why no stars on lox and skeeters?

[Admiral Chowderpants]

I thought I remember seeing them in vanilla... did they remove them or did they never exist?

[Suzaku]

Not sure if it ever existed at some point, but it's always been like that for as long as I have been playing.

[Air Bear]

dont think they ever existed. there are mods that let you add stars to stuff. I've seen someone with 3 star trolls playing that mod on twitch.

I think they are not in the game because they would be so powerful that they'd always one-shot even a well geared player

[Nerevar]

no stars on wraiths aboms golems serpents either. and no. they never existed in vanilla. you remember wrong tc.

the reason for lox is simple : they spawn in packs of 3. but the game counts them as 1 monster spawn. so all 3 would spawn with 2 stars which would be a bit silly.

as for the others : no idea.

[Horemvore]

Originally posted by Nerevar:

no stars on wraiths aboms golems serpents either. and no. they never existed in vanilla. you remember wrong tc.

the reason for lox is simple : they spawn in packs of 3. but the game counts them as 1 monster spawn. so all 3 would spawn with 2 stars which would be a bit silly.

as for the others : no idea.

FYI, each Spawn of a Monster has its own check for level up. It is not group wide.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Admiral Chowderpants:

I thought I remember seeing them in vanilla... did they remove them or did they never exist?

Quite frankly, not everything needs stars-on-them-thars (Seuss-esque there)

[Wrinkly]

I also thought we got 1 and 2 star lox early on in development.

[Oakshield]

There are already lots of complaints - still, actually - about Deathsquitoes being OP.
I think that would only getting worse, knowing that a 2* Deathsquito only have to look at you to kill you......


Thorin

[Shealladh]

Originally posted by Wrinkly:

I also thought we got 1 and 2 star lox early on in development.

I thought that they were too

Originally posted by Oakshield:

There are already lots of complaints - still, actually - about Deathsquitoes being OP.
I think that would only getting worse, knowing that a 2* Deathsquito only have to look at you to kill you......

Give new meaning to the saying, "Here's looking at you kid"

I reckon they did it, not only cause they're hard, but drops more than one dart, and Lox meat is OP

[Imhotep]

Originally posted by Troppamus:

dont think they ever existed. there are mods that let you add stars to stuff. I've seen someone with 3 star trolls playing that mod on twitch.

I think they are not in the game because they would be so powerful that they'd always one-shot even a well geared player

you do not need a mod to add stars to the creatures.

"Spawn deathsquito 1 3" spawns one deathsquito with two stars.

[knighttemplar1960]

Skeeters move fast and hit hard. The only weakness you can exploit is they have low health. They are Valheim's version of a glass cannon. To save yourself you have to smash them before they can fire. A starred skeeter could not be killed by a naked character trying to recover their tombstone using an old back up bow.

Each star doubles a creatures health and increases its damage dealt by 50%. A 3 star lox would be the same as fighting a creature that has more health than the Elder that can do more damage than Moder.

[Mharr]

Given the stagger system that turns hits into unblockable kill shots depending on your relative max hp, they have to be careful with stars. The food and equipment combo needed to fight a 2* lox probably doesn't yet exist in the game.

[DougieFails]

NO 1 STAR SKEETERS, SCREW THAT!! THEY ARE EVIL ENOUGH HAHAHA

[ostlandr]

Originally posted by retsam1:

Originally posted by Admiral Chowderpants:

I thought I remember seeing them in vanilla... did they remove them or did they never exist?

Quite frankly, not everything needs stars-on-them-thars (Seuss-esque there)

Okay, now we need a mod to add Sneeches to the game!

[ostlandr]

Originally posted by Mharr:

Given the stagger system that turns hits into unblockable kill shots depending on your relative max hp, they have to be careful with stars. The food and equipment combo needed to fight a 2* lox probably doesn't yet exist in the game.

Just lost my entire herd of prize (one-star) boars to a raid. Didn't see what happened, but something wanted fresh pork bad enough to smash down the gate to the pigpen and slaughter the whole herd. RIP Ham, Bacon, Sausage, Pork Chop, and your progeny (who were going to be slaughtered anyway.)

I think the changes I just made to my base defenses changed the pathfinding when enemies come out of the adjacent Black Forest, and that put them in visual range of the pigpen.

Given how hard it was to get two trophy pigs into a pen without a harpoon, I decided to cheat myself four new boars. So I spawned them in the pigpen. I was standing in the pigpen.
Said boars did NOT spawn tamed. Even kitted out in the full Wolf armor and Drake helm, getting out of there was a challenge. They swarmed me and kept staggering me. Finally made it to the ladder.

If I'd been in my hunting outfit instead (fully upgraded Trollhide armor) I would probably have died. And my corpse would have been in the pigpen. With four very unhappy one-star boars.

[Happy]

Deathskitos I can understand not having stars, but Lox is a bit of an odd one for sure. Considering there are far more powerful creatures already with stars.

I've occasionally seen a single stray Lox by itself a few times, would be the perfect way to add starred Lox to the game. Considering they usually spawn in groups of 3.

No starred Greylings either, strangely.