Simple many depratment heads get some kind of cool tool or weapon. The CMO get the combined medical and chemcial scanner googles. The CE gets the nailgun. The CO get there cool guns.
So why not give the CMP some kind of cool stun weapon. First of tazers suck let be real. They are slow and highly inaccurate. It would make sense that the CMP would get something better.
Luckly a class of weapon exist already that would fit this role. These being electrostatic gun like the CL’s pistol or the super nova shotgun his body gaurd gets.
Before you bring out the “CMP is not supposed to arrest people” card. You wrong because they do it all the time. CMP are armed, trained, and legal allowed to do it. If we abided fully by what the wiki said the role is supposed to do then CO’s would not have a metbeta because they would never being deploying.
Plus it would feel like a reward for any MP who manged to get the hours in the game to be CMP.
Maybe put a few in armory for riots. An electronstaci smartgun would make the CMP the final boss of any mutiny.
Gentlemen a simple solution to this problem is by giving MPs the right to bear arms such as M2C it takes just a quick second to deploy but in one burst stuns the bad guy permanently!
Fun fact in real life there is a weapon concept called the pain ray. Effectivly they use microwaves to cauee massive amounts of pain without hurting you.
I like the CMP haveing a handle held version of this. There are laser weapons in CM there sjut never used. Could be usefull for dropship arrests as it would act like a hit scan tazer.
And the CO wiki doesn’t even recommend that you do or don’t deploy. And it only mentions “deploy” when talking about the ARC. And it’s Antenna.
And Finally the CMP does get something unique. Better Melee skill than the MPs and 98% of the Almayer. Meaning you can harm baton better actually.
Also you get a fancy Beret.
CMP already has something kind of unique. That being riot gas nade launchers and auto-shotguns filled with beanbags.
That is much cooler than some mumbo-jumbo zapper.
first of all are we so opposed to giving the CMP something cool. Like would it make the ame any worse. The electrostatic un already exist so little codeing is needed.
1- Yeah jsut because a tazer can be used effectivly. Does not mean it’s still not slow and hard to aim. Just because you could in theory kill a xeno with a bayonte does not mean the bayonete is a good weapon.
2- You forgot the part right after in the wikiw where it sasy you shouldn’t be investiatin crimes and cahseing perps. I know CMP’s are allowed to and often do make arrests. I jsut brought that up cause I knew someone would bring it it up. The fact of the matter often time the CMP persoanly make arrest and thus would justify haveing a better tool to do so. The wiki frames it as a rare exception but in game it’s very common to see a CMP do this.
3- Okay I am jsut goin to say it. Melee combat in CM sucks unless you’r a xeno or pred. Sure you can baton a person. But that has to be the least effective way of captureing someone. At that point jsut use your tazer or pepperspary.
4- Armory on blue shift is usefull. However that is riot gear. What I suggested was a weapon for arresting people not putting down riots.
It wasn’t for the Chief MP, but there was a PR up to replace the MK221 Riot Shotgun with an electro-static shotgun, but I believe that the W-Y Content Nuke added it to the crowd-control PMCs, so I doubt it will be added to the Almayers MP armoury.
Its not a concept, its an actual thing that has been used, called the Active Denial System, additionally, there is a thing called the Long-Range Acoustic Device, which is sound based.
Yes. As an MP main with plat MP, MW and gold CMP. I hate fun.
Also the electrogun is just dumb. If we wanted to give them something I would just add rubber mags to CMP vendor and bug forest to give the CMP special permission to use them
That’s also a bad idea because marines will shoot back regardless of if it’s rubber or electro, taser shots are easy to differentiate, the other two not so much.
Plus they’ll just use the excuse they thought it was real anyway.
It’s right in the screenshot. You should delegate if possible. Else do it yourself. It’s not hard and fast rule as you pointed out, just a good idea.
I mean it’s fairly unique. Only specs and IOs get the same Almayer wise.
Kinda have to arrest people to stop the riot other wise they’ll just continue getting up and coming back at you.
Those who know (play MP) know that a sizable portion of arrests can be made by stalking someone on the crew monitor until they stop moving and having a few MPs with regular flashes jump them. Every argument about MP balance is borderline worthless once you realize that the same normal ass flash that half the department heads get and the crew monitor most people forget to hide themselves from are better mp tools than any flavor of taser.
Those who know also know that no amount of flashy new MP gear will fix the inherent in game and out of character policy failures that MP roles have been carrying around for years.
