Opponent Flags / Discussion

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Vholes 17 Nov 2010 02:39

I think the "Poison Immune" Trait might not exist.

I suspect it's more like:

No Organs - doesn't take bonus damage from kidney punch, gnarled claw, or organ feast ; doesn't allow you to heal with undying heart + ghoultouched ; protects against gas grenade and spore cloud ;

Air Filter - protects against gas grenade and spore cloud

Any evidence to the contrary?

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bigalphillips 17 Nov 2010 03:17

Yeah, poison immune and air filter are pretty much synonymous. I just called it poison immune instead of air filter because some of the poison immune opponents might not have an "air filter" per se.

Feel free to edit or rename as you like. :)

Vholes 17 Nov 2010 04:42

Okay, cool, wasn't sure what the concept was. I think I'll change it to "Air Filter" because I think that covers every opponent that's immune to those techniques but doesn't have the "No Organs" trait.

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bigalphillips 28 Apr 2018 20:37

Looking at opponent flags lately, and it still doesn't make 100% sense yet, but starting to shape up. For physical characteristics, we have:

• "Crunchy" (which probably needs a better name) — which is generally means "fleshless", or things that you wouldn't ordinarily call a living "creature". These are opponents made out of holograms, office furniture, bones, etc.
  • No Organs (which probably needs a better name) — which does actually apply to a lot of creatures with organs but also some without; generally creatures without a normal animal vascular system (robots, snowmen, etheric creatures, and everything Crunchy)
    • Air Filter — protects from lung damage. Includes guards with gas masks and everything No Organs.

• Stone Opponents — Seems independent from the above. Horrific spider has organs but is stone.
• Dynamite immunity — Seems independent from the above. Mostly seems to be used so defeating "puzzle bosses" is not sidestepped, but Helidrone and Pile of Secrets are also immune, for some reason.

• Midgard Drone — autonomous robots produced by Midgard; see also mysterious drone signature
  • Drone — autonomous robots; includes all Midgard Drones and others (needs clarification on which are which)
    • Electric — susceptible to electricity damage; includes all Drones and some others

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Cryptodynamic 25 Sep 2018 20:31

I suppose "can run away", whatever we want to call it, should probably be considered a flag, right? However it ends up being handled on the back end. We should probably try to figure out what all opponents it applies to, as well.

So far:
Dancer
Hipster (not sure if Al fought any other than the one in the museum, but I imagine it applies to all of them)

Does not seem to apply to:
Cornered Rat