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@Daszombes welp, u made two episodes and those were nice videos. Then you made a third, a nice ending to the trilogy. Now a fourth? And its about a specific moon? Oh now you have to keep going until either 5 or 10, there is no middle ground
When you said all the bases failed I was confused because they apparently made it to the sea but that's not the reason they failed I realized. they failed, not because they didn't find anything, they failed because they found too much
I’m literally creating a lethal company dnd for me and my friends and I’ve been using tons of your ideas for them and it’s so fun, your concepts are great!
@ basically the whole idea is all of my friends that are playing in it are newly recruited interns, while there’s one captain, a past member of Sigurds crew named Lucas(an actual guy in lethal company lore) and I’ve been using tons of these concepts plus some of my own and others my friends have made for monsters, moons, interiors and all that fun stuff so I think a Lethal company dnd like could really work
For a second I thought you were making a DnD mod in Lethal Company Moon called Toril, Rust monsters destroying scrap, Owlbears which guard territories, Displacer Beasts using their displaced forms to throw you off- if you stare at the real one they’ll leave. Mindflayers, Beholders and Ettercaps likely could all work among others
Another addition to this concept could be company issued diving helmets. They are replicas of old diving helmets. They cost 140, don't require 2 hands to hold, and are slightly lighter at 15 lbs But have 30 seconds less oxygen. Expensive, but mostly a improvement
Maybe if a comrade dies with some oxygen left then the live person can use a tube or something to transfer the unused oxygen over to them, and this does not only extend the length of time underwater, but it might make people turn on each other. (Edit) perhaps if someone is overtaken while wearing the helmet the helmet gets urchins through it and it cannot be worn, however… there are 2 uses with this overtaken helmet, first of all a head is almost a sphere, so you can use the almost sphere shaped helmet as a spiky bowling ball, and it can be sold as some scrap, just don’t step on it in the ship. Ok… i need to calm down and not barge into other ideas too often.
@@godofportal5905 Fr! *in a dark, dusty, and quiet facility, deep below layers of an alien dirt, the trembling man creeps towards the corner, as if it was not horryfying enough, as a bracken could be hiding just on the other side, or perhaps a thumper ready to charge him, the only noise he can hear is the heavy breathing in his stuffy cheap company helmet, ready to clot out any screams of his teammates, or anything that would go bump or beep below his trembling boots. as he shuffles closer to this corner with a scary aura like no other, coming from whatever wicked creature awaits him around this unknown turn. All while he was all alone. and as he turns the corner, a bizarre sight awaits him down at the end of the hall, it was a menacing sight, and something with great vigor to a equally daunting aura… And right there halfway in the shadows at the end of the hall Was Paul holding a comically giant straw*
Maybe there can be a 7% chance it can be an overtaken helmet. Its the same viral urchins that have control over it. If the employee puts it on, their view will be obscured by the glass, but also tiny, barley noticeable spikes covering the edges of their screen. At a random time, these spikes slowly cover their screen. If the player is given enough time and take it off, the helmet would sprout legs made from spikes and run off, though you can stalk it and bash it to pieces with a shovel or sign. If the employee wears it for too long, the spikes will entirely take up their screen and make them fall unconcious for 30 seconds. Once the 30 seconds are up, their right hand will sprout a sea urchin and their lower half will fall off, as the same legs as the helmet take their legs place. They will pursue players and even launch their right arms at them as a last dich effort to kill them, but will cost them their primary source of attack. (They can use their legs if needed.)
Now I’m curious…What would an overtaken strider look like? Idea- The corrupted strider There’s a very rare 10% chance that a strider covered in urchins will spawn. This strider variant is aggressive right off the bat constantly roaming around in a jankey twitchy manner covered in urchins as an eire red glow searches for its next target… This strider will also attack normal striders and vise versa with both trying to neutralize each other. If one is chasing you but detects a normal strider they’ll immediately focus on the strider instead of the employees so it could be possible that you could lure one or another into trying to dispatch the other giving you a chance to escape.
@TsulaAngenati2292 one would hope so, course chances are its likely the urchins don't fair well away from moisture, only able to survive submerged or inside something bloated with water, with the frozen cold simply being too dry for them. Despite that i think a stryder getting infected would be theoretically be possible, with it simply being a brief thing and likely causing the styder to cease function after a rampage as the infection dies off from its moisture being frozen up (assuming another stryder wouldn't detect the infection and put it down first)
@@cringejoestar9791 Fair enough. This is just a fun idea. On another note I also had an idea for a variant of a monster from a previous video I think it’s called the tar hound. This variant is a partially aquatic variant called the ink beast. On land it can secrete to create ink puddles that slow down the player for as long as you’re standing in them. Underwater it works differently instead of slowing you down it creates a cloud of ink causes a blindness and inverts your controls if you enter it. You can stop the ink beast by shining a light on it freezing it but upon turning off the light again it causes them to enter an enraged state dealing mire dmg and moving a bit faster for about a minute. This creates a risk vs reward scenario. Do you try to hold the creature back as much as possible to give the rest of your crew one less monster to worry about? Or do you only stun it when absolutely necessary at the risk of being cornered and killed by the creature.
I think it would be interesting where if you leave the facility but you have the urchin plague effecting you the nearest strider immediately becomes hostile as it registers the infection and comes for you.
Here is an idea of mine, "the sea scavenger". The Sea scavenger is a robotic entity that looks like the Mactera grabber from DRG, but a little bigger and the main body being more fish like.. they were originally made to collect samples, but now the definition of samples is anything it can pick up. they wander around the depths grabbing any item on the ground, including urchin clusters and parasites. however, if hit the creature will drop a random item that it has collected, including the parasites. It also has a unique function, when it is consuming an item it has a 1% of dropping a round data pearl, it is a 2 handed item that has the value of and weight of a gold bar. It can only drop 1 pearl and will flee if the overtaken shows up or its hit too many times.
Funnily enough most of this guy’s ideas were incorporated into lethal company in some way, so there’s nothing that says some sort of ocean-based map won’t show up.
There's Liquidation and the "window and glass" interior Zeekerss posted about on Patreon, which could be underwater glass tunnels. Something I like about water-based concepts like this is that Adamance is the moon with the most water around it (mostly out of sight) so it'd be the most likely to also have these interiors/enemies spawn, which is good, because Adamance's whole gimmick is that literally every enemy spawns there.
@@hughmann8824 I liked the diving helmet. the concept of a wearable item that is cumbersome and annoying to hold and use, yet also quintessential in exploring a specific environment is the sort of thing that would fit Lethal Company perfectly.
It might also be interesting if there was a potential game state where, if a player survives and leaves the moon with the Urchin Plague, not only do they continue to have it until they next die, but now future moons on that save will have the ability to spawn Urchin tumors without the parasites and Drowned Ones. I think it might be interesting if the cramped corridors of the Mineshaft map also has the tumors, or if the submerged map you brought up in a different episode could have Drowned Ones as well. Flooded moons could also have the ability for them to appear, only this time outside where it's _much_ harder to break line of sight. The only benefit to bringing the urchins out of Tartarus is that, now, the Striders all deactivate. Their mission is failed, there is no use for them now.
I doubt the Striders would simply deactivate after that. Sure, their mission might be failed and the urchins have gotten out, but they can still try to limit future urchins from getting out as much as possible, right?
I think that'd be neat but I'd say it'd make sense if the urchins needed moisture and as a result could only infect certain planets/moons that are wet naturally or have flooding
Really like this type of cohesive creature video, it really makes it feel like the moon is an ecosystem, it also has so much environmental storytelling that it turns quite unnerving
Nice callback to you RainWorld “night concept” with the strider, it’s cool to see these creative ideas come back, with a few new details, keep up the awesome work.
Huge fan of this series, and it's great to see another part of it again! Been thinking up one of my own concepts all day since this showed up on my for you page, so I'll drop one off here for fun. Pretty simple overall concept, I wanted to try out something new, like rewarding the player for going about work passively. I've just been calling it the "Raptor Mantis". An enemy that is actually pretty neutral at times, if a little curious when it feels. Appearance-wise, I'm imagining a mixed quadrupedal-bipedal insect-like creature, visually inspired by the bug it gets its name from. Chitinous armour, long raptorial forelimbs, but a longer abdomen to support its imbalanced weight on two legs when required. About probably 5ft? A little shorter than the average crew member. Again, personality-wise, it might wander past employees, but doesn't really do much. Unless... If an employee happens to be holding any sort of weapon item in their hands, the Raptor Mantis will quickly take notice. Be it sign, shovel or knife, the Raptor Mantis goes on the offensive. A competitive creature by nature, it steps close, faster than an employee can get away from it, raising its limbs defensively. Whatever the player tries to do, it'll keep just enough distance to strike. If the victim attempts to strike it with their weapon, it may take a couple hits from a knife, but it can also directly block a swing from signs and shovels, before striking itself. The employee has to keep a watch on how it holds its stance... a horizontal limb behind its raised defensive one indicates a naturally horizontal slash, sweeping forward. They've gotta jump back. If the mantis instead points its limb forward, a piercing attack instead, jabbing forward, where the employee has to dodge to the side. These hits likely could deal about 24% damage, something of note for later. This continues on until it makes its kill, or is pacified once more. And there's no easy way out of it, trying to hide your weapon by switching item slot, or dropping it, the mantis is smart enough to recognize that you're still armed, whether you want to be or not. So... how do you not die? Well, it's not easy. The Raptor Mantis does play fair, however. If the player gets jumped by a Snare Flea, or has to maintain eye-contact with a Coilhead, the mantis is actually enough of a sport to be at the ready, but not engage. It'll keep its distance to avoid any cheap strikes, but once the employee can face it again, back to business. And managing to lock it behind a door won't help either, because it'll just barge through after a few knocks. But... the Raptor Mantis can show mercy. If the employee its aggro'd on is around maybe say... 10 HP or less? then if said victim drops their weapon, the mantis will back off this time. A sign of defeat, and it'll proudly saunter off with its victory. Be wary not to pick your weapon back up again, because it will not give you the chance a second time. Then, just an idea for a bit of a unique mechanic, one to solidify the comedic nature of the Raptor Mantis. If the player happens to be holding a shotgun as their weapon of choice, the Raptor Mantis will instead hiss unnervingly. It's not a fan of such a strong, indiscriminate weapon. So, when the shotgun's holder turns their back away from it, the mantis will get as close as quickly as it can to deliver a sneak attack, causing the bullets to fall out of the shotgun, effectively disarming the player of their strength, before immediately going into its attack mode. But... this does have a use. Not a friend, but an ally with a similar goal. If the Raptor Mantis happens to be lured or brought in range of a Nutcracker, it'll treat it all the same, running up to it and disarming it of two bullets, sending the Nutcracker into a state of hostility towards the mantis, which will promptly run off to be chased until its out of distance. This gives any player nearby the perfect opportunity to stock up on more bullets, which normally require the death of the Nutcracker to be earned. It's not perfect, but I thought it'd be a unique way to give the Raptor Mantis some other use, other than just shutting down the player's ability to defend themselves, especially if it shows up while you're already busy fighting something else. If you happen to give this a read, thanks for taking the time, just a fun idea that I wanted to write down somewhere, and here seems like a good as place as any.
I really like the concept of striders and also old birds because they’re like failed robots. Also the malfunctioning drones look like it’s vain shrouds, maybe they could behave like vain shrouds and getting rid of them could spawn less monsters with them?
Last night I had dreamed of this moon and all it's enemies. I can say with confidence that this was one of the most _terrifying_ nightmares I've ever had. It wasn't exactly like what the region concept was - it is a dream after all. Dreams don't care much about consistency - but goodness gracious, The Overtaken was horrifying. The loud noise that thing made was deafening. Although it was weak to light in my dream, so when me and my crew got surprised by it, we accidentally shone our flashlights on it and blinded it for long enough for us to escape. Still, it scared the shit out of me.
I like to think that the Striders have a feud with the Old Birds, and if you could get it to see one, they would both being a fight that wouldn’t ever end because, you know, war machines
Honestly, the only monster already in lethal company that would work for tartarus is a new aquatic thumper species. A more aquatic spore lizard might also work but reptiles don't do too well in cold water. If kidnapper fox was still in the game, it might work as an exterior enemy
As far as I know, water is kinda just death. What if you could bring those old helmets with you to other moons too. If the sewers, then wear the helmet to be safe, allowing extra time for extra scrap for extra cash. Perhaps it could worked for any flooded moon.
You know what if a creature that took care of the rundown facility which probably explains why it's not breaking and falling apart, The creature name would be the "craftsman" A humanoid creature that is on a wheelchair, It's legs bound and twisted around meaning it couldn't move without the wheelchair but the craftsman has extremely long arms allowing them to grab anything from afar, The craftsman are not hostile to the employees at first but if the employees stayed near the craftsman vicinity for 2 minutes, The craftsman never like unwelcome visitors that stayed too long as the craftsman believe that the employees will destroy the rundown facility so they'll grab the employees before dragging them towards the exit and threw them out
there should be a really low chance for malfunctioning robots to turn normal when you hit them, not for any real gameplay reason just because it would be really confusing
This is my favorite series i hope there will be more! I realy enjoy how the threats on this planet are themed both mechanical and organic with the overtaken being a amalgam of both aspects as its apex predator
3 minutes in (exactly) and I’m already getting Subnautica vibes. Ocean planet with mechanical beings that don’t want you leaving. And this urchin stuff sorta mirrors the Kharaa. 18:48 Yep, that’s about what I was thinking. I have no clue if this was intentional or not, but that seriously feels uncannily similar to Subnautica’s QEP and Kharaa bacterium.
You should give more reason to go to the underwater area at the moment the risk vs reward isint high another way is to add more things that force you down there similar to the janitors
The Drowned Ones kinda remind me of Cyclops with their singular sea urchin eye, though the moon being named Tartarus might be shifting my thoughts in a vaguely Greek direction.
If i had a nickel for every time daszombies had a giant angry robot with a spotlight, then i would have 2, which isn’t a lot but its weird it happened twice
this is a whole another game. you should make it. i dont think it'd fit at all with the strict time limit of lethal company. maybe a more long expedition, survival focused version of lethal company.
I like it, but to be honest, I’d probably just do my standard sprinting as deep as I can go with nothing on me and navigating by scanner to grab all the loot in record time. (Or dying instantly, depending on my luck.)
My big question is, what reason would I have to go into the Abyss section of the map? It seems so unbelievably dangerous and risky that no amount of loot would be worth it! Is there such a large amount of loot or specifically expensive loot?
A moon concept i have had in my head is finally relevant, and feel free to use this if you see this. With credit ofc. A moon called Valdon, it is a large flat dusty land that is near a red supergiant star, and because of this there are waves of intense heat and a bright red sky, however the planet is surprisingly humid from a thick atmosphere, but also the humidity can work against your favor, and it will not rain but the intense heat waves can make evaporation so violent that if an employee were caught outside for too long from humidity, or getting too wet, they will fly off into the sky being taken by the water. There is also a chance for a weird creature (an unfourtanite victim of the evaporation) to come falling out of the sky crushing anything below with a chance of a bit of scrap somewhere within the creature. This is rather messy but you could probably put things together :)
Im actually getting likes? Guess i will start yapping another idea now :) PREPARE THYSELF FOR CONCEPT YAPPING Most facilities/structures usually have plenty of floors and rooms, but that is starting to get old with people on max brightness, do instead why not a looming horror next to you at all times? I present to you the shaft, it is one big room of vertical horror with catwalks and smaller rooms along the side of the walls and below there is darkness with darkness, darkness, and more darkness below, the shaft is an old mining boar hole that has gotten very very big, but like any other moon its of course abandoned. And one must not bother to jump from one floor down to another too often, not from fall damage but some large creature wont take kindly to some orange flashy thing popping in and out above, so if its upset, then good luck lol.
I originally posted this on the last video...but i'll repost it here One Idea: The relic salamander This creature(most likely a small python sized olm type) would always spawn with a screamer in the corners of large dry sewer rooms, If it detects threat it'll lift the screamer into the air in front of itself until the foe leaves, If they do it puts the deactivated screamer back on the ground beside it, If a crew mate steals its prize they'll chase the player who has the screamith as long as its active stopping in place upon deactivation but will move and pause to feel the ground around it within a small vicinity(most likely 1/4 of its body length) always going back to the place it originally stopped after each pause, If it successfully ensnares a member in this state it'll grope you're suit for the stolen scrap If you don't have it's loot it'll wander away and if you do it'll snatch it from you and bite you before returning to the corner it originally spawned in/find a different corner and settle there, If you escape/whack it with a shovel before it can firmly grasp you it'll be stunned for a bit, If the creature grabs you if a screamer is active it'll maul the player who has it and flee to another corner, will attack other hostile deaf/scrap stealing creatures. (uses the same vibration mechanic as the false wall and will also grab and maul masked players).
This feels like a symbiotic relationship between the two the screamer protects the olm and the olm offers the ability to move and find food. it would also be cool if it use/help other scrap, try to force a mask on to a player and other things, and if you need a name I'd say a relic salamander
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@Daszombes welp, u made two episodes and those were nice videos. Then you made a third, a nice ending to the trilogy. Now a fourth? And its about a specific moon? Oh now you have to keep going until either 5 or 10, there is no middle ground
When you said all the bases failed I was confused because they apparently made it to the sea but that's not the reason they failed I realized. they failed, not because they didn't find anything, they failed because they found too much
I’m literally creating a lethal company dnd for me and my friends and I’ve been using tons of your ideas for them and it’s so fun, your concepts are great!
That sounds sick as hell, can you give some more info on it?
@ basically the whole idea is all of my friends that are playing in it are newly recruited interns, while there’s one captain, a past member of Sigurds crew named Lucas(an actual guy in lethal company lore) and I’ve been using tons of these concepts plus some of my own and others my friends have made for monsters, moons, interiors and all that fun stuff so I think a Lethal company dnd like could really work
@thezapperyt yeah it can, Blaine Simple also made it into DND
@@thezapperyt damn, i wish you good luck, as someone running a ttrpg myself it aint easy but its worth it
For a second I thought you were making a DnD mod in Lethal Company
Moon called Toril, Rust monsters destroying scrap, Owlbears which guard territories, Displacer Beasts using their displaced forms to throw you off- if you stare at the real one they’ll leave.
Mindflayers, Beholders and Ettercaps likely could all work among others
Another addition to this concept could be company issued diving helmets.
They are replicas of old diving helmets.
They cost 140, don't require 2 hands to hold, and are slightly lighter at 15 lbs
But have 30 seconds less oxygen.
Expensive, but mostly a improvement
Maybe if a comrade dies with some oxygen left then the live person can use a tube or something to transfer the unused oxygen over to them, and this does not only extend the length of time underwater, but it might make people turn on each other.
(Edit) perhaps if someone is overtaken while wearing the helmet the helmet gets urchins through it and it cannot be worn, however… there are 2 uses with this overtaken helmet, first of all a head is almost a sphere, so you can use the almost sphere shaped helmet as a spiky bowling ball, and it can be sold as some scrap, just don’t step on it in the ship.
Ok… i need to calm down and not barge into other ideas too often.
@@YesterMoon47a comically large straw as a scrap item would be hilarious
@@godofportal5905 Fr!
*in a dark, dusty, and quiet facility, deep below layers of an alien dirt, the trembling man creeps towards the corner, as if it was not horryfying enough, as a bracken could be hiding just on the other side, or perhaps a thumper ready to charge him, the only noise he can hear is the heavy breathing in his stuffy cheap company helmet, ready to clot out any screams of his teammates, or anything that would go bump or beep below his trembling boots. as he shuffles closer to this corner with a scary aura like no other, coming from whatever wicked creature awaits him around this unknown turn. All while he was all alone. and as he turns the corner, a bizarre sight awaits him down at the end of the hall, it was a menacing sight, and something with great vigor to a equally daunting aura…
And right there halfway in the shadows at the end of the hall
Was Paul holding a comically giant straw*
Ohhh now i get it, for oxygen transfer!
Maybe there can be a 7% chance it can be an overtaken helmet. Its the same viral urchins that have control over it. If the employee puts it on, their view will be obscured by the glass, but also tiny, barley noticeable spikes covering the edges of their screen. At a random time, these spikes slowly cover their screen. If the player is given enough time and take it off, the helmet would sprout legs made from spikes and run off, though you can stalk it and bash it to pieces with a shovel or sign. If the employee wears it for too long, the spikes will entirely take up their screen and make them fall unconcious for 30 seconds. Once the 30 seconds are up, their right hand will sprout a sea urchin and their lower half will fall off, as the same legs as the helmet take their legs place. They will pursue players and even launch their right arms at them as a last dich effort to kill them, but will cost them their primary source of attack. (They can use their legs if needed.)
Now I’m curious…What would an overtaken strider look like?
Idea-
The corrupted strider
There’s a very rare 10% chance that a strider covered in urchins will spawn.
This strider variant is aggressive right off the bat constantly roaming around in a jankey twitchy manner covered in urchins as an eire red glow searches for its next target…
This strider will also attack normal striders and vise versa with both trying to neutralize each other.
If one is chasing you but detects a normal strider they’ll immediately focus on the strider instead of the employees so it could be possible that you could lure one or another into trying to dispatch the other giving you a chance to escape.
By their very nature I’d assume Striders are immune to the Urchins
@TsulaAngenati2292 one would hope so, course chances are its likely the urchins don't fair well away from moisture, only able to survive submerged or inside something bloated with water, with the frozen cold simply being too dry for them. Despite that i think a stryder getting infected would be theoretically be possible, with it simply being a brief thing and likely causing the styder to cease function after a rampage as the infection dies off from its moisture being frozen up (assuming another stryder wouldn't detect the infection and put it down first)
@@cringejoestar9791 Fair enough. This is just a fun idea.
On another note I also had an idea for a variant of a monster from a previous video I think it’s called the tar hound.
This variant is a partially aquatic variant called the ink beast.
On land it can secrete to create ink puddles that slow down the player for as long as you’re standing in them.
Underwater it works differently instead of slowing you down it creates a cloud of ink causes a blindness and inverts your controls if you enter it.
You can stop the ink beast by shining a light on it freezing it but upon turning off the light again it causes them to enter an enraged state dealing mire dmg and moving a bit faster for about a minute.
This creates a risk vs reward scenario. Do you try to hold the creature back as much as possible to give the rest of your crew one less monster to worry about?
Or do you only stun it when absolutely necessary at the risk of being cornered and killed by the creature.
I think it would be interesting where if you leave the facility but you have the urchin plague effecting you the nearest strider immediately becomes hostile as it registers the infection and comes for you.
That’s an incredible idea
2:10 I LOVE the deisign detail that during their chase state they enter a more feral posture
I cant wait for some talented mod developer to put all these into the game.
unfortunately a majority of the ideas would be really hard to code, adding even a single enemy is rather tough
Hopefully me in a month or two when I learn c#
Literally every mod dev in existance rn "WRITE THAT DOWN. WRITE THAT DOWN"
Here is an idea of mine, "the sea scavenger". The Sea scavenger is a robotic entity that looks like the Mactera grabber from DRG, but a little bigger and the main body being more fish like.. they were originally made to collect samples, but now the definition of samples is anything it can pick up. they wander around the depths grabbing any item on the ground, including urchin clusters and parasites. however, if hit the creature will drop a random item that it has collected, including the parasites. It also has a unique function, when it is consuming an item it has a 1% of dropping a round data pearl, it is a 2 handed item that has the value of and weight of a gold bar. It can only drop 1 pearl and will flee if the overtaken shows up or its hit too many times.
Funnily enough most of this guy’s ideas were incorporated into lethal company in some way, so there’s nothing that says some sort of ocean-based map won’t show up.
-Liquidation-
@@monolophosaurus I'm talking about going underwater outside of just drowning in a puddle.
There's Liquidation and the "window and glass" interior Zeekerss posted about on Patreon, which could be underwater glass tunnels. Something I like about water-based concepts like this is that Adamance is the moon with the most water around it (mostly out of sight) so it'd be the most likely to also have these interiors/enemies spawn, which is good, because Adamance's whole gimmick is that literally every enemy spawns there.
@@hughmann8824 I liked the diving helmet. the concept of a wearable item that is cumbersome and annoying to hold and use, yet also quintessential in exploring a specific environment is the sort of thing that would fit Lethal Company perfectly.
This is what happens when you remove a keystone species!
Thank you pebbles
Very true!
hah, I get what you mean
Right you are, my good sir
mr peble
It might also be interesting if there was a potential game state where, if a player survives and leaves the moon with the Urchin Plague, not only do they continue to have it until they next die, but now future moons on that save will have the ability to spawn Urchin tumors without the parasites and Drowned Ones. I think it might be interesting if the cramped corridors of the Mineshaft map also has the tumors, or if the submerged map you brought up in a different episode could have Drowned Ones as well. Flooded moons could also have the ability for them to appear, only this time outside where it's _much_ harder to break line of sight.
The only benefit to bringing the urchins out of Tartarus is that, now, the Striders all deactivate. Their mission is failed, there is no use for them now.
I doubt the Striders would simply deactivate after that.
Sure, their mission might be failed and the urchins have gotten out, but they can still try to limit future urchins from getting out as much as possible, right?
I think that'd be neat but I'd say it'd make sense if the urchins needed moisture and as a result could only infect certain planets/moons that are wet naturally or have flooding
Really like this type of cohesive creature video, it really makes it feel like the moon is an ecosystem, it also has so much environmental storytelling that it turns quite unnerving
Nice callback to you RainWorld “night concept” with the strider, it’s cool to see these creative ideas come back, with a few new details, keep up the awesome work.
Lethal company has so much potential like the amount of stuff that people can create is amazing.
Take a shot every time you should give an enemy a wide berth.
No joke I love these videos
Huge fan of this series, and it's great to see another part of it again!
Been thinking up one of my own concepts all day since this showed up on my for you page, so I'll drop one off here for fun.
Pretty simple overall concept, I wanted to try out something new, like rewarding the player for going about work passively.
I've just been calling it the "Raptor Mantis". An enemy that is actually pretty neutral at times, if a little curious when it feels.
Appearance-wise, I'm imagining a mixed quadrupedal-bipedal insect-like creature, visually inspired by the bug it gets its name from. Chitinous armour, long raptorial forelimbs, but a longer abdomen to support its imbalanced weight on two legs when required. About probably 5ft? A little shorter than the average crew member. Again, personality-wise, it might wander past employees, but doesn't really do much. Unless...
If an employee happens to be holding any sort of weapon item in their hands, the Raptor Mantis will quickly take notice. Be it sign, shovel or knife, the Raptor Mantis goes on the offensive. A competitive creature by nature, it steps close, faster than an employee can get away from it, raising its limbs defensively. Whatever the player tries to do, it'll keep just enough distance to strike. If the victim attempts to strike it with their weapon, it may take a couple hits from a knife, but it can also directly block a swing from signs and shovels, before striking itself. The employee has to keep a watch on how it holds its stance... a horizontal limb behind its raised defensive one indicates a naturally horizontal slash, sweeping forward. They've gotta jump back. If the mantis instead points its limb forward, a piercing attack instead, jabbing forward, where the employee has to dodge to the side. These hits likely could deal about 24% damage, something of note for later.
This continues on until it makes its kill, or is pacified once more. And there's no easy way out of it, trying to hide your weapon by switching item slot, or dropping it, the mantis is smart enough to recognize that you're still armed, whether you want to be or not. So... how do you not die?
Well, it's not easy. The Raptor Mantis does play fair, however. If the player gets jumped by a Snare Flea, or has to maintain eye-contact with a Coilhead, the mantis is actually enough of a sport to be at the ready, but not engage. It'll keep its distance to avoid any cheap strikes, but once the employee can face it again, back to business. And managing to lock it behind a door won't help either, because it'll just barge through after a few knocks. But... the Raptor Mantis can show mercy. If the employee its aggro'd on is around maybe say... 10 HP or less? then if said victim drops their weapon, the mantis will back off this time. A sign of defeat, and it'll proudly saunter off with its victory. Be wary not to pick your weapon back up again, because it will not give you the chance a second time.
Then, just an idea for a bit of a unique mechanic, one to solidify the comedic nature of the Raptor Mantis. If the player happens to be holding a shotgun as their weapon of choice, the Raptor Mantis will instead hiss unnervingly. It's not a fan of such a strong, indiscriminate weapon. So, when the shotgun's holder turns their back away from it, the mantis will get as close as quickly as it can to deliver a sneak attack, causing the bullets to fall out of the shotgun, effectively disarming the player of their strength, before immediately going into its attack mode. But... this does have a use. Not a friend, but an ally with a similar goal. If the Raptor Mantis happens to be lured or brought in range of a Nutcracker, it'll treat it all the same, running up to it and disarming it of two bullets, sending the Nutcracker into a state of hostility towards the mantis, which will promptly run off to be chased until its out of distance. This gives any player nearby the perfect opportunity to stock up on more bullets, which normally require the death of the Nutcracker to be earned. It's not perfect, but I thought it'd be a unique way to give the Raptor Mantis some other use, other than just shutting down the player's ability to defend themselves, especially if it shows up while you're already busy fighting something else.
If you happen to give this a read, thanks for taking the time, just a fun idea that I wanted to write down somewhere, and here seems like a good as place as any.
I really like the concept of striders and also old birds because they’re like failed robots. Also the malfunctioning drones look like it’s vain shrouds, maybe they could behave like vain shrouds and getting rid of them could spawn less monsters with them?
Love the use of Barotrauma's music here.
16:10 what my fridge sees at 3 am
How does Daszombes keep delivering bangers like this
He’s not even pregnant
Oh hey lo light
lolight!
Last night I had dreamed of this moon and all it's enemies. I can say with confidence that this was one of the most _terrifying_ nightmares I've ever had.
It wasn't exactly like what the region concept was - it is a dream after all. Dreams don't care much about consistency - but goodness gracious, The Overtaken was horrifying. The loud noise that thing made was deafening. Although it was weak to light in my dream, so when me and my crew got surprised by it, we accidentally shone our flashlights on it and blinded it for long enough for us to escape. Still, it scared the shit out of me.
So the Overtaken is the mix between a watcher and a thalamus. Very nice.
I like to think that the Striders have a feud with the Old Birds, and if you could get it to see one, they would both being a fight that wouldn’t ever end because, you know, war machines
Honestly, the only monster already in lethal company that would work for tartarus is a new aquatic thumper species. A more aquatic spore lizard might also work but reptiles don't do too well in cold water. If kidnapper fox was still in the game, it might work as an exterior enemy
As far as I know, water is kinda just death. What if you could bring those old helmets with you to other moons too. If the sewers, then wear the helmet to be safe, allowing extra time for extra scrap for extra cash. Perhaps it could worked for any flooded moon.
The striders goated they real for being so good at their job
Personaly I want a mechanic where a Mob character follows a player holding a reactor
You know what if a creature that took care of the rundown facility which probably explains why it's not breaking and falling apart, The creature name would be the "craftsman" A humanoid creature that is on a wheelchair, It's legs bound and twisted around meaning it couldn't move without the wheelchair but the craftsman has extremely long arms allowing them to grab anything from afar, The craftsman are not hostile to the employees at first but if the employees stayed near the craftsman vicinity for 2 minutes, The craftsman never like unwelcome visitors that stayed too long as the craftsman believe that the employees will destroy the rundown facility so they'll grab the employees before dragging them towards the exit and threw them out
there should be a really low chance for malfunctioning robots to turn normal when you hit them, not for any real gameplay reason just because it would be really confusing
my sons they are real
Yayyyy
The overtaken reminds me of the Watcher from Barotrauma, it even has the same sound effect-
Lethal company - the urchin domain
This is my favorite series i hope there will be more!
I realy enjoy how the threats on this planet are themed both mechanical and organic with the overtaken being a amalgam of both aspects as its apex predator
Honored to get to participate in another one of these! LOVE all of the hard work everyone put into this, amazing job everyone!
Played this video in the shower. Got me side-eyeing the water.
3 minutes in (exactly) and I’m already getting Subnautica vibes.
Ocean planet with mechanical beings that don’t want you leaving.
And this urchin stuff sorta mirrors the Kharaa.
18:48 Yep, that’s about what I was thinking.
I have no clue if this was intentional or not, but that seriously feels uncannily similar to Subnautica’s QEP and Kharaa bacterium.
You should give more reason to go to the underwater area at the moment the risk vs reward isint high another way is to add more things that force you down there similar to the janitors
1:40 spotlights
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*SERCH PARTY STARTS BREAKING IN *
Me when Pressure reference:
Well, I hope Zeekers takes a bit of inspiration from this like he did before, these idea have great potential.
Always freaking love these. I'd kill to see even more of these DELECTABLE concepts
I would LOVE to see more videos like this where you focus on one main idea for an update/concept in the future. Keep up the great work!
3:55 once you see bioshock you can never unsee bioshock
Glad I’m early to see everyone’s favorite brainrot man pally friend make some cool concepts and have good artists illustrate them this hallows eve
These concept videos are peak
This idea should be its own game ngl its so great
The Drowned Ones kinda remind me of Cyclops with their singular sea urchin eye, though the moon being named Tartarus might be shifting my thoughts in a vaguely Greek direction.
That is just Barotrauma!
weres the fundings we need it now so we can fund this
Vibing to the barotrauma background music while being shown concepts for new funny horrors
(also good to see stuff inspired on that awesome game)
R.I.P rosa the sea otter she wouldn’t of let this happen
If I had a nickel for every daszombes glacier themed creature etc concept video… (I love the ideas as always though)
If i had a nickel for every time daszombies had a giant angry robot with a spotlight, then i would have 2, which isn’t a lot but its weird it happened twice
I love these types of things! Lethal company stuff is a cool idea too 0.o
Lethal company
this is a whole another game. you should make it. i dont think it'd fit at all with the strict time limit of lethal company. maybe a more long expedition, survival focused version of lethal company.
This is a awesome concept
yippie!!! It was so cool working on this!
The concepts seem neat, but i dont think they would work in lethal company, maybe in murky divers
I'm not sold until you tell me the power level of all the new creatures
The one thing that I could think during the strider section is that the simple idea of the robot is the spy robot on Hote in star wars 5
i had a similar idea of a underwater map for lethal company where you can wear dive suits to explore underwater rooms that go all 6 directions
sea lice are little goobers :)
How the he'll did I miss this upload
This is peak
YAY! YOU'RE NOT DONE WITH THIS SERIES! Thank you for keeping it going, I love it when you upload
If this gets modded in, I'll be using it immediately
i literally rewatch these episodes monthly and it inspired me to make my own ttrpgs
Gotta love the barotrauma background music :) spooky oceanic ambiance o7
I love this series
guys i think we gotta give the enemies a wide birth
These urchins are giving me the tower slime mold vibes
PEAK HAS RETURNED
I feel like Daz *might* like water
LETHAL COMPANY HIRE THIS GUY
Let's gooooooo
Barotrauma community assemble, this man is ripping from our books
I am so curious as to the context of this
I like it, but to be honest, I’d probably just do my standard sprinting as deep as I can go with nothing on me and navigating by scanner to grab all the loot in record time. (Or dying instantly, depending on my luck.)
6:42 hmm this seems to good to be tr-
*I knew it*
Wow, more content!
Woo!
My big question is, what reason would I have to go into the Abyss section of the map? It seems so unbelievably dangerous and risky that no amount of loot would be worth it! Is there such a large amount of loot or specifically expensive loot?
I love How people see the video that was posted seconds ago and need to coment like "How what a great video" that i didn't yet wacht
watcher eel? rain world watcher?!?
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO
The coolest one yet
A moon concept i have had in my head is finally relevant, and feel free to use this if you see this. With credit ofc.
A moon called Valdon, it is a large flat dusty land that is near a red supergiant star, and because of this there are waves of intense heat and a bright red sky, however the planet is surprisingly humid from a thick atmosphere, but also the humidity can work against your favor, and it will not rain but the intense heat waves can make evaporation so violent that if an employee were caught outside for too long from humidity, or getting too wet, they will fly off into the sky being taken by the water. There is also a chance for a weird creature (an unfourtanite victim of the evaporation) to come falling out of the sky crushing anything below with a chance of a bit of scrap somewhere within the creature.
This is rather messy but you could probably put things together :)
Im actually getting likes? Guess i will start yapping another idea now :)
PREPARE THYSELF FOR CONCEPT YAPPING
Most facilities/structures usually have plenty of floors and rooms, but that is starting to get old with people on max brightness, do instead why not a looming horror next to you at all times?
I present to you the shaft, it is one big room of vertical horror with catwalks and smaller rooms along the side of the walls and below there is darkness with darkness, darkness, and more darkness below, the shaft is an old mining boar hole that has gotten very very big, but like any other moon its of course abandoned.
And one must not bother to jump from one floor down to another too often, not from fall damage but some large creature wont take kindly to some orange flashy thing popping in and out above, so if its upset, then good luck lol.
@@YesterMoon47the concept of the shaft is amazing, I hope someday a modder makes an interior like this
@oof-wi9td Tysm!!!
Letal compy
was a pleasure to work with you 👍
Barotrauma sound track goes crazy
I originally posted this on the last video...but i'll repost it here
One Idea: The relic salamander
This creature(most likely a small python sized olm type) would always spawn with a screamer in the corners of large dry sewer rooms, If it detects threat it'll lift the screamer into the air in front of itself until the foe leaves, If they do it puts the deactivated screamer back on the ground beside it, If a crew mate steals its prize they'll chase the player who has the screamith as long as its active stopping in place upon deactivation but will move and pause to feel the ground around it within a small vicinity(most likely 1/4 of its body length) always going back to the place it originally stopped after each pause, If it successfully ensnares a member in this state it'll grope you're suit for the stolen scrap If you don't have it's loot it'll wander away and if you do it'll snatch it from you and bite you before returning to the corner it originally spawned in/find a different corner and settle there, If you escape/whack it with a shovel before it can firmly grasp you it'll be stunned for a bit, If the creature grabs you if a screamer is active it'll maul the player who has it and flee to another corner, will attack other hostile deaf/scrap stealing creatures.
(uses the same vibration mechanic as the false wall and will also grab and maul masked players).
This feels like a symbiotic relationship between the two the screamer protects the olm and the olm offers the ability to move and find food. it would also be cool if it use/help other scrap, try to force a mask on to a player and other things, and if you need a name I'd say a relic salamander
fanx...
LETHAL COMPANY CONTENT
Nice vid man. Love these concepts
Man we frikin NEEED THISS
These videos never miss
Les GOOOOOO
Cool
9:57 Ok guys.... hear me out
nobody's hearing you out
YOOOO
Murky divers