Game:

Hexen (1995)

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Let's Play

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Following on from the previous video about Heavensever and all it's upgrades, here's the one for the Dryad Form for the Druid. The Dryad Form, a bit like the Wolf Form, is actually focused around short-medium range. It has the extra role of setting up lots of traps and crowd-control.

The Primary Fire grows a wad of dangerous spiked brambles on the staff, which are then flung in front of you in a shotgun-like blast. It is quite short-ranged, but tears through enemies quite strongly. Upgrading makes the brambles deal more damage, and their range is also increased. Mutating it instead makes you transform your hands into the Fists of a Treant. The fists create shockwaves of force and natural power in a short-range in front. They are very good at stunning foes.

The Secondary Fire makes you fire off several seed pods. They bounce around, up to a close-medium range, preferring to bounce towards foes. After a few seconds, or after touching a target, they very rapidily burrow into the ground and grow at hyperspeed, turning into a deadly spiked beanstalks that impale enemies. Upgrading turns the Beanstalks into Bloodstalks, which also detonate the corpses of foes they kill. Mutating it instead makes the seeds burrow far deeper, to unleash volcanoes that vomit magma everywhere!

The Tertiary Fire grows a spitting plant in front of you. It spits globs of acid at nearby targets, and after several shots, erupts into venomous gas (this is the old Flechette effect, the Flechette is changed, which is shown towards the video end). Upgrading makes the spitter plant gain extra tendrils that whip at nearby foes. It also spits twice the acid for its life. Mutating means you no longer grow the Spitter Plant. Instead, you grow a giant mushroom. This mushroom constantly grows other dangerous mushrooms nearby, quite rapidly. If monsters step on them, they explode into spores that rot flesh, or which shrink foes temporarily. You can run over and kick shrunk foes for high damage!

The new Druid Flechette is also shown at the end. It now unleashes a swarm of flesh-eating locusts! They'll deal AoE damage in the area they're deployed, making this flechette more similar to the others in function.

Finally, you can also see the just finished sprites for Heavensever's pickup.

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