After Christmas :: Super Scrake

Thanks to the awesomeness of synonyms you could also pick from words like these for names: -

Carnage, Slaughter, Butcher, Massacre .... or perhaps a MasserScrake, or something like a Scricer (Slicer) or Lacerake (Lacerate)

Can't wait!!! is it gonna be stronger then the fleshpounder??

Dunno why but Maul reminds me of Predator Concrete Jungle , oh wait maybe cause it was a melee weapon of the Predator

Also , it'll be damn fun if he runs out of gas and throws the chainsaw at you.

Darkwave [ARG] got his head pinned to a wall by the Mauler

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( Whatever is its name)

Ah that would be epic , but it would be unbalanced and may took a long time to do the animations so , It will remain as a suggestion.

PS : Nice job skinning , modelling and making animations. I hope TWI approves this Mini Boss mutator

Keep on the good work lad

I have but one response to seeing this ingame...

how long till its finished?? I want it lol.

I wouldn't mind testing it, if you need help.

Hemi said:

No idea when this will be released...were taking it slow cous we want to do this good.

Official site :

http://www.mostimpressive.nl/TheMaul/

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If you're really going all-out on this thing, similar to The Brute, might I suggest you scale its size up slightly? Not a lot.

I do realize this would require a new rag doll or else it will shrink upon dying, but I just think if it's a Mini-boss it should be larger in stature than a normal Scrake.

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If you're open to ideas for Special-Attacks, you could allow The Maul to throw one of his chainsaws, like an Insta-kill crossbow bolt, and have it spawn a new Chainsaw upon ending travel.

Basically, the Maul would replenish the Attack by picking up Chainsaws, whether it be his or one carelessly left on the ground, although he cannot exceed 2 (one on each hand). The reason for making it Insta-Kill would be the fact it has no splash damage, but it would penetrate infinitely

(It would not need infinite travel distance, maybe he can only throw it 10 or 20 feet, just the penetration could in theory kill everyone if they're foolish enough to line up)


Edit: Another idea, rather than throwing the Chainsaws, would be the ability to sling one or both of them outwards like a Yo-Yo, then have it retract back to its locked position.

I think of the maul as something stronger then the fleshpounder like almost patriarch hp but without the chainguns and rockets just a super specimen.

Is it possible to stun this bad boy? If he ends up knocked about like the patty when someone auto-aa12s him this could be over quick... But the thing looks awesome. I love the rusty beaten metal look.

The way this thing sounds, you could replace patty with it. Are you trying to create a tough ZED or a boss?

im just poking ideas lol, but it looks like a almost patty without the special abilities so lets say a super specimen with maybe 25% more hp then fp and high dmg so like a wave 10 rare specimen that needs the whole team to kill it.

I can help with testing on my Russian dedicate server

nateku2 said:

im just poking ideas lol, but it looks like a almost patty without the special abilities so lets say a super specimen with maybe 25% more hp then fp and high dmg so like a wave 10 rare specimen that needs the whole team to kill it.

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10 of those sounds like it equals whole team dead

It's meant to be fought alone (he's meant to be a boss or mini-boss), or possibly with a few specimens to get in the way since he has no ranged attacks.

He's going to have a pretty high sprint speed, and will be heavily armoured, so the fight will not go quickly. If you want to beat him by just filling his body with lead you'd better hope you have a lot of ammo or a firebug and demo on your team.

Nonetheless he'll have (I think) limited stamina and will retreat at certain points, as well as most (if not all) of his attacks being possible to avoid if the player is skilled enough. On the harder difficulties it'll just be a matter of trying to keep up with the intense assaults.

I don't want to create something like the fleshpound where he just does these amazingly powerful unavoidable attacks that kill you in a couple of hits, instead I want something that involves a lot of strategy. The way the design is going, this might be better to replace the Patriarch instead of as a mini-boss, but we'll have to see how it turns out.

Benjamin said:

I don't want to create something like the fleshpound where he just does these amazingly powerful unavoidable attacks that kill you in a couple of hits, instead I want something that involves a lot of strategy. The way the design is going, this might be better to replace the Patriarch instead of as a mini-boss, but we'll have to see how it turns out.

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^^ goody. This mutator should be a randomized thingy, where occasionally you get the patty and sometimes it spawns this instead - a little variety is the spice of life (or so i'm told. I'm a stubborn man myself, lol).

Nifty

halbridious said:

^^ goody. This mutator should be a randomized thingy, where occasionally you get the patty and sometimes it spawns this instead - a little variety is the spice of life (or so i'm told. I'm a stubborn man myself, lol).

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Yeah, I figure we can all agree that a random boss, whether it be End-Boss or a Mini-Boss, would be much welcome. Keeps us on our toes.

Hello all, first time posting on the forums! I've played the game for about 4 months now, so in spite of being new here on the forums I do know my way around the game! (I think!)

Anyways, I was thinking about how this potentially new boss could be triggered as an alternative boss to the patriarch. I don't know if KF has the ability to do what I'm about to explain or not, but I was thinking that this "super-scrake boss" could be triggered due to class combinations being used by the team fighting through the previous wave, wave 10.

What I mean is that it would be good to balance the fight against him if there were a trigger caused by having a percentage of the team being a class that wouldn't be OP against a boss character like this guy. AKA berzerker or support specialist class(es).

Say for example at the end of wave 10 if 33%(1/3) of the team were a berzerker or a support specialist.... or a combination of both but constituting something like 50% of the team together, this alternate boss would be triggered to spawn in the boss wave (wave 11). It would be a nice contrast to the patriarch, because in my experience playing it seems like berzerkers more or less run from the patriarch and or get shot down in the process of trying to get close to him. If the team % explanation is confusing look at it like this:

END OF WAVE 10
Team has 33% berzerkers playing---> alternate boss
Team has 33% support specialists playing---> alternate boss
Team has 50% both berzerkers and support specialists---> alternate boss


I think this could be an interesting idea because of the potential that if all the people in the team were fighting him from long to medium distance he would be a piece of cake, he'd be mowed down potentially before he became much of a threat. I think this is important to keep into consideration for a Zed that is strictly melee and needs to be close to a target to attack it. Since this "super-scrake" has two chainsaws he potentially might be able to do an attack that would hit multiple berzerkers trying to pile up on him.

Just giving my 2 cents on a way to keep the fight balanced! Thanks for reading, and good luck with this idea. I think it has potential!

I am not in favour of the Maul being an alternate boss.

I would prefer if he spawned at wave 5 instead of replacing the patriarch at times because IMO, if the Maul spawned at wave 5, it would break the monotony of having to kill the same non boss zeds before getting to the patriarch.