Goonhub
06-27-2021, 10:47 PM
I've recently started making SR at roundstart just to give that chem some more use and I have to say: cloning is dang tedious.
Guy did a dumb spacewalk and died with 80 BURN and 500+ Oxy? Sure, could put that in the cloner, or I feed the guy a SR pill, a donk pocket and achieve the same in a few seconds.
I've found the downsides to the cloner to be minor but many:
It's usually swarmed and hectic. In a round with robust antags, you'll often get 2+ corpses waiting to be cloned.
You'll have a ground-item clusterfuck. Is this pile yours, or mine? Is that two piles on one tile? Oh well.
Adding to the previous point: theft. Unless you watch everything closely, some staffie WILL steal a random Engineer's ID or such.
It's the prime target for bombings. It's not rare to be happily cloning one of the (seemingly) fifty persons swarming the cloner and suddenly getting blown up.
All your capability hinges on one APC. Power off, cloner off.
Bonus: you don't get the funny "wtf they're healing my corpse?? Is this doctor actually braindead?!" ghosts in Deadchat you get from SR revivals.
Guy did a dumb spacewalk and died with 80 BURN and 500+ Oxy? Sure, could put that in the cloner, or I feed the guy a SR pill, a donk pocket and achieve the same in a few seconds.
I've found the downsides to the cloner to be minor but many:
It's usually swarmed and hectic. In a round with robust antags, you'll often get 2+ corpses waiting to be cloned.
You'll have a ground-item clusterfuck. Is this pile yours, or mine? Is that two piles on one tile? Oh well.
Adding to the previous point: theft. Unless you watch everything closely, some staffie WILL steal a random Engineer's ID or such.
It's the prime target for bombings. It's not rare to be happily cloning one of the (seemingly) fifty persons swarming the cloner and suddenly getting blown up.
All your capability hinges on one APC. Power off, cloner off.
Bonus: you don't get the funny "wtf they're healing my corpse?? Is this doctor actually braindead?!" ghosts in Deadchat you get from SR revivals.