Bass Worm

ITAShrek

i was thinking about a big worm with a huge mouth, similar to the bass fish one, that remains under the sand for most of the time but sometimes comes out to catch a prey. it would be not dangerous for the player but it could be a good way to scare him a bit .
the worm i took inspiration from is the "Ottoia" which lived during the cambrian period

Marut

Why not dangerous to the player? Seems like an (easily) avoidable pitfall trap if you're careful.

ITAShrek

well, it's just a creature made to see something strange, but an aggressive species could be implemented together with the "friendly" one

04Leonhardt

Marut wrote: »

Why not dangerous to the player? Seems like an (easily) avoidable pitfall trap if you're careful.

Because we have enough shit wanting to kill us already.
Adding more monsters that want to eat you just means more new threads asking for guns and weapons.

Make it something like this guy


He lives in the sand, with his tongue sticking out to try to attract prey, then he jumps up out of the sand whenever anything touches it. It'll bite ya once but when it realizes you're not its regular prey it'll swim around for a bit and dive back into the sand.

Or it could close its huge mouth around you and wait for you to suffocate, but you have to slash its tongue and it'll spit you out.

Marut

04Leonhardt wrote: »

Marut wrote: »

Why not dangerous to the player? Seems like an (easily) avoidable pitfall trap if you're careful.

Because we have enough shit wanting to kill us already.
Adding more monsters that want to eat you just means more new threads asking for guns and weapons.

Make it something like this guy


He lives in the sand, with his tongue sticking out to try to attract prey, then he jumps up out of the sand whenever anything touches it. It'll bite ya once but when it realizes you're not its regular prey it'll swim around for a bit and dive back into the sand.

Or it could close its huge mouth around you and wait for you to suffocate, but you have to slash its tongue and it'll spit you out.

This is pretty good. Might indeed be a better call.
But I was thinking more like a bobbit worm. Those usually stick quite a bit out of the sand so it would be easy to spot them. That's what I meant with the easily avoidable pitfall.

04Leonhardt

Marut wrote: »

04Leonhardt wrote: »

Marut wrote: »

Why not dangerous to the player? Seems like an (easily) avoidable pitfall trap if you're careful.

Because we have enough shit wanting to kill us already.
Adding more monsters that want to eat you just means more new threads asking for guns and weapons.

Make it something like this guy


He lives in the sand, with his tongue sticking out to try to attract prey, then he jumps up out of the sand whenever anything touches it. It'll bite ya once but when it realizes you're not its regular prey it'll swim around for a bit and dive back into the sand.

Or it could close its huge mouth around you and wait for you to suffocate, but you have to slash its tongue and it'll spit you out.

This is pretty good. Might indeed be a better call.
But I was thinking more like a bobbit worm. Those usually stick quite a bit out of the sand so it would be easy to spot them. That's what I meant with the easily avoidable pitfall.

Well yeah you'd see their bright glowy tongue sticking out of the middle of a big pit