Stun hugger for a few seconds when an alien is knocked down with a shotgun shot

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Stun hugger for a few seconds when an alien is knocked down with a shotgun shot

Post by username123 » 30 Aug 2016, 20:21

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Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):

People that use the shotgun won't be instahugged when an alien is knocked with a shotgun shot at close range.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):

Using per example, buckshot at close range is already hard and very risky and when you manage to shot an alien at 1-2 tile range, the alien drops the huggers that is holding on its hands, giving you no room to move, if you move, you get instahugged, if you do not move, two things can happen:

1-) The alien that is knocked will slash you, because aliens that are knocked can still slash.
2-) If there are aliens around, they will get you hugged/killed

This discourages people to use buckshot and to benefit from the shotgun knock, and if this is implemented, it won't be game breaking, a small 1-2 seconds stun will prevent people to be instahugged when they move right after they shot an alien with the shotgun at close range, and if the alien manages to get up, they can pick the huggers and use them normally, because it's a small stun.

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

Just add the proc that "Stuns" huggers when you throw them as carrier, or when you pull the hugger from someone face when an alien is knocked with the shotgun stun, but this stun will be small, 1-2 seconds.

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Re: Stun hugger for a few seconds when an alien is knocked down with a shotgun shot

Post by KingKire » 31 Aug 2016, 09:20

mmm its low priority but i guess +1
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Re: Stun hugger for a few seconds when an alien is knocked down with a shotgun shot

Post by ParadoxalObserver » 31 Aug 2016, 11:36

In my opinion, huggers should honestly just stay in the hands of a knocked down alien. The fact that aliens drop huggers when dropped down makes bayonets a lot less useful. Even a 1-2 second hugger stun would still make it really dangerous to approach to give a coup d'grace. The hugger stun should occur on alien death, instead.

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Re: Stun hugger for a few seconds when an alien is knocked down with a shotgun shot

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