Make Praetorians faster

[Crab_Spider]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): Increase the speed of praetorians, their increase plasma storage, and provide them with a new ability (I'll be making a second suggestion for that).

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): Praetorians are absolute monsters in the actual lore of Aliens, their speed rivals that of smaller castes despite being only 10 feet tall and having great mass. They can take on entire squads of Colonial Marines singlehandedly, and can take on Predators in a duel. But in CM, that's a different story, they're slow, even with frenzy, will run out of plasma just as quickly, and they have no way of standing out from other castes other than being a Spitter that can emit pheromones. There's not much you can do with these guys since they're just pretty weak in game until they're Elite and their speed is much slower than a Queen (who's 15 feet tall).

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): Enhance their speed , that's basically it.

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

[NescauComToddy]

A small buff would help, Why not? Coding this would be simple and, It would make the cast be used more often. Praetorians are supposed to be one of the strongest tier 3's so, yeah. +1

[KEY]

The only thing I agree with here is giving them a speed buff. If they had that? I think they'd be a pretty good caste for spitting and pheromones. +1

[northcote4]

+1 for Speed Buff. I've been playing Praetorian lately and have been struggling to keep up with the Queen, even over short distances.

[Crab_Spider]

Bump.

[Nubs]

I played prae recently, and they are so slow its painful to play. +1 Either make praes faster, OR give them the boiler long sight ability and allow them to fire acid spit over long distances.

[Swagile]

It makes no sense that the queen's guardian is slower than the queen itself.

+ 1 to a speed buff.

[Sarah_U.]

Everyone will lynch me, but -1.

Reason being, that they are INCREDIBLY POWERFUL if you play them with extreme caution and teamwork with the queen or a strong T3 caste outside of the more dangerous LoFs.
I've reached ancient twice as praetorian and your worse worry is your team, not your class's abilities up to that point.

[Crab_Spider]

Everyone will lynch me, but -1.

Reason being, that they are INCREDIBLY POWERFUL if you play them with extreme caution and teamwork with the queen or a strong T3 caste outside of the more dangerous LoFs.
I've reached ancient twice as praetorian and your worse worry is your team, not your class's abilities up to that point.

The problem definitely is they're incredibly OP in both close and long range combat, the problem is protecting the Brood from threats and even as they're the ultimate guardian, their speed is simply too slow to effectively remind everyone what their role is. I can see how this will break the balance of the game and I agree with you on that point.

[Snypehunter007]

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