Goonhub
07-11-2016, 08:05 PM
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The main problem I have with rampages have mostly to do with the fact that everyone is so susceptible to stuns, and the response to stuns being boiled down to 'Get stamina regen chems' or 'don't get hit'.
Now I can get stamina regen chems pretty easily, and I can load up on them all through the round, but it's boring as hell. I spent several rounds just loading up on coffee and the like, but it wasn't fun. And I didn't really even need the chems most of the time anyway - Rarely if ever was I stunned. But if I want to stand a good chance against tasers or any other stun weapon, I need it. All it takes is for me to be low on coffee, and get hit with one shotgun shell, or one taser bolt from a taser or an energy gun, and that's probably going to be it. Chances are, once someone is stunned in view of an enemy, they're going to die. And once on the ground, there's nothing you can do about it. You just click furiously and hope the stun runs out before you get put into crit. I've since given up on regen chems.
So, the only other option I really have now is to just hit him first.
And sure, I could get my own taser and fight back against the antags by breaking into Security (And probably getting the Admin's ire), but it feels cheap to just hit a guy with a taser a couple times so I can beat the shit out of him and probably deal enough damage to put him into crit. But I do it anyway because melee against ranged stun is suicide, and any other ranged weapon for non-antags are few and far between assuming Sec isn't broken into.
That's me anyway. Stuns make rampages too easy to play and too easy to play against.
Now I can get stamina regen chems pretty easily, and I can load up on them all through the round, but it's boring as hell. I spent several rounds just loading up on coffee and the like, but it wasn't fun. And I didn't really even need the chems most of the time anyway - Rarely if ever was I stunned. But if I want to stand a good chance against tasers or any other stun weapon, I need it. All it takes is for me to be low on coffee, and get hit with one shotgun shell, or one taser bolt from a taser or an energy gun, and that's probably going to be it. Chances are, once someone is stunned in view of an enemy, they're going to die. And once on the ground, there's nothing you can do about it. You just click furiously and hope the stun runs out before you get put into crit. I've since given up on regen chems.
So, the only other option I really have now is to just hit him first.
And sure, I could get my own taser and fight back against the antags by breaking into Security (And probably getting the Admin's ire), but it feels cheap to just hit a guy with a taser a couple times so I can beat the shit out of him and probably deal enough damage to put him into crit. But I do it anyway because melee against ranged stun is suicide, and any other ranged weapon for non-antags are few and far between assuming Sec isn't broken into.
That's me anyway. Stuns make rampages too easy to play and too easy to play against.