Goonhub
05-22-2024, 07:22 AM
On one hand, SMES is really tough for arcfiends. On the other, other antags do have things that can entirely shut down their gameplay loop if they're too loud or just openly rampaging. Changeling has smelling salts, vampire has welding masks/sunglasses, and as is the subject of this thread, arcfiend has SMES.
I guess there's something to be said about the relative difficulty of the different counters to obtain, but I wouldn't consider it that much of a difference. Chemists can mass produce smelling salt ampoules and hand them out to everyone, engineering can print out huge amounts of welding masks, and geneticists can flood the booth with stabilized SMES.
I agree it does suck to play against, but it's not really unheard of for antags to have a crippling weakness that's stunningly easy to distribute to everyone. I'd probably want to see that changed, but I have no ideas on how to do that right now.
I guess there's something to be said about the relative difficulty of the different counters to obtain, but I wouldn't consider it that much of a difference. Chemists can mass produce smelling salt ampoules and hand them out to everyone, engineering can print out huge amounts of welding masks, and geneticists can flood the booth with stabilized SMES.
I agree it does suck to play against, but it's not really unheard of for antags to have a crippling weakness that's stunningly easy to distribute to everyone. I'd probably want to see that changed, but I have no ideas on how to do that right now.