Currently, Zombies uses combat text(“Help Me!” and “Score: xyz” pop ups) as its primary signal, but audio and particle cues are also usable, though not implemented yet. What would you like to see be given an audio and/or particle cue?
A list of planned ones
There’s more particles that were added in 1.4.4 but this documents a good bunch Particle Types - World Ping Visualizer
Ok this is gonna be cool
question: do audio cues have to be vanilla sounds? (probably but i just wanna make sure)
I don’t think any of the effects in that list fit the cue of death. But visually, the keybrand effect would look best.
Oh they’re audio cues mb!
Yeah, but we can change the volume and pitch
particle and audio cues are usable, they’re not mutually exclusive. Also, what would death cue be for?
The death cue as in the particle & audio addition to the “help me” pop up
I’ll throw out as many particle ideas as I can think of on the spot based on the particles shown in that list. I dunno what the exhaustive list for usable particles is, if there’s one of those somewhere then that’d be appreciated.
Maybe either of the flame trails (Flame Waker Boots or Death Goat, I don’t see the difference in the gifs shown) could be on or around the player’s head if the Barrage is cancelled prematurely by taking damage? After all, we don’t know how those rockets are appearing, but something’s clearly short - circuiting, so why not show that off?
Keybrand effects on the player whenever they get an upgrade, since more upgrades mean more Guardians. That power’s got to be getting there somehow, it should be shown!
This dabbles in some dark magic… albeit for a greater good, so it’s fine. Let’s lean into that a little more. The Shaman user has the Dark Harvest Hit effect surround their player when they take health. Other affected players have the Dark Harvest Buff pop out of them. To reflect the permanent health benefits from all that stored HP, when the HP boost is used all affected players (Shaman user or not) have the Stellar Tune particles surround them.
When the Time Warp user teleports back 3 seconds, i.e. the “Time Warp” command on the sidebar, the player leaves behind Rainbow Rod Hit particles. When they freeze enemies in time, i.e. the “Stop Time” command on the sidebar (or, well, tries to, the glitchy flying enemies would like to have a word with that), the other players have the Dark Harvest Buff particles pop out of their bodies when they’re slowed.
When the Telekinesis user uses any of the Ability’s effects, Keybrand particles flash around their player. Stardust Guardian Punches could work too, but I suggest Keybrand since Telekinesis is more visual, so it could be seen more easily.
This Ability has a lot of effects, so it’s in a dropdown menu.
Damage Boost (“I wish I dealt more damage”) - Displays Rainbow Rod Hit around the player when they gain the Damage Nebula buff.
Player Death (“I wish to die”) - Displays Dark Harvest Hit around the player when they’re killed.
Regen Boost (“I wish to heal faster”) - Displays Resonance Scepter around the player when they gain the Life Nebula buff.
Instant Health (“I wish to be healed”) - Displays Stellar Tune around the player when they’re healed.
Other Player Death (“I wish Player Name would die”) - Displays Dark Harvest Buff around the targeted player after the “Danger approaches…” warning until the damage from the Wish is applied.
Speed Boost (“I wish to move faster”) - Displays either of the flame trails at the player’s feet when they gain the Swiftness and Panic! buffs.
This one is… I only played with the ability once so I can’t make too many suggestions, but knowing generally how the ability works I think having the Dark Harvest Buff starting to appear around the Reverent player’s body as they start becoming debuffed from increasing insanity would make sense. As the insanity debuffs flare up further it could change to Dark Harvest Hit. Overall, change between no particles (low insanity with no debuffs), Dark Harvest Buff (small particles if the player has some debuffs), and Dark Harvest Hit (larger particles if the player has many debuffs) based on the player’s insanity level.
I have some ideas that i would probably suggest in a few days, that may be supplemented by this idea, however, this is great news.
I realized there were a more particles added than I expected so here’s an updated list of them.
A few notes:
| Name | Image |
|---|---|
| Keybrand |  |
| Flame Waders |  |
| Stellar Tune |  |
| Goat Mount |  |
| Dark Harvest Hit |  |
| Rainbow Rod Hit |  |
| Dark Harvest Small |  |
| Stardust Guardian Punch |  |
| Resonance Scepter |  |
| Paladin’s Hammer |  |
| Night’s Edge |  |
| Silver Bullet Sparkle |  |
| True Night’s Edge |  |
| Excalibur |  |
| True Excalibur |  |
| Terra Blade |  |
| Chlorophyte Leaf Crystal Passive |  |
| Chlorophyte Leaf Crystal Shot (Variant 100) |  |
| Chlorophyte Leaf Crystal Shot (Variant 255) |  |
| Ash Tree Shake |  |
| Pet Exchange |  |
| Gas Trap |  |
| Item Transfer (Obsidian Skull) |  |
| Item Transfer (Zenith) |  |
| Shimmer Arrow |  |
| Town Slime Transform (Nerdy Slime) |  |
| Town Slime Transform (Copper Slime) |  |
| Town Slime Transform (Elder slime) |  |
| Loadout Change |  |
| Shimmer Block |  |
| Digestion |  |
| Poo Fly |  |
| Shimmer Town NPC |  |
| Shimmer Town NPC Teleport |  |
This would look a bit finnicky for dashes, as particles can’t be anchored to players exactly
Item transfer with bullets seems like a decent idea
Could you elaborate on that?
If you can set coords to where item goes, relatively to player, maybe set silv bullets, for example, 1 block to -+ direction and 1 to ++, it can make some deco for telek jump
I dont know how exactly is customisable it though, so…
Here’s Barrage with Flame Waker Boots’ particles
And then Time Warp slowing people down(from the perspective of the user)
Each time the particles spawn the ability triggers once. The ability cooldown was artificially lowered so comparison is easier. It alternates between Dark Harvest Large and Dark Harvest Small. I think the former is a bit too excessive, though
And Telekinesis with Keybrand particles on push/pull and jump
Telekinesis with Keybrand particles for dashing
Telekinesis with a few Resonance Scepter particles for dashing
(3rd person perspective) Looks great tbh.
Oh and this is dead players with bits of Dark Harvest
I mean what would it trigger for? I get that it has something to do with Item Transfer and Silver Bullets, but not sure what would apply to it
Well, you’d be leaving behind whatever you’d have using the same force that pushes and pulls enemies. I think it’d be better like that since it being a one off thing instead of a constant effect (like, say, Flame Waker boots while moving) helps makes it more distinguishable from equippable dash effects like Tabi and Crystal Assassin.
Yeah, the larger particles do seem like a bit much for such a minor effect. Looking through the other effects you posted, maybe Paladin’s Hammer sent in whatever direction the affected player’s current velocity is (e.g. if they’re going to the right, it goes right) would be better since they get slowed, whereas the Time Warp user freezing time has Ash Tree Shake applied at their location when they stop time?