/tg/Station 13

Nightmares are side antags, I get that. But all their junk is rehashed from other antags.

>Darkness healing
Shadowlings (RIP)
>Darkness Laser deflection
Sleeping Carp
>Armblade
Changeling
>Shadow Jaunt
Wizard

When you get down to it, this antag does not have a single original bone in its body. It doesn't even have any objectives or thematic relevancy to its name! Thus. Here's what I think should happen

Light Eater Upgrade: Light Eaters have something in them that can wipe out any source of light, no matter what it is. When it devours light, IE an item. it should save up a charge, ala Blood Rites absorbing blood. With these charges, it should be able to do things that make it more thematic to its name.

50 Darkness Absorbed: Stalking Phantom Blast. They can toss a black orb of energy. If it hits someone, they gain the Stalking Phantom Brain Trauma. Better get to medical!

100 Darkness Absorbed: Shadowshroom Growth. in a 3x3 spread, shadowshrooms are now planted on the floortiles. Darkness, Darkness everywhere.

200 Darkness Absorbed: Race Drain. Now nightmares get a glowy hand too! Using this on a person turns them into a shadow-person. OH NO.

500 Darkness Absorbed: Power Surge. Triggers the grid check event.

Now it's still a generic antag. BUT it's a generic antag that can do cooler things then just armblade you to death!

Objective: Absorb 1200 Darkness from this station.

Bad but probably an improvement for the sole reason of actually giving nightmare an objective

remake shadowlings into grues. they are blob overmind cursors that can only see dark tiles and cant see/hover light tiles. you can bite people who you hover over for big damage. no objective, no way to be killed, just bite motherfuckers in the dark

Kel wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 11:54 am remake shadowlings into grues. they are blob overmind cursors that can only see dark tiles and cant see/hover light tiles. you can bite people who you hover over for big damage. no objective, no way to be killed, just bite motherfuckers in the dark

Honestly hell yeah

Kel wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 11:54 am remake shadowlings into grues. they are blob overmind cursors that can only see dark tiles and cant see/hover light tiles. you can bite people who you hover over for big damage. no objective, no way to be killed, just bite motherfuckers in the dark

I almost coded this for planetstation in 2017, but the code is dead along with my old account (and i'd want to rewrite it anyways)