Drooping Stingers

Subnautica Hanging Stinger concept art by Cory

Hanging stingers are a life form appearing in caves. Hanging from the ceiling they are waiting for prey to be caughty by their stinger.

Looking like a hybrid between a sea anemone and a Jellyfish they are attached to rock, waiting for prey to be entangled in their tentacles.

Behavior

Early development screenshot of the Hanging Stingers (not attached)

Their behavior was fleshed out on this trello card.

A few key points are:

• Damages anything live that touches it (Poison damage).
• Target gets set as GameFlagState.Poisoned for 5 seconds (GameFlag.Set(obj, GameFlag.Poisoned, 5)
• While poisoned, loop poison damage sound for creature, and take damage over time.
• Smaller variants do less damage for less time (-50%), larger variants do more damage for a longer time (+50%).
• When emissive lights on Stinger are glowing, that means the Stinger is active. After it stings a target, it becomes stops glowing for 5 to 10 seconds (random). Then it fades the glow back up over 1 second, after which time it is active again. Alternatively, the stingers could retract a bit instead of change their glow if that’s much easier.