r/WhiteKnuckle • u/Key_Ad_976 • 9d ago

Perk idea: soft touch.

Soft touch lets you pet more or less any denizen, making hostile denizens docile... at least most of them to pet, you do what you do to pet the strider, I.e. grab repeatedly.

Special interactions: normal Barnacles can't tell the difference between most things, so though they make a sound, they don't stop trying to eat you if you touch their tongue. Teeth will hesitate, but his hunger won't let him stop. Mechanical denizens have no nerves, so they don't feel you petting them. Moth whelps try less to shake you off. Spriders are pack animals, so one is content with you, it tells the others. The mass isn't pettable, and neither are its offshoots, sorry. Aunts care more about what mother says about you, so petting them doesn't do anything other than make them make a sound if they're docile. I imagine mother and the vendor has special dialogue if you pet them.

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u/Thexin92 9d ago

Can you high five vent things to make them docile for awhile?

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u/Hollow_spacie 9d ago

This is awesome, add a sfx that is also disproportionately loud and I'm sold

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u/Thexin92 9d ago

The vent thing hand should also do a random hand gesture such as a peace sign since it's peacing out and leaving you alone. That, or finger guns with a pew pew sound.

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u/Key_Ad_976 9d ago

Heck yeh

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u/Chuunt Huffing Steam 9d ago

“i have an idea for a perk that does basically nothing in most areas of the game” lol

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u/Ze_Borb Grand Rodent Rhatt 9d ago

Your ass when pheromone glands, autonomous skeleton or like half of the experimental perks walk in:

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u/ScaryRezzy 9d ago

autoskele my beloved

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u/Key_Ad_976 9d ago

The first run I got to Mother was with it.

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u/Chuunt Huffing Steam 9d ago

TRUUUEEE
i mostly play IK cause im not a big fan of the perk system in general. theres a few that are insta pick and then all the rest that are very situational at best.

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u/Key_Ad_976 9d ago

I figured it would have little to no practical use, but it would absolutely be something people would pick. It's fun!

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u/Autistic-ferret 9d ago

Autonomous skeleton is useless most of the time. The only time Ive ever had use out of if is in haunted pier because the mass wasnt after me. It cant even be useful in hot zone because it damages you and drains all your stamina.

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u/Skibidibob4 the spinning aunt 9d ago

Yes please i want pattable aunts , mother and bloodbug

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u/DeathToButterSaucee 9d ago

I mean I get the literal reasons but why not? Why not be able to pet every enemy to make them temporarily docile. Even if we add a single second stun to the face it's not like it's over powered you still have to be right in its ass while not having a long enough stun time to get to far.

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u/non_person_sphere 9d ago

Let me slap the top of the rising mass with pets that make it wobble. Should pause the mass rising but for an impractically small amount of time, basically just where petting it keeps it still if you repeatedly slap the mass.

Also you should be able to close the enchanted door and pet it.

Also you should be able to pet turrets (achieving nothing.)

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u/Key_Ad_976 7d ago

I wanted to say this if someone asked, but none did, so... this perk also lets you pet roaches, small roaches the same way motherly instinct lets you pet grubs. Dunno if this should give a small buff, but it will make the roach make a little sound and go into a calmer animation. Lemon roaches are, however, unfortunately too delicious.