Xenos Should Metabolize Chems

[Surrealistik]

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

Per subject.


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

Realism. Chem actually might have some offensive and debuff value vs Xenos instead of being pure a heal/buffbot and grenade manufacturer.


Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):

Have Xenos metabolize chems again. You can replace obviously broken effects (like Chloral/Soporific KOs, QuikClot instadie OD) with useful but less degenerate ones (toxin damage, slowing, confusion, hallucinations, regeneration negated, plasma regeneration negated, plasma drain, darkvision/heatvision disabled, etc) for Xenos, explained by differences in physiology and how their bodies process these chems.


Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it):

Minor coding changes.

[Skelton]

can you use them as glorified beakers currently?

[Szunti]

Couldn't you put on masks and spam grenades without marines being affected?

[Sargeantmuffinman]

Inb4 space drugging the Queen.

[Casany]

Those good ol' days when you polyacided landing xenos then fired mercury napalm syringes into their dying bodies

[Sad_Corn]

Allow sophorific to KO xenos PLEASE

[Jroinc1]

+1.
Why? Syringe guns are gone. To get a xeno with chems, you gotta manually inject, or use a short-range chemsprayer, or a smoke grenade. Those aren't THAT great delivery methods.

How about making a list of MINOR TO MODERATE symptoms you'd like to see added for chems, things like limited regen to slowed movement, but no INSTASTUNS or gibbing, and assigning those at random to existing chems? That'd give value to a captured ayy, as well.

[Eenkogneeto]

+1.
Why? Syringe guns are gone. To get a xeno with chems, you gotta manually inject, or use a short-range chemsprayer, or a smoke grenade. Those aren't THAT great delivery methods.

How about making a list of MINOR TO MODERATE symptoms you'd like to see added for chems, things like limited regen to slowed movement, but no INSTASTUNS or gibbing, and assigning those at random to existing chems? That'd give value to a captured ayy, as well.

Chemsprayer is screen length, Just saying.

[Jroinc1]

Chemsprayer is screen length, Just saying.

And travels SO slow... I've never seen it used past 4 tiles successfully.

[Heckenshutze]

Imagine a last stand down at Sulaco and an almost dead researcher injects the Queen with some unstable mutagen and makes it die horribly. +1

[Surrealistik]

And travels SO slow... I've never seen it used past 4 tiles successfully.

And reagent transfer is unreliable as hell. Seriously, I've tried to actually get hit by the spray to effect a reagent transfer actively and have failed on many occasions.

[Sad_Corn]

I don't even know how to use the chem spray, for me is kinda useless

[Snypehunter007]

Old, lack of continued interest.

Locking.