05-30-2020, 09:59 AM
(05-29-2020, 02:17 PM)Frank_Stein Wrote:(05-29-2020, 03:01 AM)Flaborized Wrote: IMO a better change would be to lean into what current weaknesses and strengths it has and to lean into those.
That's probably the best way to go.
I don't think it needs to be louder. I can't think of any time someone deployed a saber without someone else hearing it. It could use a running noise, like a dull hum, so the noise is trackable the whole time it's deployed.
In space, no one can hear you deploy your rampage rod. Course, if you've depressurized much of the station, you could get roughly the same results with an extinguisher.
As it stands, the drawbacks of the C-Sabre make it difficult to use effectively as an early-round rampage weapon, since the moment you use it you're going to be dogpiled by nerds (and if you aren't they kinda deserve what they get), and ultimately end up killing maybe a couple people.
However, it really shines later in the round to clean up the stragglers in the wake of your primary antagonistry, when people are generally confused and trying to wander around in the dark toward safety, airless and cold.
I've found great success with the C-Saber as a traitorous Mechanic, silently shanking survivors of the two or three nukes I'd set off, or handing out dozens of C-Sabors to the crew and randomly murdering people after they get desensitized to the noise.
Not sure where I'm going with this, but making it more obvious might actually make it a better stealth weapon.
(If anything I'd recommend nerfing the Mesons. I swear those things are fantastic nightvision goggles if you can stand the green)