What each AI should have as a special ability

[dim wind]

1. Mr. Peterson, he will be the basic AI that will only have Bear Traps in the boss fight.

2. Nielson, similar to Otto placing bear traps and Mr. Peterson being able to as well in the boss fight, he should be able to place security cameras in certain places, the Cameras should have a blue tint, and would beep if it sees the player, if it does, then Nielson would go there and check that area, players should be able to take them down, but won’t be able to use them. (Original Idea from @median grove, link to his suggestion: https://discord.com/channels/474299944254308373/1082042426400702625)

3. Gerda, she should have a alarm in the bakery, if she sees the player and loses them many times, and the player never leaves the bakery, she would set this alarm, it will start making a loud beeping noise and the bakery would have flashing red lights, all of the exit windows and doors would get blocked off by a Gate Wall, and Gerda will be much faster and angry, in order to stop it all, you would have to go to the alarm and turn it off, players won’t be able to set the alarm themselves but only be able to turn it off.

4. Otto, we already know what he can do.

5. Mayor, there should be 3 cop characters sitting outside all of the gates into the mayors park with police cars, if he sees the player in his house and loses him many time and the player never leaves, he will call the 3 cops to run over there, the cops would run to the mayors house and look for you until you leave once you get caught or leave the cops will leave, and the mayor will be normal again, there will be a way to stop him from calling them though, if you stun him with an item while he is calling them he will stop, until he chases you and loses you he will attempt to call them again.

Don’t know why it has a link to discord at the bottom lol

[timid agate]

I think the one for gerda is a bit overpowered, but all the other ones would be awesome

[dim wind]

I mean all you have to do is run to the alarm, IMO the mayors would be pretty hard.

[indigo pecan]

I like Gerdas trap idea

[dim wind]

Thanks

[indigo pecan]

np

[median grove]

Here's a simpler idea for Gerda: Add chairs that let you lock doors, the other ais take 4 seconds to take them down, but Gerda only takes 2.

[dim wind]

Yeah but having Gerda manually do that, would be odd you know players would just keep on taking the chairs, and she won’t have them or players using that against her.

[dim wind]

IMO this could work really well

By having Gerda work that way

[dapper rampart]

Leslie could be the cop outside of the Mayor's

[undone ibex]

Nielson's and the mayor's ideas are fine, but that bakery idea would be so over the top and stupid that it would kind of ruin the entire game so just have a more down to earth and simpler idea

[signal jay]

Neilson will be hello neighbor alpha 4 all over again

[dim wind]

How in what way, the concept works perfectly fine, it forces the players to sneak and be more thought through when it happens, it forces players not to be lazy and just run out of the house every time they see the AI as they would now get trapped.

[undone ibex]

But it's like stupidly cartoon villain it should be something more subtle

[dim wind]

All most everything in HN is stupidly cartoony, this is still subtle, and would make sense, since a lot of stores have triggers so if there’s a robbery they can close the gates on them till police arrive, in this case it’s the same just Gerda is trying to get you and not have the cops come.

[undone ibex]

The other characters defences are decently normal but Gerda just kinda goes nightmare mode. This game is clearly meant to be more down to earth than the original game

Maybe there should be an alarm but all of the windows being blocked by gates and stuff and Gerda going on hard mode is a bit excessive. She's also meant to be one of the easier characters in the game

[dim wind]

Like I said before stores have these type of switches in some of them, it wouldn’t be unrealistic at all, and all you have to do is manoeuvre around her and flick the switch off.

[undone ibex]

It's just way too crazy and intense for the second enemy introduced in the game imo

[dim wind]

I guess, but none of them are meant to have certain difficulties, except the boss fight, things like the Mayors would be just as intense and IMO way worse as there would be 3 more AIs and now your in a way more tough situation.

[undone ibex]

I think that the days do get harder the farther you go in the game. For example, Gerda's stage is more complex than Neilson, but The Taxidermist is more difficult to avoid than Gerda. This culminates in the hardest enemy apart from Mr. Peterson, The Mayor, who runs faster than the other characters

[dim wind]

I guess