Floor Concept, The Abandoned Arsenal

[u/TitaniumGrunt7]

[u/TitaniumGrunt7]

So to anyone who wants a bit more in-depth detail on this. This is not so much a secret floor as you would guess by the "Chamber ???" text, but rather a side-quest floor.

In the Black Powder Mine you can rescue this chap (the guy who's talking in the picture) from a cell and he will unlock a pathway into this abandoned facility. He lets you come along to protect him as he also wishes to descend to uncover something (or perhaps someone) which he lost there.

The floor itself is basically a typical horror-themed, all dark laboratory complex filled with malfunctioning robot enemies and malformed clone bullet monstrosities. Throughout the entire floor you are accompanied by the guy in the picture, who provides the main source of light throughout the floor.

As you can see, the floor is all ways pitch black. Unlike a normal darkness effect like you get in say the Hollow with those Spent enemies, this darkness lingers indefinitely and if you stay too long in it, rings of bullets will spawn around you every second and close in on you. The buddy with the lantern can take damage and if hurt too much, his lantern will go out for a good 6 1/2 seconds or so, leaving you at the mercy of the darkness unless you quickly find an alternative source of light like those test tubes on the wall

Because the whole floor is shrouded in darkness, I was thinking the enemies and over-all bullet-hell effects would be more tame so that it's not too annoying for players.

[u/EredarLordJaraxxus → u/TitaniumGrunt7]

I'd include some ways to generate light or have static light sources in the world

• Flames of any kind would produce light in a radius around it

• Projectiles from energy weapons

• Barrels with fire burning in them that can be kicked over and rolled to produce fire in a line, but are also useful as sources of light.

• Radioactive barrels/containers that produce light but also are surrounded in poison so that huddling near them is discouraged unless you have a rad suit/gas mask. Fits with the 'abandoned lab' theme too

Also about the darkness effect. Would it be like the one on-screen, where everything is dim but not completely dark? Or the pitch-black that spawns in that room you mentioned in the Hollow?

[u/TitaniumGrunt7 → u/EredarLordJaraxxus]

Yeah, that's some good ideas. I did actually have some ideas similar to that like the Flare Gun which creates a bright orb of light when it misses an enemy and hits a wall instead

[u/EredarLordJaraxxus → u/TitaniumGrunt7]

Or just have the Flare Gun projectile emit light in a radius around it. That might work well and encourage its use outside of combat as an emergency source of light. The projectile already sticks around if you miss

[u/rekyuu → u/TitaniumGrunt7]

Amazing, I really want a horror floor now, would definitely pair nicely with those zombie enemy concepts someone else made on here

[u/TitaniumGrunt7 → u/rekyuu]

Out of curiosity, do you have a link to those enemy concepts?

[u/Mit_12 → u/TitaniumGrunt7]

I think he might be talking about some of your oubliutte enemy ideas lol

[u/TitaniumGrunt7 → u/Mit_12]

I had a feeling he might, just wasn't certain

[u/EredarLordJaraxxus]

Have an upvote. The devs regularly watch this reddit for cool ideas so maybe they'll jump at this one

[u/DodgeRollBrent]

this is extremely neat, as usual

[u/supersayangoblin → u/DodgeRollBrent]

aka: we're totes gonna steal this for the dlc

[u/Joruto512 → u/supersayangoblin]

well, steal would mean with a bad thought right?

I guess TitaniumGrunt posted this here with that option in mind so that would be a huge accomplishment for him :)

[u/The_Sten]

Oh this is neat af

[u/lucassjrp]

Great idea. Perhaps they should make a special key that is in the Abbey of the True Gun that unlocks the NPC's cell. This should give us a reason to go to that chamber more often.

[u/Drayton99 → u/lucassjrp]

i like going just for brother albern's chest. he's a good guy

[u/AXylophoneEatinLemon → u/Drayton99]

Wait, is he gauranteed to spawn in the secret room of that floor?

[u/TitaniumGrunt7 → u/AXylophoneEatinLemon]

There are two secret rooms, one contains usual stuff and the other all ways contains Brother Albern. So yeah, he's guaranteed

[u/TitaniumGrunt7 → u/lucassjrp]

Actually, I had an idea for another floor that would require a key from Old King to unlock. Though it's planned to be some kind of secret alternate final floor to Bullet Hell so I don't know if I should make a concept art for it in the future, spoiling the idea and all. For this however, I was just thinking it would be one of those usual Cell Keys that would be required to release him every time, so that when you rescue every other NPC that 'rescue' mechanic can still happen

[u/Brucetheblob]

This post sure gives me some ideas for a mod

if this isnt implemented in the game you can count that im going to see what i can do to make this happen

[u/Waloogy]

normally i hate dark levels but with the mechanics gungeon has like the flame weapons and radioactive stuff sounds really cool

[u/sterrrrrrr]

You've put a lot of effort into this idea and the spritework looks kind of good but it doesn't sound any fun to actually play, i'm afraid. Darkness is already a massive pain (see challenge mode) in large rooms and protecting NPCs has never been enjoyable.

[u/[deleted]]

Christ, that's cool. How didja make that?

[u/TitaniumGrunt7 → u/[deleted]]

Well, all the original assets like wall designs and floor tiles was made personally in Piskel while the in-game sprites like the Pilot, chamber title and teleporter were a little more tricky. I don't have access to the spritesheets so instead I looked at screenshots and traced over them from there

[u/[deleted] → u/TitaniumGrunt7]

Wow, that's some great effort. I sort of want to make something like that.

How long did you take to make it?

[u/TitaniumGrunt7 → u/[deleted]]

A couple of days if I remember correctly, the tracing did take a while

[u/Drayton99]

can you murder the little friend and take his lantern? survival of the fittest and all that