@SecretlySomeLightbulb, All of that would be pretty cool, yeah. The only issue is where to limit the scope. If I add options to be scared of spiders, why not centipedes as well? Scared of heights; why not oceans? Etc.

The visual effect would be really cool, but it'd not be super easy to implement, and it would probably take a ton of tuning to feel right. I'll spend my time fixing my broken mods before I add something like this.

i also think a sorta visual effect like hunters sickness / ripple amoeba damage would be cool for whenever watcher feels especially freaked out

do you think youd be able to add phobia options? like you can set it so scugs can have phobias too like spiders, dark, height, blood (ig injured creatures in that case) i think thatd be really cool

seeing the thumbnail in updated mods list made me chuckle

@Archer6676, Hopefully the issue will no longer break this mod at least; I just pushed a tiny patch for it. I haven't actually bothered to test it with Nightstriker yet, though.

can you add schizophrenia now

guess i missed that nightstriker was on

@Arcger6676, Clearly this mod is incompatible with The Nightmare custom slugcat. I should probably improve the try/catches so this kind of error at least doesn't break THIS mod, but...

...man, why on earth does The Nightmare have to use such a horrible ID.

I guess I forgot about the art, looks good though

peak art

There was no threat music playing when the overseer was there, and it started when i was in a shelter but survivor kept trying to run away from the overseer when it appeared and was hyper ventilating and everything so it was the overseer cant imagine how it had an issue though

this got art now yay!!!!

lol nvm i just read the update LOL

Will you make this for slugcats outside of watcher?

ohh this got a thumbnail now, nice

@IamMael, Yeah, I thought the thumbnail submissions were pretty good! Much better than I could have done on my own.

new thumbnail update looks nice

@TheDestroyer, Huh, that's probably a bug, because overseers aren't coded to cause fright. Was there any threat music playing?

@TheLazyCowboy1 sent ARARARR

Can you stop iggy or overseers triggering the random inputs? I was playing monk with this mod and they kept running around the room due to iggy

@SpydrrCola, Do you have a Discord? I'm TheLazyCowboy1 there as well. Or are you able to upload it as artwork on Steam, and link it here?

HIII HELLO I JUST MADE A STUPID THUMBNAIL

I already do that naturally 🙏

@FlakeFlare, If YOU want to draw a thumbnail (and it's appropriate for the mod and for any who might use it), go ahead! Even if you want to make it just a 10-minute doodle for fun, I'll probably make it the thumbnail. But only do it if you want to do it for your own fun.

@RandomReshiram, The easiest option would be to have a single checkbox like "enable slugcat-specific modifiers" and simply have all the slugcat-specific fears be hard-coded. But that would be annoying. I'm actually concerned about scope creep even for a mod as tiny as this.

This mod is amazing! I could draw a thumbnail if you want :> (for free)

maybe you could just make it a toggleable thing whether or not each slugcat has unique stronger/weaker fear to certain things. Dunno if that'd be any easier to program though...
If it helps at all I have actually been brainstorming what these variations in fear would be for each slugcat based on speculation and lore, just for fun, which I could share!

@RandomReshiram, Yeah, that might be cool to do, but I am especially concerned about the "configurable" part: Just making such things configurable per slugcat would be more work than the behaviors themselves. This mod was originally intended just for Watcher, and while I'm happy to make it apply to other slugcats if folks want, it's a lot of extra work to fine-tune it per slugcat.

Jokes aside, I think certain slugcats should have a configurable ability to have a higher fear response to certain things. For instance, saint is probably not very scared of echoes, but artificer might be very scared of them. Would be cool!

The watcher gets ptsd after watching his family get murdered simulator

@l.lplaysgames2, Hmm, that would make sense, yeah. Like just double the pup's bravery temporarily when it's being held.

please make it so that holding slugpups make them get scared less

its causing me to not be capable of using it

claims that uhh, theres a diver thingy? that has to do something w the letters or whatnot

Heh, this mod really makes you feel like you're pushing past your fears when you help lizard friend(s) from predators, just as they do for you! :D
Simple mods like these tend to make for the best mods imo!

if i remember correctly there were at least 1 or 2 broadcasts that mention him

i didnt even know erratic pulse was an iterator never mind also an iterator i knew
(sometimes my genius is.. its almost frighting ',:3)

Yeah, the base game pretty definitely indicates who Erratic Pulse is. Some neurons actually have evidence for it.

I thought Erratic Pulse was from the basegame.

Erratic Pulse we all know who you are (assuming we all played spearmaster and read related pearls)

i for like a full hour stared at this and then i finally realised erratic pulse was a username

Obviously the comment was intended as "make it so [that] dying [in real life] kills him [the Watcher]." But personally, I feel like a lot of players would be annoyed by that. Feels kinda unfair tbh...
Jk
@Erratic Pulse, Sorry that I don't understand your comment. I don't intend to mock you; I just thought it was funny. Would you like to clarify?

i personally thought it was a rather stupid comment, dying/killing yourself, same thing

dying can kill you?

erratic pulse thatd be way too difficult to add to the game, dying killing you is really difficult to code and is probably impossible to implement

this is so cool omg

make it so dying kills him

gonna enable this on my rot run that im doing lmao

@dgn, I have two main problems with that: 1. Personally, I think it would be too severe and immersion-breaking. It would require careful balancing to prevent Watcher from having a heart attack in such a way that it causes him to die "unfairly."
But more significantly: 2. It would be a lot of work to implement. The hyperventilation is about as simple as: "hyperventilation time left = 2 seconds" when Watcher is calming down from a fright. I can really only reuse behaviors and animations already in the game. I guess maybe Hunter's seizures might work? ...still, I'm lazy, lol.

toggleable

what if there was heart attacks after suffering extremely stressful moments