Spazzy NPC Boss

[Treewyrm]

Despite inability to customize behavior of npcs or create entirely new ones there are some interesting combinations can be created when paired with specialized npc-only equipment. For example npc thruster that combined with impulse speed brings the sum to cruise speed and then tweaked snub ai profiles resulting in quite different behaviors, with one profile the npc would use this thruster to get away from you when being actively targeted, making it quite annoying opponent, the other profile resulted in npc playing very aggressively as it would use this thruster to quickly close range and chase you down making button mashing dodging far less effective. Alas that didn't make its way into disco as we parted ways but doesn't mean it can't give a try to experimental combinations given that npcs can have their own special toys unobtainable by players. Additionally npcs use equipped scanner to determine at what range they'll shoot a target, so with a special very low range scanner npc can be made seem somewhat docile but may surprise you with its deadlier-than-usual arsenal if you get too close. Tweaking profile AIs can also result in disabling certain routines and functionality. Kinda unfortunate that disco would instead sway to either crap npcs or insane npcs rather than reworking setups and creating varying types to use them in different situations.