We have come full circle and are now appreciating the cades of Mauricio. I did not have this on my 2025 CM Bingo card.
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Yeah this is the main issue with Mauricio cades. Traffic jams. Also, Mauricio cade is a perfect target for boiler, especially trapper.
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Yeah that’s fair, I guess. I think a big reason why 5x5 is so common is largely because it has a lot of space for marines to move around and is really nice for medics to heal inside without blocking traffic. They also aren’t very vulnerable to trappers, and I think people just value these qualities in an autism fort more than they do cade density. (those 2x2 hallways would be delicious for any trapper)
Plus, plain squares are basically the cheapest option available, while being easy to make.
The crab claws seem like they’d take too much thinking to adjust and adapt to different environments, and I honestly don’t think enough comtechs have the neurons to comprehend how they’d make it not a deathtrap. People just like simple designs.
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whats wrong with these cades 
they’re perfectly fine
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Reminds me of cancer: you can see that this was a good cade at first, then something happened and this giant tumour appeared
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How do you keep finding these?
By playing CM… you neverplayer!!! Fix your PC >:(
Look very carefully at the rightmost section to see the war crime committed there
In general, doors are in the middle and also in the most questionable spots (in the top there are 2 doors that open into the SAME tile for some reason)
Random dead ends (why is there a foldable in the top-right?)
Poorly positioned cadeline (The top-most southern cadeline should be moved up by 1, currently any xenos attacking this cadeline can reach the Alamo by breaking open ONE cade, despite the rest of this entire fortification being 2 cadelines thick.)
An FOB is only as strong as it’s weakest point, having a section 1 cadeline thick means your entire FOB is effectively one cadeline thick.
It’s also a lot of metal in a tight space, which has the same weakness as schofield cades in that they’re trapper food.
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We can use this as a template to ask synths what is wrong and how to fix. Synth council take note.
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This thread is starting to look like a great comtech guide with great explanation and examples. I think if we get more examples then BasilHerb will loose all of the sanity there is left.
I am tempted to go comtech and these examples will look like the gates of heaven.
But then again i am afraid i will see a Basil cryo post, and i kinda like the fella.
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These aren’t meant to be used defensively, they’re to slow xenos down since they’ll have trouble retreating through them in a hurry and will be forced to break them all slowly - or they will give you extra precious moments to get accurate fire on a xeno retreating through them (or even extra time if they screw up and walk into one)
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Maze mean xeno need to turn xeno can’t shoot past Cade but you can therefore maze good. Also I’ve used this before on Solaris Marshall’s as surv we killed like 4 xenos. It fucking works even though it shouldn’t. 10/10 cades
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Figures. Still feels unviable here, since it’s located on LV road from robotics to research. No way xenos’ll push that from north/south
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Yeah this seems like it’s in a bad spot
Cades like this are also really good at killing chargers, so they’re not entirely ass even on the frontline
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the mines this round were so fucking ungodly abundant + flashlight spam out the ass that I was cackling out loud after running over literally ten of them and still seeing more get planted. The OT caught me in dchat after I ran over two in a row and started getting salty and they said they just ran out of metal and cryo’d.
I do wonder what the point of a role in which your entire job is to produce “free” giga explosives and then cryo to watch it work as a ghost is.
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it’s to produce free giga explosives and then cryo to watch it work
people call SO observer+ but OT and CE give them a run for their money
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CE is managing the chaos of the MTs.
Managing? i am PARTAKING! Whatever terrible scheme theyre doing that will get them brigged (and broken out and brigged and broken out and brigged and…) i want in on!
If MP asks: “approved shipside modification”
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