People are complaining that marines are reciving cool additions and xenos are not. Ideaguy some ideas for cool xeno stuff, I am NOT interested in balance accid goop, do not say shit about just changing some numbers.
Please some add this caste it looks so sick i don’t care what it does i just want it for the sake of it looking cool
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Add xeno customization, like net patterns, scarring etc
More defensive shit for building castes, hazards for marines, more turret like constructions maybe.
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lrp
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I wish hive had more structures so it looked more of a hive. It make me miss the acid pool and evo pods, it feelt and looked like a hive with the weird alien structures. It just feel empty now, and tiny.
I wish hivelord was limited to be x many. And they had a option to be ovi and build. It’s a nice way to learn one of the role to be queen. And instead of queen telling new hivelord to go there and build. Not knowing map and so on or how to get there and back again. When on ovi queen can say build on the marker and hivelord can teleport to marker to be there. Dont need to learn the map at all anymore
Research system. A structure for xeno that honestly look like the hivecore. A pulsating thing that you feed orbs. Only xeno can see it perhaps so marines can’t meta it? and it spawn randomly around somewhat close to both lz? at round timer :30 they start to spawn orbs randomly. It will give lurkers, runners,burrowers a thrilling role like io have. No idea what reward it should be but it cost x orbs to advance futher or buying something like maby when nodes are placed, it spread weed faster? Maby it unlock something that teleport all xenos to hive, only queen can do that tho.
These may be all horrible ideas and i understand that.
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Sure I got a few.
Toxin damage based xeno.
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Hugger trap Player.
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Research type drone.
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Princess Drone I got cooking for a while but nothing well thought out yet.
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A Princess, Frail T3 drone that heals with touch( since the prae doesn’t heal anymore), limited to 1 per hive, Can evolve into queen faster than the other xenos ( 3 minutes instead of 5) and reaches maturity faster too.
Give her lvl 2 acid and pheros like hivelord.
As a precursor to the queen and the queens psychic abilities it would be cool if the princess could attach herself to the hive core and give ARC sensors range to detect hosts while doing it, preferably only on weeds.
Would be also cool if the princess could give a slight evo while attached to the core AND while the queen isnt on ovi. Something like 0.2 EVO.
This would make the hive as a whole a bit stronger and hardier.
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So like give carrier a strain that focuses on like buffing other xenos call it like buffman or something
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add a button that causes the CO to keel over in pain like someone kicked him in the nuts and put it in the hive next to the queen
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Xenos with rank should unlock new skins. Or better said… new skins should unlock with rank/maturity
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What was the resinshark about? Idk what it is but it sounds cool, and god knows we need a burrower strain.
Isn’t princess from tgmc? And yea if you want funny stuffs for xeno you can look at tgmc xeno, they have wacky stuffs.
Edit: princess is the reserve queen caste that will evolve to queen if the current dies, they also have mini screech and weaker queen pheros.
And yes they have drop pods, and tad and their ai vision is actually cic controlled vision like that of queen’s eye. Also their AI is playable. I hate 30 mins delay.
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I never played tgcm, I know nothing besides the drop pods and that they have AI vision from CIC.
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Scarring could be a thing, but rather then customization it would be tied to how much overall damage a Xeno has taken in the round, reach certain thresholds and you get permanent scars perhaps, which don’t go away.
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sentinel strain that focuses on slowing down marines from range might be fun. Maybe have it shoot temporary stick resin instead of neuro toxin, direct hits maybe snare the marine’s arms
permanent scars could be cool but that is 95% sprite work 5% code, so if someone sprites it I can prop code it. there is ban on more long ranged xenos the rattlesnake might work in some iteration, the hugger trap hugger does not fit the narrative behind playable xeno. we had carrier buffing xenos before and it was OP as hell so you need to provide more details for that. t3 princess would not fit especily with queen rework on the way. Xeno structures could realy use some improvement, spikes suck, sticky resin suck, membranes suck. Some ideas on how to improve those? with sticky and spikes it is just how hard they are to place to how little benefit they offer that makes them meh but ehh not sure how to change it. (I prop will not get to coding for month or so)
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Make it so if a bullet or shrapnel does less than 5 damage or so, it makes a ricochet noise. Would be cool as fuck and would make shooting a defender noticeable that you are doing 0 damage.
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Xeno structures?
We could have something to SPEND evo points on. If the queen is off ovi at one point no one would be able to spend anymore. More xenos more points and possibly more marines so it balances…untill it spirals out of control because 40 xenos and 20 marines groundside. By then the game is over anyway.
I still like the idea of an ARC range host sensors on weeds:
- Sensory Node/Core: Once fed evo points it drains the points at a steady pace, giving map vision and host sensors on weeds around X tile range.
or
- Caustic Barrage: A big structure that checks if any CAS go near/over it. It fires off its acidic contents when it detects CAS and forces the dropship to land early and spend more time refueling/repairing the damage. Uses evo points or large ammounts of plasma as “ammo”, making it a good area denial for CAS. Can only be built in the open and on hive weeds.
or
- Mutation chamber: Spend evo points to gain a temporary buff to a few abilites/stats. More health, more armor, more regen or plasma regen, upgrade your acid to next level, etc etc. (Here we go on techwebs all over again)
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Resin sentry like on TGMC
or just make this the sprite for acid runners, they basically do the same thing
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