Enemy Rework Program : Coward Chicken

[Traveller]

Ok, I’d like to point out ſomething: cowards are ſuppoſed to greatly increaſe the difficulty of waves they’re in. They are not intended to be roughly as eaſy as all the other chicken varieties. There is a reaſon they only ſhow up on harder difficulties.

@Akemisora

I’m sure everyone hates them

Before ſpeaking for “everyone”, check with everyone.

@Akemisora

They punish (counter-attack) every shot you give.

Yes, that’s the point of cowards.

@Akemisora

This causes using quantity based and chaining/splitting weapons have difficult time against them as you hit them more than once every time.

Yes, that’s one of the diſadvantages of thoſe types of weapons. If you “fix” this problem, you’ll have to rework half the weapons next week to balance them again.
I’d alſo like to point out that that’s the entire point of the cowards. They punch back.

@Akemisora

They break the formation. In some waves this might not be a problem, but in waves that allows them to run away, good luck on catching them, especially when you’re using bomber. In waves that using bubbles (especially Bubble Bath), they might hide behind them and you can’t shoot them. In other waves, they make wave’s name irrelevant (say, Caged Animals).

I fail to ſee the problem, other than the fact that they don’t kindly ſtand waiting to be ſhot.

@Akemisora

They almost always gurantee deaths when appearing on enclosure waves. This is closely related to problem #1.

Don’t they no longer spawn in encloſure waves on difficulties < 100%? I may be wrong on this. EDIT: They no longer ſpawn on wormhole or pulſating grid for difficulties below 75%. As far as Chicken roulette goes, you yourſelf ſaid here that it was more manageable. Alſo apparently due to your complaints, cowards no longer ſpawn on the Yolk Star™, regardleſs of difficulty.

@Akemisora

• Stay in their position unless provoked
• Shooting them provokes them, they will shoot one waste approximately at you and start avoiding you for 3 seconds.
• During this period, they won’t attack back if being attacked.

This pretty much deſtroys the point of cowards. They would only ſhoot once at you, and ſit there waiting to be ſhot themſelves.

@Akemisora

Reduce projectile speed by 33%.

I don’t play much on lower difficulties, but on higher ones the projectile ſpeed is fine (if anything, it’s a little ſlow).

@Akemisora

But, since they shoot less and at slower speed, this is better than nothing.

So your complaint really boils down to “they’re too hard!”. I have a workaround: play on lower difficulties. As far as fixes go, at moſt raiſe the difficulty at which they ſtart appearing.