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BYOND Username: Agent_reburG69
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06-25-2025, 08:15 AM
It always bothered me as a Borg,
as a mechanical high-tech apparatus, your only source of light, is a flashlight.
There are all sorts of Visior Upgrades, a simple NV one would be satisfying enough.
Wondering, was this just an oversight, or am I overlooking something here?
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BYOND Username: LeahTheTech
Character Name: Leah Polaris, B.E.E
You can get a meson upgrade that works as a kind of night vision. Actual NVs are restricted to the armoury, security utility purchases or specific antag roles, I don't think printing them from a robotics fab would be a good idea.
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BYOND Username: Agent_reburG69
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06-25-2025, 09:41 AM
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(06-25-2025, 08:59 AM)LeahTheTech Wrote: You can get a meson upgrade that works as a kind of night vision. Actual NVs are restricted to the armoury, security utility purchases or specific antag roles, I don't think printing them from a robotics fab would be a good idea.
I mean, it would just be for Borgs, allowing for better navigation through maintenance and such.
Edit: No2 is also in the armory, but also in medbay. It's just not as weaponizable to ground it, because of that.
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BYOND Username: Emikamiyuki49
Character Name: Jasmine Zhang, Emilia Lettuce
The meson works fine. If I want night vision, I would just get the meson upgrade.
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BYOND Username: Kotlol
Character Name: Selena James
Nightvision has a weaknesses to flashes and bright lights.
Cyborgs already have it. By that default setting they should have nightvision build in.
But seriously.. all borgs have a latern they can have on at all times since they technically have 3 arms.
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BYOND Username: Violetsaber
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Cyborgs have a weakness to flashes because they are designed to be weak to stuns. That doesn't mean they should get NV just because they share a weakness. Besides, they can already see through cloaking devices, i don't think giving maintenance_lurker_alarm_system.exe (original borg name do not steal) the ability to find every antag hiding in maintenance on top of that.
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BYOND Username: JORJ949
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Mesons give roughly the same vision radius that NVs do, take mesons, a NV upgrade would just be straight up worse than mesons as mesons let you see structures through walls, NVs don't.