///////////////-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Goliath Dire Spider sweet and short: The Goliath Dire Spider Is a race of giant Reverse engineered spiders, which were blown off their home world and live scattered across the universe in hives and nests underground. you as the player encounter it in that nest and must fight it as you try to escape it's nasty attacks. and as a reward you might get some sick loot, or maybe a new companion perhaps? -------------------------------------------------- Concept sketch Encountering Story/Origin Potential Environments and Locations Movement, Behavior and Attacks Health and Armor Unique Boss Variation Idea Drops, loot and potential pet reward -------------------------------------------------------- Original post- 29/07/13 21:14 Updated encountering- Updated Drops, loot and potential pet reward- 30/07/13 23:13 (this is in +01 CET 24 hour based time) Concept sketch Encountering you hover over a planet, as your computer picks up an underground anomaly, of a large portion of ground having scrambled scans, implying it might be a base worth investigating. As you beam down you notice that the planet has a large amount of bones, being weary You begin to walk across the planet, however unlike usual, you don't encounter very many of the wildlife, and a lot of the different types of life seems to begin to decimate as you get closer to something... Then, in front of you a horrific scene unfolds, a small ship is torn in half and the back end of it is dragged into a cave, although you don't see the perpetrator aside from a large metal blade. However outside you see a dying robot in agony. It tells you to escape, coughing and wheezing before he dies by powering down, leaking various strange acids. Despite the robots advice you pursue the perpetrator down a massively long tunnel, there are multiple small spiders that seem to scurry at the site of you, as you go further down the tunnel path, you near the core of the planet, with massive temperatures. after some trekking you enter a massive cave system, and walk for a bit, before you see it, right in front of you, a massive robotic spider, it turns around to face you and lets out a mind numbing screech. to which you begin to run from it through the tunnel, being chased you try to shoot it with little to no success. As you maneuver your way through the tunnels and up, you run outside, and that's when you see it in full view. Chasing you out the hole is a massive Reverse engineered Dire spider, with 8 blade like legs, a massive freeze cannon and an acid cannon where it's mouth is. it's size exceeds you by far and it seems to be angry at you. you take one brief look at it before it raises it's two front legs and charges at you. Story/Origin Potential The Dire Spider was a species of giant arachnids that thrived on a planet in relative peace, or as much peace as a predator has. however an advanced race thought that they could be re-purposed, and they were reverse engineered to serve as mining rigs, the advanced race had changed the basic structure of their exoskeleton, making it much more resistant to temperatures, which could resist temperatures warmer than 3000 degrees. it's eyes were replaced with high powered organic optics, which could see crystal clear at 500 meters. Their minds were also strengthened to prevent any difficulty in issuing orders. Things such as their venom and webbing were replaced by other environmental based mining tools. All these changes to their basic DNA made them serve as excellent and efficient miners while still remaining biological creatures. These reversed engineered dire spiders became known as Goliath Dire spiders, due to being slightly larger and far more powerful. However as time passed the strengthened intelligence allowed them to grow self aware, before long they began going rampant and rebelling against the foreigners. The Goliath Dire spiders where trapped onto world which they originated from, and shortly after the world was destroyed. However not all of the Goliath dire spiders died from the explosion, and were scattered around the universe. Through there new DNA structure they were capable of reproducing without mates, on the worlds the survivors lived on they produced descendants They often were only alone, and few were in pairs. However their descendants grew slowly and steadily, and were very prone to danger. The remaining Goliath Dire spiders then used their mining capabilities to make heavily fortified hives and nests on the worlds they lived on, while serving as guardians to protect their offspring from a similar fate. Environments and Locations. The Mechanical Dire spider spawns on planets where there is prey for it to eat. there would have to be large creatures or a very large amount of food for it, the planet would also have to be rich in certain carbon or energy based minerals. they can only be located at the heart of their nest however, and the player must travel to the core of the hive to encounter the Goliath dire spiders. Movement, Behavior and Attacks. The spider moves on it's massive 8 legs, and will use them to scale across the landscape, aswell as up walls and cliffs. The Goliath dire spider has 5 forms of attack. Melee-It uses it's blade like legs to try and jab the player for medium-high damage -When it is not doing this it uses all 8 legs to move and has an increased speed. Ranged-It can shoot acid/venom at the player, which will then have a damage over time effect if it hits, and slows the player slightly. Ranged-The massive Coolant cannon on its abdomen can fire a freeze bomb, freezing the player for a few seconds. -it only uses this if the player is out of acid and melee range Melee-If the player doesn't/cannot move it will then proceed to attempt to bite them for heavy damage. -This is also a window for the player to hit the spider in the mouth to deal high damage and cause it to stagger. Melee/AoE- the spider jumps up high and stomps, if landing on the player it creates heavy damage, if not it sends out a shockwave which throws the player. Health and Armor The Goliath Dire Spider would have a heavy set of armor, which would be resistant towards most projectiles and lasers, as well as different temperatures. it would, however, be significantly weaker to weapons that used electricity or acid (note how the acid the spider uses is in it's glands/storage, and not on it's body). The Dire spider, due to it's enemy class have a high amount of health. Unique boss Variation Idea this version of the Goliath dire spider would be much tougher, stronger and more dangerous, serving as a late-game boss. it would be encountered in a similar hangar, hanging on the ceiling before pursuing you. and has similar or different attacks. and i was thinking it's name could be Tuna. Tribute to my pet house spider of the same name. Drops, loot and potential pet reward. The dire spider itself would drop a large amount of metals and different ores, as well as various weapons, tech or armor it has eaten from travelers. Then after killing it the player could return to the hive's core to find more precious minerals and ores, as well as other riches. Perhaps a log that explains the lore of their past? To access the loot the player would need to carve it out of a large web sack. Potentially the player could also take a Goliath Dire spider egg, and incubate it aboard their ship, this could then later become two things: -A spider launcher which shoots a smaller G.D.S. at enemies, and the spider returns to you after being shot. OR -A growing pet, which you would be able to potentially reverse engineer to become more powerful and equip for combat, or maybe make it a pack mule, or a small mining rig. Things you could upgraqde or change could be stuff like it's ice cannon's freeze duration, acid spit's over time damage, melee attack damage, mining speed or armor strength and likes. you could potentially also add different objects or weapons to it, giving it all sorts of attachments ranging from a portable crafting table, to a large force field it can deploy in combat or a Friggen LAZER!!!!!!
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Updated "Encountering" by changing the first part a bit, and "Drops, loot and potential pet reward" by adding a bit more to the pet idea.
