Goonhub
10-15-2019, 11:21 AM
If the HE shot is to be changed, I don't see how it's possible to change it and also keep BOTH crowd control and wall damage, and so I have two possible suggestions.
1: Replace the HE shot with a ketamine smoke shell. It keeps the whole "powerful but high energy cost" aspect (ketamine keeps people down for ages) as well as offering crowd control, but without the ability to just instantly win a fight with no counter because the antag can still either use calomel/pentetic acid or try to kill the HoS in the window ketamine offers to act before it KOs.
2: Nerf the HE to HEDP shot from the nukeops grenade launcher. It does significant structural damage but far less player damage (delimbs instead of flat out gibbing), and reduce the energy cost significantly, allowing structural damage whilst removing the "screw you I win" factor.
1: Replace the HE shot with a ketamine smoke shell. It keeps the whole "powerful but high energy cost" aspect (ketamine keeps people down for ages) as well as offering crowd control, but without the ability to just instantly win a fight with no counter because the antag can still either use calomel/pentetic acid or try to kill the HoS in the window ketamine offers to act before it KOs.
2: Nerf the HE to HEDP shot from the nukeops grenade launcher. It does significant structural damage but far less player damage (delimbs instead of flat out gibbing), and reduce the energy cost significantly, allowing structural damage whilst removing the "screw you I win" factor.