the new meta? pain crit face hugged slash

[mizolo]

Bug Description:
ok so recently i've noticed that a LOT of xeno players have hugged people, and either slashed them to death, or slashed them to pain critical so that when they nest, they can't stand up to do ANYTHING, and just get re-nest, and re-nested, and re-nested, until they burst. Personally I don't think this should be allowed for the obvious reason of the marines not being able to do anything, and second, that's just really low, to slash someone until they are in crit, and plus if you are a high matured xeno, your slashes WILL BLEED your hosts, so they die from bleeding out and stuff like that rather than your bursting.

Steps to reproduce:
1. face hug a marine that's either been abandoned or whatever
2. slash him to pain crit as a low maturity xeno
3. nest, and he can do just about jack shit

[Skycave1]

It removes the point of trying to escape.. Even though you had no chance regardless.. better off to just ghost..

[NoahKirchner]

Right, this is generally a pretty well known cheese tactic, but it's not a bug per-say, not really an exploit like you said in dchat. Hugger combat is being reworked though apparently, so just sit tight.

[Joe4444]

this is in fact against the rules, xenos can't nest hugged, unable to fight hosts.

[elantzb]

buff bleed damage?

[slc97]

this is in fact against the rules, xenos can't nest hugged, unable to fight hosts.

You can nest anyone. You cannot slash hosts that are both nested and infected though.

[forwardslashN]

I don't see why this is in bugs. Though I have some changes in mind to address parts of this for the next hugger test. Locked.