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Pods. Pods are not a thing I like.
I don't like them because they are difficult to destroy. They add another dumb layer between traitors and crew. A traitor will just fly around in a pod for ~40 minutes firing the linked laser while the crew is entirely helpless to stop it. Getting close to a pod with a blunt weapon just lets them turn around in a second and hit you with a nice 0.5 second laser to the face with the same cooldown. I've never ever seen anyone fire at a pod with a laser, so I have no idea of the effectiveness of that.
Can we get some anti-pod weapons or something? Making the air inside them not last an hour?
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We do need some... what would be the word? Anti-Armor or anti-personnel? I'm gonna go with anti-armor. Anyway, we do need some anti-armor weapons to combat pods.
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Shooting lasers at a pod is pretty effective, and I've seen at least one traitor hideously outdone in a pod by the Captain distributing e-guns and other people setting up cover barriers at escape.
Granted, the Captain distributing e-guns so everybody on the shuttle can laser any asshole walking in with a spacker to death is pretty effective against anything.
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Handheld lasers do a ton of damage to pods, and if you're wearing a jetpack, you can outmaneuver them too.
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If they're allowed to harm humans, I think cyborgs can also do some pretty heavy damage to pods by attacking them with blunt objects, as well. Rods are usually best for that.
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Cogwerks Wrote:Handheld lasers do a ton of damage to pods, and if you're wearing a jetpack, you can outmaneuver them too.
I was not aware. I've still never seen anyone go out and actively try to fight a pod with a laser. Does it take all 4 shots or what?
Xanatov Valerius Wrote:If they're allowed to harm humans, I think cyborgs can also do some pretty heavy damage to pods by attacking them with blunt objects, as well. Rods are usually best for that.
It takes a second for the pod to turn around and shoot your frail, light-borg body to bits.
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Traitorous pods are cool.
Vigilante pods are terrible, specially at escape. I've seen changelings and traitors get wrecked by a jackass in a pod, shooting from space where they can't be reached, while they have to contend with a shuttle full of people.
Maybe at least phasers should do extremely little damage to mobs and be more of a starter antipod weapon, since that's what most vigilante scum use.
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MEOW POW Wrote:Cogwerks Wrote:Handheld lasers do a ton of damage to pods, and if you're wearing a jetpack, you can outmaneuver them too.
I was not aware. I've still never seen anyone go out and actively try to fight a pod with a laser. Does it take all 4 shots or what?
Xanatov Valerius Wrote:If they're allowed to harm humans, I think cyborgs can also do some pretty heavy damage to pods by attacking them with blunt objects, as well. Rods are usually best for that.
It takes a second for the pod to turn around and shoot your frail, light-borg body to bits.
Default borgs are awful at fighting basically anything. I've never been a light borg in a combat situation. Always lucky enough to get upgraded by somebody.
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Clarks Wrote:Traitorous pods are cool.
Vigilante pods are terrible, specially at escape. I've seen changelings and traitors get wrecked by a jackass in a pod, shooting from space where they can't be reached, while they have to contend with a shuttle full of people.
Maybe at least phasers should do extremely little damage to mobs and be more of a starter antipod weapon, since that's what most vigilante scum use.
Phasers are already very weak, they do slighly less damage than the peashooter .38 ammo. I could just change what the phasers require for materials, but eh, I dunno.
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make phasers not pass through windows
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How much damage can george melons do to pods?
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Dauntasa Wrote:make phasers not pass through windows
That makes no sense. They are called phasers for a reason.
They phase through things.
And yeah, they are shit against mobs. I tried killing all the monkeys in the pen... it took me ten minutes to kill them all...
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Dauntasa Wrote:make phasers not pass through windows
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