Goonhub
05-25-2022, 02:52 AM
the hos has their lawbringer, the captain has 2 energy guns, the md has their tranq rifle, leaving the ce, hop, rd with nothing truly cool and unique. i think CE could use the most love since they have little else to do than tend to their glue eating engineers or hellburns
now while i do say "gun" these were thought of as being more utility based with little to no capability to kill people. at most maybe render them immobile temporarily by default.
for the chief engineer i was inspired by the gloo gun from prey (2017) that lets you fire off compressed gel that lets you seal hull breaches and negate certain environmental hazards.
so for the ce, something that could make sealing/repressurizing areas as well as handling environmental issues like fire or electrical issues (which could potentially make the CE the bane of arcfiends like how chaplain is to vampire/wizard)
in how this is executed i'm picturing something like a cross between the janitor's backpack vacuum + the rcd. now as previously stated, this gun would release foam in order to quickly repair and replaced damaged/destroyed walls and floors, and NOT destroy things like an rcd could. ideally it could also be done in such a way that it will not foam up and create walls
firing mode would 1 release a wave of foam point-blank from where it's fired. anyone caught in the crossfire would get gunked and be rendered trapped inside of a cocoon, similar to how kudzu will wrap up a corpse before converting it into a kudzuman. harmless, but a little annoying to get out of.
firing mode 2 would extrude a foam wall ontop of a foam tile or a preexisting station floortile.
firing mode 3 would be able to quickly extinguish fire/heat (which could later be used to and also suck up and filter toxins (plasma, co2, whatever foul nasty shit finds itself into the air) and converts it back into breathable oxygen. fixing hull breaches is one thing but i feel like if you picked out some rando and asked him where the air hookups were on each map to properly restore atmospherics in case of a leak or whatever, they'd probably just shrug and say "i don't know".
and to properly weaponize this thing if you are a traitor CE, you could emag it and alter firing mode 3. rather than extracting toxins from the air, it could instead suck up oxygen into the backpack tank, and convert it into co2 or plasma, which could then be released into the air. it would require a bit of finesse and map knowledge to get the most out of a weaponized version since it should ideally be big, yellow-orange and knowing when to sneak around maint with this thing and going to more secluded areas to eliminate the air supply
lastly in order to make this thing as anti-grife proof as possible since CE is a regular job:
1) make it id locked+fiinger print locked like the lawbringer. if the CE slot is empty, the user would need CE id access and then leave their fingerprint on it for it to function. that way, even if an enterprising traitor gets their hands on it, they will still need an emag in order to use it for their nefarious deeds. i feel like this is a fair compromise since with the hos and their lawbringer you've pretty much earned it if you're able to steal both the lawman and their arm
2) make the backpack component take up both the back and belt slot and make it either shoot from the back (think of fludd from mario sunshine) or have a gun component that occupies one or both hands
3) incur a slight movespeed penalty
and finally thank you for coming to my ted talk
now while i do say "gun" these were thought of as being more utility based with little to no capability to kill people. at most maybe render them immobile temporarily by default.
for the chief engineer i was inspired by the gloo gun from prey (2017) that lets you fire off compressed gel that lets you seal hull breaches and negate certain environmental hazards.
so for the ce, something that could make sealing/repressurizing areas as well as handling environmental issues like fire or electrical issues (which could potentially make the CE the bane of arcfiends like how chaplain is to vampire/wizard)
in how this is executed i'm picturing something like a cross between the janitor's backpack vacuum + the rcd. now as previously stated, this gun would release foam in order to quickly repair and replaced damaged/destroyed walls and floors, and NOT destroy things like an rcd could. ideally it could also be done in such a way that it will not foam up and create walls
firing mode would 1 release a wave of foam point-blank from where it's fired. anyone caught in the crossfire would get gunked and be rendered trapped inside of a cocoon, similar to how kudzu will wrap up a corpse before converting it into a kudzuman. harmless, but a little annoying to get out of.
firing mode 2 would extrude a foam wall ontop of a foam tile or a preexisting station floortile.
firing mode 3 would be able to quickly extinguish fire/heat (which could later be used to and also suck up and filter toxins (plasma, co2, whatever foul nasty shit finds itself into the air) and converts it back into breathable oxygen. fixing hull breaches is one thing but i feel like if you picked out some rando and asked him where the air hookups were on each map to properly restore atmospherics in case of a leak or whatever, they'd probably just shrug and say "i don't know".
and to properly weaponize this thing if you are a traitor CE, you could emag it and alter firing mode 3. rather than extracting toxins from the air, it could instead suck up oxygen into the backpack tank, and convert it into co2 or plasma, which could then be released into the air. it would require a bit of finesse and map knowledge to get the most out of a weaponized version since it should ideally be big, yellow-orange and knowing when to sneak around maint with this thing and going to more secluded areas to eliminate the air supply
lastly in order to make this thing as anti-grife proof as possible since CE is a regular job:
1) make it id locked+fiinger print locked like the lawbringer. if the CE slot is empty, the user would need CE id access and then leave their fingerprint on it for it to function. that way, even if an enterprising traitor gets their hands on it, they will still need an emag in order to use it for their nefarious deeds. i feel like this is a fair compromise since with the hos and their lawbringer you've pretty much earned it if you're able to steal both the lawman and their arm
2) make the backpack component take up both the back and belt slot and make it either shoot from the back (think of fludd from mario sunshine) or have a gun component that occupies one or both hands
3) incur a slight movespeed penalty
and finally thank you for coming to my ted talk