Vampire Lerk

elodea

I would like to suggest that any marine bitten by a lerk should be turned into a vampiric minion unless they recieve a medpack every 5 seconds for 30 seconds to cure them of their tainted blood. If the commander fails to save the marine from becoming vampire, the marine shall become immortal and receive points for killing and turning fellow marines into vampires or may otherwise covertly hamper their team. To make it immersive, vampiric marines will move 60% slower when a flashlight is shone upon them.

In order to kill a suspected vampire marine, the team must convene a council and hold a vote of execution upon which the commander must build a stake factorty drop a 'stake' (which costs energy from the stake factory) onto the vampire marine every 3 seconds for 15 seconds otherwise the attempt is failed.

I think this idea is good because it adds diversity to the lerk bite.

fenrir1179

they would do it, but the sparkles are a real pain in the ass to animate...

subshadow

But the marine only turns into a vampire if he isn't already a werewolf or when holding The Spoon Of The Ork.

Not Flayra

Spoon of the Ork was nerfed and replaced with Bob's Tooth seven builds ago. Wouldn't be viable.

fenrir1179

that tooth has been nothing but trouble

CabooseFox

But what if we have no extractors and can't go grind up to find a tooth? We are boned!

IronHorse

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its just.. but... you... why would you even... theres so many.. other.... references.
SIGH.
::sad facepalm for a dead mythology::

Wheeee

this idea would only work if the marines had silver bullet upgrade tech for their pistols, and the alien dog things could morph into werewolf form with a cinematic transformation sequence followed by a 10s AoE fear-inducing howl. because how else would marine vampires fight off alien werewolves? remember, immersion is king.

Papayas

This is why the devs don't read the ideas and suggestions that much :D

Kuiki

The Nade Launcher also needs a silver nitrate upgrade and a Van Hellsing amor upgrade ^^

CabooseFox

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SIGH.
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How many other references? ONE...TWO.....THREE AH AH AH
.....
Couldn't resist :P

Master Blaster

THis reminds me of minute 3:23 in this video about Wasteland 2:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FTLv50c8Qg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FTLv50c8Qg</a>

"Our numbers people in marketing tell me that romantic vampires are REALLY BIG right now, let's include that in the game"

MurphyIdiot

I approve of this idea.

Rise

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You hear that everyone? Sparkles for marines in the next patch. It will be fabulous.

twiliteblue

Vampire Lerks will be like the coolest thing ever! Like the coolest! Do it!!!!!!

On a serious note, I think changing the secondary effect of Lerk Bite to restore Lerk's HP and energy would be a better design than venomous bite.

Laosh'Ra

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