History VideoGame / StarCrawlers

* MinionMaster:

* BonusBoss: The Halloween mission features an extremely difficult boss whose main gimmick is a special full-party stun ability that fires off every time it takes a turn. This happens before it uses its actual (and very dangerous) attacks, and happens even if it's stunned. The stun check is based on the Fear element, a resistance that never comes into play elsewhere in the game, so if you went into this mission without first buying those special Fear-resist accessories for your team and gobbling all the candies you find, it can lock down your team's turns with constant stuns. Its actual attacks also hit extremely hard, and inflict lethal effects such as making the victim takes damage whenever the boss is attacked until the victim's next turn.
** If you purposefully piss off various factions until they hate you, they'll eventually send some unique assassins out to try and kill you that qualify as a potential Bonus Boss.
** In some office maps there are red terminals which, if successfully hacked, will open hidden doors to high-value chests. Very rarely, these doors will also spawn a very tough boss to fight as well.
** Pissing off a corporation enough will have them hire House Scuderre, a notorious assassin's guild, to send an assassin droid after you. This droid is dangerous enough that it comes with its own unique boss music.

* HolidayMode: Christmas, Halloween, and Lunar New Year all have their own special holidays in-game. So you don't have to mess with your system date to try them, a recent update allows you to select them whenever you want. The Halloween one is most noteworthy due to is BonusDungeon featuring a BonusBoss.

** [[{{Handguns}} Pistols]]: Lightweight and fast with a low Time Unit cost and high accuracy, offset by low damage output. This makes them ideal weapons for characters more focused on rapidly laying down abilities such as Manipulation-focused Void Psykers, defensive-focused Force Psykers, or Hackers and Engineers. The Smuggler uses them as their WeaponOfChoice, and is able to go GunsAkimbo with them for massive damage. Pistols have a passive "Zeroing" buff that increases their damage with each shot to the same target.

The game was first released in Early Access in 2015, and received continuous development until its final release on May 23, 2017. It is available on [[https://www.gog.com/game/starcrawlers GOG.com]] and [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/318970/StarCrawlers/ Steam]]. A [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/125859261/starcrawlers-chimera Kickstarter campaign]] for a sequel titled ''[[VideoGame/StarCrawlersChimera StarCrawlers Chimera]]'' was launched in May 2021, with a full release planned for the following year.

* TheAlcoholic: Riggo's Fine Spirits takes this UpToEleven: even their ''customer service AI'' is drunk!

* AnimalWrongsGroup: Hollow Earth, Hollow Soul is a minor faction that sends you angry letters if you loot boxes with rare animal hides or bones. It's actually pretty hard to get them angry enough to do anything worse. On the other hand, if you take the loot anyway and report it to them, not only do you get to sell the loot but also get a nice tote bag that [[VendorTrash you can sell for a few credits.]]

** Every single piece of VendorTrash has a description that lampshades how useless it is, except as some form of loot.

* VendorTrash: Items labeled as "loot" only serve to be sold to vendors. They're usually low in value, and typically come in the form of stolen office supplies and broken parts taken from damaged robots. It's still important to examine trash as some useful items sometimes use similar icons as common loot.

** The Cyberninja's Assassination tree deals huge amounts of constant damage, but the enormously-deadly abilities, particularly the titular Assassinate, actually have to ''hit'' the enemy to matter. You can end up completely wasting your turn if you have a high-damage but low accuracy weapon equipped.

* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: You can only bring four Crawlers on a mission. Apparently Luna's ship can't fit any more.

** '''[[TheCracker Hacker]]''': A security specialist who focuses on defeating security and supporting their allies in combat through complex nanomachines used to buff his team and debuff their enemies. While not being particularly powerful in direct combat, the Hacker is a master at crowd control effects and support, as well as bypassing enemy security while exploring dungeons.

* BackAlleyDoctor: While Lucius Finch does run a very professional medical bay on STIX, and he'll revive dead Crawlers for pocket change, he ''will'' take... parts... out of revived Crawlers as compensation for bringing them back to life, and if you want that Crawler to get back to full health you'll need to pay a lot more to get those parts back. And he still charges [[IncredibleLamePun an arm and a leg]] for normal medical supplies.

* BackAlleyDoctor: While Lucius Finch does run a very professional medical bay on STIX, and he'll revive dead Crawlers for pocket change, he ''will'' take... parts... out of revived Crawlers as compensation for bringing them back to life, and if you want that Crawler to get back to full health you'll need to pay a lot more to get those parts back. And he still charges an arm and a leg for normal medical supplies.