This is purely for new strain ideas and suggestions for changes to new strains only
Keep it sweet, and simple, this is for devs to glance through quickly.
I'll start off with one of my ideas
New Ideas should include a MALICE (A negative) and a BUFF/ADDITION (Something positive.)
Try and stick to a format similar to the one below.
Crusher: Axe the AOE stomp. It's too hard to balance once seen in practice.
Replacement idea
Charger: 1Horn- Remove the crushers armored crest in favor of a spiked horn that increases it's charge damage.
2: Crusher gets the ability to impale, which could be anything from a headbutt++ or during the charge stab a marine and carry it with you for the charge. Marine can either resist off/Falloff when momentum dies.
3: Can use the horn as a strong headbutt, that causes both knockdown (No knockback) and damage/stamina with increased internal bleeding/organ damage chances.
Malices:1Lose the armored crest (If they still have it)
2: Less armor/resistances
3: Ramming into walls will damage the crusher or put their charge on cooldown/flicker stun. This works for cades as well, but without the flicker stun/cooldown
Boiler
Railgun The Railgun Boiler has a few drawbacks, one being that it's outranged. This could be more detrimental than previously thought with the new L42. Engineers can currently repair cades faster than the railgun can actually damage it. Keloderm can nearly outheal it's damage. a 15/15U pill was able to heal through two Railgunglobs. And come out of the second one with minimal damage. Maybe make it cause pain like a stunbaton on hit.
Balancing change: Cause the railgun glob to explode in the direction it was travelling, this can cause a number of things.
1:Spawn multiple 'spits' AKA shrapnel that fly out in an arc from where it landed, bypassing the cade it collided with.
2: Spawn something similar to the new spitters acid spray in a cone out from the glob.
3: Just have it smack everyone behind it in a similar way to the old claymores with a shifted 3x3 explosion that can do like 30/20/10 brute