Alien lifeform upgrades being hive specific
McCheese
Join Date: 2012-11-21 Member: 172726Members
Join Date: 2012-11-21 Member: 172726Members
Currently, if you lose a second hive, most aliens lifeforms created after that point are neutered in terms of effectiveness due to lost tech upgrades. What if there were a way to possibly keep these upgrades once a second or 3rd hive went down?
What if bilebomb, blink, leap, etc... remained if the hive they were researched at continued to live? For example, on veil, alien team has subsector and cargo. They research bilebomb on sub hive, blink on the cargo hive. Marine team storms cargo hive and takes it down, getting rid of the ability to blink, but bilebomb remains because the subsector hive is still alive.
Maybe even these techs could give the hive they are researched at increased defensive or offensive abilities, much like upgrading town centers in starcraft/warcraft. Maybe bilebomb could give the hive the ability to shoot bilebombs occasionally at nearby units/structures, or maybe it could allow the khaam to enable a short duration thorns ability that would damage arcs/players that are attacking the hive. Maybe leap could enable the khaam to primal scream nearby aliens for a short duration. Blink could allow the hive to be immune to 1 attack every ___ seconds, or even allow the khaam to make the hive phase out of existence for a short duration, rendering it invulnerable for a very short duration. There could be any number of abilities these techs could give a hive, and could even possibly be researched at multiple hives. Balancing these may be a nightmare but they definitely sound fun, and they sound like they would make being the khaam a little more engaging.
This could give marines a reason to target a specific hive, or give aliens extra reason to protect 1 specific hive. it sounds like a lot of work to balance this much new functionality, but it could be a lot of fun too!
im sure the community could think of lots of other fun abilities these could give hives, or maybe even make these techs and abilities their own specific structure like a spur/shell to make them hive independent. Any ideas?:)
What if bilebomb, blink, leap, etc... remained if the hive they were researched at continued to live? For example, on veil, alien team has subsector and cargo. They research bilebomb on sub hive, blink on the cargo hive. Marine team storms cargo hive and takes it down, getting rid of the ability to blink, but bilebomb remains because the subsector hive is still alive.
Maybe even these techs could give the hive they are researched at increased defensive or offensive abilities, much like upgrading town centers in starcraft/warcraft. Maybe bilebomb could give the hive the ability to shoot bilebombs occasionally at nearby units/structures, or maybe it could allow the khaam to enable a short duration thorns ability that would damage arcs/players that are attacking the hive. Maybe leap could enable the khaam to primal scream nearby aliens for a short duration. Blink could allow the hive to be immune to 1 attack every ___ seconds, or even allow the khaam to make the hive phase out of existence for a short duration, rendering it invulnerable for a very short duration. There could be any number of abilities these techs could give a hive, and could even possibly be researched at multiple hives. Balancing these may be a nightmare but they definitely sound fun, and they sound like they would make being the khaam a little more engaging.
This could give marines a reason to target a specific hive, or give aliens extra reason to protect 1 specific hive. it sounds like a lot of work to balance this much new functionality, but it could be a lot of fun too!
im sure the community could think of lots of other fun abilities these could give hives, or maybe even make these techs and abilities their own specific structure like a spur/shell to make them hive independent. Any ideas?:)
Comments
What turtling power?
Not sure about the hive shooting stuff, but this sounds similar to the biomass system in the balance test mod (which I hope gets added).