1984, the idea of xeno âroleplayâ within the hivemind beyond calling tallhosts and the metal birds and nests by their xroper xames is goofy and unnecessary. It feels a little iffy to push administrative action about when marines are so very clearly the roleplaying focus.
Tl;dr let me have fun as the NRP bug animals??
That is clear evidence that this Biolock guy (who knows that guy even?) is a baldie young beno that never played the game.
Alright jokes aside this is fucking dumb ngl. Years of âImPrOvE, dO nOt ReMoVeâ to literally remove part of the little to non-existent xeno RP.
Also I know itâs bad RP. But Iâd much rather have bad RP instead of no RP.
Its xo fucking xover. Legally canât have harmless fun with your fellow xisters anymore.
Xalhalla my beloved
what the xuck xanâŚ
I expect this to be memed on. Do your thing Xeno mains.
@Blue-Lou. Thank you for taking the time to post this.
I despise the xenos but this is going too far⌠They didnât deserve thisâŚ.
Itâs never been more xover than it is right now.
But in all honesty I think this is dumb and really unnecessary, itâs like restricting marines from saying âungaâ. Itâs just fun terminology that sides say, I dunno why admins are cracking down so hard for something like this.
Donât give them ideas, please
Oh my xod.
It is actually pretty stupid how we are forced to say stuff like metal bird for dropship.
We are already speaking in xenospeech, we donât have to stop typing as we were. SS13 has always been like that, if you have the Russian language in game you just type in plain English and it is âtranslatedâ and taken as Russian, you donât have to larp, same way if we just say dropship, it is not like we xeno knows the name dropship, we are speaking in xenospeech either way, we are just not larping something made up.
That said just let people have fun. If someone is saying âIts xoverâ, its just two players having banter and fun, roleplay wise it is taken as if a xeno is speaking something about their defeat in their particular speech.
If UPP infantry says âShut up broâ they are actually saying âĐĐ°ŃкниŃŃ, ĐąŃĐ°ŃĐ°Đ˝!â roleplay wise and for everyone that doesnât understand it. You donât enforce people to talk like Russians if they donât want to, because it is stereotypical as fuck too, but you could have the excuse of enforcing it for roleplay since you can actually say a Russian or Chinese wouldnât talk like this, fair. Now Xenos?
Thatâs how languages were implemented in SS13 as people donât actually speak them, their characters do. Trying to enforce speech patterns is just larp, even more so for xenos.
Its just larp man. Xeno vocabulary and linguists were just invented by CM-SS13.
I am all for HRP, I personally like my game immersive and would prefer people donât do it ideally yes but thatâs how people have fun, I donât mind, I do not have other people not enjoying the game as my goal.
Xeno gameplay is stale and mechanical heavy, you donât have much room for roleplay other than acting like a submissive part of a hivemind, and thatâs no fun and gets old, this measure will make the Hive a bunch of silent drones listening and relaying orders as they are supposed to do.
Xeno roleplay as we have it is people cracking jokes or acting cutesy with each other. And it is fine unless you desire the above mentioned.
Tbf you arenât forced to say metal bird, skyfire, boomtube or smartspitters anymore- Justification from staff being that the hivemind is simply âxeno thoughts translated into Englishâ.
I do agree that itâs sad that one of the only fun things in hivemind is gutted now, though. I donât know of anyone who was genuinely pissed off about âmuh immersion breakâ from people saying âxoly xhitâ, and if someone was, they are a very small minority with a ridiculously outsized megaphone.
For how bland xenomorph ââroleplayââ is (frankly, xenos are allergic to roleplay- I canât even think of how you could implement it like for marines. Xenos are mindless beasts hellbent on reproduction and serving their Queen, at best you just me"growls" and spam me"*needshelp"), this was like one of the few things xenos had.
I think we ought to take a look at ourselves and think about rules applying to the spirit of the game, rather than the strict wording. Things can and should be bent if itâs just harmless fun. This is one of those cases, in my opinion.
No one got hurt, it broke up the monotony of hivemind, and frankly if youâre playing xeno the last thing you care about is roleplay. Xeno RP is a fantastical concept, and itâs farcical to believe this rule change will âimprove roleplay standardsâ, because there werenât any to begin with. All it does is slightly reduce enjoyment of the game, not improve it in any way.
no more slurs with one letter replaced with x i hate this place
Is the solution to replace every other non-vowel letter in the middle of a word with x?
Hexxo faxe hoxt if you axaxxon txe real hoxxs you sxaxl suxxixe txe nixxt.
(Hello fake host if you abandon the real hosts you shall survive the night.)
Real xeno RP
Well, it does only specificly say starting the word with X, so I guess its time to end words with X.
I am a returning player, I am glad that changed, itâs a step in the right direction and in line with my argument.
BasilHerb ultimately complemented it and put it solidly.
Just wanted to thank you for sharing on here since i am banned from discord, would feel a bit shit getting banned/noted for a change i didnât know about. Cheers
Well said and completely agree.
Replace last letter of a word with x instead. Its so ovex.