Better support for playing as a Twinning/Trining Lamprey

[John Snail]

Currently, your run ends if the twin you control dies. It’d be fun if control was moved to another twin when it dies instead, and it’s very straightforward to do as well.

Balance-wise, I think this is okay because there are far better things to dominate than lampreys, with their low stats, inability to equip most items (which you need to keep picking up when one dies), and vulnerability to normality. For example, rhinoxen only have a slightly harder domination check than twinning lampreys, but are super tanky and have two different and powerful methods of fleeing from situations.

Twinner:

        public override bool HandleEvent(AfterDieEvent E)
        {
            if (ParentObject.IsPlayer() && Twin?.CurrentCell != null)
            {
                The.Game.Player.Body = Twin;
            }
            return base.HandleEvent(E);
        }

Triner:

        public override bool HandleEvent(AfterDieEvent E)
        {
            if (ParentObject.IsPlayer())
            {
                if (Twin?.CurrentCell != null)
                {
                    The.Game.Player.Body = Twin;
                }
                else if (Triplet?.CurrentCell != null)
                {
                    The.Game.Player.Body = Triplet;
                }
            }
            return base.HandleEvent(E);
        }

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[Brian Bucklew]

arm says we’ve done something similar for one of the nephalim already

[Jason Grinblat]

sure go ahead

[John Snail]

Oh, looks like there’s a bug where player-controlled lampreys don’t duplicate. That’ll need fixing as well lmao