Was my thread moved into this one as a post? Regarding the alien design? Or did I mess up and posted it here? I couldn't check the forum for a while.
Anyway. I don't think the new design is alien at all. It's just a jellyfish with blobby meat hooks and steam puff boobs.
It's boobs.
It's a protruding set of lumps with airy olae, there's air coming out of them.
It's boobs.
And this ting is dripping some wet slick fluid.
And it's got mutated chicken feet meat hook gangly bits.
Anyway, you can of course dismiss this.
But Total War Warhammer 3, for example, has tanked in player activity and regard because most of the factions on release were (and are) grotesque chaos demons.
Do you really want to fight a steam puffing boob jellyfish? In your factorio game?
Do you, like, really actually want that? The enemies are symbolic, they're just some enemy. Jellyfish aren't alien, we have them on earth.
Boobs aren't alien, we have them on earth too.
Mutated hooked chicken feet aren't alien, we have them on earth, too.
If anything on earth in a combination can be an alien, then why doesn't it have to be a boob jellyfish brain thing with steamnipples?
Again, I'm not a prude or anything, I just don't think this kind of degenerate schizo design is needed for factorio. You guys can do better.
Is it a psychic alien? Then make it a snail or something, that way it can still be slow.
If it's got to be a floating jellyfish then make it less detailed and more stylistic. Give it an aura of some sort of ungraspable presence that dominates.
This creature doesn't dominate, it's basically blushing with it's brain, glancing to the floor and away while its alien steam milk is evaporating. Lol. For real now guys come on this is not just me having a case of a parad...para... the thing where you see things in clouds.
This is a bashful, feminine jellyfish wearing a subdermal tiara that expels boob vapors out of the prominent tips atop its bulbous body protuberances.
It's not an alien it's an ara aralien, it looks like it wants to iron your body pillow with its steam.
It's glancing sideways going: It is my duty to relieve your tension, engineer, but please touch them gently. PSHHHHHHH
And despite my now jovial banter, I actually am serious about proposing not to go this way. It drags the 'athmosphere', the soul down.
Don't make a mockery out of your game. It's factorio, let the nerds and 'autists' have SOMETHING that isn't clownshoes.
Edit: Check out this classic.
https://d30xqvs6b65d10.cloudfront.net/w ... lert-2.jpg
Just a guy with striking eyes, a beard, some mark on his forehead and some plastic accessory on his head.
But he is Yuri, brain dominator bar none.
"Ohh look he has a plastic mcguffin on his head, and the narrative is that he's psychic, I believe that"
vs
"bok bok bok booob, pshhhhhhhhh ara ara engineer-kun, my steamies are ready, jellies steamies for you araaaa araaaa"