Goonhub
11-25-2018, 03:02 PM
Give every head of staff a nuke disc of their own that works like the one the cap gets. Put pinpointers for every disc on a table or in a crate on the syndie shuttle. Have the disc effects stack so that putting in multiple discs will raise or lower the timer multiple times. Adjust the time raised/lowered to balance things out.
Currently, sneaking in to get the disc is a thing you can do if you want to, but generally it's going to harm you more than help you because the crew will be alerted that you exist. Planting the bomb ASAP is the dominant strategy right now, and while that is a fun way to play the gamemode, it would be nice to be able to play it in a more "run in and kill until you have discs and then run to the shuttle, grab the bomb and then kill some more" sort of way if the ops want to.
This may have the benefit of elongating nuke while still keeping it action packed. You could conceivably be killed by the syndies while they are securing discs and then get cloned to fight them when they actually plant. And if the syndies wanna play it the "rush in, plant fast, no prisoners" sort of way they still can. This would just give the crew more ways to fight back in that situation.
ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS AND IDEAS:
- Have the discs give off special centcomm announcements when inserted: "The research director's disc has been inserted into the nuclear device by a Blast-Co operative. X minutes have been subtracted from the timer." or something like that.
- I dunno what a reasonable amount of time to reduce/raise would be for this. The current three minutes is probably too long. Maybe a minute and a half?
- Maybe add a short little progress bar to putting them in, so someone can't run in with like four discs and instantly put them all in?
Please help develop this idea or say why it's horrible and wouldn't work if you have any thoughts on this.
Currently, sneaking in to get the disc is a thing you can do if you want to, but generally it's going to harm you more than help you because the crew will be alerted that you exist. Planting the bomb ASAP is the dominant strategy right now, and while that is a fun way to play the gamemode, it would be nice to be able to play it in a more "run in and kill until you have discs and then run to the shuttle, grab the bomb and then kill some more" sort of way if the ops want to.
This may have the benefit of elongating nuke while still keeping it action packed. You could conceivably be killed by the syndies while they are securing discs and then get cloned to fight them when they actually plant. And if the syndies wanna play it the "rush in, plant fast, no prisoners" sort of way they still can. This would just give the crew more ways to fight back in that situation.
ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS AND IDEAS:
- Have the discs give off special centcomm announcements when inserted: "The research director's disc has been inserted into the nuclear device by a Blast-Co operative. X minutes have been subtracted from the timer." or something like that.
- I dunno what a reasonable amount of time to reduce/raise would be for this. The current three minutes is probably too long. Maybe a minute and a half?
- Maybe add a short little progress bar to putting them in, so someone can't run in with like four discs and instantly put them all in?
Please help develop this idea or say why it's horrible and wouldn't work if you have any thoughts on this.