment/monopalette rock golem" first (it's very evident with calamity critter contest that happened a while ago)

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I think it's just not super original and can be better

thorny fjord
summer shore
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Nuh uh

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Octopodes

cunning sequoia
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octo pie

summer shore
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Spie

tropic sphinx
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I think a really good example of this is with RoR2 and how it uses it's enemy variety. Something like a Greater Wisp doesn't really fit, say, the Abyssal Depths visually, but from a theme and tone view it matches perfectly

vivid hemlock
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i mean, thats basically the plan the devs are taking

tropic sphinx
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It's a biome drenched in a blazing heat with lots of chains and monoliths and whatnot, so it'd make sense that an artificial lifeform such as a Greater Wisp would inhabit it

boreal edge
brave star
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Turns octolinggrimm into pie with MIND

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πŸ₯§

pearl sentinel
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the HUH???

dull heart
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I have bad mews

pearl sentinel
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ohh i se

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i see

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i understand now

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fucked up but awesome

dull heart
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oh not to you

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just in general I have bad news

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I didn't even see what you were talking about

sudden shell
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wawa, what's the next major update?

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I see there's a minor update scheduled soon from the changelog

fringe quiver
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did ppl unironically read the two tiny dots as eyes

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insanity

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absolute lunacy

thick coyote
thick coyote
fringe quiver
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.

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the diminute white dots on the nuclear terror redesign

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that people somehow thought were eyes???

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1 pixel eyes is crazy 😭 😭

thick spire
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Damn we’re not deleting Old Duke?

thick coyote
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You're not?

thick spire
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I’d delete him in a heartbeat

fringe quiver
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very very technically not being deleted but its like a whole other thing so

vivid hemlock
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fish of theseus

thick spire
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Oh good

fringe quiver
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mostly just the lore of old duke that seems to be adapted i think, because his lore is unironically very cool and fits nicely in the mods narrative

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so "new" old duke seems like its just doubling down on that

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pig death

thick coyote
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I hope that whatever replaces Old Duke

fringe quiver
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no more boar

thick coyote
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can make the Polterghast defeat condition of acid rain tier 3 make sense

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because that doesnt make any sense to me

vivid hemlock
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old duke wont be at the end of the acid rain anymore

fringe quiver
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yea

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nuclear terror will

vivid hemlock
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terror is taking its rightful place

fringe quiver
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old duke is just a seaprate boss

modern grove
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Let's replace old duke with new duke

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He wears sunglasses and listens to cool music

thick coyote
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Duke Jr

fringe quiver
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he says how do you do fellow kids

cunning sequoia
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it took like 5 years but nuclear terror is usurping the duke ripoff

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πŸŽ‰

vivid hemlock
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πŸ™

agile latch
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He filter and collect sand though and store it in a special organ to use later

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But he dont filter feed

uncut briar
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i dont think i can take much more of people calling it red scourge

mighty geyser
vivid hemlock
pearl sentinel
rocky dawn
modern grove
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Drunk fishron

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Instead of doing predictive dashes he does unpredictable dashes and bumps into random spots

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Instead of getting tired he can hit his head against tiles which would knock him out

brave star
fringe quiver
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"red scourge" is less wordy than "recoloured dune splicer"

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dont hate me for being EFFICIENT

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though ye a thats literally what it is

modern grove
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I don't think there was much though there he was just a desert worm

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Dokuro music wasn't real yet nor lore not anything

fringe quiver
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No i'm pretty sure there was already lore

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Very crude and primitive lore that was mostly just written by fabsol but it existed

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If you go all the way back to the calamity forums you can see that some characters where a thing all the way back then

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Braelor Existing predates almost all of the mod's history

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😭

rustic fulcrum
viral merlin
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Master Mode Revengeance was truly Malice mode all along

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It found it's way back into the game

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Go my random bullshit all over the screen

azure oak
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add the pit

rough vine
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⚫

lapis oak
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Ooo the spoilering

late eagle
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Desert

kind maple
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Seems pretty scummy

azure oak
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huh

lapis oak
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Become Mr Breast for free

hushed hazel
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give me money

valid crypt
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-300 doler coming to you

raw pendant
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Is this old duke??

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If so thats a really cool reimagining

lapis oak
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Nuclear Terror

kind maple
hushed hazel
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way ahead of you brother

raw pendant
valid crypt
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I dont on a basis that it would kinda make old duke akin to another nuclear terror

raw pendant
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This honestly looks unlike nuclear terror in many ways

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He ain't a funny insect anymore which I honestly liked before

valid crypt
fringe quiver
azure oak
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still a pretty big change from green bug to the horrors

agile latch
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peepowegud now it trully is a terror

fringe quiver
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nothing annoys me more on this community than people seeing a redesign and being "it dosent even look like xyz" YES BECAUSE ITS NOT MEANT TO ‼️ ITS A REDESIGN

valid crypt
vivid hemlock
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what

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do

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you think

valid crypt
agile latch
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its mutated/ cursed due to the evil acid moon whatever ℒ️

vivid hemlock
azure oak
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what is evil acid moon whatever

valid crypt
cunning sequoia
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its kinda mid ngl

agile latch
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peepowegud i never posted the tail

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i think that was on tobias post with the green man

azure oak
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whoops phrased weirdly

agile latch
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only sent the new head because users were still basing themselves on the old one (the red one) and tobias had already posted the head gore too

azure oak
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yeah it was tobias who posted that and the sprite's length

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sometimes my english just goofs up

fringe quiver
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horrible

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guys supreme calamitas isn't a flaming eyeball anymore??? wtf how could they do this, that Woman looks nothing like supreme calamitas

pearl sentinel
lean cave
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they should turn crabulon into a 3d ball

cunning sequoia
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that one hakita quote

fringe quiver
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please add sea slug

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sea slug abyss

rose laurel
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Game design is deceptively difficult

fringe quiver
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big sea slug abyss

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small sea slug abyss

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fire sea slug abyss layer 3

pearl sentinel
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when i become a calamity developer

fringe quiver
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please

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void sea salug

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void sea slug layer 4

pearl sentinel
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i have many ideas that are finished

fringe quiver
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game design is way harder than people think lol

cunning sequoia
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add manta ray

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manta ray deus

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manta ray abyss

pearl sentinel
cunning sequoia
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manta ra

dull heart
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hi am back

cunning sequoia
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hi add manta ray

pearl sentinel
dull heart
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i have bad news

thick coyote
dull heart
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unrelated to manta ray

fringe quiver
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it requires alot of careful thinking abt how something would interact with other mechanics and also just testing

cunning sequoia
dull heart
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some of you may have already figured out this bad news

fringe quiver
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fun fact

cunning sequoia
rose laurel
pearl sentinel
rose laurel
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Even if sometimes they shove that very good game design up their ass

fringe quiver
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ive noticed alot of the time when people design, say, new weapons

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they do it like

azure oak
fringe quiver
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"this weapon is slow but deals big damage"

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or

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"this weapon is fast but deals little damage"

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and that sort of thing

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and like, that's just artificial variety lol

dull heart
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bad news is:
the Calamity Mod team has been forced to delay SSO somewhat by Toby Fox

fringe quiver
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its doing the same thing, effectively

dull heart
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he released a sleeper agent called "deltarune"

pearl sentinel
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we alr knew this

terse dew
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bad news

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😨

dull heart
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which has taken a toll on the development of SSO

lean cave
dull heart
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but fear not!

fringe quiver
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if u have different weapons/classes/etc in ur game u want each one of those to actually Feel different to play

dull heart
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we will overcome the deltarune virus

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and get SSO out with a timeline of: when we finish it

pearl sentinel
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in deltarune chapter 4 ||if you try playing megalovania on one of the pianos the annoying dog runs you over with a car ||

fringe quiver
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yep

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he does that

rose laurel
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Shoutouts to me designing my Dev weapon and thinking "damn this shit is a lot" I realized

dull heart
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it's ok reb

rose laurel
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Wait, I know why I don't like Ark of the Cosmos now!

fringe quiver
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is it a one piece reference, a genshin reference, or both

agile latch
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Ombgusvigi checking the red nation users talking about the boss shifts

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its uncanny how the users there base their opnion on ancient scrapped stuff

dull heart
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the tooltip for your dev item is

agile latch
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or headcanons

dull heart
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much shorter than mine

fringe quiver
dull heart
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so you're fine

agile latch
rose laurel
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And then I realized

fringe quiver
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if i was a dev my dev item would be a item that just turns your player sprite into yuri plush

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not even like a sprite of yuri plush

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just the whole ass png

agile latch
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but some were saying pre hm dragonfolly dont make much sense because its a dragon (its a offshoot... we have basilisks and pigrons..) and that its a failed clone of yharon (it hasnt been one for centuries)

rose laurel
#

Holy shit I know how to design weapons now???

azure oak
#

red nation? joy? unbelievable

fringe quiver
lyric trellis
vivid hemlock
agile latch
#

peepowegud but yea most users seems to enjoy the changes

dull heart
#

designing weapons is simple just

agile latch
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which is surprising

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for red nation

dull heart
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throw stuff at the wall until it's fun

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source: mirror blade rewowrk

fringe quiver
#

roy went from having 6 weapon archetypes for melee to only 3 becauase none of us could figure out how to make 6 archetypes work

pearl sentinel
#

i havent found anything about boss shift on red nation

modern grove
#

is red nation reddit

rose laurel
#

Also, to answer your question, Cheese

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It's a One Piece reference

agile latch
#

slime god being post queen slime dont make sense Hegnar

fringe quiver
pearl sentinel
rose laurel
#

No it's a lightning bolt

fringe quiver
agile latch
agile latch
#

where these users fabricate this info

fringe quiver
#

this user when they find out that if slime god changed its place in progression the lore about queen slime would also obviously change

vivid hemlock
#

when the slime god is stronger than the queen slime

lyric trellis
#

Dragonfolly not being post-DoG feels wrong…..

agile latch
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dragonfolly being the strongest false dragon πŸ₯Ή

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where does that come from

fringe quiver
#

old duke ...

azure oak
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"false dragon"

empty yarrow
#

You monster… I can’t post the funny television man…

fringe quiver
#

prim wyrm..............

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also

vivid hemlock
fringe quiver
#

false dragon??? 😭

rose laurel
#

The literal two Offshoots stronger than it:

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Byeah, my Dev weapon is a bit funny

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The idea is for the weapon to actually have uh

fringe quiver
#

truth duke ❌
false dragon: βœ…

rose laurel
#

3 attacks (?)

pearl sentinel
#

i cannot find any posts on red nation about this triangle has special eyes

agile latch
#

vanilin

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did you touch up the doc already btw

#

either remove or add more info to the moves

vivid hemlock
#

yeah

agile latch
#

i can help with the more info part

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so users stop thinking it will literally be just moving current dragonfolly to be pre hardmode with no change

vivid hemlock
#

sorry i was asleep when you pinged me

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so it was half a day late

lapis oak
agile latch
#

Hegnar checking red nation

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the users there have a really twisted view of offshoots

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is offshoot lore not really well explained ingame rn?

lapis oak
#

I need Ark Big Rip in my role play fantasy gameplay loop!!!!

agile latch
#

or is it just them not being able to read it properly

rose laurel
lapis oak
#

good...

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any visual changes?

rose laurel
fringe quiver
#

its my worst enemy

rose laurel
#

Which basically go over the exact same thing

fringe quiver
#

the media literacy devil

rose laurel
lapis oak
#

yayyyy

rose laurel
#

Anyways back to writing

agile latch
fringe quiver
#

calamity community would single handedly make the media literacy devil the most powerful of them all

kind tinsel
#

ninety-seven

cobalt wharf
#

why are we changing ark again

agile latch
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(there technically was one for galaxya but guh.. not really a fan of it since its just reusing assets in a weird way, i think its being removed tho)

rose laurel
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I think you guys are blind

cobalt wharf
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oh the fucking

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holding up and right click or whatever

vivid hemlock
rose laurel
#

I said "Big Rip should probably get some visual upgrades" and that somehow went into "Ark should get visual upgrades" and then "we're reworking Ark"

lyric trellis
rose laurel
#

Like holy shit this isn't even a game of telephone

arctic cliff
rose laurel
#

Anyways...

lapis oak
agile latch
#

and some other stuff gulpsplosion

pearl sentinel
#

an individual

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its just a fucing bird

rose laurel
#

Essentially the weapon has two attack modes, being a normal melee swing which if it hits a target, it will add a mark to them

The right click would throw a lightning bolt, which will home towards a marked target like Purity Attunement in BB does

Lightning bolts can stick to enemies and/or terrain. If a lightning bolt hits another they'll explode and deal AOE damage

After you detonate enough lightning bolts, a ball of lightning would show up somewhere nearby and you would be able to hit it with a melee swing towards a target to deal immense damage. This ball would also be affected by the home-in effect of the melee hit mark

cobalt wharf
#

dat fuckin bird that i hate

lyric trellis
#

Mothron

agile latch
#

and faint electric powers

fringe quiver
#

i think this server would benefit alot from not immediately assuming what a conversation about when they join the chat

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😭

agile latch
#

there is some funny ideias for folly i been talking with xyk and dia tho

fringe quiver
#

like try backreading or atleast asking what the convo is about or something

lapis oak
#

ball

fringe quiver
rose laurel
fringe quiver
#

surely that'd warrant a redesign right

lapis oak
#

ball lightning mentioned ❗ ❓ ❓ ❓

fringe quiver
#

i feel like current folly dosen't really feel very sky coded...

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folly's overall like, vibes

rose laurel
#

It's funny because all of these powers aren't like, random bullshit I came up with on a whim

fringe quiver
#

feel very tropics-coded to me

vivid hemlock
#

it was already planned for a resprite so its just an excuse for a larger redesign

azure oak
#

imagine smaller folly relatives being critters on sky islands

vivid hemlock
#

bumblefolly....

pearl sentinel
#

new hive mind and perferators design/sprite πŸ₯Ή

rose laurel
fringe quiver
#

i think a mix of the small buglike traits such as the multiple eyes and "antennae" and the yellow/red make it feel very jungle pilled to me for some reason...

agile latch
empty yarrow
vivid hemlock
#

yes

empty yarrow
#

Like 2 years ago now?

agile latch
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as in they steal energy from other dragon corpses and also aerialite, and this energy mutates them

rose laurel
#

It has always been baffling to me how Draedon literally didn't have a single successful project

agile latch
#

very varied species

agile latch
#

unless you count them losing to the player as a failure

kind tinsel
#

he invented rubber

agile latch
#

(arsenal stuff are also very successful for what they were built for)

pearl sentinel
fringe quiver
#

the only real failed project he has now is aureus, in a way

agile latch
#

cal clone

lapis oak
#

maybe Draedon is washed after all

rose laurel
#

Mechs? Went rogue
Cal Clone? Fucked up and bad
Folly? Also fucked up and bad
Plaguebringer? Never hit mass production
Aureus? Also just didn't work

lyric trellis
agile latch
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the normal mechs

fringe quiver
#

oh true i guess there's calclone

agile latch
#

plaguebringer sorta is not a failure tho

pearl sentinel
#

draedon getting mauled by a grizzly bear:

fringe quiver
#

plaguebringer in a way

agile latch
#

its actually a huge sucess

fringe quiver
#

was succesfull yeah

kind tinsel
#

the plague kinda just

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exists

fringe quiver
#

like you could argue it never hit mass production yeah but

agile latch
#

draedon is suffering from sucess

fringe quiver
#

for what its worth

agile latch
#

on plague

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(its too good..)

fringe quiver
#

it was very sucessfull

azure oak
#

also aureus wasnt even meant to study the infection originally

fringe quiver
azure oak
#

it was for recovering stuff from battlefields and it probably did that job just fine

empty yarrow
#

The concept of a calendar:

rose laurel
#

Anyways

empty yarrow
pearl sentinel
#

i need aureus changes seeing passive aureus in astral infection would make me give 20 a month to patron (im extortion)

vivid hemlock
#

exo auric plague nanomachine hive matriarch

empty yarrow
#

Its been 2 years now

pearl sentinel
agile latch
#

cant wait for exo slime god

rose laurel
#

I really like the Plague and PBG in general tbh, I think they fit an extremelly interesting place in the narrative

kind tinsel
#

they just exist

agile latch
#

exo old duke

kind tinsel
#

where is exo lepus

agile latch
#

exoclops

rose laurel
#

I sorta forced them to fit in but like

fringe quiver
#

exo mirage mallah

azure oak
#

i think it has potential for cool designs and it has a cool story but unfortunatley not much is done with it in-game

fringe quiver
#

tommorow

kind tinsel
#

exo yharim skeletron

rose laurel
#

I really want to make the Plague as a whole feel a lot more personal to the player

kind tinsel
#

junjile

pearl sentinel
empty yarrow
kind tinsel
#

junjile tyrant

rose laurel
#

My ultimate goal with the Plague is for it to be something the player recognizes as THEIR problem and something THEY have to fix

hushed hazel
#

king of the junjle

lyric trellis
#

Plague killed our parents

fringe quiver
#

that'd be a interesting direction yea

kind tinsel
#

fuck i forgot the jerma bit

azure oak
#

why does the plague even get unleashed after we kill golem

kind tinsel
#

fortnite

vivid hemlock
kind tinsel
#

draedon was busy

azure oak
#

or get unleashed at all

fringe quiver
#

someone is calling you on your shellphone

draedon: you fucked up dude go fix it now
terraria: mb original gangster

rose laurel
kind tinsel
#

draedon if he had whatsapp

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there is nothing better than gameplay

empty yarrow
pearl sentinel
azure oak
#

big ol red button that says "dont press" in jungle lab

lyric trellis
#

Plague is so old (the enemies πŸ’”)

vivid hemlock
kind tinsel
#

is PBG a VTOL aircraft

fringe quiver
#

go grandam. go

rose laurel
azure oak
#

honestly i'd like a PBG design that feels like it's been mutilated instead of big metal bee

kind tinsel
#

what did empress do to deserve this

kind tinsel
#

COMBINE SYNTHS INSPIRATION

#

i will bee several days

empty yarrow
azure oak
#

so why does astral infection

lyric trellis
#

It just does

rose laurel
#

We don't talk about Astral Infection

pearl sentinel
rose laurel
#

And by this I mean that if I ever had to pick one major thing to delete from Calamity it'd be Infection in a heartbeat

empty yarrow
fringe quiver
#

ithink infection has potential to be very visually interesting but unfortunately currently it is purple robot land

azure oak
#

i mean if you want body horror infection the plague's right there

fringe quiver
#

like its literally the fucked up magic land

#

its basically entirely made of chaotic mana and magic energy n shit

azure oak
#

and at least the plague has a role in the main story

fringe quiver
#

u can go wilder with its aesthethics and design than literally anywhere else except maybe the distortion

#

it shouldnt even be body horror imo

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that's like, yeah, the plague, the evil biomes

#

thats smth the game already does

pearl sentinel
#

astral should be more mind stuff

fringe quiver
#

astral infection isn't some purely biologcal mutation thing

empty yarrow
#

I feel the Astral Infection and Plague overlap is weird

fringe quiver
#

its literally pure Magic

#

it should be batshit insane and esoteric and allat

lyric trellis
#

Infection is like 2018 distortion

rose laurel
empty yarrow
#

If the Astral Infection was weaponized by Draedon I think it would be more interesting

#

But also

pearl sentinel
#

i think astral enemies would do better if it was more clear that these arent really mutated beings they're just

empty yarrow
#

Just the Plague but again

pearl sentinel
#

supercharged with mana

rose laurel
#

But I know other people want to make Infection good so

#

Β―_(ツ)_/Β―

pearl sentinel
#

pls reb astral infection is so cool.

fringe quiver
#

purple robot land

pearl sentinel
#

astrum deus . i love it.

fringe quiver
#

if cheese was calamity cheese would make astral infection esoteric drug trip land

empty yarrow
#

I feel like the Astral Infection changing biological beings into doing its bidding would be an interesting direction if connected to Draedon

vivid hemlock
#

πŸ’”

empty yarrow
#

Sort of like an inspiration for the Plague, that he would perfect

fringe quiver
#

literally just the plague

#

and also like

#

draedon has so godamn much

#

please god

#

no more

empty yarrow
#

Hey I like the funky robot man ok

vivid hemlock
#

funny robot man has too much on this continent

azure oak
#

there are 6 boss fights attached to him

raw pendant
fringe quiver
#

that is literally not what you said

empty yarrow
#

I’m not asking the Infection to be dirrectly tied to Draedon

fringe quiver
#

what you said is word for word

This honestly looks unlike nuclear terror in many ways

empty yarrow
#

Just say he got inspired by what it did to his mech to make the Plague

raw pendant
#

Yeah what I imagine nuclear terror to be like, a fucked up looking insect thing

empty yarrow
#

Not asking it to be a thing Draedon created

rose laurel
#

I had an idea for Infection which honestly kinda makes up for my problems with it

pearl sentinel
raw pendant
#

And it's what I perfer

pearl sentinel
#

as much as i like current nuclear terror its not a super great design and if its becoming the final boss of acid rain t3

raw pendant
#

I dunno what to tell you

pearl sentinel
#

it needs to be something more

steep path
#

I've always liked that unique part of the infection where it specifically affects things that aren't sapient - so robots and animals get strung together. I feel like I haven't seen that done as much before - usually fiction writers go for "all organic life gets infected" or smth

fringe quiver
#

the previous nuclear terror design had its charm but it was also like Really Uninspired

raw pendant
#

Maybe I'm just used to current NT

fringe quiver
#

it's just a generic bug monster yea

rose laurel
#

People should avoid using subjective opinions and preconceptions to make objective points I think

fringe quiver
#

i always thought it was neat but in hindsight it is literally the textbook definition generic bug monster

vivid hemlock
fringe quiver
#

this new one is just like
Kind of Better, to be honest

vivid hemlock
#

until now

pearl sentinel
#

its like

#

a unique design yeah

#

its sick too

azure oak
lapis oak
#

what was that image Tobias send here again?

modern grove
#

i think astral infection should be rot from rain worl

vivid hemlock
lapis oak
lean cave
#

strange names

fringe quiver
#

the 3rd one is just the fucking future predator lol

#

which is actually a pretty cool design...

#

terrestrial bat creature

lapis oak
#

with the title "concept artist who doesn't know anatomy designs a monster"

pearl sentinel
#

but uh yea

modern grove
#

RJ palmer my goat

pearl sentinel
#

original nuclear terror will always have a place in my heart

modern grove
#

very cool artist

pearl sentinel
#

i even put a tiny one on the original canvas

#

but the new one is just

fringe quiver
#

literally just the fucking

pearl sentinel
#

so much better objectively from a design standpoint

pearl sentinel
thick coyote
#

you know

#

i agree with Rebecca

#

id also delete the astral infecton if i could delete any major part of the game

#

its so nothing

#

its incidental to the story

vivid hemlock
#

we have 2 purple worm bosses that are known for consuming things

#

i think thats 1 more than necessary

pearl sentinel
#

ASTRUM DEUS IS A FUN FIGHT THOUGH lunacry

lapis oak
#

Vanillin just keeps consuming things

wise gale
lapis oak
#

destroy him

vivid hemlock
wise gale
#

story-wise it actually makes pre-hm interesting

drowsy reef
azure oak
#

i could see astral infection being broken up and its current content being rethemed and spread over other pieces

lapis oak
wise gale
#

astral infection shouldn't be removed, it has potential but yeah currently it's not too important

#

though not every boss needs to link to the lore

pearl sentinel
drowsy reef
#

Yeah it’s such a pretty biome

modern grove
azure oak
#

i said i could see, not should

drowsy reef
#

I want more of it

wise gale
#

i like the idea that the astral infection is it's own thing as a consequence of our progress

pulsar cobalt
thick coyote
#

its not a consequence of our progress though

pulsar cobalt
vivid hemlock
#

i dont think any biome except arguably the current sunken sea is pretty right now

pulsar cobalt
drowsy reef
#

Amazing

#

I’m so glad they went with this look over the purple and gold one

wise gale
vivid hemlock
#

especially in the limited array of colors

wise gale
#

in it's current state yeah i see it

drowsy reef
#

I’m not saying it’s not something that can be improved

thick coyote
#

in lore im pretty sure the astral infection already exists before the wall fight

#

but maybe im wrong

vivid hemlock
#

it exists just not on the planet

drowsy reef
#

But like when would you spawn the meteor if not post-Wall

thick coyote
wise gale
pearl sentinel
mystic eagle
pulsar cobalt
#

it falls during the game

thick coyote
#

thats even sillier

pearl sentinel
mystic eagle
#

Me when I open youtube and get A Legend's Strife at the top of the home page

wise gale
#

it's a space plague, it only reaches us once wall dies

pearl sentinel
#

yeah it makes aureus immediately being infected kinda silly

raw falcon
wise gale
#

via the meteor

vivid hemlock
#

thats why he knows

wise gale
#

aureus is just a bit goofy tbh

pulsar cobalt
pearl sentinel
wise gale
#

that would genuinely be kinda cool

raw falcon
#

Also wouldnt it be cool if astral infection moreso affected the planetoids instead of the surface?

mystic eagle
pearl sentinel
wise gale
#

or maybe like a cage or structure to contain it, that the infection then lands near

hot pebble
#

I'm gonna use the power of Community

wise gale
thick coyote
wise gale
#

but i like the idea of it a lot though

rose laurel
#

Can't wait for me saying "If I could" to evolve into "Holy shit the Devs are removing the Astral Infection!!"

pearl sentinel
#

😭

hot pebble
#

c'mon, try to stop me

vivid hemlock
pulsar cobalt
#

keep in mind aureus would have ik so it would walk on terrain way more seemlessly

wise gale
indigo fog
#

Seeing astrum aureus in the background would be cool

wise gale
#

it in the background would work

pearl sentinel
#

again not confirmed at all but it would be passive as in it probably wouldnt be able to harm you

hot pebble
indigo fog
#

I feel like the background is underused in mods so this could be a cool use

pearl sentinel
mystic eagle
hot pebble
wise gale
#

current aureus moving around the uneven terrain in the infection would look weird

pearl sentinel
wise gale
#

but either in the background, or with a new walking animation, it would work really well

vivid hemlock
#

its getting redesigned

wise gale
#

i really like the idea

mystic eagle
wise gale
hot pebble
#

I'm using power of Community and nobody can stop me!

vivid hemlock
#

strange user

#

kiri how would you describe this phenomenon

lapis oak
#

I keep thinking fucking passive Aureus gonna be in SSO but then I remembered it was in Ozz's correction and not changelogs

wise gale
#

oh i just noticed KEKW

vivid hemlock
#

sso is already big enough we dont need more!!!

empty yarrow
vivid hemlock
#

biggest update in history and its just the first part, thats not even done yet

lapis oak
#

This is so Ozzatrous

torn kite
hot pebble
vivid hemlock
hot pebble
#

ok i think its enough

wise gale
#

ok

hot pebble
#

ok

steep path
#

VaZillin

vivid hemlock
#

there is no capital N in the first place

thick coyote
#

not even a bad name but a weird thing to do

steep path
#

But it's gotta be replaced with a capital z

#

Oh I c

wise gale
#

im confused

hot pebble
gritty torrent
#

will sso make shpc left click a NOT-dust-weapon

hot pebble
#

this is so stupid

#

im stupid

gritty torrent
#

no offense to anyone but this dust looks ugly af

#

the color gamma is just not good

#

the amount of dust is bad

indigo fog
#

Dust weapon is a term?OMEGALUL

gritty torrent
#

VERY much so

#

examples are

#

uhhhhhhh

vivid hemlock
#

the sand spelltomes

gritty torrent
#

I FORGOT but there are examples

#

helium flash

indigo fog
#

I never thought of a term of it but it makes sense, they bother me

vivid hemlock
#

terraria dust

fringe quiver
gritty torrent
#

will sso have deltarune reference

indigo fog
#

Do old calamity flamethrowers count as dust

fringe quiver
cunning sequoia
#

piles of yharim's coke

gritty torrent
vivid hemlock
#

calamity needs 100000 more reference items

#

for some reason

indigo fog
fringe quiver
#

WAITER WAITER

#

MORE REFERENCES

empty yarrow
#

Ghaster in Calamity when?

gritty torrent
#

not necessarily it's just weird thaqt deltarune has none

mystic eagle
#

Ghaster

fringe quiver
gritty torrent
#

GASTER CAN GO FUCKING KI-

empty yarrow
lapis oak
#

Calamity reference items will outnumber original items at this point

mystic eagle
#

Me patiently waiting for Egg Man to show his face in Deltarune

gritty torrent
#

dark master isn't one afaik

pulsar cobalt
#

im wing ding the royal scientist

vivid hemlock
#

we should like nuke all bad donor items and then undedicate all good ones

empty yarrow
vivid hemlock
#

surely this is a good idea

hot pebble
gritty torrent
#

shush.

hot pebble
#

ok

gritty torrent
#

what the fuck does that even-

fringe quiver
#

myserious manager

gritty torrent
#

actually i don't think i want to know :trollage:

hot pebble
#

πŸ™Œ

cunning sequoia
#

gaster, your biggest hypeman

fringe quiver
#

mysterious manager

gritty torrent
#

the biggest bitch in all of deltarune

mystic eagle
gritty torrent
#

the hell is

#

apron of affection

empty yarrow
gritty torrent
#

since when

fringe quiver
#

vanity item

mystic eagle
cunning sequoia
#

vanity thats ralsei's dress thingy

gritty torrent
#

OH MY GOD

mystic eagle
#

I'm Ralseiriel

gritty torrent
#

HOW did i not know that

#

is there a hat

mystic eagle
#

Can we get Xenoblade references instead

gritty torrent
#

that looks like him

empty yarrow
indigo fog
#

I'm honestly suprised a patreon donor didn't make a [BIG SHOT] weapon

mystic eagle
empty yarrow
#

Ok but Deltarune Terraria mod

vivid hemlock
#

the prophecy

gritty torrent
#

all that's left is a fucking wiffle bat

cunning sequoia
empty yarrow
#

Kris Susie and the Soul seal Yharim D. Gaster in the Avatar Dimension

cunning sequoia
#

this is very spoilerous