Balloon Backpack
The Balloon Backpack is a miscellaneous ability that gives units a backpack with a deployable balloon inside. It is used by the Ballooner. |
Characteristics
The Balloon Backpack ability makes units instinctively dive into their enemies when attacking. It also gives their melee weapons the ability to stick onto units they hit.
Upon a successful hit with a melee weapon, a balloon will be deployed from the backpack and the unit along with whomever they are stuck to will rise into the sky. After 3 seconds in the air, the balloon will detach from the backback and all parties will plummet to the ground. Fortunately, the ability also makes the unit immune to fall damage, allowing them to land without taking any damage; though the unit they snatched will not have the same pleasant landing.
The backpack however is one-use only. It will also not deploy if the unit hit a target with a ranged weapon.
Once in a while, the plummeting unit may turn into a meteor instead, crashing to the ground with a spectacular explosion. The impact will cause 140 - 180 damage in a 5 WM radius. The chance of this happening is rare, where only 10% of plummeting backpackers can turn into a fiery meteor.
Trivia
- Despite what the Balloon Backpack's icon may suggest, only one balloon is deployed from the backpack.
- Unit gravity will glitch if the unit with the Balloon Backpack uses a non-unarmed weapon like a sword, as the game does not consider the stuck unit's weight when lifting.
- As such, even a heavy and colossal unit like the Mammoth can be lifted by a single balloon.
- Some units may fall slowly and unnaturally when released from great heights.
- This phenomenon also appears to lower the chance of the unit becoming a meteor when falling.
- If a unit with the ability perished while the balloon is deployed, they will float in the air, dangling from their balloon.
- The balloon in this case will not detach from the backpack.
- The balloon also falls when it gets detached.
- If selected in the Unit Creator, the backpack may deploy its balloon and lift the custom unit into the skies while editing.
Gallery
A custom unit with the Balloon Backpack lifting a Halberd
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