Face Huggers rule

[Dabbster]

Suggestion Title:Face Huggers

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):I'm suggesting a rule be added that prevent facehuggers from being dropped in doorways, or ontop of alien walls/doors, or inside any other block of the sort.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):It would greatly prevent powergaming.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):
Marines can't shoot facehuggers that are ontop of a door, or ontop of a wall, meaning it's impossible to get past it.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it):
Add rule preventing facehuggers from being left in doorways, OR, add in the code that if there's a facehugger in a door and the door closes, it gets crushed.

[MrJJJ]

Just to separate this a bit

Walls-No
Reason: You can easily shot down that resin wall/door and then kill the thing

Doors-Yes
Reason: This one is different, since you can't shot at it since its in a door and it can't be destroyed, so that means you have to come close to it, which means it will damage your helmet hp by 1 guaranteed or rip it off and hug you

[coroneljones]

Ontop of a door...resin door or airlock?

If its resin it can easily be shot down

[Davidchan]

Eh, I gotta say using resin walls/doors to mask huggers is very power gaming.

Not every marine shoots resin on sight, and several of them prefer to try use their knife or see if there is another way around. Dropping 2 huggers and a wall in 3 wide hallway, 95% of the marines will try to walk around since there is a path, only to get pounced and infested by something they couldn't have seen or anticipated without power gaming back themselves.

Really, if we could get hugger code back, so they move about and try chase marines within 3-4 tiles, or make it so no more than one hugger will try to pounce a marine at a time to give them a chance to defend themselves would be nice.

[coroneljones]

The old hugger code was EVIL
You could rarely kill a chasing hugger...they even teleported via girder corners if they werent protected

[Davidchan]

The old hugger code was EVIL
You could rarely kill a chasing hugger...they even teleported via girder corners if they werent protected

Is it not possible to slow them down or only allow them to move one tile every so many ticks? Personally I would prefer the aliens to have to be a bit more active in their infecting of marines (disarming/removing their helmet) rather than it being more effective to hide a hugger somewhere it's hard to see or impossible to hit (via corners) since the marines have no plausible counters aside from just tearing the wall down or wearing hoods, which is meta/powergaming.

[apophis775]

I remember the old hugger code, where if you opened a door and there were huggers, they chased down their victims, mercilessly.

[Mitchs98]

Personally, traps are fine as is. Aliens more or less NEED traps such as these to survive/defend the hive. I'm not sure why it would be removed after it's been around for so long unless of course the reason is "MUHREENS MASTER RACE! NERF ALIENS INTO SHIT!"

[apophis775]

Closed.