Where are the hell yaks?


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Halls Hopper

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Post Tuesday, 1st November 2011, 17:17

Where are the hell yaks?

Seems like with hell hogs, helliphants, hell hounds, hell knights, and the serpent of hell, the one hell animal we are missing is the most common and feared creature theme in the game the hell yak. I wish to see a hell yak and tremble in it's presence. May they come as fiery flaming hell yaks or icy frozen hell yaks. Even deadly hell yakutaur archers. Maybe a prismatic spraying hell yak which breaths any of fire, cold, electric or draining bolts. Yaks should not fall by the wayside after the midgame. I should be able to fear hell yaks and their derivatives throughout the endgame.
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Crypt Cleanser

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Post Tuesday, 1st November 2011, 20:47

Re: Where are the hell yaks?

Not everything has to be hellish to be insanely dangerous... about the flaming bovid species, I suggest the bonnacon:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnacon
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Crypt Cleanser

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Post Tuesday, 1st November 2011, 21:46

Re: Where are the hell yaks?

Actually, this sounds good. A hellish forest sounds really cool for a large pan vault or an end vault in hell.

Tartarus Sorceror

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Post Tuesday, 1st November 2011, 22:26

Re: Where are the hell yaks?

Tiber wrote:Actually, this sounds good. A hellish forest sounds really cool for a large pan vault or an end vault in hell.


Trees that would bleed and talk when you hit them. Don't forget the Wandering Hellshrooms.

Shoals Surfer

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Post Wednesday, 2nd November 2011, 15:11

Re: Where are the hell yaks?

Add hellish Oklob Plants that torment you in between acid attacks. And they move according to wandering mushroom patterns.
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Tartarus Sorceror

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Post Wednesday, 2nd November 2011, 15:17

Re: Where are the hell yaks?

Hell Spriggan Druid. When he wakes the trees up, they group-hellfire you.

Shoals Surfer

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Post Wednesday, 2nd November 2011, 21:02

Re: Where are the hell yaks?

The transdimensional hellspider appears in this vault. Every time you kill, it respawns elsewhere on the level with enhancements.

Hellcats and hellkittens.

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