They first came in the late twentieth century. Mere scouting parties designed to test our worth, they sent wave after wave of ships to our surface, coming from some vast wormhole in space. We could hold them off, for a time. Unfortunately, even our best efforts were futile: Their resources were infinite, and they had patience that exceeded our determination. They did not take their chance to destroy us then, and as time passed, we forgot them.
Then they returned. And this time, they wanted more than just a sample. Game over.
The Space Invader is the ship that the Old Ones use to bring in troops and supplies from their bizarre home dimension. Space Invaders are incredibly resilient and more agile than our own dropships, and have refined their tactics so they deliver their payload and return instantly, instead of zigzagging across the sky as they did during the First Invasion. Destroying them is a fair blow against the Old Ones, but there will always be more.
The initial invasion is composed solely of Seekers, simple beings born directly from the alien matter of the home of the Old Ones. They are weak fighters, but fairly mobile and most often appear in groups. Shots to the head are particularly effective, especially given that their heads are so large compared to their bodies. This Seeker holds a Pixel Rifle, a rapid-fire weapon that hurls chunks of the strange stuff the Old Ones are made of. It will quickly kill unarmoured foes, but frequent reloading makes the user vulnerable.
Rift Keepers create and maintain the holes in reality that the Old Ones seep through. Since they spend so much time around these rifts, they assume some unique properties: If they take too much damage in combat, they will explode into a short-lived rift that pulls in anyone nearby. Those on the edges of the rift can hope to escape, but the unlucky ones who are sucked into the heart of the rift are reduced to ribbons by the constant bombardment of foreign matter. Rift Keepers usually wield Rift Openers in combat, a weapon that will create the same rifts they leave upon death. The attached aiming reticule shows where the rift will appear: It can even open them up from behind a wall, so it's a dreaded siege weapon.
After the Seekers find a place to invade and the Keepers prepare the way to it, the Riftblazes move in. The terrible armoured soldiers of the Old Ones are resilient, agile, and ruthless. Once their armour is gone, you can wound their core. The Riftblaze cannot heal its wounds and will eventually succumb to them, but it cannot feel pain and will fight to the last. The weapon this one is using is a Riftfire Launcher, which fires globs of alien matter that start reacting with the atmosphere. The reaction is comparable to our own fire, but much more deadly. Those caught in its core will be decayed to nothingness.
Finally, when the Old Ones take land, they guard it jealously. Their anti-aircraft defenses are incredibly potent, and can easily pick dropships out of the sky from a long distance away. They're not at all complicated: If they shoot you, you die. They can take numerous hits before they're destroyed, but they have difficulty shooting at targets that are underneath themselves.
Welp, here's my first released mod. Hope you guys like it, and I look forward to your feedback.
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