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First Boss - Ludas, The Fugitive and Slave Girls
🕑 Added 2018-04-20 04:22:27 +0000 UTC Background:Ludas was among the first sent to investigate the Mysterious Border Disturbances. Everyone thought that this was an easy task, certainly no match for the young and promising Ludas. However, not only did Ludas failed to bring order to the village, he kidnapped the townswoman, enslaved them into his haram, and declare himself an enemy of the Empire! From that day onwards, Ludas, the Promising Star is no more, and Ludas, the Fugitive is born.
Design Considerations:
After reviewing lots of feedback on the previous demos, there are a couple things that people have indicated as wanting:
- No mechanic currently exists to take “lead” and “initiate” grabs
- Bosses too weak to groups
- No male/futa
So I thought that this first “actual” boss would be a perfect opportunity to address those issues and knock three and half birds with one stone. (The half being some light bondage elements)
Mechanics
Ludas is designed as an actual boss, whereas all the previous “bosses” are more like just a slightly stronger version of regular mobs. Being an actual boss, Ludas is a member of the “Elite” class and will be grabbable! You’ll have to finish him off. And yes, Ludas is a he, and no, there wouldn't be a toggle to convert him into a futa/trap/etc.
With Ludas, I am going to follow the good tested and true method of boss balancing: he is slow, (should be) telegraphed, but has high HP and is very stagger resilient. In addition to the regular combat that everyone have access to, Ludas have two additional mechanics:
- Reinforcements! - Ludas calls upon his harem, summoning numerous slave girls to join the fight. The slave girls are weak individually but are dangerous when swarmed. Stat wise very similar to the Grunts.
- Leap - Ludas can no longer resist his inner urges, and jumps at target foe. Should the target fails to dodge out of the way, Ludas and instantly grab the target and starts working. Functionally similar to the Pounce in HR.
Closing Comments
I thought about giving him a Frenzy type of ability as well (greatly increases move and attack speed), but there isn’t a systematic way of doing it yet (like a temporary buff/debuff system). And I don’t want to make specific mechanics just for him. The respawning enemies and disabling attacks have other applications.
The slave girls are not actually bound of course, else how would they attack? :P
For the boss outfit, I want to start with a generic male-adventurer look, so other males can have something to wear too.
There is also a couple new hair styles too.
Anyways, still want to add a few more M/F moves, after those are ready, its patch time!
Comments
Enlit3D
Press E on a vulnerable enemy. It will shown a prompt when its available.
Nik
How do you do the grabs? Or can you grab the enemy?
Can't Wait
To each his own.
Enlit3D
Possibly for bondage. No for HR.
Well I was looking forward to this project but male bosses kinda ruin it
PureKaos
so does this mean bondage mechanics are going to be a thing? and if so are you going to implement them in Heroine rumble as well?
Enlit3D
No, there will be futas.
The all female cast was the reason I liked Heroine Rumble so much. It was the niche that worked for it, and i was hoping this game would have it too. Oh well :/
Gamer
So there won't be any futa at all?
When does the protagonist have futa?
Enlit3D
That does sounds fitting doesn't it. There are no endings ATM but it is likely once I get to the story part.
Ericridge
What? No futa? Aww....
Verdonator
I think bosses should have skills that neutralize or distract the protagonist's party so that it's more of a duel than a boss getting gangbanged. For this boss, I would see an insta-bind for your party : your whole party get bound and you have to free them if you want them to keep fighting (or don't if you want to watch them get raped by slaves)
Frank Baum
Too bad this is moving away from the original concept....
Can the protagonist be enslaved if gets defeated by the boss? (A little expected lol)
Climhazzard
Sounds awesome, can't wait.
