Anyone miss the old Endworm?

[RevolverBigBosselote]

I'm not sure if this is a popular opinion or not, but I quite like the legacy design for the Endworm over its new design. The orange coloring made it stand out against the darkness of the water, and its spiky design made it appear much more threatening. The new design makes it look more tanky and durable, but doesn't have much other than its size to make it look frightening. Also, the old design resembles the Bobbit Worm, which is a real life sea creature that is genuinely terrifying. Think giant worms that hide in the sand and drag unsuspecting fish into the ground to be devoured.

But what I miss most of all is the noise. I recommend that any new players who haven't seen legacy Endworm go to its wiki and listen to the legacy sounds. They are incredible. The new sounds are scary, sure, but they aren't really unique. It just sounds like generic monster roars with some bubble effects added. But the old sounds are TERRIFYING. The muffled, echoing moaning truly does make the Endworm feel like a massive and incredibly alien creature, and nothing else in the game makes me feel so small and afraid. Genuinely amazing sound design.

This isn't really meant to be a complaint post, the new design isn't bad, its perfectly fine. But I really felt like being nostalgic for the legacy design and seeing if anyone else agrees.

[Buggy Boy]

I saw the legacy endworm sprites the other day, does indeed look rather terrifying! Is there a mod that brings those graphics and sounds back? Maybe someone could make one!

[Humphred]

Totally agree, especially about the sound design. It's much more mysterious and makes it seem more like a force of nature, which is sort of implied by the name.

Similarly, I'm split 50/50 on the charybdis redesign. I think the newer one looks way cooler, but it's also too worm-like, which means the two largest creatures are both big worms. The old eyeless tentacle-shark is just terrifying, and I think it's a better size as well.

The old-old charybdis design was okay, but it looked too much like a whale.

[Patriote]

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[RevolverBigBosselote]

Originally posted by Buggy Boy:

I saw the legacy endworm sprites the other day, does indeed look rather terrifying! Is there a mod that brings those graphics and sounds back? Maybe someone could make one!

The wiki says there's a rare variant of the Endworm called the Doomworm, which is just a bigger Endworm with more health and damage. Maybe they could replace the new Doomworm with the classic Endworm and just call it Dooomworm?

[zircon]

Originally posted by Brigadier Humphred:

Totally agree, especially about the sound design. It's much more mysterious and makes it seem more like a force of nature, which is sort of implied by the name.

Speaking of sounds, Brigadier and Revolver, since you both mentioned it.
(note that what I describe below is client-sided only, but anyone can use it)

However, if you would love the sounds to be changed, you can actually do this yourself.
Just download the legacy .ogg sound file for the endworm, rename it to the current sound file, and toss it into the according game local files folder. If I'm not mistaken, the endworm sounds are at Contents/Characters/Endworm folder, there you should see the idle/loop/attack sound files, just rename the downloaded to the ones you want to change, and replace these.
Of course you can go with a more complex route with editing .xml files, but that would probably consider the game to be "modded", and you won't be able to join in the public vanilla lobbies.
Yet if you exchange just the sound files with their original names, that should do the trick just fine for any game, or if you are a solo player, that would work as well. By doing this you can replace any sound file, for Charybdis as well, even music, such as main menu, or whichever you prefer. I wrote quite an extensive guide on this, but it is in russian I am afraid, but well if you will not be bothered by translating stuff, you are more than welcome to check it out for more details, but in a nutshell, that's how you can do it.

Again, this is client-sided only, but if you only care for the sound to change your own gaming experience for personal enjoyment, that works just fine