WALL OF TEXT HAS AWOKEN.

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So, to start of, I was thinking of If I were to add a new Slugcat it would need to have a fun and interesting gimmick to play with and it should have something to do with messing with the AI of the creatures, and I eventually came to an interesting idea.

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The run would start with the new Slugcat simply waking up on a mysterious never before seen room, immediately the player will notice something on the Slugcat's forehead and a new HUD element above their food meter in the shape of a single circle with a mysterious symbol inside of it, the first few minutes will lead the player into a room with a shelter and batflies flying a little too high to be reached, and will instruct the player to eat until full and then go to the shelter.

Suddenly the thing on the Slugcat's forehead will glow and start giving instructions similarly to an overseer on how to use your new ability, you can create an hologram on a spot of your choice of something that seems like very appetizing bait, and the batflies will all swarm around it seemingly ignoring the Slugcat's presence or the fact that their comrades are being devoured, the new meter on the HUD will then be emptied and the player will eventually find that they can refill it by going into the shelter and starting the next cycle.

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Starting the next cycle the Slugcat will be leaded subconciously via level design to a room with only one exit forward, and a green lizard camping the way, immediately the forehead thingy will glow again and show another way the Slugcat can use their hologram powers, they can create a fake Slugcat in a spot of your choice which you will be able to freely control all while your real Slugcat closes their eyes and cannot move for the duration of it. The hologram Slugcat can make noises by jumping and falling and control like an usual Slugcat except for the fact it cannot grab anything and cannot go through room transition pipes.

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The player will use their only charge to lure away the lizard from the exit and enter into the next room, in which they will be subtly guided into a seemingly secret path with a green glow coming from inside it, once inside they will find themselves in a screen wide oval shaped room with something that looks like a neuron but more complex, with little legs coming out from all sides, and it is just floating in the middle of the room, almost like... waiting... the player will eventually find out they can eat the neuron and the Slugcat will be stunned for 5 seconds as they receive a permanent upgrade in the form of a second charge of their hologram powers and it will be fully refilled

This hologram Slugcat lure could be used both to lure away predators, or to lure them into traps of your own making, but BEWARE, if the predator comes too close to your hologram, they will realize it is fake and will immediately enter HIGH ALERT and will aggressively hunt to find where the REAL Scug is, their vision and hearing will become temporarily enhanced for helping them locate you.

This would be 2 of 4 different hologram abilities you could do with this slugcat, the rest would be left for you to discover on your own, but here's a little spoiler, one of them would put on a temporary hologram of a King Vulture mask on your face to scare away predators that CAN be scared by it, but only if you apply the mask outside of their field of view or else they will not fall for it. The reason for this skill to be similar to the previous would be because each hologram skill would have a long cooldown before being able to be used again, so you would have to decide which is better for what situation and plan ahead.

As for the fourth ability, I actually don't know what it would be, but the objective is to have 4 different abilities you use throughout the playthrough.

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From there the player will follow into a narrow pathway which will eventually lead them to the Outskirts, from an entrance never before seen, and the entire map would be VERY similar to the Survivor's but with new secret passageways leading into entirely new regions and places only able to be found because of the thing on the Slugcat's head guiding them through it.

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Now it will start to become increasingly obvious that the thing on the Scug's forehead has a will of it's own, and it wants you to find ALL of the other "special neurons" scattered around the map in old and new regions alike, that will be the main goal of this Slugcat, and the forehead thingy will always gently guide you to each "special neuron", and these will always be in difficult regions, and in difficult rooms, and it will start leading you to the easiest then progressively getting harder. Up to a total of 6 charges.

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This Slugcat has the same stats as the Survivor, except with halved damage potential, to encourage stealth and clever usage of your holograms to deal with problems instead of combat.

After obtaining all 6 permanent upgrades, the hologram would then start to aggressively guide you onto somewhere far away, somewhere you would never even imagine existed before this pathway was revealed to you.

In this new region you will find your penultimate objective, which I am not exactly sure if it would be a new iterator or something else, but one thing is immediately obvious... you will not be allowed to leave this place alive after your mission is completed.

This new area would have the thing in your forehead rebel against you, and start to try to confuse you and make you get lost in this new area, using your own tricks against you to lure you into traps, or confuse your sense of direction.

Eventually after going through hardships and challenges and story events alike, you would be able to defeat this big threat which could possibly be who put the thingy into your forehead to begin with, and with this, you will unlock the final permanent upgrade, you will now be able to hold 7 charges which as we know it, 7 is the number of perfection, and you would recharge a charge passively every 2 minutes, basically making you overpowered, kind of like Saint.

From there on forward I'm not sure if the Slugcat would then follow the path of ascension or something else entirely like The Watcher.

"Everyone is Here!"

Agora eu quero ver.

TRAILER 4 LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iik25wqIuFo

Mods are:

Volumetric Skyboxes by Flazhik: https://thunderstore.io/c/ultrakill/p/Flazhik/VolumetricSkyboxes/

and

GlassCyberGrindStartRoom by end_4 https://thunderstore.io/c/ultrakill/p/end_4/GlassCybergrindStartRoom/

It really takes away my will to keep playing when I know no matter how hard I try there is no hope, but even then I still keep trying and being the enemy team's punching bag

Not for big lore reasons, just like the real mariana trench, it'd simply be a myterious, unsettling and very scarce of life area that simply exists in the map.

Kinda like the meteorite in SN1 this area would be a cool and creepy landmark in the map.