Freeplay Mode Idea - Slave Maker Ants' return

[Imperatordavius]

One of my favorite if not frustrating challenges during the black ant missions was the Slave Maker ants, having them steal larvae while dealing with the roaches 'and' expanding was difficult, so i was thinking, why not have Slave Maker Ants return as like a toggleable challenge during the first freeplay map.

They could spawn from the same tunnel that the wave bugs spawn from when they attack the colony, and much like the wave bugs, spawn in massive numbers. Half of the slave makers would make a dash for the larvae, while the others attack. It would add some new challenges and would make for an interesting foe while batling the other bugs~!

What about your thoughts?

[raymond2500]

that would be asum

[Immortalits]

It would be interesting, yes, but with the current difficulty food scalings, they would straight up kill you around 150% just because there aren't enough ubers spawning yet, but the enemies already drop no food practically, so even more things to deal with, that rovides ant losses and even long term combat power reduction is quite demanding.
Also with multipple enemy types interacting with each other in freeplay, already has issues with these scenarios.
There are a lot of things, that needs rethinking before making them more complicated again.
My wall of text about reworking gathering mechnanics into an immobilization mechanic is actually a way of reducing the massive swarm of enemies by giving the game itself a way of making things harder without increasing the number of enemies.
Ah, and the current 'endgame balance' mechanics around food also needs a huge rework to make it relism based instead of just being a riddiculous resource dump in case of brood expansion, while food income is reduced to insignificant ammounts.

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i wanna play as them

[raymond2500]

Originally posted by Soldat Crabbo:

i wanna play as them

me too