if queen can take over the alamo and launch it, why not the lifeboats, assuming they’re fueled? It should require 100 percent fuel, SD to be armed, and guarantee a xeno minor instead of the major they’d get by stopping SD
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I’ve always thought the queen hijacking really needed work as a concept. So expanding on it is just making this “queen is a master hacker “ trope is kicking the ball down the road.
If this was explained through, say, a large pool of round randomised reasoning "(CLF insider threat/ UPP remote hacking/ ARES going low-key rogue), I could maybe get behind this but I think we need to rework the systems first before expanding on it.
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What stops Queens from doing that every time the countdown for SD is close to finish, so they artificialy inflate xeno wins for no reason?
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Good argument. What stops Xeno from holding lifeboat watching marines blow themselves up. “Bird blowing, we’re going for another vacation”.
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Because they don’t get to see the timer. All they get is a notification the first time someone rigs 1 generator to blow out of 17.
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Always has annoyed my inner immersion that a alien from out of space can just smack their claws on a computer and volia, hijacks a ship. Up there with queen teleport, kings goofy jump animation, and kings pseudo magic abilities
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I mean if the xenos dislike SD siege so much they’d rather forfeit then that’s less a problem with my idea and more with hijack/SD sieges, no?
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Improve SD hold, not remove. As the saying goes.
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Simple counter, order a runner to vent inside engi and die with marines.
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