I wanna know what other folk's opinions are.
I have a lots of reasons why I hate boilers.
One, you cant counter gas. Used to be able to. Gas mask and O2 left you safe. But now you might as well not even try. I haven't tried it again for a long while, but I died the last time and I don't feel like testing to see if gimping my sight and wasting a pocket slot is a good idea.
Two, you aren't killing a boiler at long range. They'll just walk away or have another xeno standing in front of it tanking shots while it preps to fire. Because for some unknown reason a big ass charger doesn't obstruct the shot.
Three, catching one alone isn't easy. Aside from rare instances they're always guarded heavily. They're integral to every xeno strategy so they'll be guarded at the cost of other xeno lives and their long range sight is going to give them ample time to react and start running before marines close in. Flanks aren't viable, its risky to divide the marine forces. If you happen to crit one, with a mortar, OB, or just lucky enough that it sits there and eats enough bullets it will be dragged off to safety.
Four, and this is new, fucking rail gun. It's more annoying than anything. It won't kill you, but getting crit from out of nowhere is the most disgusting thing the dev team has done. Tanks could gib xenos in one shot, but the tank has counters and can no longer begin with it's most powerful set up. Boilers are 10 times more of a pain than a tank that would periodically ff and only get a few kills a round.
Boilers do not have a counter. You can deter a boiler and that's about it. No amount of sustained long range fire, orbital strikes, or mortar rounds will kill a boiler. Just get it to stop firing long enough for engineers to fix cades. Unless there's 2 boilers. Then you might as well just pull back because when they alternate fire there's really no point in standing near cades that do nothing.
Boilers make the game unfun. It's like if you're out playing in the street with friends and have to stop and get out of the way because a car is coming. Playing a boiler is not fun. It is the epitome of low risk high reward. It makes sense that in the grand scheme of things it's very much out of place. There was never a long range bombardment xenomorph. There is a boiler, it's a kamikaze. The excuse will be that the dev team isn't following aliens lore anymore. Doesn't mean it's a good addition. We don't have things like barbed wire, drones, or remote detonators. Very useful things that make a lot of sense. I honestly don't feel this way about other xeno castes. Runners are annoying, but they die easy. Ravagers are glass cannons. Burrowers are cheesy sneaky little fucks, but you're not alone not shit they can do. Even the shitty as Warrior grab gives me less problems. Why am I not bothered by how the other xenos work? Because while I might die to other xenos, they can vary. I'm not always running into and dying to the same xeno, but I'm always stuck behind a line of cades because there's a cloud of cancer in my way.
I just hate boilers. Why are they a thing?
Originally Posted by SilentMountain
