Changeling rounds are boring as hell

[PKPenguin321]

Bottom post of the previous page:

no not at all
chokeholds shut lings down hard, they always have
iirc the only ways for the ling to break out without intervention are confusion screech and lesser form

[lumipharon]

Or just adrenal and never get choked to start with.

[PKPenguin321]

Or just adrenal and never get choked to start with.

that's why you have one guy chainstunning
we've been over this like three times now oh my god

[lumipharon]

You keep assuming that
A: The ling doesn't also have stun weapons, you know, the stun prods that anyone can make and are supposedly why lings are easy to beat
B: They ling doesn't emp the energy weapons (even batons will get cucked after a few)
C: They don't just adrenal, move off and shoot you in the face/stun you/armblade KO you/shriek you

[Shaps-cloud]

In that situation as ling

Step 1: EMP shriek to wreck any tasers anyone around you has
Step 2: Dissonant shriek to make everyone drunkwalk so their attempts to baton you fail horribly

[Incomptinence]

EMP just removes 20% charge on energy weapons at present so it isn't the end immediately.

I suppose if you get into melee while they are being chain stunned and they haven't confused you choking can work seems like a good chance but seems like a high chance for the choker to get hit though.

[CPTANT]

EMP just removes 20% charge on energy weapons at present so it isn't the end immediately.

I suppose if you get into melee while they are being chain stunned and they haven't confused you choking can work seems like a good chance but seems like a high chance for the choker to get hit though.

When was this changed? I thought the 20% reduction only applies to battons, tasers/lasers get drained way more.

[Not-Dorsidarf]

Also solo lings aren't the problem, it's when the hivemind killteam of 3+ armed lings mows down wave after wave of heavily armed assailants, all using stun weapons en-masse

[CPTANT]

Also solo lings aren't the problem, it's when the hivemind killteam of 3+ armed lings mows down wave after wave of heavily armed assailants, all using stun weapons en-masse

And yet fighting these ling deathsquads is the only thing I actually enjoy about the entire current ling gamemode. It requires thinking out of the box, and it is thrilling to know that you are outclassed by the enemy.

[Not-Dorsidarf]

Also solo lings aren't the problem, it's when the hivemind killteam of 3+ armed lings mows down wave after wave of heavily armed assailants, all using stun weapons en-masse

And yet fighting these ling deathsquads is the only thing I actually enjoy about the entire current ling gamemode. It requires thinking out of the box, and it is thrilling to know that you are outclassed by the enemy.

I've never seen anyone win against them. They're less thrilling than the actual deathsquad, especially because the actual deathsquad don't cut the bridge cams, hack the AI out of the APCs, then recall over and over.

[Oldman Robustin]

Lings get destroyed by heavily armed assailants, the round you're deceptively referring to was basically ERT v. every hallway chokepoint being lubed.

It was a much more persuasive case to nerf lube than nerf anything about lings.

[Erbbu]

I tested the EMP thing. At a two tile range it completely drains the charge of tasers and eguns. A few tiles after that it removes half of their total charge. Stun batons barely get affected, even at point blank they lose only 10% charge IIRC.

[Not-Dorsidarf]

Lings get destroyed by heavily armed assailants, the round you're deceptively referring to was basically ERT v. every hallway chokepoint being lubed.

It was a much more persuasive case to nerf lube than nerf anything about lings.

Despite your sneaky lies, the round I was referring to never had an ERT at all, and certainly no lubed hallways.

Nice try though

[InsaneHyena]

Changeling rounds are still boring, prolonged, uninspired, painful, tedious bullshit. Please remove them - they can only be interesting when combined with traitors in traitorling rounds.

[lumipharon]

They're actually hilarious (and murderboney) if the lings have actual balls and just go loud straight up.

Kor was just giggling in achat while I was murderboning everything that moved in the brig while they unloaded all the guns in the armoury into my face to no effect.
I only get rekt in the end becase beepsky, hero of the station managed to cuff me and all the other lings were so mentally challenged they couldn't fight one miner who didn't even have a rig on.

Ling is terrible is you try to be sneaky shit (unless you're a filthy emp monkey/spider shitting turd burgler), and hilariously robust when loud.