Well as you said, skunk are is WIP. Inclusion of them in the game at all a this point was a very late decisions, and their sprites are extremely old and not final.
Glad you enjoy them and other parts!
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I've finally found the note talking about the Grunt drones, are those the black and purple drones that show up in the beginning and vanish later? They look really enticing! I was wondering what they were, is there more content planned for them? Their design alone is fascinating, I am so curious about them! Their full visor, their vicious mouth and tongue, their transparent window in the body showing the insides holding purple liquid and a mysterious looking apparatus, what a captivating looking fella!
No, it's not them actually, though I can see why someone might think that. That note was written way before these were even conceptualized. In general every creature in the game, past, present, and future, should be playable one day. I am not one for half measures, at least destination wise.
These drones are synth lizard and they are machines designed to correct behavior of other creatures through their hypnotic fluid, roughly speaking. Some general idea of their gameplay will be to walk around the facility and pacifying creatures that escaped like goo wolves, but also correcting drones, and maybe performing some maintenance, but maybe that will be another creature. I am not going to run out of ideas anytime soon.