chest bursting early?

[Siserith Vassada]

Bug Description:today in multiple rounds i have noticed people and including myself bursting rather early like only 3-4 minutes after getting hugged. normally from what i have sen it takes about 10-15 mins to burst after getting hugged.

and people have been bursting before the seizure stage and as early as three and a half minutes after getting hugged.


Steps to reproduce:
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[1138]

I do not believe this is a bug. I believe we recently (read as, start of the alpha days) buffed infection and gestation times for marines to burst faster.

[Siserith Vassada]

i've only noticed it start happening today. to multiple marines in previous days everyone would begin passing out or having seizures before they burst. but now they burst before their even halfway though the stages of infection

[Tetsip]

Please allow me to explain:

Yes, it's true incubation times were buffed, but blackouts were removed and seizures added. A seizure is a precursor to bursting. According to Abby this has about a 1% chance of happening per tic, so if the RNG is not in your favor, you may not go through a seizure at all before you burst, making the gestation period seem quicker in some cases. The only thing Abby could really do is nerf gestation periods which probably won't happen, or make seizure chance higher. The issue with this is that it's a huge sign that you're about to burst, and opens the doors for possible metagame as marines all surround their seizing buddy with guns to prepare to slay the imminent burster.

As it stands infection time with a facehugger is about 30 seconds.

Gestation is anywhere between 4-8 minutes.

[tenshar]

4 minutes is way too fast, the hell is the point of such it makes resisting a nesting pointless since they take something like 3-4 minutes to escape.

[1138]

It's randomly generated. It is from four to eight minutes.