Goonhub
06-24-2015, 12:08 AM
Hi. Erebite pipe bombs are shit. Why? Well...
One day, erebite pipe bombs were added to the game, as part of a suggestion someone made upon seeing info in the traitor menu about the syndie pipebomb containing erebite. This was added alongside plasmastone and black powder, and made pipe bombs interesting and more fun to make and actually use, and wasn't TOO broken because the dang things require patience and resources to make.
Then they added the material system, and pipe bombs could be made from any material. Someone, for whatever reason, decided to remove the ability to shove erebite/plasmastone ore into the pipebomb and created the ability to make erebite+black powder pipebombs... in theory.
In practice, erebite pipe bombs explode from EVERY SINGLE FUCKING STEP of making them now because of how the material reacts to being smacked with a welding tool, wires and the explosive additive, rendering them completely frustrating to make and not worth the expenditure of effort, especially since they require being very careful not to blow up any extra pipe frames, sheets or chunks of ore in a chain reaction that'll fucking blow arms off even in industrial armor. They might even just blow themselves up and destroy the materials up to that point. Not only that, when a pipe bomb is MADE of erebite, it has a chance of just straight-up popping like a normal erebite chunk when thrown instead of exploding like an actual pipebomb, FURTHER rendering it less valuable than just using plasmastone or plain metal.
Please change this in some way so we can actually use erebite pipe bombs again, I understand it's a volatile material but you might as well just make a bunch of pipe frames and throw those instead of the finished pipe bomb for how much value you get out of these things.
One day, erebite pipe bombs were added to the game, as part of a suggestion someone made upon seeing info in the traitor menu about the syndie pipebomb containing erebite. This was added alongside plasmastone and black powder, and made pipe bombs interesting and more fun to make and actually use, and wasn't TOO broken because the dang things require patience and resources to make.
Then they added the material system, and pipe bombs could be made from any material. Someone, for whatever reason, decided to remove the ability to shove erebite/plasmastone ore into the pipebomb and created the ability to make erebite+black powder pipebombs... in theory.
In practice, erebite pipe bombs explode from EVERY SINGLE FUCKING STEP of making them now because of how the material reacts to being smacked with a welding tool, wires and the explosive additive, rendering them completely frustrating to make and not worth the expenditure of effort, especially since they require being very careful not to blow up any extra pipe frames, sheets or chunks of ore in a chain reaction that'll fucking blow arms off even in industrial armor. They might even just blow themselves up and destroy the materials up to that point. Not only that, when a pipe bomb is MADE of erebite, it has a chance of just straight-up popping like a normal erebite chunk when thrown instead of exploding like an actual pipebomb, FURTHER rendering it less valuable than just using plasmastone or plain metal.
Please change this in some way so we can actually use erebite pipe bombs again, I understand it's a volatile material but you might as well just make a bunch of pipe frames and throw those instead of the finished pipe bomb for how much value you get out of these things.