Goonhub
09-20-2021, 01:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-20-2021, 01:51 PM by MomoBerry. Edited 1 time in total.
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The heart drain seems a little out of place, although i get the energy source aspect of it. Have only gone up against a few, but one of rounds was with 2 arcfiends on donut 3 as the Chief Engineer, which was painful. They never released the singularity, but the fact that if they caught me it felt like I was fighting a living stun baton was hell on earth.
I'm echoing what others have said, but resources caps feel kind of lame when you hit the cap in 7 minutes. Would like to see them without a max charge capacity, and ideally less human power sapping cause that feels more vampire themed to manipulate somebodies heart n' stuff. Although the cardiac stuff is still in theme for arcfiend, its just crazy strong. Could also be because stuns and stamina damage are very strong in general, and coupling that with arc-fiend being able to use everything regular crew can use on top of the strong abilities, makes it kind of overbearing with an experienced handler.
Example being something like a real fight with just two normal crew in a 1v1, a 50 stam damage weapon will beat a 50 raw damage weapon in almost every fight. Once they person gets stamcrit stunned, now they've also lost their 50 damage weapon by dropping it and are being pseduo permastunned by constant stamcrit while already stunned. Arcfiend may not have a 50 stam weapon, but fire extinguisher is pretty close coupled with their strong stamina sapping abilities.
Overall it's a cool antagonist, I like the design. Voltron like abilities or being able to overload electronic equipment and create explosions would be fun, but that's not incorporating any balance thoughts into it. Less stuns would be appreciated, but honestly that's not really arcfiend and more the stamina system itself. Hopefully I get to play as it soon, so I can see what it's like on the other side of the table.
Edit: Quick note, would also like them to be able to drain power cells just lying around like Vocal suggested.
I'm echoing what others have said, but resources caps feel kind of lame when you hit the cap in 7 minutes. Would like to see them without a max charge capacity, and ideally less human power sapping cause that feels more vampire themed to manipulate somebodies heart n' stuff. Although the cardiac stuff is still in theme for arcfiend, its just crazy strong. Could also be because stuns and stamina damage are very strong in general, and coupling that with arc-fiend being able to use everything regular crew can use on top of the strong abilities, makes it kind of overbearing with an experienced handler.
Example being something like a real fight with just two normal crew in a 1v1, a 50 stam damage weapon will beat a 50 raw damage weapon in almost every fight. Once they person gets stamcrit stunned, now they've also lost their 50 damage weapon by dropping it and are being pseduo permastunned by constant stamcrit while already stunned. Arcfiend may not have a 50 stam weapon, but fire extinguisher is pretty close coupled with their strong stamina sapping abilities.
Overall it's a cool antagonist, I like the design. Voltron like abilities or being able to overload electronic equipment and create explosions would be fun, but that's not incorporating any balance thoughts into it. Less stuns would be appreciated, but honestly that's not really arcfiend and more the stamina system itself. Hopefully I get to play as it soon, so I can see what it's like on the other side of the table.
Edit: Quick note, would also like them to be able to drain power cells just lying around like Vocal suggested.