Why do we have a blackout phase again?

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Re: Why do we have a blackout phase again?

Post by MrGabol100 » 13 Jul 2015, 08:07

apophis775 wrote:How about a choice:

Blackout "Phase" near bursting

Once your hugged, your unconcious till shortly before bursting

Cause, one is a "game mechanic" during phase 3 of the infection, the other, is how it actually works.
Actually, you wake up hours before bursting, so... No, just remove the blackouts please.

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Re: Why do we have a blackout phase again?

Post by Triel Wolfblood » 13 Jul 2015, 13:36

now make a darn suggestion

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Re: Why do we have a blackout phase again?

Post by Evilkyle24 » 13 Jul 2015, 14:21

Expired Torpedo wrote:now if that happened on the colonial marines server. kane would have blacked out 10 times while eating
And he'd wake up just long enough to sit up so he could slam his head back down on the table.
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Re: Why do we have a blackout phase again?

Post by Steven Sneider » 13 Jul 2015, 16:04

the first one seems better to me,while the second one just tells you to ghost early since when you wake up it will be a 99% secure death
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Re: Why do we have a blackout phase again?

Post by Youbar » 13 Jul 2015, 22:12

Why not both?

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Re: Why do we have a blackout phase again?

Post by 1138 » 14 Jul 2015, 02:28

Because it's still a discussion post, it's uh... well, okay.

Anyway, regarding blackouts. This is kind of the roleplay aspect you're expected to play out as someone who's infected and attempting to escape. Hell, even if you're completely screwed and are 15 seconds away from bursting, you can definitely scream about how you can't stay awake and there's a weird wormy thing wrigging about in your stomach and it's making you expand a little. It'd make the other marines freak out about your situation and will want to either flee like cowards or charge headlong into more aliens to avenge you!

The Fear RP aspect of it kinda adds to the immersion of being utterly doomed.

Honestly, if you're worried about blackouts, I'd have to suggest you avoid confrontations where you'll get facehuggered. You're kind of expected to suffer until that thing comes out, one way or another.

But that's just me, really. If you guys really do think it detracts from gameplay, then it wouldn't be any real loss (except to my immershuns ;_;) that the weakness gets toned down or outright removed. I still think you should be playing to lose but still wreck people and not to win every encounter, but, eh.

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Re: Why do we have a blackout phase again?

Post by HalfdeadKiller » 14 Jul 2015, 07:11

I agree with removing blackouts, or making the blackout phase closer to bursting, instead of the minutes before actually bursting. That way blacking out would happen 20-30 seconds before bursting.

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Re: Why do we have a blackout phase again?

Post by Youbar » 14 Jul 2015, 09:49

If you wanted, you could make it so you vomit a few minutes before bursting. It stuns you for around 3-5 seconds, and would probably work better than blacking out periodically.

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Re: Why do we have a blackout phase again?

Post by Evilkyle24 » 14 Jul 2015, 10:06

Or have a seizure the fifteen or so seconds before, exactly how it works in the movies.
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Re: Why do we have a blackout phase again?

Post by Triel Wolfblood » 14 Jul 2015, 13:45

yeah. blackouting a few seconds before burst is a should be. or a seizure yeah

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Re: Why do we have a blackout phase again?

Post by Sir Stabby » 15 Jul 2015, 02:26

Yeah, I like the idea of the seizure 15-20 seconds before you burst.

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Re: Why do we have a blackout phase again?

Post by YummyToast » 30 Jul 2015, 21:27

I think that if anything, whenever you are really close to bursting you should get debuffs on movement speed. After that you should enter a seizure state that goes until you burst.
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Re: Why do we have a blackout phase again?

Post by Clayton_Kelly » 02 Aug 2015, 18:31

I think blackout should only happen when you first get facehugged, not after you've been implanted. And a seizure before you burst is good.

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