Infested Lore And Dynamics

[Jamescell]

Hi everyone reading, BEAR WITH ME on this one, I know it's long and I've added many of my ideas, but the pirpose is to have a brainstorming session for alterations to the infested host. You can skip through my ideas, skim hem, or just. Post your own views, have at it. This is my third post, and I have some ideas and feedback on the infested, and am hoping you guys have thoughts of your own, my posts going forward are going to be open minded brainstorming posts on ideas I've thought of for the game. The first time I fought infested I was scared out of my mind, and I still get a little uncomfortable on those eerie abandoned mining ship levels, but after countless exploits to Oro for rubedo farming, I've really gotten tired of their mechanism, I love the nerve racking feeling of realizing there are too many of them, and you have to run back down the hallway or your screwed, but really they only have two different sprites used to make up the whole swarm, the infested dog and the infested corpus miner, all units in the infested swarm are one of those two models just different colors. Here's my list of what needs to be improved: The corpus model should only be used on infested corpus missions. There should be an alternative for grineer, and new models for ancients and runners. Ancient healers should be much slower, and resemble more of a giant flesh heap, their heal should be more effective, used more often with a wider range. Runners shouldn't be orange just because they explode, rather the same colors as the infested dog skin, and have visible sac growths on their skin that explode one by one, rather than a large explosion. The leaper should also have its own more organic and less corpus based feel, having legs that have one more joint than a human leg, bending backwards to show its ability to leap, and also there needs to be a fix to where when leaders jump, they don't stay on top of your head, gravity should affect them as well. Also there needs to be variation in the models, since infested aren't clones of eachother, aren't robots made from the same molds, and are t wearing any armor to take their individuality away, there should be at least 3 variants to each unit. For the dog unit, a longer neck, and a more defined animal like face would be ideal, with a change to the color of its shell, so that it doesn't make the infested a swarm of rainbow mutants, and maybe bulkier arms, I find it hard to believe that that unit can do so much damage with the physique it currently has, maybe it should bite? For disrupters they should be similar to their current model, but without the wierd box head, and instead a more animal/organic based head for a creature, it should be a little bulkier in the arms, and. Have some sharp growths comig from the arms, allowing you to believe it can do the damage it does in game, it's hands could be infested cannon/gun barrels for it to shoot disruption. Crawlers should have more teacherous backs, and their arms should be bulky because they pull themselves along for a living, their backs should trail of into a heap of spikes, no need for legs, or maybe tentacles. The vomit crawler shouldn't completely disable you, but snare to instead, spewing out goo on the floor in an area, also improve the animation, and give them a much bigger gaping mouth. Finally on to the toxic ancients and the golem, the toxic ancients need a completely new model that

Has sores or pores where the toxic vapor oozes, and is more weighed down by the fluids it caries, much more bent over. The golem needs to be unique, not just an ancient with unique abilities, but maybe a more overgrown monster, multiple arms? Don't really have much on him but he needs to be unique, being the only significant infestation boss there is.

[Kohira]

Use paragraphs please.

[Minotaur0407]

real good ideas if someone could make some kind of sketch of this it would be awesome, but 1 thing of this is that golem is getting a new skin or whatever its called here today or tomorrow i think, but i like your ideas and hope they read them and listen.

[Mossheart]

I think they are slowly going to do this starting with the boss, Golem. Hopefully that continues down the line and the infested corpus are just temporary in terms of using them for every mob in the infested faction.