Mimics please!!!!!

[HG Redemption]

You should add a mimic. It could copy inputs from people and repeat them, or it could just look like a player and wander around. Would be epic

[pugdogg55]

At first I thought you meant a crate of bottles or jar of pickles that sprouts legs and sprints at you when you approach it

both fun ideas

[Germeister]

what would also be cool is a mimic of doors. Like a fake Fire Exit door that kills you if you try to exit through it

[I'm cucked]

God. This is EXACTLY what I just thought of.

[Kmaxx]

Whoa I was just telling this to my friends this would be awesome. Some sort of shapeshifter that copies the look/held item of a crew member and either follows or just wanders the map.

To take it a step further (if even possible), could have the game recording the audio of people's mics, and then have the mimics occasionally play back brief audio clips.

[KingTiger435]

I agree tbh, although I'm worried it might be OP in these small corridors, unless there was a "tell" that could give it away.
definitely a big fan of this idea though, was thinking of it while I was playing with friends too

[Pixel]

Originally posted by KingTiger435:

I agree tbh, although I'm worried it might be OP in these small corridors, unless there was a "tell" that could give it away.
definitely a big fan of this idea though, was thinking of it while I was playing with friends too

I think the "tell" would be it not responding to you. It could even occasionally make a weird noise too. Also the shape shifting animation could take a little bit so its possible to catch him in the act. I think to be less OP it can't just attack you immediately. There needs to be something that happens to give the player a chance. Like maybe it doesn't walk up to you and only attacks if you come to it? Just a few thoughts.

[Not Rawr]

Originally posted by Germeister:

what would also be cool is a mimic of doors. Like a fake Fire Exit door that kills you if you try to exit through it

I couldn't think of a more lame way of dying. What a great way to make people want to quit.

[avl]

Would love to see this idea.

It would be hard for the developers to implement this though. There are a lot of privacy laws surrounding users data, especially users voices. Just keep that in mind.

[Asclepiust]

Originally posted by HG Redemption:

it could just look like a player and wander around. Would be epic

Without voice copying stuff seems a nice idea.
It can lure 1 guy to a random far room (something like flower guy with corpses)
If player stays alone/far away from other teammates near mimic - it acts similar to bracken => instakill

[Hootin Harold]

Originally posted by avl:

Would love to see this idea.

It would be hard for the developers to implement this though. There are a lot of privacy laws surrounding users data, especially users voices. Just keep that in mind.

if they did theoretically do this they would likely have it all run through the clientside part of the game, then after the lobby closes code a program to delete the files
(ie a copy of their voice is saved to every players local computer temporarily for playback, short mp3 recordings are small anyways so it wouldnt impact anyone)
even if someone did grab those files for whatever reason you could do the same with any recording software

if you wanted to elaborate on the idea a little further it could have an optional opt-in for it to periodically save some of your voice lines to use in other lobbies, which i think personally would be really cool to spice it up a bit (so its not just repeating things you already said to your current teammates previously)

[makor444]

+1

[HG Redemption]

Originally posted by avl:

Would love to see this idea.

It would be hard for the developers to implement this though. There are a lot of privacy laws surrounding users data, especially users voices. Just keep that in mind.

yeah would probably have to have an "opt-in" message that people can accept or decline

[HG Redemption]

Originally posted by pugdogg55:

At first I thought you meant a crate of bottles or jar of pickles that sprouts legs and sprints at you when you approach it

both fun ideas

that would also be hilarious lol

[NESlowww..]

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[Your Gothic Deer Maid]

had the saaaame thought while playing, would make for great spooks. see another friend down the hall, get paranoid if that's really them or not as they run down the hall. you call out their name but they don't respond. you either stand there and die or run. i can see players trolling others running at them quietly like that too. imagine they don't kill you right away either. they just follow you for a bit, run alongside you and hang with you to think they're a friend, have player movements like looking behind them occasionally to put you off guard until it decides the right time to just off you. gives you time to run for an exit if you suspect it's a mimic