and I'm saying teach in double quotations cause it might be the game wasn't design to teach the player anything to beign with, but I'm curious; What do you interpret Outer Wilds as a whole? Whether it'd be the game, story, or the "message" even if there might not be one.
Picture this:
You're on Kaub, specifically on the section where you need to load the cannon and fire at the barricade blocking the way to the castle, but then you realize- You are only 5 people alive.
Now while it isn't impossible to beat this section with 5 players, most of the time, people end up dying with that small amount of players. However, as well as most of the time, people end up still trying to fight even when it results in an ievitable death due to the infinite zombies spawning... and thats why I wanted to create this suggestion.
By making zombie spawns finite when there's an low amount of players alive, it creates the dynamic of being able to "clear out" specific holdout sections on objective maps.
This does NOT necessarily mean that the zombie spawnrate would be fully reduced down to 0%; It could also say, be reduced down to say 30% of the original spawnrate, so when people hold out a specific section of the map enough, a substantial less amount of zombies would start so spawn, allowing people to continue with the objective with less struggle as a token of their hardwork.
The only problem I could see with this would be Surgeons: So, when you're 5 players alive; One of them being a Surgeon, then the Surgeon could easily heal everybody up and continue with 5 players on full health.
But other than that, this was just a positive method of countering people relentless fighting at a holdout section when its already lost.
Play Combat Initiation instead, It's far better.
So, as many others, I watched Happy Tree Friends when I was very young- around 6 or 8 years old. Back then, I didn't really comprehend the gore as alot and just thought it was part of the show. Now that I'm older, as well as sitting through and watching a video of just the gory moments of Happy Tree Friends, I questioned myself this.
I know that Happy Tree Friends is designed to be a comedic show in a way, like killing off characters in wacky ways, but in all honesty (and I'm not saying this to be rude) ...I never really had a laugh when it came to the show, as in never.
When I watched it as a kid, it was no reason other than just the appeal of the characters and artstyle, and now that I'm older, I guess its just more of the "how far can things be pulled?" fascination that makes me rewatch some episodes from time to time. Other times I don't really have a reason too.
Also, I know there are other examples of shows that does extreme gore, like Invincible if I remember correctly, but I feel like Happy Tree Friends pioneered in terms of morbidity by applying extreme gore to rather cute and innocent characters, where it would make more sense if say, a superhero gets gory due to having to fight.
...Man, this post is shit. Good thing I'll only write this once.