If you need any help, I am an expert in the field of Tentanetic Enchantments.
Getting quite a bit of mileage from that PhD huh?
If you need any help, I am an expert in the field of Tentanetic Enchantments.
Why not make the detrimental effect a sexy one, then? Like instead of forcing the paternal/maternal urge onto the player, which borderlines on mindfuckery that tentacle egg monster does, the suit will communicate its needs and the player will react based on their Alignment and/or the current value of a compatibility score of some sort, if you'll decide to implement such system. On top of those messages, the symbiot will also stimulate the arousal as well as the size and productivity of the parts that produce its sustenance.
Idea: The tentasuit has a trust variable. It raises when in use, raises when sexed, but has a limit per day it can be raised. Trust deteriorates when not in use. Quickly if no surrogate is used, less quickly if you use a surrogate to keep the armor taken care of (maybe nursery?) Half of it's base leveled armor is trust dependent, and its ability to receive any particular perk requires its trust to be above a threshold. Also, unhelmeted and exposed require trust to be not horrible.
Actually I say go for something detrimental. To an extent. The treatment has oblivious pros and cons but before you can even use it you have to read what it does, giving players an insight to decide if they really want to go throughout with it. So for the symbiote there could be text, a warning, something to indicate that the player is making a big decision.
OK so first to kick of with main idea. Yeah organic armor instead inorganic one we got already in form of Nova. Yes it's something worth to have. As for it keeping up up to date...goddamit bacon if it alive and looks like cross of venom symbiote and especialy with been inspired on guyver it could and in fact SHOULD be able to undergone ala zerg like hyperevolutions to be able handle face new threats like... keep stronger enemies PC would fighting with game progress. And sometimes just for other reasons some "accidental" evolutions not forced by stronger enemies but due to PC finding stuff that can help mutate it in specific direction (like Nova after fight in Tavira Palace goo incubator or hopefully incoming soon uveto dungeon).
See how excited we get someone says they're maybe considering writing an idea?
If you need any help, I am an expert in the field of Tentanetic Enchantments.
Heh well that would kinda of pale long distant cousin of Guyver then with such limited adaptability (Ok that was meant to be joke I suppose)
I think comming with some good example of adapting suit due to exposure to some things may req. some planning. But it shold give good results. Still probably may not been on scale like Guyver but who knows... maybe you would write it would be like lewd version of Guyver with it highly adaptive ability. Which in turn may be lil hard on coders to handle it.
One thing this sorta reminds me of is the fusion suit from Metroid: Fusion. Maybe in the final few planets, it might gain the Power Armor flag due to the stacking of armorization perks making it more and more battle-worthy.
One suggestion:Maybe it could follow suit after Nova by being able to draw inspiration from many creatures to gain additional effects. Two ideas along that line is being able to copy the Zil's honey to be able to produce a energy restoring drink, and being able to copy the frostwyrm's scales for additional armor and frost resist. Perhaps it might even gain Psionics eventually. (but lets not go into Psionics at this point)
Perhaps it could even copy traits from the PC directly, as a alternative to hunting opponents that specific traits.
The main thing I don't wanna run into is having the suit Megaman enough abilities that it ends up being broken.
The Guyver itself is pretty damn nuts. Enough that an actual Guyver unit by end of series could wreck most, if not everything in the TiTSverse in a direct confrontation. Best believe I wanna work in some HF Blades, though.
Ultimately, some stuff is gonna have to wait until an expansion. Just gonna have to get at least the base content out first.
See how excited we get someone says they're maybe considering writing an idea?
I was pretty much thinking the same thing.
Expanding on the symbiote not needing to be an actual item needed to be in inventory or equipped you could make it into a scene/event like the Fountain of Endowment with Exgartuan except more futurey and all that. You could make it a space travel triggered event where PC lands on a moon/large asteroid with a lab on it and PC sees a blue and pink sphere, (there could just be one if your plan is the symbiote choosing a gender from interacting with the PC), where they feel compelled to touch one. Basically how Spider-Man gets his symbiote in Secret Wars except less/no fighting and more lewd.
To be honest, I'm a little surprised by the level of input this got myself. It's an encouraging kind of pressure.
Either we're really starved for content, or someone other than me really likes Living Armor.
I had considered some level of adaptive evolution just due to the Guyver influence. For example, the creature might learn some kind of cloaking technique if you wear it while fighting the Vanae.
Thaaat's probs. where you want to draw the line. Something adaptive that -requires- you to commit to a bunch of expansions is almost guaranteed to be one that could easily spiral out of control and get people nipping at your heels. Plus there seems to be a soft rule about things like this being too much of a combat advantage to the point where the bonuses are so good that people might end up seeing content they don't like just to powergame.
Focusing in on what you want the core principles to be (and how you want it to differ from the slime content - not just the other suit but also Celiss and others) is a better idea than swinging straight for the fences with all sorts of different armor "upgrades". It looks to me like your most coherent idea is that you want the armor to have a somewhat sophisticated relationship to the player. With it thinking of Steele as their parent do you want it to come off kind of incesty? Are you thinking mostly of tentacle content? If it's going to be more of a caring relationship (i.e. you're not stuck with this thing/will have an option to remove it so - I assume - it's not actually going to be parasitic and take what it needs if you're not "feeding" it) will the focus be on building that relationship?
If it is instead of something as open-ended as adaption you might consider giving it stages. An initial post-larval one, a "teenage" intermediate one, and then a mature one, for instance. That could allow for some customization options or variations for relationship points while keeping it from getting too crazy (and also provide a reason for it to keep pace with but not necessarily overshadow standard armor that fits in with the spirit of what you're trying to do).
EDIT: Just to be clear, in case anyone that sees this lacks the context: noobie is actually a terrible person. I like to make sure Captain Shitpost doesn't get a head too big for the hat.
Incestuous Consentacle Impregnation?!
@IVIysteriousPerson: SEE! Other people have my fetishes too!
I was expecting something devious and dominant, but this is cute so I am okay with it.
Aww it's so excited to meet you. I'm not big on fixing grammar so someone else will have to proof read, but I can make a suggestion. Maybe add one to two more dream sequences, the first one could be very rudimentary only a feeling of wanting acceptance while the second could steel dreaming about their 'child' is about to be born? That's when the third, yours, happens.
But yeah just an idea, anyway I did like the way you described the suit crawling over the pc.
Things look good so far. It pushes all my tentacle kink buttons. Thank you for allowing us to choose its gender.
Doc looks good, was just wondering how you planned for the Tenta-Suit to burrow/retract back into Steele since it seems to be a solid and in my mind no amount of hollow spaces in bones/body/etc etc would house it apart from spess magik. You could make the Tenta-Suit like a sentient blacklight virus from the game Prototype, or make the suit never truly removable but just make it condense to skin tight levels and make it go invisible.