Set a small timer for face huggers to leap again.

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Set a small timer for face huggers to leap again.

Post by qsleepy » 10 Feb 2016, 23:51

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):
Pause between jumps for the face huggers. Right now it seems to be instant after they land. At first I hated the new script for them, but I think huggers sitting around not moving is bullshit, so this was a great idea. I am just a salty salty bitch. HOWEVER...

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):

It is a little bit TOO instant. If they had a minor cool down before leaping to the 8-directional square around them, It makes them less spammy, but still dangerous to come close to.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):

The new hugger code has them leap onto your face after being thrown and landing on the ground if the player comes within one tile of the hugger. This turns into a bug/lame gameplay deal where you can avoid a hugger and still get hugged by avoid the thrown hugger, but being within a square of it when it, "lands". If the hugger had a 3 second cool down before leaping, I think it would be realistic.

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

2-3 second cooldown on hugger leap, dawg.
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Re: Set a small timer for face huggers to leap again.

Post by apophis775 » 11 Feb 2016, 03:12

Tell me, do you play CM, at all? I keep seeing you making suggestions about things that have been in for over a year.

Anyways there has always been a ~3-second timer between "leaps".

To the point that:

1. Huggers that "leap" and remove helmets get "stunned" and won't leap for a little bit
2. Huggers that are used by an alien by hand to remove helmets and picked back up, will be "inactive" and won't attach for a bit
3. Huggers thrown by carriers that remove helmets also get "stunned" and won't leap (or be retreivable by carriers) for a bit
4. Huggers pulled off peoples faces suffer from the same stun.


Honestly, I'm just going to start blocking people who do this more than once from the suggestions forum.

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