Horror gamemode

[eager pelican]

Possibility of a solely FPS gamemode, a few humans are trapped in some sort of station, maybe an orbital station, an abandoned mining plant on Baltarus, either works. Add in alien npcs and players to turn it into a horror game. Humans have to survive with limited ammo, different mechanics, and no lights. Maybe these aliens are different then the normal ones, to make them seem more dangerous and scary, give a better horror element. Kinda like Alien Isolation, what are our thoughts?

[cloud jolt]

Sounds interesting. Would need to see all the mechanics needed for it be made first tho. Might only be seen campaign or workshop release version tho.

What might make this particular game mode stand out, other than theme, in relation to similar plays of the same type.

[modern berry]

Adjust the prospecting gamemode into that perhaps?

[tribal sluice]

Could be a fun gamemode but maybe we see something like this in the campaign.

[untold zodiac]

just add a nest far off and let the AI bug send in units slowly. or just crabs, and every time it send one more crab

in prospecting mode that is.

the horror of more and more crabs every wave is horror enough, and knowing the only way out is to ALT f4 and fail....

[eager pelican]

Prospecting gamemode is a good little tutorial thing though, would just be bette to make a new one

[eager pelican]

Perhaps different type of aliens?

[eager pelican]

Reasonable

But the aspect of being stuck in some dark station certainly gives a better horror aspect then being lost in the very vast desert

Or maybe being stuck in some alien hive beneath the surface of the desert

[dense badger]

Just go play alien isolation.

I don’t understand why people want to turn silica into every other game besides silica.

Strategy mode should be the near absolute focus of all development, with campaigns and whatever else the dev wants to pursue being secondary.

Be honest, you wouldn’t play this game mode more than like 10 times.

Because it would just be a half baked version of alien isolation which had an entire team of developers behind it tasked specifically with making a phenomenal alien horror game.

Yes it would be cool, but is that what you really want in this game?

[modern berry]

So real. I understand people wanna play this like an RTS but lets be real. This is an RTS with quite honestly weak FPS mechanics. 2 genres is hard enough.

[dense badger]

Let’s make it alien isolation and planetside 2 and battlezone and Fortnite and uh let’s copy all the Zerg from StarCraft 2 as aliens and

[untold zodiac]

i think of it as expanding opertunites. will all these wacky ideas pan out? no. BUT are least they where put on the board and thought of a lil bit. This is a game all its own. something new with FPS and COmmander RTS/FPS and stired around. why not try and toss in some other ingerdiants and see what happens.

[tribal sluice]

Campaign is something Dram wants to do after all things are done, if he can't do it. I think he said he would release the script of it so people can make their own interpretation. What is the issue my man? This is just a random idea which the OP could make as a mod with some rather simple changes to the scripting and some map placement, chill.

[eager pelican]

^

[eager pelican]

Yah I think it’d be really neat

[modern berry]

These concepts are usually thought of and planned out in the design phase. Doing what you people are doing in active development is called scope creep and is why games kinda suck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_creep

[exotic yacht]

The prospect mode seems like it would fit the bill easy. You could easily do cave prospecting, and with aliens running around on the roof it'd be plenty scary.

[eager pelican]

It’s called a general ideas forum for the game

[eager pelican]

Very real

[modern berry]

If the ideas are not aligned with overall game vision or are just stupid that falls under scope creep

[eager pelican]

What’s the overall game vision exactly

Doesn’t that include updating prospecting mode and adding a campaign version?

I mean I see no reason why they couldn’t have horror aspects in either of those versions

And I’m also curious do you see all general ideas like this one stupid because you don’t see them falling under the games ideal vision lol

It seems counter productive

If I’m correct I’d say this general ideas forum is suggestions for the devs to possibly add into the game, from small unit bugs to updating entire game modes

If the devs didn’t want threads like these as you say they’d just remove the forum

[tribal sluice]

The problem with horror things in games is that most of them don't really work in my opinion. Only thing that makes me scared is when I'm getting stressed out, otherwise? nah.

Things hiding in the dark don't work for me, low ammo don't work either. blood and gore just makes me laugh. I think AAA studios are having hard time doing good horror games already because horror games needs an emotional attachemet.

[coral pelican]

dead space deffinitly captured a good horror aspect and to replicate somthing like that would take ALOT of time

[dense badger]

So glad you posted this, I knew there was a term for what I’ve been thinking.

[dense badger]

This can be pasted in half the threads here.

[tribal sluice]

Yeah

[south swift]

I do gotta admit a whole bunch of players trapped in a base with a crab and no weapons is scary

[obtuse nebula]

does everything eventually evolve into a crab?

[coral pelican]

maybe have like avast tunnel system that can be very cramped for fps players? that crabs can walk all over the walls and cielings ?

[faint prairie]

I think a horror game mode should be prospector inside and abondoned Bloody Building fighting Bloody crabs by yourself (crabs are Also 1.5X faster) and when they get you they jumpscare you