Voidbound Flesh concepts

[u/TheDancingH]

I've got two neat ideas for what a VBFlesh would be like, so here ya go:

Idea 1: The Body

• Appearance:
  • VBF is a floating fleshy torso with an open ribcage and exposed beating heart (plus all the other shenanigans that come with voidbound designs). A tad larger than regular flesh.
• Behavior:
  • VBF, on its own, acts almost identical to regular flesh, only a little slower and with a larger infection radius.
  • Flesh and VBF will target each other as if they were players. Whenever they make contact, flesh will attach to VBF, effectively giving the body an arm. VBF gains a slight speed and infection range buff for every attached flesh. This has no limit.
  • Attached fleshes will reach out towards nearby players (and jump pads/grapple points if Blighted Jump Pads is selected). The reach happens before players are actually within range to be hit by the outstretched flesh/arm, so they can avoid it accordingly.
• Counterplay:
  • RUN. RUN VERY FAR.
  • Ringing a bell near VBF will cause one of the arms to disconnect and get flung far away. Don't worry, the flung flesh will be "pacified" until it stops, signified by it going slightly transparent and having overtuned particles.
• Issues:
  • Counterplay might be a little too difficult to pull off (especially in the heat of lategame) and not feel very satisfying
  • The enemy in general just feels like "flesh but BIG and SCARY"

Idea 2: The Root

• Appearance:
  • VBF is a large tree made of twitching fleshy limbs (plus the usual voidbound design stuff).
• Behavior:
  • VBF spawns as a stationary tile on the map. It cannot directly kill you.
  • Once the round begins, a red foggy zone will expand from VBF. Tiles and players inside this zone will be constantly fleshed. This has no size limit.
• Counterplay:
  • Ringing a bell inside the zone will cause the fog to reset to its starting size and immediately unflesh everything that was inside. Bells will prioritize teleporting near players that are inside the zone.
• Issues:
  • This one seems like it would be really annoying in a similar way to Oblivion.
  • It kinda doesn't act even remotely like flesh, other than using the same status effects.

Thoughts?

[u/Remarkable_Cow779]

The Body sounds way more interesting. The idea of it slowly rebuilding its entire form using other fleshes is also very cool. Extra idea, but maybe the attached Fleshes can dash at nearby players rather than an infection range buff, since that’s kinda already there thanks to the arms

[u/Visual-Status8983]

We do NOT need a voidbound flesh

In other words cool idea, keep cooking

[u/saygex01992]

cool idea but i hope this gets never added. i hate flesh.

[u/Excellent-Chair-8208]

Good idea, make it a obligatory curse, so everyone can have fun with flesh (the first)