Event Pitch: Bounty Hunt – Lulu Lunoloot
Bounty Hunt: Lulu Lunoloot is a roster-focused event concept designed to reward account breadth, preparation, and experimentation rather than raw peak power. Its goal is to create meaningful engagement for players across the entire spectrum, from newer accounts to long-established players, without encouraging power creep or narrow “meta-only” play.
The event is intentionally structured to be inclusive, replayable, and low-pressure, while quietly encouraging players to engage with the full range of characters and weapons already in the game.
Core Design Goals
1. Reward roster breadth instead of meta concentration
The event encourages players to field multiple teams with no overlapping characters or weapons. This naturally rewards roster variety and discourages over-investment in a single optimized lineup.
By making redundancy inefficient and variety valuable, the event helps:
- Preserve long-term relevance of older characters and weapons
- Encourage experimentation outside of influencer-driven builds
- Reduce pressure to constantly escalate character power
Progression is framed around preparedness and flexibility rather than peak damage output.
2. Be accessible to new players without trivializing progression
The minimum challenge level begins at Level 20, making the event comfortable for newer players and early rosters. There are no hard failure states that lock players out of rewards.
New players may take longer to complete the event, but they are never blocked. Time and familiarity replace raw power as the primary progression factors.
Failure is non-punitive and framed narratively, ensuring that participation always feels worthwhile.
3. Encourage roster awareness and rediscovery
Because players can field up to 10 distinct teams, the event naturally pushes them to:
- Look through their full character and weapon catalogue
- Re-evaluate older or less-used characters
- Experiment with unconventional team compositions
This shifts player behavior away from a small set of currently promoted builds and toward a broader understanding of what their account can do.
The result is increased engagement through discovery rather than optimization pressure.
Event Overview
Narrative hook:
The notorious thief Lunoloot is operating in the city, fencing stolen goods.
Players assist patrols in locating and apprehending her across multiple search rounds.
Team structure:
- Up to 10 teams, each with 1–3 characters
- No duplicated characters or weapons across teams
- Unfilled teams are replaced by underpowered local police units
The more teams a player fields, the higher the chance that one of their teams encounters Lunoloot.
Gameplay Loop
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Choose challenge level
Players select a difficulty from Level 20 to Level 80. Higher levels increase risk but recover more loot per successful encounter. -
Search phase
One team is randomly selected each round. If a police team encounters Lunaloot, she escapes with a taunting line. If a player team encounters her, combat begins. -
Combat and recovery
Defeating Lunaloot recovers stolen goods. She escapes narratively, allowing the hunt to continue. -
Completion
Once a number of loot points are recovered, all event rewards are unlocked and the event concludes.
Hidden Pity and Player Trust
To reduce RNG frustration while preserving tension, the event uses narrative-driven hidden pity.
Each time Lunoloot evades a police team, the patrols are described as closing in on her location. The search area tightens, and eventually she is guaranteed to encounter one of the player’s teams.
This ensures:
- Players with only one reliable team are never soft-locked
- Time spent always translates into progress
- Failure feels like momentum rather than loss
Player Experience Across Account Types
New players
- Low entry difficulty and no hard failure states
- Gradual introduction to team-building concepts
- Clear sense that every additional character expands possibilities
“I’m discovering what my account can do.”
Established players
- Meaningful use for older or neglected characters
- Strategic decisions around team composition and difficulty
- Progression that rewards long-term investment
“My past effort still matters.”
Highly invested players
- Can leverage large rosters for efficiency
- Enjoy planning and preparedness rather than brute force
- Complete the event faster without exclusive advantages
“My collection actually has purpose.”
Why This Event Avoids Power Creep
- Random team selection devalues single hyper-carries
- Duplicate restrictions prevent stacking the strongest tools
- Difficulty is player-selected rather than forcibly escalated
- Success is capped and non-competitive
The event keeps older content relevant without requiring buffs, reworks, or escalating stat checks.
Summary
Bounty Hunt: Lunoloot is designed to reward variety, preparation, and curiosity rather than urgency or peak optimization.
By encouraging players to engage with the full breadth of characters and weapons, the event supports long-term game health, reduces meta homogenization, and provides satisfying participation for players at every stage of progression.
It offers an alternative event structure that scales horizontally with account growth, helping the game grow wider rather than taller.
Optional Phase Two: The Chase Moves Uptown
As an optional extension, the event could introduce a second phase where the chase leads Lunoloot into a wealthy, high-density district. To avoid collateral damage, local authorities impose strict restrictions on the use of overt powers.
In this phase, active powers are temporarily disabled. Combat instead emphasizes:
- Character passive abilities
- Weapon traits and secondary effects
- Team composition and synergy
The narrative framing allows this shift to feel natural rather than punitive: the rules change because the environment changes.
Design Intent
Phase Two is not intended to increase difficulty through higher stats. Instead, it introduces a strategic rotation that encourages players to look more closely at parts of their roster that are often overlooked.
By temporarily removing reliance on active powers, the event:
- Highlights underutilized passive effects
- Increases the value of weapon variety
- Encourages thoughtful team-building over execution speed
This keeps the event fresh without escalating power requirements.
Impact Across Player Types
Newer players are not disadvantaged, as passive effects and weapon traits are available regardless of high investment levels. Success remains time-based rather than power-gated.
Established players are rewarded for broader familiarity with their collection, discovering new synergies among characters and weapons they may not normally field together.
Highly invested players gain a new optimization puzzle that does not rely on raw damage output, preserving balance while still rewarding preparation.
Why This Supports the Event’s Core Goals
- Maintains inclusivity without lowering engagement
- Reinforces roster breadth rather than peak power
- Introduces variety without additional currencies or systems
By shifting constraints instead of raising numbers, Phase Two extends the event while keeping it a
Appendix: Lunoloot Escape Lines (Narrative & Tone Design)
The following section outlines an optional narrative layer for the Bounty Hunt event. Its purpose is not to add mechanical complexity, but to help reframe “failure” moments as emotionally rewarding through character expression.
Because voiced lines carry production cost, this proposal intentionally limits the number of lines and focuses on tone consistency rather than volume.
Character Read: Lunoloot
In the current game, Lunoloot presents herself with aggressive bravado, but quickly loses composure when challenged. Her existing lines suggest a character who:
- Leads with rehearsed confidence
- Realizes she has misjudged the situation
- Reacts emotionally rather than maliciously
Her defeat line (“you’ll get yours next time… boo hoo”) is particularly important. It reinforces the player’s victory while revealing a surprisingly childlike, genuine disappointment rather than calculated mockery.
This proposal treats Lunoloot as a theatrical, emotionally transparent outlaw: someone who wants to be intimidating, but takes losing personally.
Design Goals for Escape Lines
- Make failure feel playful rather than punishing
- Reinforce the player’s impact on the encounter
- Keep Lunoloot expressive without making her cruel or sarcastic
- Preserve consistency with her existing in-game voice
The intent is for players to recognize emotional patterns over repeated encounters, building familiarity rather than frustration.
Line Structure
Each encounter is divided into three short voice moments:
- Opener – rehearsed bravado at the start of the encounter
- Escape with dropped goods – emotional reaction when the player wins
- Successful escape – relieved excitement when she manages to get away
Each category can be supported by a small pool of 3–5 lines to minimize VO scope.
Sample Lines (Limited Pool)
Opener (rehearsed confidence)
- “Easy now. I’m very dangerous.”
- “Alright! Hands up. Don’t make this weird.”
- “This is a robbery. A serious one.”
Escape after dropping goods (player victory)
- “Tch… this was supposed to be easy.”
- “Whatever. You got lucky.”
- “Next time… next time I win.”
These lines are intentionally sulky and defensive, reinforcing that the player’s success genuinely affected her.
Successful escape after defeating the team
- “That was close! I thought I was done for.”
- “Yes! Yes! I did it!”
- “See? I'm good at this.”
These lines express relief and excitement rather than dominance, ensuring that failure does not feel belittling.
Why This Helps the Event
- Turns non-optimal outcomes into memorable moments
- Encourages players to re-engage rather than disengage
- Adds character flavor without affecting balance or rewards
By giving Lunoloot emotional reactions instead of purely taunting lines, the event reframes setbacks as part of an ongoing chase narrative, not a loss of progress.
This appendix is intended as optional flavor support and can be adjusted to match existing narrative direction or production constraints.
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