Player Report
Your Byond ID? Dr. Lance
Date of Incident December 13, 2020
Your Character Name? Bryce Stafford
Accused Byond Key(if known): Kael
Accused Character Name Krah'Tolem
Approximate time and date of the incident (Central US Time for fastest results) 6pm EST
What rule(s) were broken: Predator Honor Code
Description of the incident: Let me preface this. While there are honor code violations (Several), the main point of this report isn't about the violations of the honor code but rather the violation of the spirit of the whitelist. Predators are supposed to be an RP role, and players are given these tools with the thought in mind that they will have the common sense to show self restraint. Unfortunately, all of this was thrown out of the window.
I was a survivor on LV, we were held up at engineering. I decide to shoot the predators due to their presence near our base being an issue. (I'd rather not have xenos attracted to us because we've got 3 predators stationed outside watching). The predator runs away, immediately throwing two smartdisks at me while i'm alone and attempting to kite me with a combi stick while i'm using shotguns. The main issue here is the use of several smartdisks on one lone target. Smartdisks are a tool that was designed for group combat. They have an automated AI that takes all human error out of the equation of fighting a target. Even if you manage to "Kill" one of these simple mobs before it reaches you, the tick death will still give it a chance to hit you. Thankfully, I was prepared and managed to "kill" them while the predator ran away.
I took the smartdisks with us into engineering as I didn't want them to be spam thrown at us constantly. The predator in question after several confrontations runs inside engineering. I decide to use my bootknife in this case to fight him. I stab the predator atleast 20 times, before they start trying to kite me using a combi stick. Again, this isn't a violation of the honor code. This is just pissing on the spirit of the whitelist. The predator player couldn't fight properly in melee combat, against a simple boot knife and instead tried to run 7 tiles away and kite me using their ranged options, which were not designed for situations like this, but rather fighting in groups. Eventually I bleed out from like 2 or 3 hits that hit me from the ranged weaponry.
Fast forward far later into the round, I walk in on the same predator killing another marine once again using several smartdisks against a lone target. I start shooting them to make them leave, and they cloak. Suddenly, the predator starts throwing smartdisks at me in cloak. Additionally, the predator had two primary weapons, the other being a recovered glaive. It's against the honor code to have a second primary unless you are recovering it. The predator had several times throughout the entire round to drop off the glaive, but never did. Anyways, the predator tries to drag off the marine that they killed. (By they I mean their smartdisks that require 0 human effort). After a long chase around the corners of the map I manage to save the marine.
Fast fast forward, i'm patrolling the roads again, and run into the same marine from earlier fighting the same predator. The predator runs into the jungle, which I follow. Immediately, they start trying to once again abuse the mechanics of the smartdisks. They threw two smartdisks on me, then start spam shoving me over. This is once again, violating the spirit of the whitelist. There's no "rules" that say that you obviously shouldn't tackle spam someone while there are smartdisks ontop of them. Thankfully, the other marine managed to chase them off, and I got out of the situation with only massive brute.
We begin to chase the predator to LZ2, where they cloak, and almost unsurprisingly start hitting one of us while cloaked. We shoot them, they uncloak, and trigger SD.
TLDR; Abused several mechanics built for group combat to try and cheese lone targets, one of which was in melee combat. Two primary weapons. Cloaked smartdisk throwing. Cloaked melee hitting. Tackle spamming while smartdisks are hovering over and shredding me. Several honor code violations, several violations of the spirit of the whitelist.
Evidence (screenshots, logs, etc): I don't personally have any videos, but the marine in question with me said he recorded it in LOOC and would post on the report. There were also several witnesses in deadchat to each of the events that occurred.
How you would punish the accused: Something rather than nothing.