Researchers who don't upgrade the fucking ORM or department protolathes.
You can get tier 3 bins and manipulators, tier 2 everything else at round start. If the miners drop off the dock silver, you can get a bluespace RPED within 2 minutes of round start. Almost everyone will open their doors for a scientist carrying an RPED, and you can have the entire station upgraded within 5 minutes if you move quick.
Why the FUCK do I keep returning after the first ash storm as a miner, only to find the ORM still at base levels? Stop being a bunch of fucking circuit jerkers buying shit you can't even build, and upgrade the fucking station. It's your job as RnD.
Dr_bee wrote:Armhulen wrote:huehuehue wrote:Armhulen wrote:InsaneHyena wrote:Objective 1: Assassinate Diggy Never-Returns-To-the-Station, Shaft Miner
*has bullshit armor and an animated mace, ready to either teleport away to fuck all so you can never kill him or transform into a drake and straight up kill you*
and even if he hasn't killed any megafauna or found anything interesting he can still defend himself with his tools quite well, especially if upgraded fully
i forgot about his 40 damage infinite gun lol
20 damage on the station.
>Not requesting miner access at round start
>Not gearing up and getting buddy buddy with your target
>Not knowing most miners will happily have a companion during mega and tendril hunts
>Not "accidentally" hitting him with your KA while fighting fauna
>Not bidding your time until they are very low health and just plugging them with a revolver
>Not hurling their corpse into a chasm and calling it out over the radio that they fell in
>Not taking all their sweet loot for yourself
Really, everyone likes to complain that miners are SO OP, but they aren't. Their gear is all RNG based, and only skilled miners can actually return to the station as an lavaland god. The rest die stupid deaths. I've succeeded my "Kill a shaft miner" objective without ever going planet side, because something killed them for me. I am honestly more afraid of a skilled chemist, botanist, or scientist than I am a miner.