Giving aliens more complex health system

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Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): Making xenomorph health system akin to that of human mobs with individual limbs taking damage/becoming crippled and so on and so forth. Other possibility would be exoskeleton plates wearing down and their effectiveness in reflecting bullets diminishing.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): I think it will make the game more balanced, while still being able to heal with weeds, they could take some permanent scarring from more powerful weapons i.e. sniper rifles/grenades/mines or concentrated damage to a single limb.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): Simple example: Praetorian charges over a mine, it explodes and deals them some moderate damage. Now, with current state of affairs, said praetorian most likely gets dragged off to darkness by fellow aliens and heals on weeds within 2 minutes. Now, with my idea, it could lose an arm or have it's exoskeleton plating shattered and thus, be more vulnureable in the future rather than just shrugging off effects of a valuable and somewhat rare resource a mine is to the marines.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): Making xenos a subclass of human mobs? I've never coded anything myself so can't really say.

[Tetsip]

In theory this could be amazing. Xenos have been known to fight even with missing limbs and their chitin shouldn't be indestructable. This sort of a 'scarring' mechanic is a very interesting idea and it's certainly worth considering, but I imagine that this would mean Xenos would have to be rescripted and it'd be a nightmare. I'm sure a Dev will give their two cents.

[Surrealistik]

Since science lost its best toys (and has serious constraints on those that remain like high explosives under penalty of bans/jobbans), aliens are looking pretty overtuned/overpowered, especially in light of recent win rates (I have yet to see a single marine win all day).

Something to even things up like this is needed. It was a good suggestion before (yes, this has been posted in the past), and it's a better suggestion now.

[Tetsip]

Since science lost its best toys (and has serious constraints on those that remain like high explosives under penalty of bans/jobbans), aliens are looking pretty overtuned/overpowered, especially in light of recent win rates (I have yet to see a single marine win all day).

Something to even things up like this is needed. It was a good suggestion before (yes, this has been posted in the past), and it's a better suggestion now.

Proximity mines. That is all.

[Surrealistik]

It's one of their very few remaining strengths; not nearly enough to compensate for the morass of alien perks.