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If Sci-fi with a heavy dose of satire and whimsy are your kind of thing, thenRevenge of the Savage Planetis the game for you. It doesn’t take itself too seriously, bombarding you with upgrades and tools constantly so that you’re able to just play around. The story is loose enough that you can only lightly pay attention and still pick up the gist.
The planets and their denizens are the real stars of the show, and there are quite a few creatures here to gaze upon. Each of them presents a unique challenge in battle, but don’t you wish you could just look at them up close? Well lucky you, because you can capture those critters for your own viewing pleasure. Don’t worry, it’s plenty ethical.
How To Capture Creatures
To first capture characters,you need to find your lasso whip. This will replace your default melee attacks, allowing you to whip enemies from afar, and later, reach grapple points. It’s a very versatile tool, because it also lets you capture new creatures immediately. This is a mostly simple process, but has a few steps behind it.
The basis is tohold the whip button until you start twirling it in the air like a lasso, and then toss it at an enemy. You’ll know it’s targeting at enemy when the reticle locks onto them and the camera starts to follow them. This is your signal to throw. This works a little differently between smaller monsters, and those with weak points. Here’s how to capture each of them.
The in-game tutorial claims you must aim first before you start holding the melee button to turn your whip into a lasso, butthis isn’t necessary.
Regular Creatures
For regular ol' creatures, the small ones without any weak points, the process is as simple astossing your lasso and then holding the highlighted button until you’ve dragged them in.You are not invulnerable during this process, so make sure you’ve cleared out any other nearby enemies that might interrupt you creature capturing.
After you’ve lassoed an enemy, you need to pull them in. This is relative to your distance away from the enemy.If you’re closer, you’ll capture them faster. This can be the ideal process if there are more enemies nearby. However, unless the terrain gets in the way, small creatures won’t be able to break away. So just keep pulling until it’s yours.
Creatures With Weak Points
When it comes to larger creatures, the capturing process is a bit different. They all have weak points, which are unique to each of them.Crushers, for example, have a weak point on their tails, while Beetles have it on the unarmored section of their shell. To capture them, you must first stagger them, which is done by hitting their weak point.
However,the weak point must be struck at least twice to stagger them, and even more on stronger enemies. Since weak points also deal more damage, you have to be careful not to deal too much damage to a creature or else you might defeat them before you stagger them. Once they are staggered though, they are just as easy to pull in.
There are a small number of exceptions to this which will ask you toperiodically ask you to stop pulling to relieve the pressure. Just like fishing.
Visiting Your Captured Creatures In The Planetary Pens
Once you capture a creature, it gets sucked into the void, which might have you wondering where exactly they’ve gone. When you first do this on Stellaris Prime, you need tocall down a creature pen from space to house these creatures, Until then, they ar technically nowhere. Unsettling, but at least they won’t be there for long.
After the Stellaris Prime creature pen,all other planetary creature pens are called down before you are allowed to visit those planets. Keeping a creature locked in the endless void would likely be violating some ethical boundaries, after all.
The first time you enter one of these creature pens, all of the creatures you have captured will be deposited from the void.Each of them can be interacted with for a unique little animation. Otherwise, they’ll just potter about the pen, seemingly satisfied with their much smaller life now. You can admire your captured creatures, but that’s about it.
Researching Captured Creatures
However, there is one more thing you can do with captured creatures, the most valuable part of the capturing process.Once a creature has been captured, you can research them. This can be done from the computer in your habitat. Researching each creatures takes a few minutes in real-time, with larger creatures taking even longer. Research times can range from a single minute all the way up to six minutes.
And what is the reward for researching creatures?New colour schemes! Your outfits are made up of four pieces which can be swapped around freely, but each piece can also be given a different colour. These colours are unlocked by researching creatures, with every single one of them unlocking a brand-new colour scheme. So if you want to explore these planets in style, make sure you’re capturing every single creature you can.
Once you unlock a new colour scheme,it is unlocked for every piece of gear, not just a single type.
