Get properly into character when you play

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When you play as a marine, I suggest that you get immersed into the world and character. If you are in pain, roleplay it out, either groaning, complaining, limping, etc. Emoting changing out dirty bandages or covering wounds with an ice pack. Remember that normal combat with other human beings is a thing that causes a great many people to have PTSD, leading to substance abuse and other not good things, and that’s against humans, you are fighting the perfect organism: the definition of murder given chitinous flesh. You should expect to panic, to flip out, lose your shit, misfire your gun at the smallest noise, and hallucinate seeing gigerian figures in the darkness.

My last point is: if you get captured, panic, panic panic panic. Ellen Ripley (and to a lesser extent Cpl. Hicks, newt, and Amanda Ripley) are veteran bug killers/survivors, and they panic at the sight or suggestion of xenomorphs, they see them in constant nightmares to the point they cannot function. Your marine, who in all likelyhood has only ever seen a bug in some kind of briefing document, should be having the worst day of his life even if he survives. If your marine gets captured, this should be your shining moment to show just how fucked your marine’s brain is.

Pray for death, call for god, buddha, or your mommy, scream and shriek and try to kick the xenomorph futiley in the face. You are a redshirt, even as a specialist, or tank driver, or Commanding Officer. The most badass bug killers in the galaxy cannot keep their shit together just seeing bugs in their nightmares, you will not do any better than them, do not calmly call out you’ve been captured and give your location, scream your location out on general comms and cry for anyone to save you, or go completely catatonic and non responsive but using emotes. If you see a fellow marine getting captured or torn to shreds, panic like an Xcom character and fire wildly in their direction, or run with all of your life away to the safety of the fob, even against command’s orders.

Yes, I’m saying fear RP more, bite me, it’s great for immersion and I like to do it, nobody will remember who won LV round 5k.55.

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Instead of healing people with items, just hold the time in your hand and emote healing them with it, they will appreciate your commitment to roleplay

Edit: wow!!! !!! Thanks for all the likes!!! I’m going to print this out and hang it up!

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xeno hands wrote this post

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*claws.

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do people really fear rp or its just a meme

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fear RP is an OOC thing, marines just have a skill issue and instead of pushing and playing the game they stand around doing nothing when they have superior numbers and can push back the bugs easily

i have been a victim of fear RP countless times, i go as SL prep for 30 minutes and finnaly get to front, see that we can push tell them to charge *warcry look back and see that noone followed me, i get woyered and the marines just stare as i get capped

its just a marine skill issue that hurts realy bad

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After 3 full wipes I’ve stopped deploying and have been going shipside only rifleman.

All jokes aside, fear RP is rarely RP in the “CM” sense but still RP. It’s people who don’t chase because of the fear that they will get perma’d and have to sit out of the round, which like, is 100% valid when rounds go on pretty long.

Jaded players will throw their lives away trying chasing for a drone kill, get capped, then go “worth it”. A fear RP player sees their life as more valuable than a drone kill which is how most humans in the scenario would be.

Fear RP can be annoying when you go deep to secure a good kill and no one backs you up and the kill gets away and you get maimed/perma’d for nothing but like, I’ll never blame these players for fear rp, they want to enjoy their round and not risk getting perma’d while I’m taking big risks to try and make a difference. If they’re having fun that’s what matters, and for many players living longer is having more fun.

By the end of many rounds the only players left are the players who were safe, with every big risk taker having been punished for it and perma’d/disabled. It’s a natural part of CM gameplay

Tl;Dr people enjoy different things, fear RP is real and will always exist

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im built different

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if you push in without knowing there is a woyer then i am sorry but you fucked up

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its a meme because marines fear for real, its not rp

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I didnt mean to make this about OOC fear RP, that was a throwaway line frfr Re engage with the actual meat of the post

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quite there should be more of this kind of RP but sadly you can only RP so much ground side with out ganking the gameplay. still yes if you get capped RP if you are waiting for the burst timer… who doesn’t like the weeping of a dead man over comms. or better yet get out you characters last will.

Like one thing about my character i play is that he hates his father. so some times if i get capped i call out on comms asking for my fellow marines to tell my characters father that i still hate him… you know just out of spite.

that or curse my fellow marines if they are close to the hive telling them that i will haunt them unless they save my sorry ass.

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I enjoy sobbing out my last words over comms when I’m capped, but I often feel bad about doing it over the squad channels. I end up doing it as an IO a lot given the ASO often has enough downtime to RP. Tiffany demanding the ASO take down her last words is pretty fun.
One advantage of playing Bravo is that you do get downtime to RP, that’s always fun.
I think I’ll try this next time I play a non-scientist survivor and make it shipside. Set up in medbay lobby or an intercom and rant about the horrors groundside. Come to think of it this should be the CC’s bread and butter. The marines at least have had some sort of briefing.

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The average Marine will only act in a brave or risky manner if they feel confident there is a sufficient hoard of Marines that even if they die, they will be recovered. It’s harder to convince the average Marine to charge with abandon to their life when there is a genuine risk of them being flung to Brazil or captured.

Knowing when to charge and when to be conservative is a skill that takes time to learn and is still a imperfect science. Don’t expect the average player to understand this.

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Also, in addressment to the OP, there is a PR being proposed to add forced emoting to marines if they are suffering conditions like organ failure, defibbing, bandaging, and all that, so that might be a big boon to the atmosphere of the game: Light Emote Refactor and Heavy Emote Expansion by GrrrKitten · Pull Request #6633 · cmss13-devs/cmss13 (github.com)

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I may be jaded but trading your life for a xeno death is mostly always with it.
I play so my team can win.

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jebby proving once again he is the goat big surprise

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marines complaining about fear rp are mad they dont have the overflowing charisma that some people do that makes marines rush in and die with them :smirk:

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nah id win, lrp is better

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No.

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