Xeno bugs

[Rico's Roughnecks]

I thought the 10 page long "bugs" thread was getting too many different subjects so here's a subtopic about bugs with the bugs.

On Secrets of endivius, the eggs are blocking the hallways so there's only one entrance into the west side of the map. I took advantage of this by using 1 trooper to guard the open tunnel and the other 3 destroying all the eggs without creating another opening, with 7 xenos standing around on the other side of the eggs unable to get at me. Then I set up an ambush and when I was ready, blew up an egg creating an opening the xenos could come through... and they didn't. They just stood there.

I couldn't take a screenshot but it was like this... the small western chamber with the eggs is behind my troopers and the big open area is behind the bugs. w=wall, te=templar, e=egg, Xx=xeno, "--" = open space

WWWWW------------
WWWWW------------
WWWWW----WW
TeTeTeEe----WW
WWWWWEeXxXxXx <-- Captain approaches from here
WWWWWXx
WWWWWXx

Then I destroyed the egg in front of my troopers and the bugs didn't move. I walked my captain around the other way and came up behind them in plain sight and they didn't react until he came within 4 spaces of one of them, then that one charged him but the others still didn't move.

Also, no more xenos were spawning. There were only 7 for a long time, then when I finally killed two of them each spawnpoint created 1 more so there were 9 and I killed a bunch of them and then there were only 5 for awhile until I killed one of them.

[fallen]

@ricos - i will take a look. I also beat that level that way the second time around... since the xenos don't go over / around the eggs (aliens are not smart, yet) they should not be placed in blocking locations. I think the shortest route to a more challenging level is to move the eggs out of the highways!

[fallen]

Ps. that fix, and better placement of the dialog around the eggs will be included in the next release after 0.2.9!

[Rico's Roughnecks]

On a separate note, I think it would be cool if the purple bugs, in their frenzy to attack templars, tore their way through slower blue bugs. I have several times deliberately not killed a blue bug because there was a more dangerous purple behind it, or made a long run knowing that a speed6 blue bug was holding back a speed 12 purple.

And it would be a cool mental picture too...

[slayernz]

Yeah ... definitely having purple bugs cause damage to inferior blue bugs in their quest to chew on Templar flesh would be good.

[arpad]

Are there any details anywhere on the differences between the different xeno types and colours? The only differentiation I have been able to make so far is that the Blues are slower than the rest. Is that right? Any other differences?

[Rico's Roughnecks]

The whole purple bug conversation here is obsolete, there aren't any more purples

blue bugs are the easiest to hit, then green, then red.
They all have random hit points, but reds are the only ones I've seen with 5hp.
Green and red always move 2 spaces per action. Blue vary from 1-3 spaces so they can be slowest or fastest

[arpad]

That's really helpful. Thanks Rico.