Starbound

Starbound

Tougher Mobs with Better Loot!
glider521al (Aura of Worlds dev)  [developer] 25 Nov, 2022 @ 8:35pm
Boss overhauls and reworks
Hi folks, here are the bosses reworked or overhauled in the game so far:

Erchius Horror - Nightmare Edition
The monster has had time to grow and evolve (bringing a shield/jump tech is recommended)
  • All 3 beam attack patterns move about 20% faster.
  • Will spawn in an extra moontant (at 6 moontants, the boss moves 2 of them to the side platforms instead) + 1 batong when summoning enemies
  • Boss will occasionally spawn mutant miners after certain damage thresholds are reached (similar to Shadow's suggestion),

Poisonous Ixodoom boss
Due to a symbiotic relationship with Pteropods, the Ixodoom has developed a taste for venom and has grown stronger.
  • Summons Pteropods throughout the fight, increasing in frequency, as the boss takes damage.
  • The boss spits acid much more frequently.
  • All the Ixodoom's attacks are poisonous (excluding those done by minions).
  • The boss moves faster during the sweep attack phase.

Asra Nox
The cultist leader; aware that you reached the artifacts before her group fights more aggressively:
  • Fires additional kunai energy darts (the alternative version of the fight next to Ruin, gains this attack to).
  • Calls in backup as she recovers her energy, with different dialogue and opponents as the fight progresses.

Big Ape [v.1.5]
The Miniknog have been expecting an attack on the stronghold for some time, so they've been upgrading their deadly figurehead to set a trap for the resistance.

  • Has 5 revolving projector parts instead of 4; each of which carry out their own attacks.
  • Periodically spawns deadly Apex designed automations as the fights progresses: scandroids, triplods and the bane of the USCM: Parasprites.

Baron's Keep - Glitch seige
The Occasus cult realized their ineffectiveness at seige warfare; so made an uneasy alliance with some Glitch Raiders. They left out the part about genociding the universe but talked up the potential treasure.
  • Waves of enemies include cultist scan droids and evil glitch knights.
  • Balistas spawn in with mounted dark glitch knights.

Bone Dragon
Still seething about losing to you earlier, Asra has been looking for ways to get an edge.
Asra found a way to overclock the Bone Dragon for a harder fight.
  • It now moves faster.
  • Fires an alternating fire volley of 4 fireballs instead of just one.


Ruin
The scourge of the universe has been genetically enhanced by the Occasus Cult and is much more aggressive in its attack patterns
  • Will periodically spawn in extra enemies including cultist scan droids, parasprites and tentacle creatures. The frequency will increase as the fight progresses.
  • When it summons monsters from other biomes to aid it, some of these have a moderate chance of being the stronger elemental variants and poptops are replaced with their adult versions. Additional enemies spawn during this phase with lower health.
  • The boss will drop a random item from the rarespaceitem pool and a random high tier unique weapon on defeat + 8000 pixels (just be sure to grab it before the planet explodes 💥).

Swan Song
Asra Nox, knows you're coming this time, and witnessing your feats across the galaxy, has spent time re-engineering her mech for a more challenging (albeit fairer fight).
  • The Vanilla fight was highly geared towards a particular melee weapon. Most other classes of mechs would soon be unable to move in the Ophanim lazer web due to lacking DPS. The overhauled version makes the fight more balanced and varied while still remaining the hardest boss in the game.
  • Lowered the maximum number of ophanims that can occupy the arena, so that players can still move with a non melee/non sniper DPS build as the fight goes on.

  • Any extra ophanim spawners will shoot red plasma bolts at the player instead.
  • At the end of each round in the first phase; the boss will spawn triplods (with batteries in them).
  • Contact damage with the mech has been removed to stop unavoidable damage from situations where the Swansong teleports onto the player in phase 2.
  • During the second phase a damaged Swansong will spawn Trifangle shooter enemies and the odd battery pickup.
  • There may be some additional tweaks later...
Last edited by glider521al (Aura of Worlds dev); 10 Dec, 2022 @ 5:19am
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glider521al (Aura of Worlds dev)  [developer] 20 Dec, 2022 @ 8:00pm 
Now we get to the optional bosses in 1.6

Dreadwing the Conqueror
The penguin boss, got tipped off that a warrior was going to challenge him. Eager to meet his match he's been reorganizing his hench penguins.
  • Beamed reinforcements can include tanks.
  • Mini UFOs will spawn at the same time as ground troops, with the number increasing as his attack ship takes damage.
  • Increased loot drops, now guaranteed to drop either a unique tier 2 weapon or action figurine trophy.
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