Changeling Rework [Conceptual]

[swinglow20]

Absorbing abilities from critters sounds neat as a parallel to the few genes you can get from critters but I have really strong reservations about promoting that "never engage with the crew"-type gameplay, salvagers has a pretty harsh penalty for scrapping off-station and people still do it for ages. 

I figured as much, which is why I wanted to work towards implementing a threshold for how many of the critters you could take down before you were required to go for bigger kills to progress. 

I think it'd be better off just directing attention to limbcritters/hivemind instead of the antagonist as a whole, there's a lot more fair ground to improve upon there in my opinion. What's here outside of that, I don't really feel anything positive for.

Do you have any ideas or suggestions for this? How would you incorporate hivemind in to gameplay? WOULD you incorporate hivemind in to gameplay more?