LIGHTNINGLORD2'S PROFILE

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There are other ways to balance crowd control, too.
Like giving crowd control abilities cooldowns, or making an enemy immune to crowd control for a set amount of turns after being afflicted by a stun/freeze/whatever.

Then there's also what guild wars 2 does: every major enemy or boss gets several stacks of a buff that makes it immune to crowd control. whenever the enemy gets hit by a crowd control ability, it loses a stack, and once it loses all the stacks, it becomes vulnerable to the next crowd control ability, then it gets all the stacks back after it's hit by one. This will probably require scripting, though.

The simplest option would be to make the boss only resistant to the states, but personally I think this solution is too luck-based.

Indeed, there's far more that could be done to make them more useful - thing is, you want the ability to be neither completely useless, nor do you want it to completely remove the gameplay of the fight.

I was thinking about which boss in Terraria I should talk about, but I think this one's the most notable of all:



The Wall of Flesh

It is summoned by throwing a voodoo doll of the guide into the lava of the Underworld (aka the guy who acts as a walking tutorial and crafting library). As the name implies, it's a wall made of flesh racing along the underworld. Getting overtaken or trying to run out of the underworld causes its tongue to come out and drag you in front of it. You also have to fight off multiple mouths on tentacles called the Hungry to get hits on it. Using a Magic Mirror (warp back to spawn) or getting rammed at the edge of the world instakills you.

While fighting a gigantic, hell-sized wall trying to run you over (and shooting with eye lasers) is already notable enough, the real kicker is the aftermath - The ancient spirits of light and dark have been released!

This changes a whole lot in the world - a massive amount of corruption is spread across the map, which also spread much faster and more expansively as before. Also, a new biome - the Hallow - appears, which also spawns in a vast area. Countless new and massively powerful enemies appear and every night, there's a high chance a robot version of one of the first three bosses will attack you (if you beat them at least once, they won't return). It's probably one of the most extreme shifts you'll ever see in a game.

The act of making battles slower/faster is actually very easy to achieve, as it is a simple matter of changing HP and damage potential. If you feel like giving options, you could give a mode that lowers the HP of all enemies and actors and one that raises them all.

All three are in perfect position for his attack skill.

Is there a ROM Hack for the DQM games on Gameboy that increases the player's movement speed? It's no fun slugging through masses of maps that all look identical.