Hello there. Care to try and beat a mechanical monster?

From time to time, you can see more complete descriptions on my Wiki profile.

Bosses:


1. Symphony
   
   
   
   • First creation made. Scarce use of events, and default durability. Shouldn't be too difficult for any who's played Fraxy before.
   
   
   • Sample image: 479 x 639 pixels; PNG format.
   
   



2. Spiral Ocean (incomplete)
   
   
   
   • Shaped like a snail's shell. Invincible walls, save for doors, constant-fire vulcans and small spaces can cause death fairly soon, especially upon entering the parent core's miniscule chamber. If you get too far away, it will try to ram you.
   
   
   • Last modification: 12/10/2009.
   
   



3. Xie Xie (incomlete)
   
   
   
   • Protected by invincible honeycomb walls and four destroyable doorways. Entering the room of Nana Bee (parent core) causes a core to appear around its external barrier. Destroying one causes another to appear, until all four are destroyed. The rest, I'll leave for you to discover.
   
   
   • “Xie Xie” is pinyin for “thank you.”
   
   



4. NAME (incomplete)
   
   
   
   • Still working on an ideal shape for this. Pretty sure Search Lights will play a big part. NAME might be its final – uh, name.
   
   



5. Silucnumoh (incomplete)
   
   
   
   • First attempt at creating a multiple form boss. It will start as a face that fires various weapons from its mouth. In order to reach the parent core (codenamed “Empty Brain”), various parts of the head must be destroyed in a specific order. Not sure if it'll have a lot of patterns, or just a rain of bullets from everywhere.
   
   
   • “Homunculis” reversed.
   
   
   • Last modification: 12/10/2009.
   
   

Drones:


1. Orange Light Show
   
   
   
   • Exactly what it says on the tin. (If it's not orange, check your color settings in configuration or ignore it.)
   
   
   • Sample image: 478 x 638 pixels; PNG format.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Lantern Dragger
   
   
   
   • Sample image: not yet.
   
   
   • Finished: 2/11/2009.
   
   
   
   
   

Posted by Perfect Infinity

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Symphony was... interesting. The second form surprised me. It was weird for a first creation. The other bosses sound great.

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If all goes well in these next few tests, Silucnumoh's going to have four detached cores circling it. I'm have some trouble getting the movement to be perfect, but I'm pretty sure I can fix that with careful timing events for the Boosters and Move Joint.

Posted by Perfect Infinity

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Weird as in, it was different from the rest. But in a good way.

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Added Orange Light Show. It was a fun distraction from the huge beasts that all the others becoming.

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Fraxy Bosses and Drones
Current projects:
Spiral Ocean, Xie Xie, NAME, Silucnumoh, Tailing Shaman.

Posted by NightKev

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Well, the bullets are only orange if the player didn't change from the default bullet colors...

Or is there a way to change it in events now and I've just forgotten?

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Started work on a project for the Tail Connect Type: Tailing Shaman. CLEVER AMIRITE. (Hint: no.) Will resemble a long wall hanging that wiggles from side to side while perpetually moving upward and shooting various weapons. Probably going to have to modify the current design a lot so that it works the way I want it to, but that's nothing new: Spiral Ocean's exactly the same, since I didn't know everything about the parent to child relationship back then.

So yeah. Not adding it to the index yet, since it's nowhere near even 50% finished.

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Fraxy Bosses and Drones
Current projects:
Spiral Ocean, Xie Xie, NAME, Silucnumoh, Tailing Shaman.

Blargh Tailing Shaman asdf. I can't detach that core, because then it doesn't move upward with the main body, but then the boosters that make it move up and down repeatedly make the main core sway all crazy-like, and THEN IT IS DOING WRONG NOT CORRECT ABORT MISSION BZZZZZZT.

This is going to take a lot of careful booster balancing. It's worth, it, though, 'cause I think it looks pretty darn awesome. Previews will be posted soon. Maybe. I dunno.

Edit: All right, forget the boosters. I'm going with move joints and effectors. The simplist solution is the best one, and right now, anything looks simpler than the alternative.

Spiral Ocean's mostly an editing job at this point. Seeing as I didn't understand the entire parent-to-child relationship during its initial build, some of the parts you have to destroy also kill a large portion of the walls. I could insert the ending to the first paragraph, but I largely hate repetition. Suffice to say, this is what I'm doing with it now:

if (durability < 500)
{
durability = 5000;
visibility = hidden;
stop movement;
}

Xie Xie's kind of in the same boat right now, though it's better, at least. I need to increase some of the weapons' potency, as well as fix the timing for the four cores so that you have time to get in front of it before it blocks your path. Plus, I've got no idea whether or not the barriers, what with their new reflective properties, nterfere with any attack patterns.

Silucnumoh — not much to report on that. I haven't really worked on it, unfortunately.

NAME is NAME is NAME is NAME. Same as Silucnumoh.

I might start on a new drone, just as a distraction.

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Fraxy Bosses and Drones
Current projects:
Spiral Ocean, Xie Xie, NAME, Silucnumoh, Tailing Shaman.

Posted by NightKev

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Instead of changing the visibility of the part and stopping it, just have it change the Max Durability to a rather small number (ie: 1), then the parts will still blow up.

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Posted by Firefox11

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Use negative durability to make them invulnerable, then.

That is, if I got what you want to do right xD

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Posted by NightKev

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Oh, were the destroyable parts also parent parts? That would do it, yeah.

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Have some Lantern Dragger goodness.

I've not done much to any of the bosses. Sorry, Final Fantasy IV has distracted me from, like, everything.

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Fraxy Bosses and Drones
Current projects:
Spiral Ocean, Xie Xie, NAME, Silucnumoh, Tailing Shaman.