Syndicate Fanny Packs

[ReginaldHJ]

Maybe make it a 1 TC traitor item and give it the stealthy no-message-thing like stealth storage? It might have to have some drawback like an obvious sprite or examine text.

Sometimes I pick Tourist just so I can get the fanny pack. I wish there were some on the station.

Was thinking making it an obvious sprite, like how the red space suit is immediately and unmistakably recognizable as being a bad guy's outfit- it's just harder to see/verify at first glance because the sprite is smaller. The fanny pack sprite would probably be the same kind of black and red coloration, unlike the dark gray of backpacks/satchels/the tourist fanny pack. It would be just nuke ops equipment, so seeing it would make people think it was a nuke ops round and could possibly blow your cover. Same thing happens when people grab the red space suit that still(?) spawns somewhere in the world.

If it held normal items like a backpack did, I think it might be enough to have it be one of the 1-TC equivalent items that only show up in surplus crates, like how the syndicate command armor itself can show up. It could be a source of misdirection and confusion: people would think you're the stealth syndie equivalent of an unknown dude that didn't take their PDA off their belt, and would be on high alert for your non-existent buddies. People screaming over the radio that they're going to get nuked because they spotted a sinister fanny pack!

Who knows. Maybe a traitor tourist could get a surplus crate equivalent: a syndie fanny pack pre-loaded with 10-15 crystals worth of random handheld stuff including the derringer and revolver but not the shotgun. Nobody expects those guys, and they don't have any access anyway.

Also Silvercloud, I don't remember if the syndicate shuttle toolbelts start fully loaded, but if there are toolboxes you could load the pack just like anyone else (even engineers!) on the station: move each item from the toolbox to your fanny pack manually. Maybe just one ready-to-go belt and some toolboxes would be a balance there.