Freeplay only creatures?

[Redmoth27]

It would be cool if once in a while Freeplay mode had its own unique creatures instead of always dinner scraps. And also can uber creatures have their own designs?

 

[MikeSlugDisco]

The whole point of freeplay from our point of view is that it's a very efficient mode for development. We can take the things from the campaign and re purpose them - we don't have to get Matt to make entirely new models, textures, and animations. We also don't have to re-do an entire behavior tree for the creature.

If we started asking Matt to make unique creatures, we delay the campaign. It's as simple as that.

I believe the current thinking is the uber creatures will be visually different in some way, but they'll use the model and animations from their base creature.

 

[Soccer51x]

Gosh dangit redmoth, don't bother Matt with these silly questions!! He's WORKING. Also btw i'm kidding, and I also think it'd be cool if we had more than just little weird stones and shrimp? as food.

 

[TurtleDuDe48]

im pretty sure the team is working on other food types, such as the fungus the leaf cutter ants cultivate

 

[JonnyC289]

other bugs seem realistic too...like centipedes, grasshoppers, etc

 

[Soccer51x]

mmm cenitpedes, it would be could to see them decrease as the ants eat them

 

[Talon]

Freesplay-only-Creatures would be a waste. I dont see any reason, why a creatures use should be forbitten in the main missions?

Perhaps It is possible, a new creature gets its premiere in Freeplay, and will be later seen in a mission. But Freeplay-only... that makes no sense.

 

[Redmoth27]

What I meant was extra creatures the campaign doesn't need.

 

[Soccer51x]

frogs! that's be awesome, i'd love the adrenaline of rushing my ants to safety as they get chased by a massive frog...