[Research] Crusher "Crest"

[Swagile]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): When you get a Crusher corpse, one of the "special" materials that drops would be the Crusher "crest", aka the toughest part of the Crusher. You can then apply this material onto any part of someone's armor and they will get a chance to reflect normal bullets and a small chance to deflect AP alongside higher armor value.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): Now you TOO can deflect assholes who FF all the time! Just drag a Crusher corpse to Researcher and all is dandy!

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): Gives more of a way for Xeno fuck ups / deaths to give Marines an actual advantage and makes Research more of a game changer.

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

[Sargeantmuffinman]

You mean head crest

[Swagile]

You mean head crest

Fixed.

[Wubs4Scrubs]

Neutralish, leaning to +1

DISCLAIMER: I think crushers are the most broken alien caste and need some serious reworking balance wise. So I think the reason I'm leaning towards +1 is that since crushers are so god damn OP how come marines can't get a slice of the action, especially if they actually manage to kill and recover one.

If something like this is actually added it could be made that you can only get research out of Mature+ aliens or have the research benefits scale to the aliens maturity. Example being that if you recover a dead young crusher the armor addition you'd get through research would be mediocre at best, but better than nothing. This could scale to if you somehow bagged an ancient crusher (lord help us) and got it to research you'd get a very nice armor boost.

[Snypehunter007]

We are currently rethinking research. This is going to be locked for now.