Misery Bot buffs

[Hearteater]

From the misery challenge thread and a discussion on how to make misery harder without just increasing stats came the idea to give a new bonus ability to each bot. Below is a quick brainstorm of the normal bots.

AmmoBot	Equipped with the best projectile weapon from another bot type in the current mission
AvalancheBot	Gets to move for free whenever it takes damage
BatBot	Can fire immediately after moving if they are in range of a target they like
BlasterBot	It's Gamma-Ray Laser EMPs Exo weapons for 2 turns
BlasterMaster	When he dies, removes the miss debuff from all Bots in the mission
BlunderBot	Takes only 25% damage from AOE
BombBot	Now have a range 1 attack.
CannonBot	Can move while active and out of LOS
CommandBot	Breaks free of player control after two turns whenever virused
DoomBot	Killing a DoomBot activates one random other DoomBot
DumBot	Have 11 ammo and therefor don't miss their first shot
EagleBot	Do not trigger mines.
EMPBot	EMPs all energy weapons of any Exo it is next to for 1 turn
GaffeBot	Random movement does not apply while at full health
HideBot	Not affected by AOE damage if stealthed
HunterBot	Stealths after 3 turns out of LOS…unstealths whenever in LOS
Invigorated DumBot	Move one space whenever they miss
LeaderBot	All bots near him can move normally (e.g., EagleBot, BatBot, etc)
MastermindBot	Can see stealthed Exos
NinjaBot	Stealthed while not active
PantherBot	Healed when it walks over mines
RaptorBot	Attritions Exo shields as well (at some reasonable rate)
SilenceBot	Alerts nearby bots whenever damaged but not destroyed
StealthBot	Deals +25% damage if stealthed before attacking
TeslaBot	Shots electrify the ground in the space attacked and 1 random adjacent space
ThiefBot	Gives 1 ammo to each nearby bot whenever he steals
ThunderBot	Not affected by AOE damage from destroyed cover
TigerBot	Stun doesn't stack
TreadBot	Cannot be immoblized
WyvernBot	Gets a free move the turn an Exo comes into LOS

Feel free to chime in. Remember the primary goal is to increase the difficulty indirectly by making each bot more complex to deal with tactically instead of just upping the stats. The secondary goal is not to break Keith.

[keith.lamothe]

One thing that occurs to me is that it might be desirable to have these attached to a conduct named "Misery", such that Expert+MiseryConduct is "Misery difficulty", rather than having a difficulty option named Misery per se.

That way if one wanted to play with the somewhat-more-forgiving stats of Hard, but with the extra bot abilities, they could.

[nas1m]

One thing that occurs to me is that it might be desirable to have these attached to a conduct named "Misery", such that Expert+MiseryConduct is "Misery difficulty", rather than having a difficulty option named Misery per se.

That way if one wanted to play with the somewhat-more-forgiving stats of Hard, but with the extra bot abilities, they could.

Seconded!

[Hearteater]

Concur with that suggestion. Meanwhile...

BodyBot	Whenever a bot dies near him, his current shields are reduced by half instead of just dying.
GalaxyBot	EMPs Exo's stealth for 3 turns when it activates
MantaBot	Can shoot through obstactles (aka, cover)

[nas1m]

From the misery challenge thread and a discussion on how to make misery harder without just increasing stats came the idea to give a new bonus ability to each bot. Below is a quick brainstorm of the normal bots.

AmmoBot	Equipped with the best projectile weapon from another bot type in the current mission
AvalancheBot	Gets to move for free whenever it takes damage
BatBot	Can fire immediately after moving if they are in range of a target they like
BlasterBot	It's Gamma-Ray Laser EMPs Exo weapons for 2 turns
BlasterMaster	When he dies, removes the miss debuff from all Bots in the mission
BlunderBot	Takes only 25% damage from AOE
BombBot	Now have a range 1 attack.
CannonBot	Can move while active and out of LOS
CommandBot	Breaks free of player control after two turns whenever virused
DoomBot	Killing a DoomBot activates one random other DoomBot
DumBot	Have 11 ammo and therefor don't miss their first shot
EagleBot	Do not trigger mines.
EMPBot	EMPs all energy weapons of any Exo it is next to for 1 turn
GaffeBot	Random movement does not apply while at full health
HideBot	Not affected by AOE damage if stealthed
HunterBot	Stealths after 3 turns out of LOS…unstealths whenever in LOS
Invigorated DumBot	Move one space whenever they miss
LeaderBot	All bots near him can move normally (e.g., EagleBot, BatBot, etc)
MastermindBot	Can see stealthed Exos
NinjaBot	Stealthed while not active
PantherBot	Healed when it walks over mines
RaptorBot	Attritions Exo shields as well (at some reasonable rate)
SilenceBot	Alerts nearby bots whenever damaged but not destroyed
StealthBot	Deals +25% damage if stealthed before attacking
TeslaBot	Shots electrify the ground in the space attacked and 1 random adjacent space
ThiefBot	Gives 1 ammo to each nearby bot whenever he steals
ThunderBot	Not affected by AOE damage from destroyed cover
TigerBot	Stun doesn't stack
TreadBot	Cannot be immoblized
WyvernBot	Gets a free move the turn an Exo comes into LOS

Feel free to chime in. Remember the primary goal is to increase the difficulty indirectly by making each bot more complex to deal with tactically instead of just upping the stats. The secondary goal is not to break Keith.

These are all great!

[Alex Heartnet]

Should the DumBot have a special at all?

After all, it -is- the weakest enemy in the game 

[Hearteater]

It is a pretty minor special as specials go. And it is misery .

[Misery]

One thing that occurs to me is that it might be desirable to have these attached to a conduct named "Misery", such that Expert+MiseryConduct is "Misery difficulty", rather than having a difficulty option named Misery per se.

That way if one wanted to play with the somewhat-more-forgiving stats of Hard, but with the extra bot abilities, they could.

This be confusing.   Does that mean no misery difficulty + Misery conduct?  Which is probably what I'd be adding it to.

That being said, the bot ability upgrades being a conduct is a bloody great idea.  It sounds hilarious.

This is why I love this community, always helping to come up with ideas to make the players die more.  Er, I mean, to make things more fun.  Yeah  .


More stuff like this please, thanks.

[keith.lamothe]

This is why I love this community, always helping to come up with ideas to make the players die more.

The last 5 years of AI War's history, in a single sentence.

[Hearteater]

Below are all the special bots. I combined my previous partial list so the normal and special lists are just in two posts.

Absentminded LeaderBot	When he damages another bot, that bot is broken free of virus control
BodyBot	Whenever a bot dies near him, his current shields are reduced by half instead of just dying.
DeathBot	Gets a free move while active whenever you switch Exos
DiamondBot	Gains a +25% stacking damage each shot, but gives +25% stacking credits.
GalaxyBot	EMPs Exo's stealth for 3 turns when it activates
MantaBot	Can shoot through obstactles (aka, cover)
RadarBot	Detonates nearby player mines harmlessly and EMPs nearby sentry turrets for 2 turns
RazorBot	Will only attacked allied bots if they are already damaged
RecoilBot	Gains +50% damage whenever a bot in his LOS dies
SentryBot	Gives all bots it wakes up a free move
ShieldBot	Reduces AOE effect sizes targeted near him by 1.
SkyBot	Every other other spawned DumBot is an Invigorated DumBot

A couple of specials involve a free move. This is intended for movement only, not shooting. So even if the bot could shoot at something, it will move. This could cause a few bots to shoot if they shoot after moving automatically (like the BatBot's special, or I believe ThunderBot). Bots that are granted a free move move how they normally move (so randomly for BatBot, etc) and cannot move if something prevents them from moving (CannonBot not having anyone nearby).

Vaguely pondering bosses. But want to evaluate them more completely before I decide on what specials would go well with them.