Simple way to improve old ai bosses.

Make the glowing ring a different color for each attack type.

maybe a red ring could indicate flamethrower, a blue ring could indicate wave, black could indicate heavy explosion, etc

this would essentially add some telegraphing to bosses that currently don’t have any telegraphing

Edit: after 4 years of playing game I just now learned that old ai bosses have a preset spell cycle. this does not change my stance though as I still think different spells should be telegraphed differently

 

I feel like this would just be a waste, better to spend that time updating them than changing the spell system that's being replaced?

 

It takes a lot of time to update bosses to new ai, right?

 

Depends

 

if changing the particles colors in old ai is an easy qol improvement, then it would be nice to have that as a temporary telegraphing system while old ai gets phased out

 

I'm uncertain how easy it would be. It would require dev time though, and we all know what that means.

 

yes it would require dev time. but if it is an easy change then it would be lovely as a temporary improvement. if its not easy and would require massive changes for something that is being phased out, then dont do it.

 

I do have a comment regarding this

I personally don't think and even dislike the idea that enemies with preset spell chains should have unique telegraphs for every single spell within the chain as that will completely rid most of the purpose of said chains outside of interesting combination/ pattern of the spells themselves

If you don't mind reading more outside the above TLDR here's my Discord messages regarding it:

Spoiler: .

(The image talks about unique sounds but same thing)