Real Synthetics

[YummyToast]

CM Version (alpha or Regular): Alpha

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): Essentially, I think it would be fantastic to had a synthetic race that mimics a human in almost every way. Adding job limitations and preventing them from being marines would keeo it nice and canon. On the other hand they are much more robust to damage and bleeding. And of course as a final note they need some yellowish white blood.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): I believe it will add some neat diversity and roleplay to the crew of Sulaco. It gives something new for players to try out and possibly even adds some new antag options?

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): This part of the suggestion mainly relies on however you would need to code it which sadly I do not know.

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

[SecretStamos (Joshuu)]

I'd be down if they were restricted to engineer or medical.


Maybe they would be even better as a changeling type event? (or something)

[Pillow]

space MARINES all i have to say -1 for now... though i would be more interested in this if you could elaborate more

[LordeKilly]

Well, Bishop was an android. I'm giving it a +1 because I like robits.

[Feweh]

+1

Restricted as Liaison, Medical and Engineering.

No Marine Androids or Commanding Androids.

[YummyToast]

space MARINES all i have to say -1 for now... though i would be more interested in this if you could elaborate more

To this I say that I just wanted the general idea to be here. I left the rest up to the devs so that balancing/lore/etc can be worked out as they see fit. Leaving it in their hands is better considering they have the most knowledge of the mechanics.

[Surrealistik]

+1 with Engineering/Sci/Med/Support restrictions

[aphotic]

This would be cool so long as we don't get people spawning as non-combat synths, then getting their ID changed to marine to become a super-soldier.

[Steelpoint]

One random idea I thought off was that there is a small chance a random person, a marine or support personal, is a weyland--yutani synthetic. This synthetic would have secret orders to accomplish such as bringing a live alien facehugger back or taking several pictures of facehugged humans.

[YummyToast]

Another important thing to note is that they would need an immunity to facehuggers and aliens need to be able to tell they are synthetic. For the typical ones they should all have a complete no-combat rule (seeing as they arent programmed for it) and can only assist humans in combat through a utility sense. Such as bringing weapons and operating/welding doors

[coroneljones]

I still have the working Jack Sprites

[Jeser]

I like the idea of having special character on ship - %name% Bishop. Android, that can be: medical doctor, engineer, Liason, researcher.

One random idea I thought off was that there is a small chance a random person, a marine or support personal, is a weyland--yutani synthetic. This synthetic would have secret orders to accomplish such as bringing a live alien facehugger back or taking several pictures of facehugged humans.

OMG, this is really awesome!

[TopHatPenguin]

I like the idea of having special character on ship - %name% Bishop. Android, that can be: medical doctor, engineer, Liason, researcher.
OMG, this is really awesome!

Gonna agree with Jes on this.

If we did get this it would be amazing but the synthetic player would have to still look human but maybe when they take damage you can see bits of robot parts? Not sure, anyway it would be a nice little thing to have so +1

[Brandon]

Yes please, and don't just restrict it to engineering in canon their are types of androids used by wayland yaunti, combat androids illegal in practice but well yeah they could be shipped planet side to do some corporate evil bullshit once in a while.

[Jeser]

Gonna agree with Jes on this.

If we did get this it would be amazing but the synthetic player would have to still look human but maybe when they take damage you can see bits of robot parts? Not sure, anyway it would be a nice little thing to have so +1

DONT'T FORGET ABOUT WHITE "BLOOD"!!

[UnKuT]

One random idea I thought off was that there is a small chance a random person, a marine or support personal, is a weyland--yutani synthetic. This synthetic would have secret orders to accomplish such as bringing a live alien facehugger back or taking several pictures of facehugged humans.

YES +1 +1 +1

[apophis775]

This might be possible.

My worry, is that marines would start doing "checks" by slashing people, or the marines would notice when the guy gets his face ripped off by aliens, or doesn't need to goto medbay...

[YummyToast]

This might be possible.

My worry, is that marines would start doing "checks" by slashing people, or the marines would notice when the guy gets his face ripped off by aliens, or doesn't need to goto medbay...

I would say marines doing the 'check' slashes would easily be punishable. And that if he isn't getting rekt that just is them not being secret.

On the other side of that, not all of the synthetics need to hide their synthetic status?

[Jdobbin49]

I would give this a +1 for medical engineering and science, I usually play as cmo and medbay could get a bit more interesting with ano android in there

[canon35]

Having androids as medical and engineering would be great, especially if they could survive breached areas. No more rushing to get a suit. Regarding the whole appearance issue, we could just have them be visibly androids (Like in Alien: Isolation). Traitor Androids would probably be able to actually harm people, and no one would know if the android has a secondary goal or not.

[kurugi]

This might be possible.

My worry, is that marines would start doing "checks" by slashing people, or the marines would notice when the guy gets his face ripped off by aliens, or doesn't need to goto medbay...

Spy check. Just light people on fire to test them.

[UnknownMurder]

Spy check. Just light people on fire to test them.

I'm neutral with 'checks'.

To tell you... Everyone does them, even I... And, people hates being the victim.

[apophis775]

Maybe, if we started with "obvious" ones.

They'd have NO harm intent and not be able to use weapons at all.

[Jack McIntyre]

That would be cool, I mean in aliens you see the marines were fine being by Bishop and actually played some lovely five finger fillet as they watched him play with Hudson...aww such a lovely scene, but you catch my drift. Personally I am sure most marines would see a non combat android like bishop and shrug since they know it is part of the colonial marines to have at least one support android with them, just sort of something they know they are going to have to live with so no point in arguing it. Personally I am neutral on this, but I know from my character's standpoint he wouldn't mind if someone was a android or human, he just cares that everyone pulls their weight and doesn't do anything to get good marines killed, otherwise you could be a alien trained to fight alongside the corps, a predator who decided to join the corp, or just a purple monster who decided to hang out with the marines.

[canon35]

Another thing, to add. What would be their interactions with xenos? I heard that in some canon, xenos ignore androids because they know they can't harm them/they get confused/they can't detect them.