Carriers are the worst caste in the game right now

[Bronimin]

Claymores are good because they are small and the xenos it usually catches (runners, hunters) move so fast that they can miss the mine at a glance.

Resin holes aren't that obvious, but they are pretty big and the facehugger itself is also huge. Marines will get better at finding resin holes over time. Reducing the size of the hugger sprite might go a long way to making carrier better but that said I played a game of carrier the other day and it was alright: the boost to max huggers really helped when our egg fields kept getting destroyed and when I had to use them to zone marines away from the queen so that I could drag her to safety (twice).

The max effective range of 4 tiles is killer, it means that you HAVE to rely on queen screech to get in range to infect offensively because you are too fragile, too slow (even with frenzy) and too big to do it otherwise. Neuro gas might do it as well, but good luck getting your boiler to switch.

I noticed that game that stunned huggers can attach to marines as long as the marine is prone and the marine is dragged onto their tile. For some reason I could also /sometimes/ place a hugger on an adjacent tile and not have it stunned but I couldn't figure out what was triggering that to happen. I wasn't doing it intentionally.

[GoliathTheDespoiler]

Truly I believe the best thing for carriers to become very viable is to buff Drone evolve time. 500 to start off with means that all the furry hosts would be captured, all the slots would be taken, and it'll be 800 to upgrade to MATURE.

It is way too long for what it delivers and makes drone teir twos incredibly rare, despite how extremely important they are for the hive.

For instance, drone walls take 3/4 shots before breaking, hivelords can take 10 or more and produces them faster (higher plas regen, multi-build, etc).

Carriers are vital for hunting and combat hugging to be successful because devouring is near-useless for capturing. A carrier can quickly infect a tacklespammed marine, devour them safely (since they're unconscious for about 5 minutes and return them to the hive safely for nesting.

The fact that its so hard to drag a marine safely into the hive is what makes carriers so important.

[misto]

are drone t2s tracked on the same t2 limiting counter as the combat classes are? if so, maybe putting them into a separate category in that respect would help? then combat classes dont have to worry about carriers/hivelords filling their slots and stopping their evo progress, and drones will only have to worry about other drones taking their t2 spots

[Crab_Spider]

are drone t2s tracked on the same t2 limiting counter as the combat classes are? if so, maybe putting them into a separate category in that respect would help? then combat classes dont have to worry about carriers/hivelords filling their slots and stopping their evo progress, and drones will only have to worry about other drones taking their t2 spots

no

[misto]

is that "no, theyre not tracked on the same counter" or "no thats a bad idea" or both or something else

[Crab_Spider]

is that "no, theyre not tracked on the same counter" or "no thats a bad idea" or both or something else

former latter

[Printer16]

I like playing carrier every now and then. You just can't play it as a "I'll peek this corner where marines are and throw a hugger and hope to get someone" because you won't.

[Tidomann]

is that "no, theyre not tracked on the same counter" or "no thats a bad idea" or both or something else

They are tracked on the same counter.

[misto]

well then. do you think that would be an alright change to suggest? to track them on separate counters so the support and combat classes dont step on each others toes when it comes to t2 slots?