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Revan

Jul 7, 2015 @ 12:23am

Any plans for Horny? The Horned Reaper?

Where is the WFTO version of Horny the Horned Reaper? He was the greatest icon in the DK universe it only seems fitting you make a WFTO version in this game!

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nutter666

Jul 7, 2015 @ 2:17am

Hi Revan, first of all this isn't Dungeon Keeper 3.

EA Owns the rights to dungeon keeper, and it's characters, including the horned reaper. So he will never be in WFTO, he just can't be.

That being said, we do have a powerful (but short tempered) unit of our own, in the Vampire, who can be summoned via a ritual (The Summon Vampire ritual), requiring 3 living sacrifices.

He is essentially the same kind of risk/reward mechanic as the horned reaper, he's pretty powerful but get's angry easily if he's not kept well fed (he feeds on the blood on prisoners or KO'd units, etc) and if he gets angry.. he will attack your own minions or even your core (you really don't want that!)

Revan

Jul 7, 2015 @ 3:23am

Originally posted by nutter666:
Hi Revan, first of all this isn't Dungeon Keeper 3.

EA Owns the rights to dungeon keeper, and it's characters, including the horned reaper. So he will never be in WFTO, he just can't be.

That being said, we do have a powerful (but short tempered) unit of our own, in the Vampire, who can be summoned via a ritual (The Summon Vampire ritual), requiring 3 living sacrifices.

He is essentially the same kind of risk/reward mechanic as the horned reaper, he's pretty powerful but get's angry easily if he's not kept well fed (he feeds on the blood on prisoners or KO'd units, etc) and if he gets angry.. he will attack your own minions or even your core (you really don't want that!)

Thanks for the tip I knew you could not actually make Horny I was saying different "version" or "Variant". But I did not know the vampire was a character like that. I have beat all the missions and I never had one in my army. I will try it out now thanks!

Last edited by Revan; Jul 7, 2015 @ 3:23am

nutter666

Jul 7, 2015 @ 7:42am

Originally posted by Revan:
I will try it out now thanks!

We just did a balance pass on him, he used to be too weak/under powered.. now he might be a little too Overpowered.. so be careful you don't make him mad. Put it this way, if he was in the Arena with a Horned Reaper... i'd be betting my money on the vampire.

runemaster has War for the Overworld

Jul 8, 2015 @ 6:50am

Yes, I tried the "new" Vampire recently...it's a one-man army :D
I wouldn't mind if he was a little weaker (just a little :P), but wouldn't go for blood all that often. Or maybe if he doesn't immidiately kill a prisoner when feeding.

But this also shouldn't be "exploitable" like: Letting him feed and then simply heal the prisoner.
Maybe the Vampire could feed 2-3 times on a single prisoner, but then cast some kind of "status" on that prisoner, so he can't be healed or released out of prison.

Just a thought.

But so far, I like the current Vampire :)

nutter666

Jul 8, 2015 @ 9:03am

We basically had 2 options for making him stronger, and ended up combining both.. so yes he's pretty much a one man army killing machine right now and will probably need toning down (a little) at some point in the future.

In terms of him feeding, it would be a lot messier mechanically if the unit he attacked was allowed to live, especially since he feeds on KO'd units too.

Last edited by nutter666; Jul 8, 2015 @ 9:04am