Player Report
Your Byond ID? TimesAndPlaces
Date of Incident June 19, 2020
Your Character Name? Ravager BE-547
Accused Byond Key(if known): Don't know.
Accused Character Name Beauford S. Pumpernickel
Approximate time and date of the incident (Central US Time for fastest results) 3:00 AM EST
What rule(s) were broken: Powergaming, abusing mechanic
Description of the incident: Beauford S. Pumpernickel was a scout spec for that round, at the round start prior to deployment he went to beg CO for his ceremonial sword, to then later abuse his cloak to permanently run around the hive invisibly and deal humongous damage to xenos per hit (around 80 and armor piercing).
Due to insane damage that sword has, he managed to kill over 8 xenos, including 3 T3s, plus destroyed the hive and freed all the captured marines, basically singlehandedly changing the flow of a round and killing almost 50% of the hive.
I like good players and such, but when it is possible for a single marine to do more damage to the hive than 40+ other marines combined during the round, it does make for a bad gaming experience for other players, and throws entire game off-balance.
I am aware that synths are allowed to use strong meele weapons, however they are not marines, and are still being visible while attacking xenos, unlike scouts who can solo T3s since they can't see them on weeds, especially with OP weapon like ceremonial sword. I would like to apply same logic for scouts using Ceremonial Sword as to marines using Riot Shields or Tac shotties at the round start, aka powergaming.
I do not feel like scout changes were intended to turn him from recon soilider with strong firepower into meele assassin that can solo any T3 with no consequences, and neither I think that such gameplay should be encouraged.
Evidence (screenshots, logs, etc): Check round logs please.
How you would punish the accused: 1. Nerf Ceremonial Sword damage
OR
2. Explicitly tell COs that marines are not allowed to use his ceremonial sword akin tac shottie at the round start, especially scouts.
OR
3. Nerf spec invisibility by not allowing to meele while invis. (akin shooting)
OR
4. Warning to that player for powergaming.