Give psychic radiance more noticeable/dynamic flavor text, maybe not dissimilar to what preds can do. Maybe even minor visual/audible cues, like throbbing lights/colors at edges of vision, sounds, things similar to paroxetine use. Only lasting 1/2 a second or something just for immersion, nothing major to affect gameplay; just to let you know you’re not alone and something is poking around in your head. I just feel like an extraterrestrial hivemind psychically reaching into your consciousness is a bit underplayed atm.
But why go through the effort to vamp up some random minor ability that most queens never use?
Next suggestion: let Queen Eye emit psychic radiance. Gives queens something to do on ovi if they’re bored. Trying to RP with marines while they’re shooting at you is also not easy and probably the reason the ability is so underused, and missed by marines. I feel like it has more potential as an RP tool than it presently is.
If that did happen, would also suggest allowing queen to understand human language. When I try to RP with marines as queen they often say stuff back; was always curious what, but when the conversation is one-sided it kinda kneecaps most RP potential.
Gamewise I don’t think it would affect much? Other hives already speak human.
Lorewise this would also be supported I think?
It would honestly be pretty cool if Queen could use psychic whipser over queen eye, just to do some funny rp stuff with marines.
Being able to understand marines, is a big balance thing though. Cause then you can, you know, hear what they are saying they will do. Also it would flood the chatbox for the queen imensly like for ghosts. And a leader role doesnt need even more stuff to burry important info under. Imagine how caps would scream to fuck over queens attention.
Having it one way is the best way to not have to deal with the fallout that a change to that would bring.
Where the Queen would have vision from Queen eye, the marine would obviously be in danger, as well as having no real way to respond. I don’t think this would create any RP scenarios nor be used by Queens. Xenos in general are extremely hard to actually create roleplay scenarios for, and most xeno players are fine with that, or even opposed to the idea of xeno roleplay. It’s a very gameplay-focused role.
Give psychic radiance more noticeable/dynamic flavor text, maybe not dissimilar to what preds can do.
This is a good idea, so I’ve done it.
Next suggestion: let Queen Eye emit psychic radiance. Gives queens something to do on ovi if they’re bored. Trying to RP with marines while they’re shooting at you is also not easy and probably the reason the ability is so underused, and missed by marines. I feel like it has more potential as an RP tool than it presently is.