Enemy AI and attack pattern improvements

[Wille84FIN]

Hi. Grounded has become my favorite survival game in a long time. I especially like the variety and differences in enemies. The wolf spider is my favorite so far, because it poses a actual threat.

It would be even better if the enemies weren't as easy to cheese through. Here are my suggestion to make it even better imo. I'm playing on Whoa! difficulty and Xbox One X. Bought version.

1.) Spiders would be even better if they had the ability to climb certain surfaces, jump on top of certain surfaces and new attack patterns to combat players standing on top of a leaf/small obstacle. Poke players down with front legs or something. Also fix the existing AI, pathfinding and spawning.

2.) Make attack patterns/animations of a lot of enemies shorter and less easy to predict. Like the ladybug, it provides access to next tier gear. Yet it takes it's time to "prepare" a certain attack, while the player runs circles around it with a mallet etc.

3.) The stink bug gets stuck on absolutely everything. Hence ridiculously easy to cheese. Please do something to improve this behavior.

4.) Bombardier is the same, run circles around it and just avoid the "spit" attack.

5.) The flies. Maybe make the fly swarm to a actual mechanic instead. Player covered in certain substances/carrying certain items (spoiled meat etc.) would become more prone to fly swarming. Currently they add barely anything mechanics wise.

6.) Little critters (spiders/mites etc.). Those could be more numerous. Also maybe add poison damage for the little spiders, but low attack damage otherwise.

7.) Larva. Definitely bugged, at least when it comes to spawning. I have one cave that has over 40 larva spawn.. Also they usually just spazz in place, looking like they had a seizure or something. Also maybe increase their cone of attack.

8.) Ants are mostly fine, except for the stealing mechanic distance and collision seems bugged. Also they sometimes clip through walls. Ant spawning seems a bit glithy too. Like, is the ant nest supposed to have only soldier ants, and like aroaround 10 in almost every room?

That's about it so far. Really liking the game and can't wait for fixes/content updates etc. Keep up the good work

Edited August 2, 2020 by Wille84FIN