We should add a turret replacement for Engis that will let them weld cadelines (or kill sleepy low HP lurkers who are too busy watching Family Guy Funny Clip #49) without putting themselves in danger. The bot should be easily destructible and should deal low damage and be generally less efficient than an engineer at welding cades, but be fixable if destroyed by, say, acid spit. Perhaps could also be immune to boiler acid smoke and be a way to counter boiler stacking on cave cades.
If xenos get a disposable grief tool with extra building and logistics utility (lesser drones), why can’t we?
Better idea: Add an EOE (explosive ordnance employer) bot into the game. Basically an easily destructable bot (200 health should be fine) which, while not OP, can tank some beno slashes (50 slash armour). It’s main job would be to throw small bombs (cuban pete level) at the benos (throw range would be ten or something, combined with scope). In order to prevent benos from just greifing engis by taking away this tool, make it easily repairable using bare hands.
Pretty much would never be used, you can just stand on the tile behind the cade rather than against the cade to weld and if the cade has enough xenos at it to the point where you can’t even do that without dying (due to spitters and such) its going to go down anyways regardless of if you have a little robot next to it.
Here’s my idea:First we want to improve the welder to give the bot some defensive capabilities, i’d suggest making the welder be able to shoot flames similar to a flamethrower, secondly i think the bot needs to be stronger, preferably enough it takes around ten xenos to destroy, then i also think we should increase the size to go along with the armor, around 4x4 you know? then i think we should allow it to carry troops, oh and make sure that the person controlling the bot has to sit inside to control it, perhaps given them their own seat with the welder being operated by another engi on another seat, then how about we combine it with the EOE idea and allow marines to put a specially purchased canon on to throw bombs at the enemy with to help deal with t3s.
Should I start writing a copypasta critizing this idea to hell and back while at the same time shouting “get real APC back” in case this actually gets merged?
