Goonhub
11-02-2022, 04:08 PM
TLDR Borgs are absurdly strong, but get owned by stuns like most non-antags and that is less an issue with borgs and more an issue with the game balance in general. More cosmetics good, give borgs an easier way to play dress up.
Honestly, borgs balance wise seem like they are in a fine place if you take into account the rest of the game. Borgs can be
flashed for a free win, and yeah that feels terrible... but so can humans.
The only people who are normally able to easily escape stuns are antags. Traitors have stims, vamps can shake, ETC. humans technically can make stuff to help them with stuns, but in the end the entire game balance currently revolves around stuns and disarms. Granted, borgs have very little counterplay to stuns, but what they do have is the ability to both take damage and not care, and change the enviroment they are fighting in rapidly.
An engineering borg with a heavy shell can just walk past people hitting them if they arnt stunned and place a plasma cannister. A chemist or medical borg can run up and dump whatever awful mix of chems they made onto you. Brobocops can... shoot you with foam darts? sure it does stamina damage but its not that great. But they have counterplay. if you ONLY have a flash and are locked in with a heavy borg? you probably arnt getting away, since the flash will eventually run out.
Kill switching is not common on RP, in the time ive played i have seen it maybe twice? and atleast one was on a borg who wasnt following their laws. Its really not very common, most people would prefer to just fix laws, or if the law rack has been destroyed go and make a new one.
Borgs should have easier access to clothes. Let borgs decorate themselves, its completely cosmetic anyway. maybe make it a booth roboticists can build to let them Swap between clothes or wigs. Borgs already have so little choice, they deserve atleast a somewhat easier way to customize. and no i dont count the like 6 options they have in the pod other then eye and paint color.
Honestly, borgs balance wise seem like they are in a fine place if you take into account the rest of the game. Borgs can be
flashed for a free win, and yeah that feels terrible... but so can humans.
The only people who are normally able to easily escape stuns are antags. Traitors have stims, vamps can shake, ETC. humans technically can make stuff to help them with stuns, but in the end the entire game balance currently revolves around stuns and disarms. Granted, borgs have very little counterplay to stuns, but what they do have is the ability to both take damage and not care, and change the enviroment they are fighting in rapidly.
An engineering borg with a heavy shell can just walk past people hitting them if they arnt stunned and place a plasma cannister. A chemist or medical borg can run up and dump whatever awful mix of chems they made onto you. Brobocops can... shoot you with foam darts? sure it does stamina damage but its not that great. But they have counterplay. if you ONLY have a flash and are locked in with a heavy borg? you probably arnt getting away, since the flash will eventually run out.
Kill switching is not common on RP, in the time ive played i have seen it maybe twice? and atleast one was on a borg who wasnt following their laws. Its really not very common, most people would prefer to just fix laws, or if the law rack has been destroyed go and make a new one.
Borgs should have easier access to clothes. Let borgs decorate themselves, its completely cosmetic anyway. maybe make it a booth roboticists can build to let them Swap between clothes or wigs. Borgs already have so little choice, they deserve atleast a somewhat easier way to customize. and no i dont count the like 6 options they have in the pod other then eye and paint color.