Goonhub
02-22-2018, 01:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-22-2018, 01:35 PM by Haprenti. Edited 2 times in total.)
I'm saying that if you're using this item and people know this item is being used, they can easily shut your place down and cut your access to genetic and thus injectors. So having a non zero delay is the least you could have to be able to stay undercover when you've accumulated a few injectors.
Otherwise what happens if I use this item just once, somebody is mildly annoyed with what I injected him with, and if it's something with effects that you can instantly identify (like mutation field) then the guy just has to look at who is right next to him (instead of having to remember who was next to him a few seconds ago) and yell your name or description on the radio.
You can't even attempt stealth, and people don't have to be that much wary and pay attention to people who were next to them once the news is out that a speed injector is being used on the station. Sure, they have to be cautious about not getting injected.
Also, the effects you can inject people are annoying, can be deadly, but you can be deadlier more easily with just a sleepy pen.
There already is a tradeof to the delay and instant injection, the fact you're known as a geneticist, the fact you rely on your lab for more supply, the fact that depending on what you're injecting you're just mildly annoying and for more annying stuff you need to spend a non-trivial part of the round researching mutations and hoping for certain chromosomes, it's more reliant on RNG than chemistry, the fact that unless you're spending enough time on your console waiting for that chromosome that's resistant to mutadone you have to actively target your victim unless you want them to get away, get rid of your mutation at medbay.
So if on top of that the guy you just injected with mutation field, radiation, blindness or whatever can just yell your name over the radio (doesn't work with speech suspension, but that's something you can definitely get away from and report to somebody with a paper or your PDA) by instantly knowing who did it (or at least saw the guy and can describe him), then you can't play stealthily unless you keep changing clothes all the time or something.
EDIT : Well, John Warcrimes managed to be much more concise.
Otherwise what happens if I use this item just once, somebody is mildly annoyed with what I injected him with, and if it's something with effects that you can instantly identify (like mutation field) then the guy just has to look at who is right next to him (instead of having to remember who was next to him a few seconds ago) and yell your name or description on the radio.
You can't even attempt stealth, and people don't have to be that much wary and pay attention to people who were next to them once the news is out that a speed injector is being used on the station. Sure, they have to be cautious about not getting injected.
Also, the effects you can inject people are annoying, can be deadly, but you can be deadlier more easily with just a sleepy pen.
There already is a tradeof to the delay and instant injection, the fact you're known as a geneticist, the fact you rely on your lab for more supply, the fact that depending on what you're injecting you're just mildly annoying and for more annying stuff you need to spend a non-trivial part of the round researching mutations and hoping for certain chromosomes, it's more reliant on RNG than chemistry, the fact that unless you're spending enough time on your console waiting for that chromosome that's resistant to mutadone you have to actively target your victim unless you want them to get away, get rid of your mutation at medbay.
So if on top of that the guy you just injected with mutation field, radiation, blindness or whatever can just yell your name over the radio (doesn't work with speech suspension, but that's something you can definitely get away from and report to somebody with a paper or your PDA) by instantly knowing who did it (or at least saw the guy and can describe him), then you can't play stealthily unless you keep changing clothes all the time or something.
EDIT : Well, John Warcrimes managed to be much more concise.