Thousand Pounder - Revision history

Flux at 16:30, 11 October 2011

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Butch Audacity: /* Diablo III Monster */

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‎Diablo III Monster

Adree: /* The D3 Team on Thousand Pounder */

2010-10-07T22:48:33Z

‎The D3 Team on Thousand Pounder

Adree: /* Death Animation */

2010-10-07T22:46:20Z

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Cogo at 15:37, 2 June 2010

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Newbie at 19:51, 15 February 2010

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Leord: /* Media */

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LordOfStrategy: /* Background */

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LordOfStrategy: various grammar fixes

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-The [[Thousand Pounder]] is a special [[monster]] of a mini-[[boss]] variety. He is slow, but deals massive damage with his two huge maces. He appears to be a [[Demon]].
+The [[Thousand Pounder]] is a [[superunique]] [[demon]] mini-[[boss]]. He is a huge, humanoid creature with a gigantically-fat stomach and two huge mauls which he dual wields.
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 ==Diablo III Monster==
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 |spells= Enrage
 |found= [[Forgotten Tombs]]
-}}[[Image:Mon-thousand-pounder-concept1.jpg|left|thumb|220px|Concept art of the Thousand Pounder(s).]]Thousand Pounder is a special boss monster, seen in the [[WWI 2008]] [[gameplay movie]] and a few related screenshots. It's not known if he's one particular individual out of a whole class of big, fat, dual-wielding, tattooed [[Demon]]s, or if he's a special, one-of-a-kind demon but the video of the demon hunter suggests he belongs to a class of "fatty" fiends. He's not an [[Act Boss]] or a major [[Quest boss]] though, that much was made clear in the panels at the WWI event.
+}}
-The Demon is summoned (as is described below), and sets to attack the player. Once he's ready to rumble, Thousand Pounder moves slowly, but with tremendous power, and deals heavy damage with his two large maces. When he smacks his two maces together, you don't want to be standing in the impact zone. In the gameplay movie, a [[Barbarian]] avoids damage by jumping around the beast with [[Leap Attack]] and uses [[Furious Charge]] to smash through the fatty monster. Other classes will likely be able to have some sort of similar mobility skills, like the [[Wizard]] skill [[Teleport]].
+The demon attacks with two huge blunt weapons, smashing them one at a time, or swinging both at once in a sort of hands-clapping attack, which will deal terrible damage to anything caught between the weapons. Thousand Pounder grows enraged as his life drops below 50%. At that point his tattoos turn red and he begins to move and attack much more quickly.
-When his [[life]] drops below about 50%, he kicks into an enraged mode. At that point his tattoos begin to glow red and he moves much more quickly. He retains this rage until he is killed.
+==Final Game Level==
-The Thousand Pounder doesn't have any additional minions or other monsters to help him out, so if the player uses an avoidance tactic and tries to damage him with ranged attacks, or forces him to use his strong but slow attacks, dodges them, and counter attacks before the Pounder retaliates, he can be taken down easily. Just remember not to get hit by the maces, and you'll be fine.
+Dressage_Encounter_Name Boss: The Larder
-===Summoning Ritual===
+==Summoning Ritual==
-Thousand Pounder is summoned up in a scripted event. The [[Barbarian]] in the [[Gameplay_WWI2008| Gameplay movie]] from WWI 2008 is running through the [[Forgotten Tombs]] when he comes upon a circle of five [[Dark Cultist]]s channelling their energy to call up the [[Demon]]. At first there are three pale-skinned youths dancing in the circle. They explode one by one, and then from their blood and flesh the demon is made incarnate.
+As seen in the WWI 2008 demo movie, Thousand Pounder is summoned up in a scripted event. The [[Barbarian]] in the [[Gameplay_WWI2008| Gameplay movie]] from WWI 2008 is running through the [[Forgotten Tombs]] when he comes upon a circle of five [[Dark Cultist]]s channelling their energy to call up the [[Demon]]. At first there are three pale-skinned youths dancing in the circle. They explode one by one, and then from their blood and flesh the demon is made incarnate.
 [[Image:Mon-thousand-summon1.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Youths dance, then are sacrificed to call forth Thousand Pounder.]]
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 ::'''Julian: '''Oh yeah, in fact I think there’s been a lot of off-shoot ideas. Like every other monster in the game, where applicable, we ended building a skeletal structure into him, and even a muscular set and things like that, that you see. And those things are functional, so I wouldn’t be surprised if you see skeletal and muscular thousand pounders running around, maybe half-summoned, and that sort of thing. There’s a lot of leeway with it.
 ===Death Animation===
 When he is defeated his death animation is basically the summoning animation in reverse; starting with a huge gout of blood, then his skin sloughs off, followed by his muscles, before his bones clatter to the ground.
 ===Thousand Pounder 'Title'===

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 |spells= Enrage
 |found= [[Forgotten Tombs]]
-}}[[Image:Mon-thousand-pounder-concept1.jpg|left|thumb|220px|Concept art of the Thousand Pounder(s).]]Thousand Pounder is a special boss monster, seen in the [[WWI 2008]] [[gameplay movie]] and a few related screenshots. It's not known if he's one particular individual out of a whole class of big, fat, dual-wielding, tattooed [[Demon]]s, or if he's a special, one-of-a-kind demon. He's not an [[Act Boss]] or a major [[Quest boss]] though, that much was made clear in the panels at the WWI event.
+}}[[Image:Mon-thousand-pounder-concept1.jpg|left|thumb|220px|Concept art of the Thousand Pounder(s).]]Thousand Pounder is a special boss monster, seen in the [[WWI 2008]] [[gameplay movie]] and a few related screenshots. It's not known if he's one particular individual out of a whole class of big, fat, dual-wielding, tattooed [[Demon]]s, or if he's a special, one-of-a-kind demon but the video of the demon hunter suggests he belongs to a class of "fatty" fiends. He's not an [[Act Boss]] or a major [[Quest boss]] though, that much was made clear in the panels at the WWI event.

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-::''The other way we emphasize [[monster]] character and personality is to look at the monster on whole. How do they get on screen and die? He's going to be on screen in a cool way, so we went to the the Thousand Pounder here. He's all bout hell. He's summoned from it literally piece by piece. When he gets on screen we figured he should be made and big. Express anger. Part of his gameplay is that he gets really mad when he's almost dead. Throws a huge temper tantrum and this changes how he plays and how the player has to play against him. When he's enraged we changed how he looked; made his tattoos glow, gave him new attack animations and special effects. When he dies the animation is somewhat a reverse of how he came on screen. We did this to show of the whole idea that he's from hell.''
+::''The other way we emphasize [[monster]] character and personality is to look at the monster on whole. How do they get on screen and die? He's going to be on screen in a cool way, so we went to the the Thousand Pounder here. He's all about hell. He's summoned from it literally piece by piece. When he gets on screen we figured he should be made and big. Express anger. Part of his gameplay is that he gets really mad when he's almost dead. Throws a huge temper tantrum and this changes how he plays and how the player has to play against him. When he's enraged we changed how he looked; made his tattoos glow, gave him new attack animations and special effects. When he dies the animation is somewhat a reverse of how he came on screen. We did this to show of the whole idea that he's from hell.''
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 ===Death Animation===
-When he is defeated his death animation is basically the summoning animation in reverse; his skin sloughs off, then his muscles, before his bones clatter to the ground.
+When he is defeated his death animation is basically the summoning animation in reverse; starting with a huge gout of blood, then his skin sloughs off, followed by his muscles, before his bones clatter to the ground.
 ===Thousand Pounder 'Title'===

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 ==Background==
-Nothing is specifically known about the background of the Thousand Pounder. Is it a "[[Superunique]]" of this "Fat Demon" kind, or is it a type of monster all together? The concept art seems to indicate that it's not a unique entity, showing a Barbarian with several of these creatures, but the matter in which he is summoned could suggest he is a little bit of a personality anyway. He is in either way powerful enough to require a quite advanced summoning to enter the physical realm.
+Nothing is specifically known about the background of the Thousand Pounder. Is it a "[[Superunique]]" of this "Fat Demon" kind, or is it a completely new type of monster? The concept art seems to indicate that it's not a unique entity, showing a Barbarian with several of these creatures, but the matter in which he is summoned could suggest he is a little bit of a personality anyway. He is in either way powerful enough to require a quite advanced summoning to enter the physical realm.
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 Image:Ghostbusters_Thousand_Pounder.jpg|Looking like Stay Puft?
 Image:Delowyn Pounder.jpg|3D render by [[Delowyn]]
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 |spells= Enrage
 |found= [[Forgotten Tombs]]
-}}[[Image:Mon-thousand-pounder-concept1.jpg|left|thumb|220px|Concept art of the Thousand Pounder(s).]]Thousand Pounder is a special boss monster, seen in the [[WWI 2008]] [[gameplay movie]] and a few related screenshots. It's not known if he's one particular individual out of a whole class of big, fat, dual-wielding, tattooed, [[Demon]]s, or if he's a special, one-of-a-kind demon. He's not an [[Act Boss]] or a major [[Quest boss]] though, that much was made clear in the panels at the WWI event.
+}}[[Image:Mon-thousand-pounder-concept1.jpg|left|thumb|220px|Concept art of the Thousand Pounder(s).]]Thousand Pounder is a special boss monster, seen in the [[WWI 2008]] [[gameplay movie]] and a few related screenshots. It's not known if he's one particular individual out of a whole class of big, fat, dual-wielding, tattooed [[Demon]]s, or if he's a special, one-of-a-kind demon. He's not an [[Act Boss]] or a major [[Quest boss]] though, that much was made clear in the panels at the WWI event.
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-The Thousand Pounder doesn't have any additional minions or other monsters to help him out, so if the player uses an avoidance tactic, and tries to damage him with ranged attacks, or forcing him to use his strong but slow attacks, dodging them, and counter attacking before the Pounder retaliates, he can be taken down easily. Just remember not to get hit by the maces, and you'll be fine.
+The Thousand Pounder doesn't have any additional minions or other monsters to help him out, so if the player uses an avoidance tactic and tries to damage him with ranged attacks, or forces him to use his strong but slow attacks, dodges them, and counter attacks before the Pounder retaliates, he can be taken down easily. Just remember not to get hit by the maces, and you'll be fine.
 ===Summoning Ritual===
-Thousand Pounder is summoned up in a scripted event. The [[Barbarian]] in the [[Gameplay_WWI2008| Gameplay movie]] from WWI 2008 is running through the [[Forgotten Tombs]], when he comes upon a circle of five [[Dark Cultist]]s channelling their energy to call up the [[Demon]]. At first there are three pale-skinned youths dancing in the circle. They explode one by one, and then from their blood and flesh the demon is made incarnate.
+Thousand Pounder is summoned up in a scripted event. The [[Barbarian]] in the [[Gameplay_WWI2008| Gameplay movie]] from WWI 2008 is running through the [[Forgotten Tombs]] when he comes upon a circle of five [[Dark Cultist]]s channelling their energy to call up the [[Demon]]. At first there are three pale-skinned youths dancing in the circle. They explode one by one, and then from their blood and flesh the demon is made incarnate.
 [[Image:Mon-thousand-summon1.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Youths dance, then are sacrificed to call forth Thousand Pounder.]]
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 While the Barbarian watches, lights began to glow and the Thousand Pounder takes form. First his bones appear, then muscles, then skin over the top, until with a final explosion that sends the Cultists flying, Thousand Pounder bursts into life.
-The brainstorming and work that went into creating this sequence was discussed between [[Bashiok]], [[Julian Love]], and [[Mike Nicholson]] during Blizzcast #8, in March 2009. [http://www.diii.net/blog/comments/blizzcast-8-live-with-diablo-iii-goodies]
+The brainstorming and work that went into creating this sequence was discussed between [[Bashiok]], [[Julian Love]] and [[Mike Nicholson]] during Blizzcast #8, in March 2009. [http://www.diii.net/blog/comments/blizzcast-8-live-with-diablo-iii-goodies]
 ::'''Bashiok:''' At WWI we unveiled the Thousand Pounder and it had this really grand entrance where it was assembled out of the pieces of these sacrificed uh... I guess virgins, if you will. It was such a grand entrance for that monster, how did that come about?