Greetings, everyone! I am sure the whole thing has been brought up multiple times at this point, but recently - I have developed a certain desire to discuss it all again.
Lessers. Drones 0.5. Whatever you call it. Supposed helpers and extra support for the hive, yet completely misused due to the nature of their work and interactions with other players.
30 second respawn timer. You got one lesser jumping right into the midde of the fight, breaking a hand or two and dying? No worries, same player will come back to make your day slightly worse.
Amount. Sometimes - it won’t be just 1, but 4 to five annoying critters fighting and respawning every 30 seconds instead of doing any kind hive-work.
HP drain off-weeds. Completely easy to ignore, as no matter how far you are from the hive core - sitting on weeds again does the trick.
Inferiority at hive work. Yep, they are just abysmal at what they are supposed to. Not even a handicapped drone, but drone with all of their limbs taken away and acid glands drained.
Random. Yep, even a 0.5 tier beno can break your bones just because sometimes.
These factors, all put together - create a complete lack of self-preservation and encourage lessers to spam into frontlines, no matter how miniscule their impact is. I am not quite sure how to fix it, but perhaps - make it so they literally cant move too far from hivecore without dying immediately (akin to stepping into neuro-gas on FOB). What you folks think?
really they’re quite fun (and at least a way to impact the round) if you just play them to build, acid, and weed. Don’t see why they would need a nerf.
Their tackle stun should be shorter, or just entirely remove their ability to tackle/transport caps, it just causes UAV’ing IMO (also this is kind of a mald/cope post)
i mean i can get what you are getting at but really many of the issues with the lesser have been iron out.
no not really the thing is lesser are really squishy, what’s more there regen is really slow. a lost of 10 points can be what makes breaks a lesser rush many of a time.
well yes you can roam around for a good bit off weeds but the lost of HP will really dull ability to act effectively.
This is the average lesser drone gameplay, you run in middle group of marines and pray for them to ff each other. Not sure why we allowed lesser drones in the first place they are game approved metagaming units that help ruin any sort of flanking.
I was playing as scout about a week ago and a runner died to me, they came back as lesser 5 or 6 times to attack me and an admin ruled it wasnt metagaming
The only time I’ve ever seen a lesser drone cap using tackles is when they were first added, before the tackles were nerfed. Now the tackles are already very bad, it’s 4-5 range with 2-3 stun duration (same stun duration as defender). I think it’s actually impossible to solo cap with that since they will always stand up before you can restun them or devour them. The only time lessers cap people is if they step on a hugger trap or something, or if they are just delivering a cap someone else got.
Removing ability to decap/break bones would be fair but DAMN it’s funny when you get decapped by a lesser drone. Metagaming lessers will be always an unresolvable issue that will act as difficulty multipliers for scouts.
The main thing I HATE ABOUT LESSERS is when a lesser ghosts it doesn’t just fucking delete them so when I click join as xeno it asks me if I want to play a fucking lesser.
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