random encounters / passive beings

imagine the true sense of exploration and adventure when you randomly stumble upon a gargantuan turtle that is not attacking you and is so out of your league that you can't attack it either ... its there just for the sake of being there ! just for the sake of details

imagine going through the forest and seeing some fay ... something that is both alive and as passive as nature itself... something that adds more variety and life to the world not merely something to kill.
these are passive encounters. they won't attack and you can't attack them, they are as alive as the world itself.
you either enjoy or don't pay attention

and you may think to yourself "is it a future content?" who knows...

here i present some of those things, use your imagination :

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Amist

I would love to see the ghosts of those living on Verra before us, walk certain paths or in a certain area at night

bloodprophet

In SWTOR on Tatooine in the middle of nowhere the is a skull that is clickable.
So as you walk through to due a quest it is lying there. When you click it a raid boss shows up all of the sudden.
Was super funny to watch people click it not knowing what would happen.
Random hidden stuff like this has always been fun for me. Even running away from a randomly summoned raid boss.

caedwyn

imagine as you're walking by in a dungeon, you see a sign "do not feed the trolls"
and then you keep on going and then there are some cute harmless trolls...
you can pet them and feed them and then all of a sudden they become horrifying giant monstrous trolls

Nagash

caedwyn wrote: »

imagine as you're walking by in a dungeon, you see a sign "do not feed the trolls"
and then you keep on going and then there are some cute harmless trolls...
you can pet them and feed them and then all of a sudden they become horrifying giant monstrous trolls

im getting flashbacks to vermintide 2 now

bloodprophet

I'd feed the Troll's just to see what happened. If not just for the lol's and screams.

caedwyn

bloodprophet wrote: »

I'd feed the Troll's just to see what happened. If not just for the lol's and screams.

i mean how do you know they will turn into monsters ...
maybe theres a chance you get a super rare baby troll pet !

Nagash

caedwyn wrote: »

bloodprophet wrote: »

I'd feed the Troll's just to see what happened. If not just for the lol's and screams.

i mean how do you know they will turn into monsters ...
maybe theres a chance you get a super rare baby troll pet !

could get a pet rock troll from the witcher
(loved those guys)

Damokles

@nagash
Did i hear, PET ROCK?!?

Nagash

damokles wrote: »

@nagash
Did i hear, PET ROCK?!?

its clive! Soviet will be so happy to see you again

Dygz

grisu wrote: »

If you know this I hope you know the implications of the picture

So for (simplified) clarification. This is an actual god, usually in the form of a deer. He gets ambushed and his head chopped off. He transformed into this gigantic thing chasing those who have hurt him.
It's an unbeatable encounter, the only thing to do is accept your fate now or somehow make peace with him.
A world to explore that goes beyond kill or be killed, that would be amazing.[/quote]
I think what I would want to see here, is a godlike mob that completely ignores characters as it observes in a trance-like state. People can eventually kill it, but, it will not attack, there will be no drops and it will respawn after 45 seconds.
Or, when hit, it chases you and attacks, but does no damage and when killed there will be no drops and it respawns after 45 seconds.

Dygz

nagash wrote: »

damokles wrote: »

@nagash
Did i hear, PET ROCK?!?

its clive! Soviet will be so happy to see you again

In Soviet Russia, rock pets you.

caedwyn

dygz wrote: »

grisu wrote: »

If you know this I hope you know the implications of the picture

So for (simplified) clarification. This is an actual god, usually in the form of a deer. He gets ambushed and his head chopped off. He transformed into this gigantic thing chasing those who have hurt him.
It's an unbeatable encounter, the only thing to do is accept your fate now or somehow make peace with him.
A world to explore that goes beyond kill or be killed, that would be amazing.

I think what I would want to see here, is a godlike mob that completely ignores characters as it observes in a trance-like state. People can eventually kill it, but, it will not attack, there will be no drops and it will respawn after 45 seconds.
Or, when hit, it chases you and attacks, but does no damage and when killed there will be no drops and it respawns after 45 seconds.

why 45 seconds? XD

Damokles

nagash wrote: »

damokles wrote: »

@nagash
Did i hear, PET ROCK?!?

its clive! Soviet will be so happy to see you again

Thats Rocky, you barbarian! Clive is a free rock, most likely already the leader of a tribe of rocks.

Dygz

caedwyn wrote: »

why 45 seconds? XD

To demonstrate the abject futility of killing those types of mobs.

Nagash

damokles wrote: »

nagash wrote: »

damokles wrote: »

@nagash
Did i hear, PET ROCK?!?

its clive! Soviet will be so happy to see you again

Thats Rocky, you barbarian! Clive is a free rock, most likely already the leader of a tribe of rocks.

im so glad someone got the reference

caedwyn

anyone else has something they wish to add ?

nalowahine

Would be interesting if something they touch or leave in their path as they go by that you have to search for to use as a very rare crafting or trade item.

Alluring

ooOoo I love these, and would love to encounter something like this. Glowing creatures/tattoos and things of that nature are my jam

syl

I'd love to see these random things on my travels, it keeps it from being dull landscape after you've traversed it for a dozen times. Though I imagine nodes also play a part of not-dulling the landscape.

bloodprophet

I got a beta key for Rift for it's last beta before it launched.
Rolled a Defiant mage. Got through the starter area and into the main game. Killing some wolves and noticed a shield moving across the mini map toward me. I turned just in time to get steam rolled by a random Alliance patrol NPC group. It also killed some of the wolves on it's way through the area.
I logged out and bought the game while still dead.
Personally I love mobs that aren't static. Hope IS will have some that will patrol the zones like the Void Reaver or just smaller mobs that move around.

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