[Expansion] Mission Mode V1D Released! (v4 working)

[Beed28]

After another playthrough, I noticed something that bugs me a lot; the flying enemies often attack you from behind with little to no warning, and they respawn to boot. This is especially notable since they don't even drop anything at all; prehaps make them drop small health every once in a while?

[CutmanMike]

Respawning enemies purposely don't drop items so you can't farm health. A mechanic I didn't like in megaman. I'll probably add sounds to these enemies but I couldn't come up with a good one for tellys spinning.

[fortegigasgospel]

Maybe a "wirr wirr wirr wirr" or a "weeeyuuu weeeyuuu"

[CutmanMike]

Yeah I had trouble finding an 8-bit sound that didn't sound like something else from the game

[CHAOS_FANTAZY]

Honestly, the Tellies drift through the air so slowly that I have no problem spotting them before they're right on top of me.  It's like a fair trade, actually—the Bladers get to move faster but they make noise too.

[Beed28]

But the Yambow enemy in Needle Man's stage annoyingly doesn't make a sound either, and they move faster than the Tellies.

[tsukiyomaru0]

How about do this: if non-respawning enemies have a 1/10 (non-accurate number, only for example) chance of dropping an item, why not make the respawning ones have 1/20 or 1/40 then, and have them have a very low chance (1/8 chance of a normal enemy) of dropping a large health/weapon energy capsule?

[Stardust]

Actually Tsuki, it depends of if you'd like to farm the enemies to earn capsule items.
And even with low probability of drop, some players will still come back to thrash some gimmicks to recover.
So, by not setting the respawning enemies to drop, you're sure that people won't tend to recover from enemies. Anyway I agree it would be a kind of cheating...
Forget my arrogance but how is Napalm Man's stage doing ?

[tsukiyomaru0]

Well, it was a tradition among Mega Man games, to head back and forth to farm recovery. Plus, it's reasonable, as some enemies bosses can kill you in few seconds even if you have full health.

[Ivory]

Tradition doesn't justify it as a reasonable mechanic however. waiting for enemies to spawn and then farming items off of them has always been my most hated part of playing classic Mega Man games.

[CutmanMike]

Am I the only one that ever ran out of crash bombs at the boobeam trap? It's enough to scar you for life!

[Beed28]

Am I the only one that ever ran out of crash bombs at the boobeam trap? It's enough to scar you for life!

Don't forget running out of Bubble Lead for the Alien (especially if you used it beforehand against Picopico-kun and the Heat Man refight). That's an even worse fate.

[Stardust]

Well, it was a tradition among Mega Man games, to head back and forth to farm recovery. Plus, it's reasonable, as some enemies bosses can kill you in few seconds even if you have full health.

Forgive my unawareness, but except in the Mega Man X series where you can farm health to fill the Energy Tanks, I was actually wondering how and why would you recover ? In all my classic Mega Man experience, except when I do the "use all the ammo of all the weapons and then use the buster to rebuild each weapon" challenge, I never had to recover... you know pretty much that you'll restart right in the hall before the boss in the case where the boss anihilates you. And you'll have full health, and won't be able to go before the door, so... so do you have an example of situation where you could and would recover ?

EDIT : Completly unrelated to the above : but can some custom maps made by some people else than Mike be imported into the official Mission Mode ?

[SmashTheEchidna]

Am I the only one that ever ran out of crash bombs at the boobeam trap? It's enough to scar you for life!

Trust me, Mike. You are NOT the only one. .___.;

[Rozark]

Am I the only one that ever ran out of crash bombs at the boobeam trap? It's enough to scar you for life!

Please.
Don't remind me.
This is one of the gaming experiences I wish to forget.