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Elder Worms image modification
captainhunter1
Posts: 409 Arc User
Hi Dev Team,
I'd like to suggest using the foreground figure's color scheme as a universal look for nearly all Elder Worms (it's already in the game, just apply it to all Elder Worms). It would really help differentiate them from UNTIL space suits (see the Elder Worm in background) and give them a bit more menacing image.
Although, ideally, they could do with a makeover to make them stand apart even more...something like this: (I literally spent only 5 minutes making this, so it wouldn't be hard)
Thanks for your consideration!
I'd like to suggest using the foreground figure's color scheme as a universal look for nearly all Elder Worms (it's already in the game, just apply it to all Elder Worms). It would really help differentiate them from UNTIL space suits (see the Elder Worm in background) and give them a bit more menacing image.
Although, ideally, they could do with a makeover to make them stand apart even more...something like this: (I literally spent only 5 minutes making this, so it wouldn't be hard)
Thanks for your consideration!
My consolidated list of game improvements: arcgames.com/en/forums/championsonline#/discussion/1207642/my-consolidated-list-of-game-improvements
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It would be nice to give them a complete change to something really menacing - the way they should feel - but with the very limited staff CO has, its doubful that will ever happen. The first proposal (using already established, in-game colors) could at least be accomplished to get them away from the terrible white spacesuit look.
That white-clad worm man looks like he believes he's bravely adventuring forth to advance the scientific knowledge of his people. And if that means dissecting some humans, he doesn't view that as wrong any more than I'd be troubled by cutting open a frog in science class.
The black, spiky guy you proposed looks like someone who ties damsels to railroad tracks for no adequately explained reason.
Really, I think the basic suit just needs to include the accent color in more places than the head. Like so:
Then again, in China, white is the color associated with death. Perhaps it's just a matter of perspective.
Same old terrible NASA look. lol!
I think maybe we ought to have a forum costume contest - everyone send in what they might like the Elder Worms to look like.
Well yeah, I said I like the NASA look, didn't I?
I'd love to see some other takes on the elder worms, as long as they're not just redder/blacker/spikier.
Yeah, but doesn't the lore also give these “worms” arms and legs? I like my head-cannon, where there's 25 feet of worm coiled up in the suit's torso, and they have an alien mindset that doesn't conform to our notions of good and evil.
Yeah, I remember watching an anime set in Europe where a character was all set to be buried in a white dress, but another character insisted on changing it to a red dress because that was her favorite color. I thought to myself “good, the white one looked like a wedding dress.” But one of the characters objected to the red dress, saying “it looks like a wedding dress.”
I do like the PnP version's "humidity suit," though. It looks structurally alien, and the colors are more ominous. (Sorry for the convoluted link to the image below -- I couldn't get it to work any other way.)
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They advocate a different ethical perspective to humans but this does not mean they don't cast themselves as heroes, seeking to restore what they perceive to be the proper order.
A Prootwaddle is one of the weirder player-character races in "The Fantasy Trip", Steve Jackson's first published role-playing game.
By the same token, human sport hunters, or those who hunt for food, don't see themselves as evil. But to an animal with sapience they would be terrifying monsters who strike from hiding without warning and from a great distance, leaving them no chance to escape or defend themselves.
I see where the Devs were going with their Elder Worm physical change from humanoid worms to true worms - it's a much more alien effect. But then they defeated that entire change by... putting them right back in humanoid astronaut suits! (I realize the game engine really cant do non-humanoids).
I think the Elder Worms themselves are pretty menacing as an end-game foe (worm or humanoid versions) - it's the terrible coloring of the suits they wear that makes them laughable. Please, please go with the canon colors shown in the link above. It's a VAST improvement and would really make them stand out better as enemies.
Or maybe go with a more Ao'Qephoth look....
(WARNING: Fake techno babble incoming)
Reverberating Gravitational Harmonics to do away with cumbersome leg appendages and just hover over obstacles as the move.
The suit also uses a Self-Contained Reciprocating Magnetic Field to allow for mentally controlled functioning hands that are not restricted by an attached arm. Rather they stay connected to the suit via extendable tubing that contains the magnetic field.
I altered the colors to a more Earthy feel, since I always pictured them as super intelligent earth worms.
I too am a big fan of the 'worm coiled up in a enclosure' concept (see my 'robot suit' in the OP). I love the legless/hoversuit look and the coloring is great! This really does make them look a lot more alien (and menacing). This would be a terrific replacement for what we have in-game right now.
I see where the Devs were going with their Elder Worm physical change from humanoid worms to true worms - it's a much more alien effect. But then they defeated that entire change by... putting them right back in humanoid astronaut suits! (I realize the game engine really cant do non-humanoids).
I think the Elder Worms themselves are pretty menacing as an end-game foe (worm or humanoid versions) - it's the terrible coloring of the suits they wear that makes them laughable. Please, please go with the canon colors shown in the link above. It's a VAST improvement.
I see where the Devs were going with their Elder Worm physical change from humanoid worms to true worms - it's a much more alien effect. But then they defeated that entire change by... putting them right back in humanoid astronaut suits! (I realize the game engine really cant do non-humanoids).
I think the Elder Worms themselves are pretty menacing as an end-game foe (worm or humanoid versions) - it's the terrible coloring of the suits they wear that makes them laughable. Please, please go with the canon colors shown in the link above. It's a VAST improvement and would really make them stand out better as enemies.