Super Boss vs Super Animals

[lost solstice]

So I don't know if everyone familiar with Sexton vs The Team from TF2 however the concept is familiar I Indredruce you The Secretary Bird a Bird that eats Venomous Snakes and hunting them by kicking their head until their heads break

So I thought why not include this bird in the game in a form of a boss battle but instead of 2 teams hunting it only one team fight it the boss is controlled by player (or Ai if the creator wants to put The Mole Ai in something else) its abilities including kicking flying around in short terms and eating people whole sort of like a T Rex with wings there be no grenades just common weapons of course there would be hidden chests that have legendary weapons how people start off with some common weapons that we normally find.

Check out this video from this search, secretary bird https://share.google/Ax82zBG7cAW3Gpa3O

https://youtu.be/MvhfNNgvmu0?si=oRBnq0oyVrsUNEkp

[solid sparrow]

I'm unsure if this could work well in a game like SAR, but I'm down to try it out.

The biggest concern is additional smaller game modes on top of the small community. The Verses Saxton Hale game mode on TF2 isn't too big and servers aren't always fully populated.

[pine mica]

This idea also runs into the ‘there’s not a large enough playerbase to be splitting it further’ issue that affects every gamemode suggestion, unfortunately.

Somewhat tangental but secretary birds should be a playable super animal… maybe a peacock variant

[pastel flare]

I'm afraid just like in tf2, this would realistically never work. SaR lacks the class variety, map design variety -- nor the complex movement that allows non AI PvE to be any fun atm.

Not only that, even in PvE case scenario vs some kind of raid enemy; I'm concerned of how it would ended up being uninteresting slog like how your typical Dont Starve boss is (Just kite it for 5 minutes zzz) which would make it a lot more uninteresting for a mode, imo.

Not to mention, beyond the first time novelty .. once the strat is figured out, it gets frustrating due to the Skill GAP if anything. You would see a lot of people would rather grief their own team by dancing in some corner of the map (Please check SvR, the issue is prevalent even in this game).

Stuff like PvE conquest-like mode would prolly work better.
Also tl;dr there are lot of other issues with this.

1. Spectator downtime (on death is already bad enough as it is).
2. How would HP scaling work? Current GSNMole has this issue on lower player count imo.
3. Slippery slope on balancing (Esp if it were to be an AI -- It is hard to design something that is engaging for both lower & higher player count without having it being super boring and or frustrating).
4. Obvious pacing issues having players walk thru the 2.5d arena; literal griefing as I mentioned earlier too.
5. Lastly no incentive to keep this mode around if it doesn't attract players for the long run.
   5a. If anything, it should just be kept as Priv. MM and that's it. The player count split would hurt the main mode.

[lost solstice]

We don't need classes because I thought something like looking for weapons like in normal royal battle Plus the current map is large so we select a spot to play on make it large enough so people can run around freely without a problem

The movements are ok right now

However what i am worried about that people have to wait very long

Because of team looting

So I thought why not after you die you get a measurement of how much damage you did to the boss (similar to SR Vs SAW mode)

Then you good to go

Also I never played don't starve to death so I don't know what you mean

What i do know is Elder bosses that one shot you if you don't roll enough

Also I think we should be able to help with this idea by expanding on it with other ideas

Because if only one person working on its going to be years to finish it to perfection

While I don't think low players are problem as I like horror and its would be horrific to have seen your ally eaten alive as you roll as fast as you not to be eaten

[sudden river]

secretive birb as an alternate boss in SvR, though, could work❕ might be fun to not have a stationary boss that can chase you down during battle

[lost solstice]

I always liked the games where there one powerful enemy hunting down the team of soldiers 😂🤣

[fallow igloo]

it kicks and eats snakes? i have an annoying friend who i need to give to these birds...

[lost solstice]

Yes Venomous ones I don't know if they eat none Venomous ones but I don't think they care about that

[undone thistle]

no please don't hurt Jill she didn't do anything

[drowsy tiger]

Absolutely have a boss fight mode.

[lost solstice]

Mole is more like a Mini Boss I thought of as one team hunting a very big creature that could one shot them if they don't roll around

[drowsy tiger]

I like the idea of a boss that surfaces for a certain amount of time, then will pop up elsewhere on the map for you to fight some more.  Like the star nosed mole but tougher.

[lost solstice]

That could work too however have to make sure that the map large enough so the boss could go around and small enough so players don't get bored walking to them

[drowsy tiger]

Map size shouldn't be the limitation, so much as how far the boss goes each time it runs.  It needs to move to one of the predefined spots within a set range of the last spot.