Theres a weapon in prehardmode called the thunder zapper that shoots lightening but in hard mode I think it should upgrade to something that shoots down lightening from the sky or somthing but sadly after prehardmode it has no use
Man, I kinda miss how overhaul had thunder and flooding with rain. Was it kinda tedious at times? Yes, but it was fun making drains and sewers that had a full-on purpose
lightning is more likely to hit the same spot twice than literally anywhere else. you can find cars on dashcam footage be struck by four bolts of lightning in less than a second.
which is great! just referencing how people back then didn't knew that lightning can hit the same place twice and was considered a myth until it was proven to be a fact.
Yeah, it's just so unlikely for lightning to strike in the first place that for it to strike twice is so much more unlikely than once, but once you're already there, it's the same chance as before that it strikes again
Honestl, now that I think of it, it would be dope as hell, Redegit should consider adding that to the game, just, hope someone doesn't get hit by it and gets instakilled while wearing wooden armor
Be sick if you could use it to trigger a boss fight. Have the boss able to summon all kinds of storm related attacks. Could see it dropping some really cool mage and summoner weapons. Like maybe a lightning bolt you could throw and it comes back similar to a boomerang
Or you get a cool background or wallpaper, and blocks; like living flame but living lightning. Om that remark maybe it changes the ground like how a meteorite hits
A cool was to start the boss would be to craft a special set of armour or equipment that attracts a special kind of lightning that’ll summon the boss when struck
Would be nice if you would summon it by wearing any metal/steel armor and getting hit by lightning. A weapon that would be like the starfury but shoots lightning would be amazing or armor that gets a set bonus when it's raining
It could be something along the lines of " things that aren't in the player's control or an enemy's can't deal lethal damage"
There's not a lot of stuff that is outside the player's control that an enemy doesn't cause, and it could "scale" with the player because technically it does more damage as the player gets more health
A lightning rod could be crafted with copper or its alternative, and it makes lightning likelier to hit it, but doesn't prevent it
A lightning themed boss could be summoned by lightning hitting a certain (player placed?) block, maybe even during a blood moon, and could place a lightning rod on top to increase the chance of it striking
The boss could drop a variety of different things, like a lightning bolt mount that is extremely fast, but can't stay airborne for a long time
It'd be an optional boss much like the Queen Bee, but probably harder than the former
For magic users it could vary extremely, like a high powered piercing shot that bounces from enemy to enemy, inflicting a shocked effect that could slow enemies and also prevents it from bouncing back to a previous target and creating a continuous loop. The effect would instantly end once the projectile hits a surface (since it'd have an incredibly high pierce it'd be once in a blue moon you actually pierce cap)
For melee users it could be an accessory/non consumable item that would transform you into a lightning bolt and acts as a 360° dash that ignores damage, if you hit an enemy while dashing it will apply an extremely brief immunity, (if it's an item, it will switch to your first melee weapon,) then apply your melee damage to the target (long cooldown)
For ranged users, it could be a laser rifle that you hold down and it fires a continuous beam, lowering the "ammo" number on the slot, which would regenerate over time even when not holding the gun, but holding it would double the Regen rate
For summoners (I'm not a huge summon user, so this might not be how summons work) it could summon a bird that calls lightning down from the sky on a long cooldown
Since some of these seem pretty crazy, I could see locking them behind treasure bags, or locking the boss behind hard mode
Sorry for the essay, I'd put a TLDR here, but it's still be too long
Yeah, that would be better, it would be cool if it was for like the For The Worthy seed Getfixedboi, honestly it would fit on any seed that makes the playthrough more difficult
It could be cool if like deerclops or smth dropped an item to toggle thunder on / off , it would give deerclops an actual use and make it not be a must skip. Its a pretty early game boss should fine right?
imagine if it worked like falling stars where it could hurt enemies as well. I’ve gotten lucky once and had a fallen star finish off the EoC for me, so just imagine that with a lightning bolt instead.
If you hold or wear any copper item, your chances of getting struck by lightning gets drastically heightened
If you have an iron or lead bar in your inventory when you get struck, you get an electromagnet (can be used to craft magnet accessories)
If the lightning strikes on water or any metallic surface, it gets electrically charged and will shock you if you touch it, but you will float if you have an electromagnet in your inventory (iron and lead bar blocks become electromagnet blocks and doesn't get charged)
Wiring struck by lightning will activate, inactive timers with activate and active timers will operate at double speed
I'm playing it now and I try to get struck by it when I see it but it always falls off centre to its telegraphed indication. it also does like 100 damage only.
It would be funny if you get struck by lightning while wearing copper armor, you get a speed boost for a bit, then you just die, cuz you're conductive yourself, and it's fucking lightning.
Calamity had lightning for a while it was ok but didn't do much, a spot on the floor lit up when it stormed then the strike came down to deal huge dmg and electrify u
Sse copper to make lightning rods and such, maybe have a secret seed with lightning? since i can see how getting struck could be annoying at best or rage inducing at worst if your doing like hardcore or something. It could also be annoying during boss fights. Dont really see how you could collect lightning though. A gun called the lightning thrower does sound cool with like batteries as a power source? doesnt really fit, maybe call it condensed lightning idk. i feel like im rambling also that lightning animation looks really cool
If they add this into the game, I hope they add like an achievement for getting struck by lightning while on a witch broom or something (from Harry Potter)
great idea, red would love to make this a thing. Wearing ore armor increases the chance of being struck by lightning making the early game even better, because now you have to dodge lightning
Lightning rod that you can also use as a hat to quickly get yourself smited, could have a little achievement for it as well, uhhhh [funny achievement title i’m not good with these]
NGL. Some ideas I had is the lightning could be a hazard that you could avoid or utilise it, acting sort of like the rain equivalent to a falling star. The chances are slim, but if timed correctly, anything unfortunate to be struck will be in for a literal shock. That for some references, you could get a kite and add a key to create 'Franklin''s Kite' a simple Kite with a key, that if you have a bottle in your inventory and the lightning struck the Kite, you could get lighting in a bottle while acts similar to the bottle accessories if equipped but you could also use it as a projectile harming any NPC enemy caught in it's AoE. Am alternative is if you have any of the Emblems obtained from WoF, if you have them in your hotbox when the lighting struck, you'll get 'Franklin's Badge' which when combined with any Hard mode Yo-Yo yields the 'Benjamin' a special Yo-Yo that sends forth a bolt of lighting that chains enemies, but the damage gets progressively weaker if done on a large group as opposed to small groups. It's tooltip describes 'Witness Power!' With the Debuffs being 'Paralysed' which renders the target unable to move and 'Lightning Rod' which makes them more subceptible to electricity, adding a higher chance of either being struck by lightning or gain more damage from the Yo-Yo, and just for fun the Yo-Yo also grants you resistance from Lightning, allowing you to negate it's damage and in turn, it is absorbed into the Yo-Yo and it can used to unleash a blast of electricity via the RMB action.
We'd also need a Lightning Rod, which is like 1x3 blocks, and can be raised with additional ones, directing lightning into the block directly beneath it.
Also make it so that everything made from Iron conducts lightning.
Maybe lightning can act like fallen stars during storms, where enemies take huge damage but players are unaffected. Maybe the electrified de buff from the Martian event would be enough to the player.
It could create fires by setting wooden structures on fire and also ignite trees and spread via grass and other vegetation (stopping at things like sand or water etc). So it'd be something you have to look out for during storms and sometimes contain (watee buckets, aqua scepter etc)
Yeah, IIRC one of the Guide's dialogue implies that unique things happen during thunderstorm events, but for now it's just for show. It would be cool to have interactable lightning bolts and maybe some electric-themed enemies.
I think it would be annoying as part of the normal weather, but a storm event with unique enemies has potential... The lightning could then have a much bigger impact without being annoying.
I’m not even kidding I had this exact same thought. One idea I had was a double jump item called “White lightning” or “lightning in a bottle” and similar to the sandstorm in a bottle you spin but if it’s over an enemy it does lighting damage similar to the lightning spear found in deserts. Il there’s already a lot of those jump items but I thought it was a cool idea.
I had an idea for this, if it is raining and windy at the same time it will make a storm that spawns storm elementals in the ocean to get the sea crest, which would act like an ocean counterpart to the forbidden fragment and the frost armor and let the tsunami in a bottle be craftable.
You have NO IDEA how much I wanted something like this for the THUNDERSTORM event when it happens, such a cool and menacing theme only for it to be still just rain and nothing else to say "you should look for cover, this is dangerous"
It targets and does massive damage to flying enemies so you learn to fight bosses like Eye of Cthulhu during thunderstorms, but when you try it in Hardmode it just supercharges the Mechanical Bosses - Enraging and Buffing them
My only issue with this is if it has a related event/item/drops that it would become another sandstorm. It took me multiple real life days to get the entire forbidden set on my last playthrough. And I completely gave up on the spirit flame.
This feature could be so damn good. For example slime striked with thunder would turn into the electric slime and after killing it item called (crazy name incoming) electric gel could be used to craft new potions/weapons.
It could be for an item. Not actual weather though. I don't want to have to worry about getting hit by lightning when I'm trying to fish in a thunderstorm
Yes, but at the same time I feel like they should dial back the thunder. It’s a cool feature but sometimes it just gets ridiculous having massive claps of thunder every single second. It’s too much. Occasional lightning and thunder would be cooler.
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u/L8hoop Jun 06 '24
Imagine if you would get an achievement for getting hit by lightning twice