DEVELOPER JOURNAL #7 - Monsters Pt. 3 🦌

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I Hate This Place comes out in 2 days! So let's go to the last part of the Monsters research... We tackled Arachnoids, we tackled Mutants, but there are many more dangerous types of enemies in the f**ked up world of I Hate This Place. Some of those enemies may actually seem tame and adorable, but once you start looking closer you notice all the unsettling details and ungodly mutations. So don’t come too close, even though it’s very, VERY tempting…

Steam post imageSteam post imageSimilar to spiders there are 3 levels of “Mutated Deer” enemies. Creepy Fawn is the equivalent of the spiderlings. It is a basic enemy, it looks like a mutated fawn, with some creepy appendages and no proper head. It has tentacles sprawling from the body. It doesn’t really attack but it follows you and stares menacingly. If you overstay your welcome, soon there can be many, MANY more of them. Steam post image Once killed, it lets out one final gurgling scream of despair, but there is also a chance of the more deadly deer variety to start attacking, even causing a stampede.

As you may have guessed, a Mutated Deer is an older version of the fawn that is much more deadly. Its wither height is more or less the height of Elena. The looks of it are very unnerving, sprawling some tentacles and some other uncanny elements like eyes covering its body. It attacks by either trying to charge at you to impale on its horns or simply attack with its hoofs in close range. Sometimes there is a stampede attack, where a large group of those mutated deer run through the forest and can trample the player. Steam post imageThe deer are not always aggressive, sometimes they just watch and follow the player, just like the fawns. But you never know when one may change its mind about being nice to you, so stay alert and on your guard.

There is one more type of deer that is much more mysterious, much older and much more dangerous. Nobody has ever seen it in the wild, but there were some big areas with overthrown trees marked by stampede marks or blown up containers. Sometimes there, you can smell some toxic and suffocating chemicals, presumably secretions of that ominous deer enemy. Steam post image

There are rumours that it is so formidable not only because of its size and overwhelming musk, but also that his body has mutated so much, becoming capable of standing on 2 feet despite its stature.

That’s all for now. We tackled most of the monstrosities hunting Elena in I Hate This Place! The rest you will have to discover yourself :)

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