MADNESS: Project Nexus

MADNESS: Project Nexus

Off-Track Blues (ARENA)
Kyarichos balance discussion
to sum it up, i find highliner kyar to be way too destructive for one of the bosses you run into on the first car of the last mission, like, ill be trying to get behind him, then he suddenly uses his fist teleportation ability to deny any distance i could make on him, ONTOP of the fact that he knocks me over already.

his attacks just feel far too accurate and speedy for a giant tanky boss. not that his abilities are bad, just that the one where he teleports around needs a longer cooldown. if i haven't updated my mod im probably working with the old version, but im constantly reapplying my mods so idk why that would be the issue.
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Kyarichos seems pretty balanced to me? Im using a 20 imprint massive and can keep up well enough to kill him with executions using those screwdrivers dropped by em engineer fellas on the same stage. You can start chaining executions by hitting em with a screwdriver while he recovers from the first one and positioning yourself so you can instantly execute him again the moment he gets back up if that helps. He does eventually free himself if my character ends up throwing him too far away, but thats mostly a big origin problem.
Youhoooop  [developer] 4 May @ 11:31pm 
Unfortunately, adding a cooldown to only the teleport punch is unfeasible at the moment, as the behaviors required to make him use the attack in the first place are not very changeable in this aspect.
Youhoooop  [developer] 5 May @ 8:38pm 
I have been informed that Carnivore has a secret weakness to shock damage, I've gone ahead and changed his shock fist damage type into explosive damage instead like I originally intended. See how that bodes for the damage intake.
Last edited by Youhoooop; 5 May @ 8:38pm
May 5 May @ 8:55pm 
Oh shi-t.
I think I'm the one who's to blame for this.

C&O dev here, the one who created Carnivore.

Carnivore, due to lore, has secret downside that gives her a whopping +300% damage received against shock attacks.

It's sort of a secret that normally doesn't impact you too much throughout the game, but with this certain mini-boss it matters a ton.

You normally can 5~6 hits from him with other origins, but for Carnivore, the best is up to like, 3 shot at most + certain attacks with bad luck can remove your corpus with a single hit.

That said, there is a pretty easy way of beating it, which is using I-frames(invincibility frames) of dodge & standing beside ledges & obstacles to force "Kyarichos" from teleporting to give you an easy shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwefsjcED18&t=833s

Check the time around 3:30

The fight is more about baiting attacks with your movement & properly avoiding getting hit when your health's low.
May 5 May @ 9:05pm 
Sorry for not making that clear in the first place.

It's rare when these gimmicks actually make a difference, due to how few element attacks are in the game.
Khalibur 6 May @ 12:07am 
ah, fair enough. i also have an issue with hud scaling, hoping someone makes a mod to fix the hud scale issues by adding a slider to the menu. or krinkles/pnteam could do it.
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