New giant monsters?

I cant really remember the last giant monster that was added into the game. While yes i know this is a suggestion as some sort of form it is also a question, are there any plans to have any NEW giant monsters added to the game?
The current old giant monsters in the game are still highly active in the global channels with people hunting them and with all the new options available to the team surely a new giant monster has to be on the cards soon?
Pretty please?

Yes! Giant radioactive doom bunnies!!! I keed, I keed, but really I agree we could use some kind of new giant beasty to pound on.

I'd really like to see something on 4 legs, perhaps a Cerberus style 3 headed dog type of beast. I don't know how that would get explained in game but whateva

That was my second thought, its time to take out Mothra once and for all!

/signed

By the time we get all 10 Incarnate slots, I think the ambush spawns on the Incarnate Trials will be GMs

Nice idea though sadly I suspect that's a lot of Dev time for not much benefit.

However, refreshing the existing GMs and a lick of paint might be nice.

Imagine, if you will, 3 Arachnos flyers in Atlas Park, shooting down the Blimp in flames and then depositing a whole bunch of Arachnos troops to storm City Hall...

Lusca arriving at Sharkhead Isle and attacking the Ferry there, taking it out of action until some civic-minded villains/rogues decide to encourage him to leave.

Scrapyarders invading IP via commandeering Janus' sub... Scrapyard himself may be a ghost but the Scrapyarders themselves aren't and if enough get to IP they can summon him and go on rampage.

Deathsurge in Terra Volta leeching off the reactor there... if he's there too long some random infrastructure fails, like one WW or a train line or Ferry...

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Did anything ever come of those giant 5th Column Mekmen once glimpsed on Test (and as scenery in the wrecked Atlas Park map at the end of the patron arcs) ?

Because if there's one thing better than a Giant Robot, it's a Giant Nazi Robot.

I always heard the reason we can't have truly giant (think Godzilla) monsters, and why Rularuu isn't actually in game despite being created was because they caused problems with the targetting reticle.

Wouldn't it work if they just made the feet targetted, It'd be a normal size reticle but would still allow targetting of giant foes.

Better yet, make it like Lusca's tentacles and have a seperate box for the arms and head. Have to take the arms off before bringing it down or something...

Does anyone think our old GMs should be dropping Shards? I can just see a swarm of Incarnate collectors pounding en masse the poor creatures while drooling "I REFUSE TO PLAY ANY MORE PRAETORIAN CONTENT!!!"

now that image would be worth it

I believe the problem with giant monsters is how range to a target is calculated, though I could be wrong. As far as I know, range to a target is counted from one specific point at the centre of the entity. A bigger entity would have some amount of offset, so that it would seem like distance was calculated from its surface, not from its core (and so that you didn't have to be INSIDE its body to reach melee range of it).

This becomes problematic when the entity is long and spindly like Rularuu the Ravager is, or has and off-centre centre like the Jade Spider. This is because these leave no good middle ground. You're either able to hit the air between their legs or around them and score melee hits, or otherwise unable to hit their limbs, as is the case with the Jade Spider.

On the flip side, Arachnos Subs do not seem to obey the same rules. If you'll notice, they're big, long and spindly, but you can melee them along their entire length, and if you blast them, you'll note your character will switch what he targets as you move along. Sometimes he'll shoot the conning tower, sometimes the entry sewer grate, sometimes he'll shoot farther back. I'm not sure how this is achieved, but I suspect this technique is only usable on static objects, as it appears to involve tagging multiple entities spaded out along the length of the sub, all tied to the same hit points pool.

All of that said, yeah, sure, I wouldn't mind more giant monsters. I'd still like to see some of them show up as EBs in higher level missions, though. Like the Kronos Titan, Baphomet, Psychic Babbage and so on.

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With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high tension wires down, Godzilla!

Helpless people on subway trains
Scream MY GOD as he looks in on them, Godzilla!

He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town, Godzilla

Oh no, they say he's got to go
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla, yeah

Oh no, they say he's got to go
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla, yeah

Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Godzilla ga Ginza hoomen e mukatte imasu!
Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai!
Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai!
(Attention, emergency news!
Attention, emergency news!
Godzilla is going toward the Ginza area!
Immediately escape, catch up, find shelter please!
Immediately escape, catch up, find shelter please!)

Oh no, they say he's got to go
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla, yeah

History shows again and again
How nature points up(OUT) the folly of men
Godzilla!(4x)

Giant Monster Suggestions:

* Atlas Park... An evil and/or insane Stone/stone Dominator appears and animates the Atlas Statue. The Dominator phases and jumps inside the globe. He constantly repairs the main body of the statue (who only attacks by stomping and kicking). Attacking the body is an option but it is also ultimately useless. To win the battle you have to break through the globe shell and enter it to fight the Dominator within. Can make this an instanced map to avoid shell-shocking the newbs wandering around Atlas.

* Pocket D... John the Troll has taken some experimental Superadyne which had the odd dual effect of making him grow to 20' tall and imbued him with electrical powers. What makes it worse is John was all set to go dancing and is lookin' spiffy in his White Liesure Suit. Okay... get ready for it... Troll + John + White Leisure Suit + Electrical Powers... that's right... you'll be fighting John Troll-Volta!

(As a brief aside on that last one... if you've recovered enough from the pun-induced stomach cramps to read this... I used ol' John in a D&D campaign I was DMing once... as I recall I was chased from the room with people throwing dice at my head.)

* Cap Au Diable... The candy factory has had one of its recent confectionary experiments go awry! As you approach the lot behind the factory you will see a giant man apparently composed entirely of a jelly-like sugary material. He has strong resistance to smashing (due to his rubbery exterior) but is vulnerable to fire attacks. You defeat him and think it's over with but it's not! He begins to change shape into a horrible half-man, half-bear form! Oh no! Your worst fears are realized! It's a Gummy Were-Bear!

* Don't Care Where... Don't Care How... but they have GOT to have either five robots or five statues get together to form a giant statue-bot. There HAS to be a long cut scene showing the forming of the final monster. And there HAS to be a moment where the last one to join says "And I'll form the head!" ... make it so...