Goonhub
03-13-2023, 04:02 AM
I've always seen thralls as an investment for blood. Previously this was still the case even after the cost change in some aspects since you had effective friends to incapacitate people so you could drink them while still alive. But after the arm change thralls just aren't useful for the vampire to get more blood with just their arms as they do massive bleed (reducing blood gains) and often kill the target (further reducing blood gains).
This is an issue I tried to address with a PR but a Dev shot down the idea of allowing vampires to get full blood from not rotten corpses to allow for that same thrall/master synergy. Instead only allowing for only thralls to drain non rotten corpses which isn't ideal and doesn't make much sense thematically or mechanically and is unintuitive for newer players.
A few solutions to this problem:
1. to reduce the scaling cost. (So players can see thralls as cost effective thus use them and make more interesting rounds with dead player involvement)
2. allow for vampires to drink from dead non rotten targets as I orginally intended, accounting for emblaming fluid/holy water if present to act as a counter. (So thralls can help their master greatly with blood gains, while still reducing overall amount gained due to feeding thralls)
3. rework the thrall limb to be more focused on stamina damage and disorientate than bleed and damage (So thralls can incapacitate targets without killing or bleeding them massively)
Another thing that should be addressed is that create thrall and donate blood use the same ability therefore its become very very annoying to give blood to dying thralls since the cost of donating also scales.
This is an issue I tried to address with a PR but a Dev shot down the idea of allowing vampires to get full blood from not rotten corpses to allow for that same thrall/master synergy. Instead only allowing for only thralls to drain non rotten corpses which isn't ideal and doesn't make much sense thematically or mechanically and is unintuitive for newer players.
A few solutions to this problem:
1. to reduce the scaling cost. (So players can see thralls as cost effective thus use them and make more interesting rounds with dead player involvement)
2. allow for vampires to drink from dead non rotten targets as I orginally intended, accounting for emblaming fluid/holy water if present to act as a counter. (So thralls can help their master greatly with blood gains, while still reducing overall amount gained due to feeding thralls)
3. rework the thrall limb to be more focused on stamina damage and disorientate than bleed and damage (So thralls can incapacitate targets without killing or bleeding them massively)
Another thing that should be addressed is that create thrall and donate blood use the same ability therefore its become very very annoying to give blood to dying thralls since the cost of donating also scales.