ALT B18 MagBoots

[Whistle]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):

Enable Magnetic soles that stabilize the wearer from knockdown.
While in walk stance the wearer gains great knockdown resistance, immune to pounce (like preds) Unless hit by a crusher, ravager, queen stun or a head shot from spit.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):

B18 at current are slaughtered from their low speed and knockdown, knocked to the floor and ripped to pieces, the idea here will allow for b18 wearers to have a unique role and ability.
They will gain the benefits of walk toggle (decreased projectile hit chance, so less ff and spit)
They will be able to, in the event of a breach, assist team mates and allies with retrieval.
They will no longer be chain stunned and murdered into the floor for about 1/2 a minute of constant slashing.
They will be the walking tank of a marine they are supposed to be, standing strong against


Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):
Allow the b18 to assist in environmentally compromised areas.
Allow b18 to be tankier units that can be an actual formidable force.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it):
toggle boot stats to increase resistance to knockdown when in walk mode in the suggested fashion.

[Warnipple]

I get what you're saying with mag boots but knockdown is the most effective way to fight B18 though. Also mag boots only work if you have metal surfaces to attach on which the colony doesn't.

Anyway, knockdown a B18 and drag him away from his weapon is the best way to kill one. Not to mention if multiple xenos swarm him with disarm, the queen can gib him.

Feeling neutral on this one.

[Boltersam]

......Predators aren't immune to pounces, they have an RNG chance to resist it.

As for the suggestion, magnetic soles only work on, y'know, metal.

[Azmodan412]

Perhaps the suggestion is thinking about grav-boots?

[YungCuz]

I mean as funny as it is to spend like maybe three minutes or so being slashed to death i'd really love a chance to fight back so mag-boots might serve that purpose. So semi-neutral/+1 only cause maybe mag-boots are a bit OP in a sense.

[Snypehunter007]

BUMP

Neutral leaning towards +1 for now.

[CrimsonAerospace]

I like the idea of being able to better resist being knocked over in your giant turtle armor suit, but...mag boots as a premise don't make any sense.

Neutral unless we can work out something that makes sense...

[Swagile]

Sticky boots, sticks to whatever surface through a adhesive similar to super glue in property but has a rubbery type material around it that lets you slide on the ground, making you permanently slowed down even more.

Experimental product given to the USMC by Weyland for field testing on hostile worlds.

[nerocavalier]

I'd prefer it if B18 gets the same chance to resist pounces like Preds do. Sure, it'll be RNG still but better than being slowly whittled away by pounces and slashes.

[Gorglol]

Would be funny to see someone with magboots get charged by a crusher and the guy flies away 20 meters leaving his legs and magboots still stuck to the ground :P

[CrimsonAerospace]

Sticky boots, sticks to whatever surface through a adhesive similar to super glue in property but has a rubbery type material around it that lets you slide on the ground, making you permanently slowed down even more.

Experimental product given to the USMC by Weyland for field testing on hostile worlds.

So....Weyland Yutani Research duct taped glue traps to the bottom of B18 armored boots, and this is supposed to stop a giant red alien with claws so large they can lop a full-grown mans head off in one hit...?

...on grass?

[Harakoni warhawk]

So....Weyland Yutani Research duct taped glue traps to the bottom of B18 armored boots, and this is supposed to stop a giant red alien with claws so large they can lop a full-grown mans head off in one hit...?

...on grass?

This is to stop Aliens the same size or Smaller being able to pounce you down while wearing B18, nothing you can do will stop a Ravaged or similar Tackling you down, B18 or no.

[Swagile]

So....Weyland Yutani Research duct taped glue traps to the bottom of B18 armored boots, and this is supposed to stop a giant red alien with claws so large they can lop a full-grown mans head off in one hit...?

...on grass?

I was trying to make a science-esque explanation via super materials that Weyland invented or some wumbo jumbo as to why a B18 would be able to survive from something like that.

[CrimsonAerospace]

This is to stop Aliens the same size or Smaller being able to pounce you down while wearing B18, nothing you can do will stop a Ravaged or similar Tackling you down, B18 or no.

No, no no, if we're going to give it a "pounce" dodge/resistance chance, we need to just commit I think. Hell, the RIOT SHIELD, a fucking piece of ballistic glass with a strap that covers the torso can sometimes blocks the Ravager charge, so.

[Crab_Spider]

No, no no, if we're going to give it a "pounce" dodge/resistance chance, we need to just commit I think. Hell, the RIOT SHIELD, a fucking piece of ballistic glass with a strap that covers the torso can sometimes blocks the Ravager charge, so.

They always block Ravager charges.