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Here's an average round of hivemind for whoever ascends to one mind for you:-go around standing next to people for 30 minutes. best part is in bar, when you're just clicking the action button
-gain powerful spells such as "make people dizzy" and "forcewall" none of which solve the problem of hivemind dying if a security officer tases them once.
-eventually start using your "anal probe" power on people standing still for a long time, since they're the only ones it's reasonable to use on. chances are, that person's also a hivemind, since they're standing still so long.
-medullary failure the hivemind and instagib them. you can do this in public since it's so rapid and confusing.
-notice the pinpointer on the top right. you're not sure why it's active, but you figure out who it is-not by running up close to the person, but by staying a screen a way and lining the horizontal pinpointer up at long range.
-cockshock them since medularry's on cooldown, stab them to crit, instagib.
-use your "get four minions" ability and order them to contact you on pda and obey you (what other orders would you put in there?)
-get one or two of your minions to contact you. the other 3 will be completely silent the whole round
-avoid using implant breaker since if all you do is attack other hiveminds and convert people sec will have 0 reason to suspect hiveminds exist
-get one mind
-turn implant breaker on and keep it on. you can now tase a sec officer and stand next to them for 2 seconds to convert them to viva.
-be very lucky no other hivemind cockshocked or medullaried you, since you'd have no way to avoid it besides carrying a box of implants on you at all times
-after a career of killing people with unfair stuns and heart attacks, retire to being slowly killed by your own minion who you converted mid-combat.
"instant heart attack which works on anyone you see with no downsides but it only works once every 5 minutes" doesn't seem balanced to me. nor does instant KO shocks or fuck it any of that shit. It's completely boring to play and completely frustrating to have used on you. It's an extremely polished pile of poop, and while yes it's shiny, they polished the bottom of the poop not the top so you can't even SEE the sheen. I don't think the amount of love and care can protect it from being complete garbage.