What if enemy teleport other was like *tele

[genericpseudonym]

Instead of annoying you by moving you to a random spot on the level it could annoy and threaten you by moving you to a random enemy on the level.

Maybe tele traps should do so too.

[dpeg]

Would be an improvement. Potential drawback: encourages player to leave some (sleeping) pushover enemies alive, as "teleport anchors". This can also be circumvented, but then it's getting more complicated

[duvessa]

It's the opposite of an improvement, specifically because of that issue.

When blink other and blink allies encircling exist, is there any compelling reason to have monster teleport other at all?

[Croases]

Speaking of blink allies encircling, does it still use monster LoS rather than your LoS? Because that's awful.

I don't want to play like every guardian serpent hangs out with 20 anacondas that are just out of my sight, waiting to be ported directly into my face.

[ololoev]

Would be an improvement. Potential drawback: encourages player to leave some (sleeping) pushover enemies alive, as "teleport anchors". This can also be circumvented, but then it's getting more complicated

Just tweak the code that determines where to teleport you towards landing on an unexplored territory.

[PleasingFungus]

It's the opposite of an improvement, specifically because of that issue.

When blink other and blink allies encircling exist, is there any compelling reason to have monster teleport other at all?

monster teleport other was almost completely removed about a year ago, because, yeah, it's not very compelling. it's only left on... naga mages & greater naga, apparently, and tbh i'd never realized it was on the former. (Possibly because their lower spellpower means it rarely connects?)

i feel like it's mostly relevant on greater naga when it ends up cancelling a teleport you had pending (or causes you to accidentally cancel the teleport it placed on you when trying to start your own!), which is not the most amazing niche.

[duvessa]

monster teleport other was almost completely removed about a year ago, because, yeah, it's not very compelling. it's only left on... naga mages & greater naga, apparently

and ghosts, and stuff with chaos/distortion, and...

[Siegurt]

It's the opposite of an improvement, specifically because of that issue.

When blink other and blink allies encircling exist, is there any compelling reason to have monster teleport other at all?

monster teleport other was almost completely removed about a year ago, because, yeah, it's not very compelling. it's only left on... naga mages & greater naga, apparently, and tbh i'd never realized it was on the former. (Possibly because their lower spellpower means it rarely connects?)

i feel like it's mostly relevant on greater naga when it ends up cancelling a teleport you had pending (or causes you to accidentally cancel the teleport it placed on you when trying to start your own!), which is not the most amazing niche.

What if greater nagas would only cast it at you if you had the tele staus already?

[Croases]

Dimensional Anchor greater nagas sound like a solid idea.

In fact, forced teleports from distortion et al. can be converted to anchor too. Am I alone in never really liking distortion teleporting enemies as well?