Hydra Faction, Tentacles, and Your Mission Arc
By
Eva Destruction,
Posted on: 2009-07-26 19:58 in Mission Architect
Add some helpless schoolgirl captives, that'll get 'em to show up! 
I have seen Hydra spawns that include tentacles in an office, but it may have been an office-to-sewer transition map. So those might also work. Unfortunately you can't select them for a custom group, to get around the standard Hydra spawning pattern.
Animations won't stop a critter from spawning, as far as I know. If the critter can't do the animation the spawn is supposed to do it will still spawn, it just won't do the animation.
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Another player has produced a sewer mission that seems to work. It is set CoV sewer maps/small maps/map #19. Despite its small size they have it loaded with a Boss, Patrol, Release Captive, Ally, and a Battle. Hydra is the main faction, and although Ive run this mission several times, it always seems to perform flawlessly.
Someone suggest that they might spawn (roughly) in the 38-41 range but thats not it either. I am actually going to take my own arc and open the level range up completely to see what happens.
We all know the editor is full of holes, and Ive found one for Hydra faction. Tentacle mobs cannot be directly picked; they are part of Hydra random spawn mobs, and can spawn alongside other mobs like Proteans and Spawns.
My problem lies in the fact that there is some glitch or set of unknown conditions that prevents them from spawning the great majority of the time.
I have tested and ran maps continuously, and tried to and failed to isolate the cause. Something is wrong. I tried to get rid of anything that might impede their spawning- Many of the selectable animations will work on humanoid shaped mobs like the Spawn and Protean, but it goes without saying most wont take to a Tentacle. They seem to have two animation cycles; writhe and attack.
Even taking this out of the issue, my elusive Tentacles wont spawn. Based on what I have seen, I thought they would spawn only on SOME sewer maps. I now suspect they will spawn on any sewer map, red or blue side, if the conditions are right.
Any observations or suggestions here?