Weed Killer in 2025...
Alright. I know the topic has come up before. But it is time for us to address the elephant in the scrap ship; Weed Killer is functionally a non-item now.
As an item, the Weed Killer had two uses - destroying Vain Shrouds (and thus, stopping Kidnapper Fox spawns), and Fuel/Booster for the Cruiser. This made it a fairly pricey novelty item with a niche use depending on what moons you were being funneled towards, and what SEED you got.
Then, v60 happened. Vain Shrouds do not exist, and Kidnapper Foxes no longer exist (something that we could, for the sake of lore, construe as the kill order on the foxes having reached its apex and thus they are no longer invasive but endangered). The Cruiser, while funny, is often viewed as a joke item to itself, which costs a massive amount of credits in order to even use (and, as I learned, prone to exploding for MANY reasons), and the boost, while comical, does not help with the already awful driving controls.
There are so many options for things that could be done with the Weed Killer, but right now it simply seems like an item that exists with no set purpose outside of "I just figured we can't waste credits we spend". Now, I can think of a list of things that we could do, some of which I believe will be familiar. But, I wanna see what you all think;
Plants Hate Weed Killer - The Bracken and Giant aren't huge threats, but they ARE plants. Are plants don't like weed killer about as much as weed don't like it. Doesn't matter if you're a rose or a dandelion, get sprayed with weed killer, you're dead. My point? The Bracken and The Giants shouldn't be able to handle the stuff; a spray or two should have them backing away from you, or at least changing course to avoid the spray, maybe even drop you if a Giant is holding you.
Bees also Don't Like Weed Killer - Yeah, we're continuing this line of thinking; Bee Hives typically have two options for acquisition — the ladder method, and the bait and snatch method. Now, these are tried and true, and I'm not saying it's not nice... but, with the Vain Shrouds dealt with, maybe we could start using that powerful poison for some inter-lunar pest control? Make the bees killable with the poison spray.
I Mean... It's Poison - I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but poison kills things. Really well, honestly. And you wanna know what also is small, but deceptively deadly in numbers? That's right, Stash Bugs. Ya wanna know what would fix that problem? Poison. Make it so that weed killer can be sprayed onto items; Stash Bugs that carry the item back to their nest might accidentally poison the whole lot of them, leaving you with a good chance of getting a good batch of loot quick as can be, in exchange for thinking ahead and being prepared. Could even make it a chance based thing, so that it couldn't be abused all the time.
Does anyone else have any ideas here? For a bit, I was thinking "fuel for flame thrower", but I doubt that that will ever happen, lmao.