The Runners Slowing down once they eat a body.

[Lucius Jones]

Summary: Runners run at the same speed if they have a 200 pound plus marine with equipment corpse in there stomach, They should be slowed down for a peroid of 2 minutes, so until the digestion is fully complete.
Benefits: Will benefit as Runners wont be able to hug a marine, then eat him and sprint off as his comrades run feebly after him, and would also promote realism. as well as give Runners a Nerf they need.

Details: So they would eat a marine, as they usually do to transport them faster than pulling and running away, and it would slow them down a considerable amount. Like a cheatah being strapped with a 200 pound backpack.

Implementation: Not a coder, so no clue.

[Jeser]

Hm. I guess, marine with equipment weights over 100 KG (80 marine and only full armor should weight nearly 15-20) so that's, kinda, makes sense. It is not so easy even for aliens. Especially, for pretty weak runners.

[Surrealistik]

Yeah, there are many reasons Runners are _the_ go to T1 alien; this is a big one.

[Mitchs98]

So. What you are saying is. You want to nerf the only alien viable for hunting, because it's to hard for you to attack it? What would even be the point of devouring a marine if this was the case? You'd do better to drag them. Seriously think for a minute before posting suggestions for nerfs. This has been around since pre-alpha, i doubt it is going to change, as aliens are /very/ strong. Not a cheetah with a 200 pound backpack.

[Lucius Jones]

Thats is true. But they still need to be slowed down at least a SMALL amount. Atleast for runner, it would be the same speed for a Hunter as they are strong enough to carry one, But the runners wont be able to without a decrease in speed.

[Jeser]

Yeah, that's the main idea. Runners are most agile and fast, but also weakest aliens. Even drone stronger.That's why they should be slow down a bit if carrying host inside.

[tenshar]

Or just not able to swallow Marines period, because no way a runner could fit a human marine in its chest cavity without exploding. But if not that then yes slow them down some and disable vent usage.

[apophis775]

Is this something we think we still need?

[Gamerofthegame]

Eatting people is already basically a death sentence, having it slow you down as well would just make it even more useless.

[Sailor Dave]

I think this is one of those things where gameplay has to take priority over realism. I don't think runner speed is an issue right now.

[WyattH]

+1 on if it's more than 1 person inside the runner for sure, otherwise yeah, a bit of a needed gameplay mechanic for the runner to get single hosts back to the nest in time, so if it's only 1 host inside them they shouldn't slow down

[Aeleto]

Why would you not nerf the other aliens if that was the case? Might as well remove the caste as that will make it potentially useless for not being able to bring hosts back to the hive.

[Feweh]

Runners were just nerfed, dont need further nerfing.

[UnknownMurder]

I doubt Runners will need this, they are not that weak. They're more of Velociraptor.

[Bachri]

On the one hand, eating a creature slightly bigger than yourself (without chewing) and having absolutely no side effects is a bit... zany, to put it mildly. On the other hand, this is literally the entire point of the Runner, aggressive snatch and runs for more Xeno's. I'm really on the fence with this.

[Wickedtemp]

Nah.

Otherwise Runners won't entirely be too useful for their sole purpose.

[Gamerofthegame]

Eating somebody is a trap option anyway, as even if they're barehanded they can gib you.

[apophis775]

Denied. It sort of eliminates the point of the hunter.