Reinforced helmets.

[Gentlemanly_headcrab]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): Random idea that I think some people may enjoy. R&D being able to create helmets but more importantly with high enough tech levels (To be decided) they can create reinforced helmets for a higher cost, maybe using some rare materials found on the planet. I'd like to think that these new specialized helmets made by R&D could take 3-4 huggers considering they'd have to specifically extract these materials, research them, and then hand them out to only a limited amount of marines before the materials are all gone.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): Give something to counter high hugger spam if it's becoming too high a problem for marines to deal with at a time. Also giving R&D another use considering how there aren't that many uses that benefit marines currently. (Though the new update I've heard about will fix this more.)

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): Finding the rare materials on the planet and extracting them back to the Sulaco. With the right research and a good amount of said material, the researcher can start creating these reinforced helmets and giving them out to marines at a limit before said material comes up. (Diamond, uranium, phoron, you pick)

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): New sprite, coding, adding it to the R&D machine and so forth.

[LocalizedDownpour]

As I understand this is soon to be a thing...or at least there have been talks of it. There have been talks of major RnD updates.

[Gentlemanly_headcrab]

If it's already a thing someone tell me and shoot this thread back down into the ground.

[Edgelord]

Leaked image of late game marines:

[KingKire]

Move thread to LOCKED and RESOLVED?

currently it seems unless the research update does a complete 180, is on track to deliver reinforced helmets of some kind in some way.

[forwardslashN]

Yeah, this should come with the research update. When that comes... Resolved for now.