Aliens now show carried huggers on sprite.

[KingKire]

Summary:
Aliens now have a small hugger sprite shown on their bodies or their hands.

Huggers holders.jpg

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):
Someone mentioned it another thread but this is a pretty interesting design flaw that marines have no way to tell if an alien is carrying a hugger/s in their hands.
Gameplay wise:
There is no way for a marine to detect if an alien is carrying a hugger till they throw it which is a missing piece of Critical need to know information. Considering that huggers are one of the few "instant death" weapons in CM, and the fact they are extremely common, they should definitly have a "carrying" sprite.

Lore wise:
Aliens seem like they do not have many hiding spots to spare on them when it comes to carrying a face sized crab beast, and that a marine would soon learn to try and spot for those crabs once they knew what they were looking for. It could be possible that larger aliens might have more hiding spots, but the fact that the huggers would always have to be within arms reach at any time reduces that possibility quite much.


Details:
Two ways to go about the solution:
A) Have a hand carry sprite for aliens, possibly a few tan/brown pixels in their hands to represent a hugger.
B) Have a small hugger sprite drawn onto the body of the aliens, to represent the hugger being latched on, similar to the carrier.
-If you want to be really slick, have it so the huggers are only drawn on certain facing directions of the sprite, such as being only able to see the huggers if the alien was facing the back or sides. might work for larger aliens.

[laserdogbad]

make it so the broodmother or whatever the one that has a bunch of huggers on its sprite doesnt have any huggers on its sprite if it has no huggers as well +1

[shyshadow]

Holy shit, this is fucking genius +1 ALL THE WAY BOYO!

[Imperator_Titan]

+1 if the huggers show on a carrier, so you know when to charge it.

[completelynewguy]

+1, badly needed.

[Butterrobber202]

Animate it reeeeeee
+1

[KingKire]

im gonna bump this, super hard to tell when an alien has its claws or if it has its huggers.

[Crab_Spider]

im gonna bump this, super hard to tell when an alien has its claws or if it has its huggers.

Just shoot it and you'll live

[Sailor Dave]

This is a good idea. Makes sense to see huggers if the xeno actually has them. Maybe for the carrier too, for its whole sprite. +1

[Kerek]

+1 yes please. also B U M P

[KingKire]

Look at this beautiful little sucker. Cant you see that all a hugger wants to do is to show the world how happy he is? We need to show the world happy hand huggers.

Huggers holders.jpg

[liltiptop]

+1
This should really be in.

You better make the sprite for the carried hugger the one in the picture

[Katsukai]

Wonder how crusher would be animated or runner with facehuggers

[xeno366]

Wonder how crusher would be animated or runner with facehuggers

On their back maybe? And 1+ marines will know when aliens will hugger combat

[Dapper Stache]

I like the idea. If the dev team wants to bother with it +1

[Snypehunter007]

Asking for dev review.