New friendly creature idea

[zEx]

I have an idea for a friendly creature. The main idea is:

This creature is lonely and likes to chase cremates in outside area but it is just dumb. Kinda like a pet.

Behavior:
At line of sight when it sees a crewmate they become its friend and the creature will chase them everywhere and stays outside behind doors when the crewmate goes in.

Now for some gameplay around it:
It can randomly make a noise every now and then, the sound can help crewmates to find the person or the opposite and put them in trouble with the blind dogs and gets eaten by the blind dog or causes you to get eaten.
You can lose them with only going through a door and exiting another door.

Another idea around it is if you die while you are being chased by your pet, it will stand next to where you died and makes a sad noise so everyone will know you died just hearing it.

The idea is having a pet like creature in this harsh environment to help you keep going but the pet itself is just makes you feel sad cause its lonely looking for love from anyone.

If anyone likes the idea and wants to expand it we can discuss it here.

[White]

can you keep him

[Mac]

Unfortunately, this kind of creature doesn't work because of the dogs, having a creature follow a player, especially into the ship is just, bad game design, this has been shown to be silly with the cats mod.

It would be better if the creature instead chases away baboon hawks and hides/lays down if it sees a dog/giant as a visual indication that a dog/giant is nearby.

If its a creature that spawns inside, it makes a borking sound if it sees a brachen and stays quiet and hides if it sees a spider/blob/loot bug, so if you see the bork bork hiding, you know a monster recently passed by the borker recently, hearing its distant bork will let you know there is a brachen, somewhere over in that direction.

If the brachen sees the bork bork several times, it'll kill the blighter for ruining its fun LUL

[zEx]

Originally posted by Mac:

Unfortunately, this kind of creature doesn't work because of the dogs, having a creature follow a player, especially into the ship is just, bad game design, this has been shown to be silly with the cats mod.

It would be better if the creature instead chases away baboon hawks and hides/lays down if it sees a dog/giant as a visual indication that a dog/giant is nearby.

If its a creature that spawns inside, it makes a borking sound if it sees a brachen and stays quiet and hides if it sees a spider/blob/loot bug, so if you see the bork bork hiding, you know a monster recently passed by the borker recently, hearing its distant bork will let you know there is a brachen, somewhere over in that direction.

If the brachen sees the bork bork several times, it'll kill the blighter for ruining its fun LUL

My main idea behind it was being a dumb pet that it's too cute to leave it alone and too dangerous to keep it, this is why I said randomly making noises and not always, so you'll have the fear of your pet making a sound but it might just not.

I wasn't thinking of the creature as help to crewmates, more of a double edge sword as most things in game.

[zEx]

Originally posted by White:

can you keep him

I don't think taking it with you is an easy thing to do and better not to. Same as Steve in Deep Rock Galactic, you have to leave it behind.

[White]

Originally posted by zEx:

Originally posted by White:

can you keep him

I don't think taking it with you is an easy thing to do and better not to. Same as Steve in Deep Rock Galactic, you have to leave it behind.

Wait you mean bosco or have i not met steve yet

[White]

also hear me out, what about something like no mans sky and you can buy treats for like 30 credits to give animals and they would have different reactions.

this monster would start liking and helping you by leading dogs away and stuff

brackens would be insulted and snap your neck

thumpers would leave you alone for a while

slimes would take a while to digest it

lootbugs will give you their most expensive item or look for one

spore lizard would chase you and be curious

jesters would catch it and throw it away

snare fleas will go for that and start mauling it to easily kill it

ghost girl would immediatly attack

dogs would look for it and sniff it and as long as you don't touch it it won't care

spiders would let you walk near and through the webs

baboon hawks will eat it and look for a monster to fight like dogs or giants

everything else won't care

[zEx]

Originally posted by White:

Originally posted by zEx:

I don't think taking it with you is an easy thing to do and better not to. Same as Steve in Deep Rock Galactic, you have to leave it behind.

Wait you mean bosco or have i not met steve yet

Not Bosco, there is a perk that you can convert basic spiders, any spider converted will be named Steve.

[zEx]

Originally posted by White:

also hear me out, what about something like no mans sky and you can buy treats for like 30 credits to give animals and they would have different reactions.

this monster would start liking and helping you by leading dogs away and stuff

brackens would be insulted and snap your neck

thumpers would leave you alone for a while

slimes would take a while to digest it

lootbugs will give you their most expensive item or look for one

spore lizard would chase you and be curious

jesters would catch it and throw it away

snare fleas will go for that and start mauling it to easily kill it

ghost girl would immediatly attack

dogs would look for it and sniff it and as long as you don't touch it it won't care

spiders would let you walk near and through the webs

baboon hawks will eat it and look for a monster to fight like dogs or giants

everything else won't care

This is a nice idea, maybe can be used with traps or mines to even destroy some creatures.