- Antags work together as team to accomplish challenging goals.
- At roundstart, antags spawn in a safe location where they can form plans and choose their tools accordingly, then journey to the station once they're ready.
- A critical drawback is that antags are not disguised amongst the regular crew. Blending in amongst crew members and pulling their objectives off covertly from start to finish is still theoretically possible, but in practice an unusual & impressive achievement. Things will often degenerate into carnage, and teams can opt for a pure brute force approach or mix between the two.
-Start round with fleshy skeleton resprites as your only form, immediately recognizable in same fashion as blood red hardsuits. Literally no equipment, not even headsets.
-During prep phase, powers can be bought at half price. (Respeccing later will only give back the amount of points spent.)
-After prep, you enter station z-level from direction of your choice. Skeletal form (inherently spaceworthy thanks to skeleton species) has organic jetpack that drains chemicals and leaves long-lasting green trails.
-New forms can only be acquired via absorption. If available, Hive Channel may require physical proximity in order to share acquired forms, may be clearly inhuman process (both ling ops might basically go horror form for a minute).
-Ling Ops should prooooobably always have icons marking teammates on their HUD, probably different icon per individual teammate. Purple "E" for Mr. Epsilon, etc.
Possible Goals:
-Have a shared total of at least (4 per Ling Op) absorptions amongst team members who escape alive on the shuttle.
-Escape on shuttle with forms+IDs of heads.
-Escape on shuttle with forms+IDs of staff in (department), including John Doe the (head).
-Escape on shuttle with the form & ID of a Marked target. (Alternate term for Marked: "Delicious")
--Ling Ops start the round knowing the DNA strings (but not the names) of 1 marked target per Ling Op, mainly useful if someone can get access to medical records.
--Aside from the known Marked targets, remainder of crew 1 in 10 will be Marked.
--Ling Ops get undetectable "taste blood" stings which tell them if a target is Marked & if so flags them for all ling ops on their HUD.
--Absorptions also have a special message when victim was marked.