New Warrior strain: Warrior-Philosopher.

“Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils.”

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Since I am gone and not actually coming back, this community has been lacking in in-game wisdom greatly, as told by me over PMs by various individuals. I am a learned renaissance man, and as such, I have decided to leave here one parting gift: a Warrior strain, for a caste that was made for truly wise men. A Warrior-Philosopher, even.

Naturally, the strain would have to be naturally weaker to remain balanced. As this is a strain only for educated and sophisticated members of the CM Community, it would require knowledge of truly advanced concepts such as basic algebra, knowledge of Dialectic Materialism and mathematic optimisation methods to be played. Your true weapon isn’t your lunge or fling, but your mind.

Your first ability is a quirky one, but very useful. Using powers of the Alien Hivemind, you pull yourself and marines in a 5x5 radius around you into a shadow realm known as a Soviet University where you have to engage in philosophical discourse with each other and the UPP WL holders about the merit of Dialectic Materialism in a modern age. Each of you will write a short thesis on this and the best rated thesis by the Academia WL holders will be released out of the shadow realm back into the game. The rest are sent to a UPP Gulag for the rest of the round for failing to adhere to ideological purity of the UPP.

The second ability opens a tgui with an equation graph calculator where you will input an equation to be approximated into CM’s 7x7 grid - this will be your lunge trajectory. Be warned though - you have three seconds to input the equation or be destroyed by the CM Captcha. A successfully landed collision on a marine will lunge him and softly whispher your entire thesis from the first ability into his ear, crashing his tgui and the game as well. Very good for caps - be careful to not fuck up though!

Your last, but not least, ability is a serious improvement over the regular fling. You lock yourself and a marine in place, preparing a custom trajectory for the fling. It will actually represent a classic transportation task (the entire map-sized( with pre-set node values among other things. You will be locked until you provide an optimal solution for the task, which will end up becoming the fling trajectory for the marine. With a bit of luck it will fling the marine directly into the hive, as this fling bypasses hive doors and walls!

Thankfully your maintainers have the wisdom to implement my idea.

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From the one round where I actually did hrp xeno

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… But I was planning on asking you to show up in my event today :patrice:

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“The hive knows of concepts developed by Kant, Hegel, Spinoza, and other great thinkers of philosophy”
Peak.

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Joever…

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i still have byond installed though

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i also have like 1k ping too

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Ah yes what a wonderful strain for the warrior, now it can ponder on WHY does the tall die to multiple groin punches?

Warrior tossed a naked tall in front of queen behold Aristotle’s tall

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pondering the martial art philosophy with the boys

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