Enemy Abilities

This is a difficulty mod that increases the challenge of defeating the game's various enemies by giving them new skills! Most abilities increase the difficulty of fighting a given enemy, however some abilities will open up new counter strategies!

Alloy Vulture Secondary: Swoop

• Swoops towards the target, slashing with it's talons.
• Inflicts Bleed
• Will stun itself if it flies into a wall!

Alpha Construct: Alpha Tripwire

• Creates tripwires between themselves and other Alpha Constructs.
• Walking into these tripwires deals a heavy burst of damage, and can both root and slow.
• Watch your step!

Bighorn Bison Secondary: Unearth Boulder

• Unearths a boulder in front of it. This boulder has a healthbar and can be damaged by both enemies and players.
• When the boulder is killed, it launches three mini-boulders in a spread towards the nearest enemy of the boulder's killer.
• These mini-boulders explode on impact.
• Melee-attacks from Bison will break the boulder instantly!

Blind Pest Secondary: Thwomp Stomp

• Slams down with a poison explosion to hit targets directly beneath it.
• Enters a grounded state for three seconds afterwards.

Clay Apothecary Special: Tar Deluge

• Spawns a Tar Ball that it charges for 3 seconds. If it takes damage during the charge, the Tar Ball will get bigger and deal more damage!
• Creates a large lingering tar area upon landing. Deals low damage, but applies tar. The zone is larger the more charged the Tar Ball was!
• If killed during the charge, it blows up, damaging nearby monsters!
• Only usable below 60% health.

Clay Templar Utility: Grenade Barrage

• Launches a volley of five tar-filled grenades over cover to flush it's target out.
• Only usable if it doesn't have line of sight, and can draw an arc to the target.

Greater Wisp Special: Inferno Wheel

• Charges up a ring of powerful fireballs that spin around the Greater Wisp.
• Fireballs explode and leave behind a large DoT zone on impact.
• Each fireball can be damaged and destroyed.

Grovetender Special: Mass Resurrect

• Grovetenders passively collect gravestones when nearby enemies die.
• They then launch collected gravestones at the player, which explode into the ghost of the killed enemy.
• Ghosts provide armour to the grovetender.
• Only usable below 50% HP.

Larva Utility: Caustic Pod

• Launches a small blob of acid towards their target. Deals no impact damage.
• Spawns a Caustic Pod at the location of impact that explodes upon taking damage.
• Deals light AoE damage to all nearby bodies (both ally and enemy!), and applies poison.
• Behaves similarly to Sulfur Pods (although deals less damage).

Lunar Golem Special: Laser Sweep

• Sweeps a laser along the ground towards the player, igniting the ground.
• Ignited ground deals light AoE, and explodes after a short delay.
• Only usable below 90% HP. Has 2 charges by default.

Solus Extractor Utility: Tendril Tether

• Fires off a tendril towards it's target.
• Hooks onto both terrain and units, pulling the Extractor towards them.
• If the Extractor hits a player, it slows them, gains an attack speed boost, and a reset on their Extract ability.
• Extractors now prioritise enemies that have items that they can actually steal.

Solus Prospector Secondary: Drill Burrow

• Burrows beneath the ground, then emerges beneath it's target shortly after.

Solus Transporter Utility: Tractor Beam / Fling

• Picks up monsters with a tractor beam, before tossing them at its target.
• Deals damage dependent on the flung monster's weight.

Stone Titan Primary: Seismic Shockwave (new)

• Jumps and upon landing creates a slow-moving radial shockwave.
• Can be jumped over!
• Knocks both players and monsters up into the air!

Xi Construct Secondary: Core Launch

• Spins up to fire it's core at the nearest player.
• The core embeds in the ground for a few seconds, and transfers any damage it takes to the Xi Construct.

Notes

• All modules are enabled by default! Don't like a skill? You can disable it in the config!
• May contain bugs! Please report any that you find :)

Credits

• .score for the PluginConfig and for some AISkillDriver utils that I filched from Enemies++
• rune580 for RiskOfOptions

Changelog

1.15.1

• Beetles now ACTUALLY retain 100% of their gold and exp reward, and summoned Beetles half.
• Fixed a bug that stopped Solus Extractors from using Tendril Tether
• Solus Scorchers' spawn states now last 1 second instead of 0.

1.15.0

• Gave Solus Scorchers a new ability: Jet Boost!
• Void Anglers now provide vision for their owner Void Reavers, allowing the Reavers to use their primary without direct line of sight.
• Void Anglers default range reduced (500m => 200m). Attack charge time increased (1.5s => 3s). Add some sound cues and visual touch-ups to their attacks.
• Summoning Beetles now retain 100% of their gold and exp reward, and summoned Beetles inherit half of that value.
• Strength in Numbers got a new custom buff icon courtesy of Synodii!
• Solus Extractors now actually require line of sight to use Tendril Tether.
• Solus Extractors now unhook early if their continued trajectory would take them away from their target.
• Reduced the volume of most of the mod's sounds.

1.14.0

• Gave Beetles a new special ability: Summon Reinforcements!
• Void Anglers should now correctly appear on clients in multiplayer.
• Buffed Solus Extractor tether's projectile speed from 100 to 120.
• Gave Solus Prospectors some new burrowing SFX.

1.13.0

• Gave Brass Contraptions a new special ability: Explosive Toll!
• Larva caustic pod explosion range now correctly reads the right config option. Default explosion radius restored to 12m.
• Added a sound cue to the start of Alloy Vultures' swoop attacks.
• Polished up the README to make additional module changes more clear.
• Added additional config options to modify the base stats and director cost of each enemy tweaked in the mod.
• Added SoundAPI dependency.

1.12.1

• Changed Gravekeeper Ghosts to be even more red to distinguish them from burning enemies.
• Fixed the Angler Eye Beam Cooldown config option being locked at the lowest setting.
• Solved a few NREs here and there.
• Slightly reduced the distance that non-oiled players can be from an oil blob before a Solus Scorcher prioritises attacking the blob.

1.12.0

• Gave Void Reavers a new ability: Summon Void Anglers!
• Gave Solus Scorchers smarter AI!

1.11.2

• Added a config option for bison boulders for adjusting the spread angle.
• Minor VFX update to Bison mini-boulders. (they start at a random rotation now, that's it)
• Added extra sounds and visual cues to Clay Apothecary Tar Deluge
• Added a trail effect to enemies thrown with Solus Transporters' tractor beam.
• Made the Lunar Golem Laser Sweep blue. (now with extra sound and visual cues!)
• Made the Greater Wisp Inferno Wheel green. (now also with extra sound and visual cues!)
• Reduced default Caustic Pod explosion radius (12m => 8m)

1.11.1

• Xi Constructs no longer disable their main hurtbox during core launch. A new config option has been added to toggle this.
• Alpha Constructs can no longer use Alpha Tripwire from inside Drifter's bag.
• Alpha Tripwire no longer activates if the two Alpha Constructs are within 3m of eachother to prevent really small, hard-to-see tripwires.
• Bison can no longer unearth a boulder within 5m of another boulder.
• Changed this a few versions ago but forgot to include it and can't remember which version it was, so here it is - Clay Templars now have better VFX on their grenades.

1.11.0

• Gave Stone Titans a new ability: Shockwave Stomp!
• Changed the Bison Rock spawn sound to make it less ridiculously loud.
• Fixed a Swoop NRE related to them losing their target during windup.
• Reduced the default base damage of Alpha Tripwire (350% => 250%)
• Increased the speed of Grovetender gravestone projectiles (60 => 120)
• Lowered the base health of Greater Wisp inferno wheel projectiles (130 +39 per level => 100 +30 per level)

1.10.1

• Fixed the Root and Slow configs for Alpha Constructs

1.10.0

• Gave Alpha Constructs a new ability: Alpha Tripwire!
• Greater Wisp Fire Carousel fireballs now correctly scale max health with level.
• Clay Templars have less endlag on their attacks, which should encourage them to use Cluster Grenade more often.
• Solus Transporters can no longer pick up and throw Scorch Worms.

1.9.0

• Gave Solus Extractors a new ability: Tendril Tether!
• Tightened the spread on Bison Boulders if they fire more than 1 from 30 degrees to 15 degrees.
• Bison Boulders no longer target neutral character bodies.
• Gave Xi Core a pulsing visual effect upon getting embedded so it's easier to locate.

1.8.0

• Reworked the Bison Boulder ability to make it less janky! Can be damaged by both players and enemies, launches three mini-boulders on death and is killed instantly by Bison melee attacks.
• As a result, changed a few of the Bison config options.
• Actually added the .dll this time lmao
• Lots of under-the-hood changes to make the mod less boilerplate-y and easier for myself to make future additions to the mod.
• In particular finally made use of the BaseModule class and dechunkified the PluginConfig. With that in mind, I HIGHLY recommend clearing your Config file for this update!
• Changed Greater Wisps' Inferno Wheel from a secondary to a special ability.
• Lunar Golems will no longer use Laser Sweep on airborne targets.
• Solus Prospectors will no longer use Drill Burrow on airborne targets.

1.7.0

• Gave Greater Wisps a new ability: Inferno Wheel!
• Added LanguageAPI dependency.
• Added name tokens for the mod's CharacterBody projectiles. (Xi Core shows up as Xi Construct, as they share hitboxes - will look into this at some point).

1.6.0

• Gave Larvae a new ability: Caustic Pod!
• You can no longer play as the bison boulder by picking one up as Drifter.
• Removed Xi Construct "prioritises players" config option as it hasn't worked since 1.4.0.
• Updated Xi Construct core projectile visuals slightly. Still not exact, but closer!
• Added MiscFixes dependency.
• Moved the changelog.

1.5.2

• Fixed a frequent Clay Apothecary NRE that I somehow missed
• Changed the visual charge effect for the Clay Apothecary Tar Ball to something less noisy

1.5.1

• LOTSA BUG FIXES!
• Solved a whole pile of NREs
• Solus Transporters should no longer permanently lose collision after using Fling.
• Bison Rocks should no longer get stuck in a weird rolling state. They're still a bit buggy tho lmao
• Clay Templar grenades should clip terrain mid-flight a little less often.
• Fixed some networking issues with Clay Apothecary tar blobs.
• Lunar Golem fire trails should no longer randomly disappear before exploding.
• Removed "KABOOM!" log spam from Laser Sweep. Oops.
• Xi Constructs should no longer rarely get stuck in their recall state indefinitely.
• Vultures should no longer commit to swoop if their target is above them.

1.5.0

• Gave Lunar Golems a new ability: Laser Sweep!
• Fixed an NRE related to tractor-beamed enemies getting killed during the fling wind-up.
• Removed an Error Log message from the TractorBeam module that should've really been a Debug message anyway.

1.4.0

• Gave Clay Apothecaries a new ability: Tar Deluge!
• Should no longer replace Pillar of Blood visuals with Grovetender chains.
• Prospectors should no longer get yoinked out of the ground by Transport Drones.
• Fixed an NRE related to Prospectors getting stuck underground.
• Xi Constructs previously had trouble making up their minds about their targets. This has a band-aid fix: Xi Constructs will now ALWAYS target players.

1.3.2

• Updated Grovetender ghost visuals to look fiery to differentiate from Happiest Mask visuals.

1.3.1

• The Grovetender ghost item (should) no longer appear as a white item.
• Added DamageSources to each of the mod's attacks.

1.3.0

• Gave Grovetenders a new Special: Mass Resurrect!
• Added some new visuals for Solus Prospectors' Drill Burrow
• Minor touchups to the Bison Rock ability but it's still kinda buggy.

1.2.0

• Gave Bighorn Bison a new Secondary: Unearth Boulder!
• Networked the mod's various projectiles and attacks.
• Added a boatload of Configuration options. (Some of them are even untested!)
• Added R2API DamageType dependency.

1.1.1

• Local idiot forgets to update the README properly
• Got rid of the accursed extra apostrophe in the manifest description

1.1.0

• Gave Xi Constructs a new Secondary: Core Launch!
• Clay Templars should now correctly use Grenade Barrage within 10 seconds of last seeing a target, rather than after.
• (hopefully) solved some NREs here and there.

1.0.1

• Updated manifest to include git repository link. that's it

1.0.0

• Exists