Game Mutation Ideas

I assume faster attack speed and life regen.

 

How about when you level up?

Edit: or they're just also affected by your warbanners.

 

Risk of Rain
All chests are automatically unlocked, all shrines have been used up and their items/xp dumped out, and all drones are free. The game starts out at the Risk of Rain difficulty, all money is given as extra XP, and clearing the area for the first 3 teleporters are not required.

 

But you don't get any score and you can't unlock anything while the mutator is active! Otherwise every newbie will play it and never turn it off.

Idea for a mutator:
All chests, shops and normal shrines are replaced with health shrines or % health shrines. To get items you'll constantly have to be at lower health and risk more. If you don't use them you get no items. Also to make it a bit fair after you get your first item from a certain shrine, the next item you could get has to be one tier higher than your first item from the same shrine. You get white as first and second can't be white. You get a green item as first and the second can't be green or white. (Also no drones spawn with this mutator)

 

Yeah, to unlock that mutator, you have to beat the game 10 times.

 

On Monsoon? Done!

 

Sure, why not? The game isn't even that hard on Rainstorm.

 

How about a mutator that starts you off with 2 attack drones, 4 white items, 2 green items, and 1 legendary item of your choosing, and purchasing anything in any way shape or form is not allowed. So basically a starter's kit and nothing else.
And you can't repair your drones, forcing you to take extra caution.

 

Vagrants are notorious for taking out drones. Unless there'll be a way to reposition them around you or teach them how to dodge the pellets, I'd suggest that in this mode drones auto-respawn when killed.

 

Yeah that would make more sense. letting the drone auto respawn is good, there should just be a delay before it repairs itself-like if your drone dies you'll have to wait like 10-20 seconds.

 

World Traveler
Player must go through all ten stages in the game in linear order. Bosses, some drops, spawn points, and teleporters are predetermined for each level. (Levels would be set up so that the player must trek from one end of the map to another.) Difficulty timer is set to half speed.

 

Less is More:
- Divide item opportunities in half
- Double the effect of items

The thought of this is to reduce the amount of items a player receive but make item finds more impactful/rewarding. This would be a great way to really see how some items can synergize together. Some runs will be crazy awesome and others will not. The exact ratio of effect to drop quantity's would obviously need to be balanced out.

 

Zelda mode:
- Instead of HP, every character has a number of hearts that they start with.
- Every mob deals a certain amount of hearts of damage, which are modified by factors like being a boss, being an elite or blighted, the current difficulty level and the number of levels played.
- The same rule of damaging power also applies to player attacks in which the base damage is 1 heart + 1/2 heart for every level up.
- Chests can only be unlocked by keys, which are randomly dropped by fallen mobs.
- Leveling up does not increase health, instead, increasing the max health is done by killing bosses, which drops heart containers instead of items.
- Rupees are used to buy items from the multiple-choice stores, and slots as well as could be used to pay for praying in shrines.
- Health does not regenerate, unless special items that improve regeneration are picked up.
- All player characters have a short invincibility frame period after being hit, this effect is amplified with Guardian Heart, which adds a short duration to invincibility frames, as well as half a heart's worth of shielding.
- Every item acquired is accompanied by a triumphant jingle.

 

You'll wait for Rebirth don't you worry or be that impatient.