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New Creature: Cave Lion


Griffin998

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This is just a sort of out-of-the-blue idea, but I'll post it anyway. Enjoy :)

WILD

The Cave Lion is a menacing creature to be sure. With massive, razor sharp claws and canines stretching to over 5 inches, it's a creature that's pounced straight from a survivor's deepest nightmares. With an uncanny resistance to edged weapons, including arrows, new, inexperienced survivors don't stand a chance. Along with these terrifying qualities, these creatures appear in the wild in prides of up to 20!

DOMESTICATED

If you manage to find these creatures and wish to add them to your repertoire, you first need a medium to large creature that is an equal or greater level to the alpha male of the pride. The aforementioned creature must have the ability to roar. You must approach the pride of lions, and then roar without attracting their aggro. When you roar, the alpha lion will emerge into the open and roar in return. When this happens, you must either defeat the alpha lion, or lead it far away from the pride. When their alpha is defeated, the lions will scatter. However, the alpha lion has resistance to bleed, torpor, and all other negative status effects, including fear roars. After this, it is a simple matter of finding and knocking out the females of the tribe.

ABILITIES

The lions have two attacks. A claw attack that does knockback, and a bite attack that does a bleed. This, however, is not the main meat of the abilities. The lion has three stance modes. Regular, stealth, attack, and travel. The regular mode is just the general jaw and claw attacks. When in stealth mode, however, the lion loses the ability to do the claw attack. Instead, the lion gains the ability to do a pounce that deals massive damage, but instigates a cooldown on both the ability and a longer cooldown on the attack itself. If the creature is smaller than the lion, it will pounce on top of the creature, pinning it to the floor and tearing chunks off it, while gaining health. When in stealth mode, the lion crouches down low to the ground, and is invisible to tek sensors and turrets (including creatures in turret mode). This drains stamina very quickly, however. Regular players can spot you, and wild creatures will not aggro as well unless you touch them. Attack mode makes the lion considerably slower, but gives it a boost to damage and another attack. With this attack, the lion smashes down with both paws and does knockback to the target, as well as a status effect called "dazed", where the creature loses the ability to respond to whistle commands and cannot use special abilities and attacks. Flyers will be grounded. In travel mode, the lion can only do the jaw attack without the bleed. However, it's stamina gain is considerably lowered, and it is much faster. It can jump very high, and "climb" like the deinonychus.

SADDLE

The lion does have a saddle. When the alpha lion is killed, it will drop a special drop called "Alpha lion pelt". This can be used to tame the alpha males of the prides. When tamed, they will lose the resistance to status effects, but retain the edged weapons resistance. The saddle can only be crafted with four lion pelt, and each alpha lion drops two. To tame the alphas, you must kill the rest of the pride, and then approach the lion with a special set of armor crafted with the lion pelt. It will not attack, instead, it will roar at you (the armor does not give any special added things-it has the same armor as ghillie; but it looks cool). Then, it is a regular passive tame, feeding and waiting. Once tamed, the lion will immediately become the alpha of your pride of lions, no matter it's level. The saddle is just a regular saddle, but instead of being mostly brown, it will sort of blend in with the lion's fur.

Thanks for reading my freaking essay! I really hope that another new creature gets added.

*Edit* To balance the creature a little, it would take 10% more damage from blunt attacks, i.e the ankylo, doedic, club, titano stomp, etc.

*Edit2* Size idea (not the actual size of the real creature, sorry for the weird images) FYI, it wouldn't look so bear-like in the game. Actually, maybe this could be the sabertooth overhaul.

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