• I'm noticing a rising trend where if command members are Broken the law rack gets rushed and the AI gets rogued. It's really not a very fun outcome to deal with 5 or so Broken and then the entire silicon department bolting doors and destroying stuff too.
  
• Hotspot's really are hit or miss and frankly aren't very fun for a tiny map, especially when 5 to 15 minute segments of play time are effectively "no one gets to do anything except try to repair and deal with half the station getting destroyed by the Broken"
  
• Miners are very easily able to find grenades and other lethals in the trench and can bring those up to start chucking around during Madness events.
  
• I genuinely feel the map has too many events. I was in a round where it went Madness Event -> Arcfiend -> EM storm -> Madness Event -> Syndicate Radio Callout -> EM storm 2, all the while hotspots were spawned in three departments destroying everything and the trench was filled with every lethal creature cluttered around the mining elevator.
  
• Genetics getting double the chances to be destroyed is funny because ha ha smelly nerds who tap screen for 90 minutes, but the potential for them to lose all their work that they spent real time trying to do does suck. No other department is so reliant on time like Genetics is, and it is my understanding that if the consoles are destroyed then all the research material and data goes with it.
  
• I know that its very intentional design for no one to be able to tell if someone is Broken. It might be a bit too gamey if they had a glowing aura and if you shot them with Halo enough the aura goes away eventually. With that said I don't know of any way to tell who was picked to be Broken end of round. If someone wanted to they could self-antag during the event and just pretend to be broken and destroy genetics with the rest of the broken, and no one would know aside from Admins. 
  

(04-29-2025, 10:18 AM)aft2001 Wrote: Note: Genetics progress isn't entirely lost when everything is destroyed. Research (unlocks & discovered genes), the gene booth's stock, and materials remain. However, any stored genes and chromosomes are lost when the console is disassembled. This can be especially devastating if you don't have backups of key genes, like HCDNA and your weakened material-generating gene (such as anaerobic). Thankfully you can order a genetics supply kit form Cargo so it's not so big a deal if everything is wiped; it's possible to rebuild.

The meme of "smelly genetics bad!!" is actually funny, and the fact that Genetics has more weight to being the target of a Broken event is fucking hilarious. From firsthand experience, however, it does not feel good losing your progress and having to wait like 20 minutes to be able to resume your work. As mentioned previously, Genetics is very time sensitive, so for those who enjoy stocking the booth up for other players it really does suck. I figure this also applies to Hydroponics and the other departments which can be targeted. GRANTED, this is just the nature of the game. Sometimes shit happens, and learning to suck it up is important. These are just my thoughts as an avid Genetics Enjoyer™.

Overall, I do like the Broken event, and would be sad if it got removed or super reworked. Perhaps the wording of the hate_department objective could be changed from "destroy" to "vandalize"? Or have it choose between "destroy", "vandalize", "block off", "relocate", etc., so it's not a ~1/6 chance for your Neon genetics round to be cut short.

(04-29-2025, 07:12 AM)Torchwick Wrote: Hopping in with a suggestion related to Nerkson’s post! I’m enjoying broken so far, but it does blur the line between real antags and self antags that should be reported. I think that adding a history of who was broken in the round to the end credits card would go a long way to being able to report people post-round who were acting ‘broken’ just to grief. It’s a hectic mechanic which makes it fun, but doubles to make it hard to tell when people are just breaking the rules.A way to tell in round would be nice too; but adding it to the credits for now would be a huge help imo.