Goonhub
05-29-2021, 01:59 AM
recent pod wars round on rp: it actually worked, somewhat? the syndies at the very least were fairly organized and cooperative, and of course general comms were filled with the expected trash talk and banter between teams. overall it was a lot of fun and pretty refreshing from the standard rp affairs. a few things i noticed, however:
-one tactic i noticed being employed was using plasmastone chunks to plasmaflood enemy fortifications, which was almost impossible to recover from without making a hole in the room since, well, none of the stations seem to have any atmos supplies whatsoever. adding a few air scrubbers and hvacs to the map would at least let players fight back against goobers lobbing plasmastone in their bases.
-10k for critical systems is waaaaayyy too much, multiple pods attacking one with spes-12 ballistics barely even made a dent in that insane health pool. right now destroying them is long and tedious and long and tedious equals not fun, and it's especially long and tedious when you have to constantly fend off the other team's turrets, pods, and spacewalking pilots. bump it down to 5k, but also allow pilots to repair these after fending off attackers (aka hit with welder and/or other tools until shiny and new), and it'll probably feel actually doable without basically disabling the other team's pod production.
-bohrum is definitely a huge bottleneck when it comes to production of bigger and better pods, as is space and availability of other resources such as tools and wiring
-a lot of people would basically just go outside a pod with akimbo blasters, which seemed pretty strong as not only were they outmaneuvering most pods (in spots where they COULD maneuver around, anyways), but they were also outgunning them, which was a bit... insane, seeing as how the blasters are seemingly meant to be used exclusively against other pilots while boarding/defending from boarders, and not outside of fortifications against their pods. just having blaster bolts deal less damage to pods but still do decent against pilots would probably mitigate this.
-this is 100% personal preference, but i would like to see some more handheld weapon variety instead of everyone having the same knife and blaster. variety is the spice of life, or something (idk i just want More Gun's). same with pod weapons, actually, having more weapon systems at the same "tier" as current weapon system options would not only encourage some Tactical Thinking or something, especially with 'specialist' weapons, but it'd also be cool. again, 100% personal preference/opinion/h
-one tactic i noticed being employed was using plasmastone chunks to plasmaflood enemy fortifications, which was almost impossible to recover from without making a hole in the room since, well, none of the stations seem to have any atmos supplies whatsoever. adding a few air scrubbers and hvacs to the map would at least let players fight back against goobers lobbing plasmastone in their bases.
-10k for critical systems is waaaaayyy too much, multiple pods attacking one with spes-12 ballistics barely even made a dent in that insane health pool. right now destroying them is long and tedious and long and tedious equals not fun, and it's especially long and tedious when you have to constantly fend off the other team's turrets, pods, and spacewalking pilots. bump it down to 5k, but also allow pilots to repair these after fending off attackers (aka hit with welder and/or other tools until shiny and new), and it'll probably feel actually doable without basically disabling the other team's pod production.
-bohrum is definitely a huge bottleneck when it comes to production of bigger and better pods, as is space and availability of other resources such as tools and wiring
-a lot of people would basically just go outside a pod with akimbo blasters, which seemed pretty strong as not only were they outmaneuvering most pods (in spots where they COULD maneuver around, anyways), but they were also outgunning them, which was a bit... insane, seeing as how the blasters are seemingly meant to be used exclusively against other pilots while boarding/defending from boarders, and not outside of fortifications against their pods. just having blaster bolts deal less damage to pods but still do decent against pilots would probably mitigate this.
-this is 100% personal preference, but i would like to see some more handheld weapon variety instead of everyone having the same knife and blaster. variety is the spice of life, or something (idk i just want More Gun's). same with pod weapons, actually, having more weapon systems at the same "tier" as current weapon system options would not only encourage some Tactical Thinking or something, especially with 'specialist' weapons, but it'd also be cool. again, 100% personal preference/opinion/h