Goonhub
11-28-2022, 11:10 AM
I am a bit torn with this one tbh. I have played with this change, and while it was fun at the beginning to have people come out wrong and treating them, it became hellish pretty quickly. Its true I played a couple of particularly chaotic rounds in rp with many dead and more hurt people, running from side to side, and having people come out of the cloner in crit with 200 burns or 150 toxic damage was rough. I had to keep an eye on the cloner and the other dying people that came in. Medbay can become overwhelming sometimes, and the cloner malfunctions seem too common and severe in many cases.
On the other hand, I also get the whole “death has more meaning now”, and that you can respawn in 10 minutes at least in rp servers, and that cloning was a strong feature. Many times I have seen on discord discussions about nerfing it in some way, and I am not against it. I think my main issue is how common and severe they can be, from being in deep crit to “there, you explode now”. As Silent Majority said, there is already a trait to explode when cloned if you want that to happen. I always thought of cloning also as a way for newbies doctors to not worry much about fucking up their treatment or having people die on them. It kinda ends up falling on the doctor, and even though it was fun and interesting at the beginning it ended up becoming pretty annoying and just another chore to keep an eye out in case they come out dying, by the end. At least in highpop rounds. In my opinion, I would at least lower the chances of this malfunctions.
On the other hand, I also get the whole “death has more meaning now”, and that you can respawn in 10 minutes at least in rp servers, and that cloning was a strong feature. Many times I have seen on discord discussions about nerfing it in some way, and I am not against it. I think my main issue is how common and severe they can be, from being in deep crit to “there, you explode now”. As Silent Majority said, there is already a trait to explode when cloned if you want that to happen. I always thought of cloning also as a way for newbies doctors to not worry much about fucking up their treatment or having people die on them. It kinda ends up falling on the doctor, and even though it was fun and interesting at the beginning it ended up becoming pretty annoying and just another chore to keep an eye out in case they come out dying, by the end. At least in highpop rounds. In my opinion, I would at least lower the chances of this malfunctions.