First alien mech boss

So my first attempt to make an alien common enemy mech turned out too big, so now it'll be the first boss.

The Mantis

Comments

[Umbra Animo]

cool
could be after blowing it up rebuild/reverse engineer it for the player?

[Urimas Ebonheart]

4657971
i might add alien inspired player mechs later.

But bosses are more for Credits and a source of scrap metal. (You get less when repeating the same boss again.)

[Crescent Glaive]

Looks nice. But what capabilities does The Mantis have?
How hard do you think that it will be?

[Urimas Ebonheart]

4657979
First boss of many, so it'll be easy as it only has higher HP, Armour, and Damage compared to basic enemies.

[Crescent Glaive]

4657981
ok. so at later stages, it could possibly be encountered as a miniboss perhaps?

[Urimas Ebonheart]

4657987
You can fight it as many times as you want, you just won't get as much for it at the first time.

Or I can make it scale compared to player's upgrade stats.

[Crescent Glaive]

4657992
so... does that mean that it can appear as a miniboss then? or will it get a demoted to be just a tougher than normal expendable soldier that is just there to make you waste ammo on it?

[Urimas Ebonheart]

4658003
There will be a new menu for "Bounties" These will be bosses you can fight and I think I'll keep them with fixed stats. You just need to upgrade your mech enough to fight them.

[Xzaves]

Kinda looks like the Hunters from Halo, I love it!

[Tedious_Blizzard]

Wow, you have great sprite works! How do you come up with their designs?

[Urimas Ebonheart]

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Actually I just started making shapes and then moulded them into what you see, this took me ten minutes to design randomly.

[AdamAperture]

The Mantis.... Could use a different name.