/tg/Station 13

I feel that giving hacked or emagged engiborgs low-emission(15-25 units per click compared to the minimum 50 and base 100 on a normal flamer) would make for some interesting and fun gameplay, without being overpowered.

Thoughts?

Sure, why not. Anything's better than the boring old electric arm. We need more borg module-specific hacked/emagged equipment anyhow.
I'd love to see it implemented if somone can be arsed to code it.

Flamethrowers would need to be fixed to not be shit first.

Engiborgs aren't fireproof, are they?

>flamethrowers
>shit

I still remember that time one guy in an atmos suit absolutely LIT UP cargo which was a sec stronghold at the time during rev.
Almost singlehandedly wiped out the loyal faction.

Flamethrowers are only shit if you're
A) On a faction which is flammable (IE: the crew)
B) Near anyone you dont want to die horribly

Vekter wrote:Flamethrowers would need to be fixed to not be shit first.

Engiborgs aren't fireproof, are they?

All cyborgs are fireproof.

I seem to remember them only being fireproof to a certain degree after a recent nerf or something

That never went through.

I like this.

Mediborgs have high damage medical tools without being hacked already.
Secborgs have their disablers and stun batons without being hacked already, and then get lasers when hacked.
Janiborgs get lube when hacked.
Default borgs get energy swords when hacked, as a pay off for being shit in general I guess.

Whilst a stun arm is kind of useful, some kind of weapon would be better when hacked, especially considering it's an engineering borg and all.
On the same note, Service borgs, don't they only get poisoned beer? Couldn't we get them to dispense space carp or something equally stupid.

Or just an especially large kitchen knife.

Serviceborg beer is way more robust than it sounds, actually.

Do miners even have a hacked tool

It KOs you as soon as it processes, and deals massive toxin damage over a certain amount.

hey, that sounds familiar...

Oh, hel-LO old chloral.

also minerborgs get a diamondrill and a stun arm

Janiborgs should get one too.

So they can uh cleanse people. With fire.

Hacked janiborgs need to be able to suck peoples items off the floor, or even off their bodies.

CLEAN, CLEAN!!

I can see a janiborg just slowly cleaning over some dead body over and over again, taking all they're gear, piece by piece

Oh shit nigga, that just gave me an awful great idea!

So the janiborg has a trash bag (right?), so how about a hacked janiborg having a pneumatic cannon, fed by whatever shit you scoop up in your trash bag?

Hell, you could combine it with the above idea and slip people with lube, suck their armor off and shoot it at them.

Why not let them scope people up in the bags? That way they suffocate if they don't have internals.


> giving anything lube or fire

Please no

You've clearly never slipped in a fifty-tile line from medbay straight out the escape airlocks, I see.

lube doesn't make you slip until you hit something anymore - also you veer off to the sides and shit now.

It's still possible to do, you just need to lube a lot more tiles.