Weird idea I’ve been having of putting more stuff in the staff officer vendor, to reduce the amount of req/Med/engineering looting and reduce prep time for deploying SOs. It doesn’t currently make much sense but that’s kinda the point of this forum right?
Items potentially compacted into cases (similar to spec cases) such as an engineer case or corpsman case
What do people think of this?
Might make a JTAC kit and normal Pfc++ kit, with these items and the ones below being in a custom vendor in the armory to prevent SOs grabbing these loadouts roundstart) Corpsman
Leaves your person full of medical items and leaves room for magazines and a laser designator.
corpsman backpack
Inside: MAYBE 2 advanced aid kits, MAYBE 2-3 defibrillators (not so much concern as they can be grabbed from Medical), laser designator
You’re supposed to take it off and grab things from it
fully stocked lifesaver bag
Extra bicaridine, kelotane, tramadol pill bottles, health analyzer and a stasis bag for your belt
light/normal armor
equivalent corpsman helmet
medical pouch with brute/burn lines and two Epinephrine injectors
webbing
Large magazine pouch?
Engineering
technician welder backpack
Inside: materials, whatever else makes sense
You’re supposed to take it off and quickly grab things from it
Toolbelt
equivalent pouches (tool/construction and large mag, maybe other pouches)
webbing
light/normal armor
other normal engineer stuff
Weapons
Likely the webbing and large mag pouch to carry ammo
I think adding all this gear might lead to SO’s becoming distracted from doing their actual job. I.e. paying attention to what the squad is doing and keeping them focused on their objectives.
In my opinion there should be a limited number of the jackets added in the SO locker in their bunks. replace the useless backpacks and swap them for the jackets.
SOs a junior officer who’s pretty much fresh. They’re not gonna be dripped the fuck out trying to be a self insert. Also adding more gear to be PFC+, -1. Metagaming in CIC with a bunch of gear that a normal SO wouldn’t take is already a big issue. Do you really need a radiobackpack, medbelt, medbackpack, just cause you can take it?
great idea, would be good to see all the senior vendors get more too
RO needs some love (he only has a stamp)
CEs weapon choices are awful
POs options are basically a joke
SOs need more
as for other roles that need revamped vendors:
OT, MT, doctors (need more deployment focused gear), SGs (old and WAY out of date choices), ect
Command pack??? Basically all the funny bags rolled into one (flag, phone, and potentially a nerfed bell) but only one spawns (its for deploying command staff i guess)
this idea is probably completely ridiculous but im putting it out there
Why do SOs where there are always PFC++ issues when deploying need a kit with three defibs (That’s better than many medics, a full engineering kit (Similar to a real engineer) and a PFC++ kit turning the PFC++ SO into a PFC+++ SO who is just murderballing?
If that gets approved by the devs, I would also like a SADAR/scout cloak/flammenwerfer/full-auto-shotgun filled with 200-buckshot-rounds magazine and atleast 3000 RPM-kit combining all good weapons for SOs, to murderball like a boss.