Goonhub
06-27-2013, 01:54 AM
Riot shields were fucking terrible. Back in 2010, security were just given a bunch of tools including instant hit phasers and riot shields. Basically, the riot shield will block 80% of all melee and projectile hits but if you had 2 that'd increase your chances to somewhere near 95%. It made any wrestling with security dumb as hell, it made traitors completely at their mercy and security were completely able to just march around with impunity and do whatever the hell they want.
A security officer should be fit enough to survive with only their helmet and armor; it's more than most people have. Anything more just makes security horrible to interact with and lessens the overall agency of anyone playing roles other than security.
The point you made about securitrons and buddies being able to rip you apart is actually a good one. Security certainly requires something to deal with sabotage. I know that if you tase a buddy, they will be stunned for a small amount of time - perhaps increasing this time along with making beepsky susceptible to taser bolts too would give security some kind of leeway to disable the damn bots before they home in and stun the daylights out of them.
And yeah, remove the riot armor until the riot armor becomes useful.
A security officer should be fit enough to survive with only their helmet and armor; it's more than most people have. Anything more just makes security horrible to interact with and lessens the overall agency of anyone playing roles other than security.
The point you made about securitrons and buddies being able to rip you apart is actually a good one. Security certainly requires something to deal with sabotage. I know that if you tase a buddy, they will be stunned for a small amount of time - perhaps increasing this time along with making beepsky susceptible to taser bolts too would give security some kind of leeway to disable the damn bots before they home in and stun the daylights out of them.
And yeah, remove the riot armor until the riot armor becomes useful.