Resin and Drone Re-balance

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Resin and Drone Re-balance

Post by Evilkyle24 » 01 Jun 2015, 22:08

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):
Tweak the drone's speed, health, and damage to make them more queen-guard related, give them a new ability. Add additional types of resin. Re-balance existing resin strengths and weaknesses.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):
The drones become more useful and more logical, hives look more like hives, marines can't just blast through hives with ease by lining up like redcoats, flamethrowers are more useful.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):
Drones become slower, but gain much more health and can hide on the new resin floors and on nests. They can also heal the queen using plasma, and are almost incapable of chasing down humans. This emphasizes their role as queen assistants and guards, as in a close quarters environment their lack of speed matters less, but out in the open they are vulnerable. They can pop out of the woodwork around a queen when under attack and restrain the humans.

Resin Wall Rebalance: Resin walls should be weak to fire, allowing them to be burned down relatively quickly with a flamethrower. This fire should not spread, but have an indicator that the wall is burning. This would increase the effectiveness of flame throwers.

Resin Membrane Rebalance: Resin membranes are useless right now, so make them cost much less plasma and become opaque. Allow Xenomorphs to burst through them by running into them, but not by walking. Fire blasts right through these without slowing down.

Resin Doors: Make them vulnerable to fire and weaker to knives, after all they are flexible enough to push aside.

Hardened Resin Walls: Immune to all but the strongest attacks, these walls take reduced bullet damage and knife damage, and improvised weapons simply cannot penetrate them. They are, however, still vulnerable to fire, but take longer to burn through. They cost significantly more to place, and can only be placed by Hivelords and queens.

Resin Flooring: Resin Floors function similarly to the warriors Stalk, while walking, Queens and Hivelords will lay down a Resin Floor wherever they walk at the cost of plasma, which provides increased bonuses over the weeds and is textured to make hiding even easier. Drones and Sentinels are cloaked to a lesser degree than Warriors are when stalking. Resin Floors sustain flamethrower fire for a longer period of time than normal. They also slow down marines and speed up aliens. Facehuggers can walk on resin flooring, but very slowly and have a short visual range.

Aliens don't plant weeds, they cover surfaces in resin to let them move more easily. That is the purpose of resin floors. That and aesthetics.
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Re: Resin and Drone Re-balance

Post by apophis775 » 01 Jun 2015, 22:38

Alien rebalance is coming with the alpha.

There will be NO more rebalaicng of the classes UNTIL the alpha, as we are getting very close, and I'm tiring of double-coding.

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