Make devouring marines as a xeno, make headsets nonfunctional.

[TheSpoonyCroy]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): Going to be frank, everyone hates the arbitrary metarushing rules of the 40 minutes waiting period (including staff contrary to popular belief). The way we can fix this, is with a mechanical solution. So lets take out a major part of why metarushing occur, the marines who are captured and shouldn't know where they are but shout they are in the northern caves...

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): This possibly will end the arbitrary metarushing rule or at least take out a major reason, why metarushing occurs.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): A headset is quite easy to break,so it wouldn't be much of a stretch that the stomach (if xenos have those) acid would destroy any sensitive equipment. Marines already get burnt from being in a xeno. To be honest, alot of "metarushes" make sense to me, since you aren't going to let a brother or sister die to some dirty space lizard/bug (of course, the nested marines should have no clue where they are but once this info is out in the air, there is nothing that can be done about it). Of course this proposed "fix" won't fix all the problems but it should stop a decent portion of them

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): I would assume once devoured the marine's equipped headset(s) vars are switched around

[Helgraf]

+1 If this is possible I definitely would support this.

[Simo94]

+1 hard coding the rules in is the way!!

[Renomaki]

This always did bother me about the marines.

You get knocked out, you have a hugger on your face, you get dragged all the way across the river to some strange cell, and then despite not having any clue how you got there, you know that it is somewhere across the river.

Sure, I can understand if you knew you were in a cave (since nested marines spend a lot of time staring at the ceiling), but to know that this very cave is across the river? Yeah, very meta.

Marines really shouldn't be blurting things that they couldn't know due to being blacked out at the time. It is the same problem with cloning, with marines knowing full well they are clones and that they died, when in reality, the discovery of being a clone would drive a man insane.

I am planning to make that suggestion soon enough, really.. But yeah, marines need to stop inducing metarushes by begging marines to save their asses because they got caught carelessly roaming.

[Biolock]

Me likes this idea, but perhaps it should work like an EMP, toggling the headset "off" so when someone is free from a nest they can turn it back on. I foresee a new kind of meta should the headsets be completely destroyed when someone is eaten. On top of that, there may be a problem of headsets running out or players grabbing a second headset just in case (Impossible to ensure every player isn't bringing multiple), so the "toggle headset off" would completely disarm that meta.

Either way, +1

[Lucius Jones]

+1 marines are getting too fucking iffy with the damn rules again and again, hard-codeing rules seems to be the only way to get them to fucking listen to them. Did it WAY back with xenos and taking off clothes, why not this?

[YungCuz]

I'm Neutral about this i mean i know metarush is a pain but its really depressing and annoying to not be able to call for help atleast.

[Snypehunter007]

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