Name: Carrier Strain - Mutator
Desc: You loose abilities of making Resin Hole, Ability to carry eggs and Decreased amount of Huggers you can carry in exchange for new set of abilities: Now you can create “Mutated” variant of facehuggers and switch them with your ability, now you aquire Mutated Sticky Facehugger, Mutated Neurotoxin Facehugger and Mutated Embryo Facehugger, Mutated Embryo Larva can be called by “Call Larva”, if you call it 3 times it will explode inside marine dealing internal damage, Now throwing most types of facehuggers directly at enemy make them explode.
Explaining:
Mutated Sticky Facehugger:
When it Die - It will create pool 3x3 of “weak sticky resin” (similar to gardener) for 45 seconds.
When Hit Directly by Carrier Throw - On impact it will create pool 3x3 of “weak sticky resin” but marine who got hit will get their movement speed reduced by 80% for 10 seconds. (other marines can help by “shaking up” marine, every shake will reduce it by 5%, max 60% reduction, require shake 12 times)
When it
When it Hugs - It will cause marine to get injecter with sticky resin, it will cause marine to slowly “suffocate” and be unable to create any vocal sounds.
Mutated Neurotoxin Facehugger:
When it Die - Create small cloud of neurotoxin in shape “◇” 5x5 or “□” 3x3 if 5x5 is too strong. (can be used as “smokescreen”)
When Hit Directly by Carrier Throw - It will create cloud of neurotoxin, it will be more potent because it hit them directly with gas, effects are similar to boiler neurotoxin.
When it Hugs - It will paralise you for 15 seconds, you will be unable to move or be “shaken” by your teammates, if you allow to get hugged by it near xenos, its death sentence for you.
Mutated Embryo Facehugger:
It behaves similar to normal facehuggers.
When it Die - It will die like normal hugger
When Hit Directly by Carrier Throw - Nothing will happend
When it Hugs - Inject “Mutated” Larva Embryo, this embryo is unable to hatch to larva, but instead it is deadly, every time it is called by “Call Larva”, it will increase in stage (they will have infected larva icon), every stage higher will alert marines with unusual information, on Stage 1: “You feel something inside you”, on stage 2: “You feel very uncomfortable”, on Stage 3: “You feel something Twitching inside of you” on final stage 4, you will get notification: “You feel like something pop inside of you!” and you will start getting burn damage to whole body until you pass out from pain/damage or get treated. (it can cause internal damage)
Stages:
If you don’t make it explode, it will die after 60 seconds and cause burning damage to chest depending on stage it was before dying.
Call Larva ability:
“Call Larva” can be used to “activate” Mutated Larva Embryo in marines, you have 60 seconds to call embryo 3 times before embryo will die out, this ability have cooldown of 10 seconds, it can be used on normal larva to help carrier capture person, if casted on normal larva inside host it will cause it to move with make target to faint from pain for 6 seconds. (can be kind-of countered by strong painkiller meds just 3seconds instead of 6seconds).
Strain summary:
Pros:
- Ability To Create New Huggers called “Mutated Huggers” for 75 plasma every 10 seconds. (can be increased to 15s if they can convert huggers)
- Ability to choose facehugger type: Mutated Sticky Facehugger, Mutated Neurotoxin Facehugger, Mutated Facehugger.
- Throwing Facehuggers Directly at Enemy make them “explode on impact”
- Ability to Choose what type of facehugger you want to use/throw
- Ability to cast “Call Larva”
- Can Convert Normal Huggers to Mutated variant with new ability. *(this one is optional, it can not be introduced so it nerf the whole strain for balance)
Cons:
- Lose Resin Hole.
- Lose Ability to carry eggs.
- Carried Huggers count decreased from 16 to 12.
- Cannot Carry normal Huggers.
P.S. All this abilities times and stuff was created for carrier with cannot “convert” facehuggers, if they can, convert them, times can be longer or how long they can be activated can depend on person who will made this.
And don’t say its OP, because facehugger “AI” for jumping suck ass, so its nerf on its own, if you able to get someone hugged, it mean you are good at it.