Why do we have a blackout phase again?

[MrGabol100]

How about a choice:

Blackout "Phase" near bursting

Once your hugged, your unconcious till shortly before bursting

Cause, one is a "game mechanic" during phase 3 of the infection, the other, is how it actually works.

Actually, you wake up hours before bursting, so... No, just remove the blackouts please.

[Triel Wolfblood]

now make a darn suggestion

[Evilkyle24]

now if that happened on the colonial marines server. kane would have blacked out 10 times while eating

And he'd wake up just long enough to sit up so he could slam his head back down on the table.

[Steven Sneider]

the first one seems better to me,while the second one just tells you to ghost early since when you wake up it will be a 99% secure death

[Youbar]

Why not both?

[1138]

Because it's still a discussion post, it's uh... well, okay.

Anyway, regarding blackouts. This is kind of the roleplay aspect you're expected to play out as someone who's infected and attempting to escape. Hell, even if you're completely screwed and are 15 seconds away from bursting, you can definitely scream about how you can't stay awake and there's a weird wormy thing wrigging about in your stomach and it's making you expand a little. It'd make the other marines freak out about your situation and will want to either flee like cowards or charge headlong into more aliens to avenge you!

The Fear RP aspect of it kinda adds to the immersion of being utterly doomed.

Honestly, if you're worried about blackouts, I'd have to suggest you avoid confrontations where you'll get facehuggered. You're kind of expected to suffer until that thing comes out, one way or another.

But that's just me, really. If you guys really do think it detracts from gameplay, then it wouldn't be any real loss (except to my immershuns ;_;) that the weakness gets toned down or outright removed. I still think you should be playing to lose but still wreck people and not to win every encounter, but, eh.

[HalfdeadKiller]

I agree with removing blackouts, or making the blackout phase closer to bursting, instead of the minutes before actually bursting. That way blacking out would happen 20-30 seconds before bursting.

[Youbar]

If you wanted, you could make it so you vomit a few minutes before bursting. It stuns you for around 3-5 seconds, and would probably work better than blacking out periodically.

[Evilkyle24]

Or have a seizure the fifteen or so seconds before, exactly how it works in the movies.

[Triel Wolfblood]

yeah. blackouting a few seconds before burst is a should be. or a seizure yeah

[Sir Stabby]

Yeah, I like the idea of the seizure 15-20 seconds before you burst.

[YummyToast]

I think that if anything, whenever you are really close to bursting you should get debuffs on movement speed. After that you should enter a seizure state that goes until you burst.

[Clayton_Kelly]

I think blackout should only happen when you first get facehugged, not after you've been implanted. And a seizure before you burst is good.