Nerf Acid Spit

[Klayboxx]

...Then, it moves so god damned slow that only a literal chickenhead would get hit by it.

Motherfucker ARE you a chickenhead?

Chickenhead? What the fuck? Do you know what that term means?
Acid spit moves so slowly that only a 'dumb black woman who performs fellatio all day' would get hit by it?
That's some weird lingo to be tossing around dude.

I've uh, never heard it used that way. I am using it to mean a really dumb person. Honestly wat?

[Cogwerks]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenhead_(sexuality)

[Klayboxx]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenhead_(sexuality)

WELP

I've never heard it used that way, guess I'll never say/type that ever again!

[mbc]

Acid spit is a little bit lame, it doesn't feel cool to use/get killed by, but right now it's the only good thing the non-horror changeling has going for it.

If the changeling got another cool power or something, I would be fine with it being changed.

Random changeling power suggestions for possible balancing with a different toxic spit:

- A spit move that covers the person's mouth so they can't breathe. Think of it as an item in the 'mask' slot that someone else has to remove for you. Knocks off your internals, deprives you of O2, and prevents you from calling for help!

- A goopy spit that will immobilize someone's legs but leave their arms and mouth open. Good for escaping or 'i'll deal with you after this dude' moments.

- A melee move that somehow severely disfigures the other person's face, making them lose their name. Could do some damage, too.

[Sundance]

Acid spit is a little bit lame, it doesn't feel cool to use/get killed by, but right now it's the only good thing the non-horror changeling has going for it.

If the changeling got another cool power or something, I would be fine with it being changed.

Random changeling power suggestions for possible balancing with a different toxic spit:

- A spit move that covers the person's mouth so they can't breathe. Think of it as an item in the 'mask' slot that someone else has to remove for you. Knocks off your internals, deprives you of O2, and prevents you from calling for help!

- A goopy spit that will immobilize someone's legs but leave their arms and mouth open. Good for escaping or 'i'll deal with you after this dude' moments.

- A melee move that somehow severely disfigures the other person's face, making them lose their name. Could do some damage, too.

I would be all for nerfing the acid spit for more cool changling powers.
If anyone's seen the newish the thing from 2011, it was a pretty meh film but it had some pretty sweet designs. The ones i'm posting now is pretty much 90% from the film:
Blade arms
Pretty much another abomination form, with arms for blades, butcher knife damage. Should probably only last x amount of time, it's pretty much when you're going on a full scale assault. Costs a good bit of dna
Hand spider
There's a scene where this dude's hand fell off and became a hand spider, attaching to peoples faces. An idea would be that you would spawn two critters at the cost of losing both your arms and some dna. Your arms will eventually grow back. The critters would attack, knock down and attempt to strangle.

[Motherfucker]

Since you people are terrible and don't read anything I need to point out that there are alternatives suggested in this thread, for instance a sting (you realize stings are instantaneous and stealthy right?) that causes the target to be muted and slow.

Acid spits primary purpose is to stop your target squealing while you hose their innards through a tube, muting your target and slowing them down would just add an extra few steps where you have to subdue them, easily done since they now cannot scream for help or run away when you follow the muting sting with some neurotoxin.

The purpose of this suggestion is to add a tiny chance of victory against an otherwise impossible to defeat instant death attack, and I know you will point to 'ALWAYS STAY WITH A PARTNUR HURP DURP' like that actually works when you just spawned and your geneticist buddies first action is to spit acid and suck you dry in the maintenance corridor before you've even finished rendering your clothes, or when you're working in an office when along comes captain access changeling and acid spits you before you can press a key because of spacelag.

No other antagonist has this power and is allowed to look like a regular person, A wizard can shoot a fireball that homes in and blows you right up, but when you see a wizard YOU KNOW HES A WIZARD, A nuke operative can shoot you, but if someone's spotted a red suit than you know that's a possibility and have prepared, a traitor can shoot you AND be stealthy, but it costs him other abilities, a changeling has no downside, that instant knockout I win button comes with no detriments or disadvantages.

Also to all the terrible people claiming you can ~outrun the shot~, try living in another country on top of the space lag and BYONDs natural shittiness and the homing projectile.

[APARTHEID]

The purpose of this suggestion is to add a tiny chance of victory against an otherwise impossible to defeat instant death attack, and I know you will point to 'ALWAYS STAY WITH A PARTNUR HURP DURP' like that

If you stick with a buddy, you won't die!

[Dauntasa]

"I keep trying to fight a terrifying beast from beyond the stars by myself in a dark tunnel with nothing but a fire extinguisher and it keeps spraying acid in my face and eating me"

So changelings are really weak when they come up against more than 1 person at a time and basically 100% fucked when there's more than 2 because after the acid and the neurotoxin sting they have no actual effective attacks and must resort to hitting people with the nearest heavy object like everyone else, and your big idea is "let's reduce the number of people that this ageless monster (which has spent thousands of years assembling the best genetic material within itself to create a perfect, relentless killing machine with no purpose other than to feed on sweet human innards) can fight effectively from 1 to 0", thus rendering it so harmless that when it screams in hunger with ten thousand voices and attempts to suck out a man's organs through a tube people will treat it as if it's an overactive kitten trying to claw them and just kind of push it away gently so as not to hurt its fragile bones because everyone kind of feels sorry for it now.

[Daeren]

No other antagonist has this power and is allowed to look like a regular person, A wizard can shoot a fireball that homes in and blows you right up, but when you see a wizard YOU KNOW HES A WIZARD, A nuke operative can shoot you, but if someone's spotted a red suit than you know that's a possibility and have prepared, a traitor can shoot you AND be stealthy, but it costs him other abilities, a changeling has no downside, that instant knockout I win button comes with no detriments or disadvantages.

Vampires.

Glare + Hypnotize = boom i'm sorry you wanted to do things get drank nerd.

I'd rather fight a changeling on my own than a vampire with a few schmucks because I at least have a chance of juking its acid spit, while vampires can shut you AND your buddies down with a few powers once well fed.

[icarus]

make it so instead of the spit being able to fly itself around and hang out in front of doors waiting for you to open them, it works more like spitting something

it flies out at you a bit faster but if you block it with something it's gone instead of sticking around waiting for you to come out maybe?

you can reduce the recharge time a bit to make up for the spit no longer living long enough to raise a family

[Motherfucker]

Vampires.

Glare + Hypnotize = boom i'm sorry you wanted to do things get drank nerd.

I'd rather fight a changeling on my own than a vampire with a few schmucks because I at least have a chance of juking its acid spit, while vampires can shut you AND your buddies down with a few powers once well fed.

So you're saying if they work for it they can achieve a power the changeling has right away?

[Readster]

So you're saying if they work for it they can achieve a power the changeling has right away?

Clearly you've never tried to fight a group of 3 or more people as a non-horror form changeling.

[UrsulaMejor]

So you're saying if they work for it they can achieve a power the changeling has right away?

Clearly you've never tried to fight a group of 3 or more people as a non-horror form changeling.

How to fight a group of 3 people as a non-horror form changeling:

1) acid spit one
2) neurotox two
3) halluninate three
4) drag one into a maint tunnel
5) two will drop unconscious running after you
6) three was probably too busy tripping to follow
7) eat one
8) acid spit three when he catches up
9) eat two and three

[Dauntasa]

How to fight a group of 3 people as a non-horror form changeling:

1) Acid spit one
2) Neurotox two
3)Two immediately screams "Help Changeling" over the radio before falling down
4) Hallucinate 3
5) 4, 5 and 6 show up with tasers and an egun
6) Go down in a hail of lasers
7) Headspider 4
8) 4 taken to robotics, headspider removed
9) Bitch in Deadchat

[Nitrous]

no fun allowed lets nerf fun. i hate fun, its the worst. Ban everyone having fun + everyone else.