Men in Black | Cover Alien | Gazer Alien | WIP new thing

[robin]

Since I've accumulated several tweaks, I'm uploading a new test version, 1.1.

Download at the first post!

MIB missions still seems to be ultra-rare.. but they shouldn't in paper! I'm no sure how to fix this...

[robin]

I'm also drawing a new alien, inspired by the game cover art (I thought the games lacked a bug alien... well there are the Chryssalids,  but they are more like a crab imho).

Right now the tiers are:

-Early game
--- Floaters
--- Sectoids
-Middle game
--- Mutons
--- Snakemen
-Late game
--- Ethereals

I'd have them join the Ethereals as a late game alien race. It's a float-type (legs-less) alien. High stats but fragile (no psy power).
Name'd be "Waspite" (tentative). I'm still thinking about their terrorist unit, but it'll be something very simple to draw.

Right now the color is green.. I think it looks good but it's the same color as Mutons.. so I'm thinking about chaining it to blue (or red?).. mmmmh.

[Jo5hua]

I think the green looks great! Especially if it's Muton green. Also great to see the mysterious cover alien.

[Angelus_EV]

it must be green to match the cover, nice work!

[Fox105iwsp]

Wow! The cover Alien ^_^ Looks great!

[robin]

it must be green to match the cover, nice work!

Well it's not exactly like the cover alien.
The cover alien head is about twice the size and looks like a cross between a bug and a tuber.
Mine's is 100% bug.

[Angelus_EV]

its the alien playable now?

[robin]

The sprite is "ingame" (uses recolored floater arms though): I saved it as .pck and rewrote the floater .pck, so now I get them instead of floaters in my game.
But the ruleset doesn't exist; there's no floorob graphics, no bigobs graphics, no inventory image, no ufopedia (autopsy, live specimen) pictures.

It will take some time before it reach "version 1.0" status.

[yrizoud]

And sounds, it should be possible to find insect sounds and lower them an octave or two
About the name, you can look at the Wikipedia page of Wasp or Bee to find many interesting names from their classification of insects : Apocrita, Aculeata, Vespoid, Apoid, Apida, Apiform, and many others.

[Solarius Scorch]

I like Waspite the best! It somehow fits the original (campy) names.

[Angelus_EV]

your alien is very very similar to the cover one!
i think it must be similar to floaters coz the are very very mechanical even the arms
in the picture seems laser weapons attached directly to the body and maybe stun rods.
i think if the head its so big maybe they must be very psi powered but as you say fragile an easy to kill then you have a reason to carry terror units, maybe you can use the flying saucer from tftd as terror unit.
don't forget the yellow green glow at the bottom.

[Angelus_EV]

sorry about the double post but i found your terror unit to equip

[Gifty]

This mod keeps looking better every time I look at it. Keep doing what you're doing.

[Incognito]

I always thought the cover alien was more fly like than wasp like.

I'll throw out Sarcophage (flesh eater) as a suggestion taken from the latin name of the flesh fly.

Or maybe Beelzoid from Beelzebub, lord of the flies.

[robin]

I always thought the cover alien was more fly like than wasp like.

I'll throw out Sarcophage (flesh eater) as a suggestion taken from the latin name of the flesh fly.

Or maybe Beelzoid from Beelzebub, lord of the flies.

The cover picture indeed looks similar to fly. But as I said, the alien head in my sprite is different and it looks more wasp-like.

I like Beelzoid, it "sounds" right; but I'm still leaning towards Waspite, I find it more distinctive and straightforward.