Stories of rage, tears and regret

[DemonFiren]

Bottom post of the previous page:

Because AWESOME POWER!

[The Ultimate Chimera]

Spoiler:

>Be me
>Greyshirt cultist
>Time to MVP
>Gotta sac the chappy
>Gather shit for a stunprod because talismans don't work on the chappy
>Takes longer than I want because someone got to the battery in arrivals
>Finally produce one
>Cuck the chappy, he doesn't even have time to chelp
>Get a rune down and try to sac him
>Can't
>Start looting him
>A greyshirt walks over at the WORST POSSIBLE TIME
>Chelps before I kill him
>FUCKUFCKUADCKASDAS
>Try to run with the chappy
>His corpse is stolen
>THEY KNOW WHO I AM AND THAT IT'S CULT
>I BLEW IT
>GOD FUCKING DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN
>Start setting up south of viro, the best spot
>Nab a guard's corpse from the clown who lit him on fire or something but wasn't cult
>Ok?
>Sac and arty and grab his gun
>Another guard shows up and a lawyer cultist
>Cuck the guard and sac and jugg
>HoS keeps trying to harass us but the arty kills himself scaring him off
>Useless!
>Suddenly an atmos sees us through the window
>It's Tim Ebow
>Disable him and he whips out a laser and shoots back
>Breaks a window and flamethrowers through it
>FFFFFFFFFFFFF
>Get caught on fire
>Try to tele away
>Get lasered to death
>This happened in about ten seconds
>HG and me are both astounded at the powergame in deadchat
>Cult loses

I tried soooo haaaaard, but in the eeeendddd

lol

[TheNightingale]

What happens if the Chaplain picks a nodrop null rod and you have to sac them?

[Anonmare]

Well we can dismember people's limbs now. Guess you have to perform a manual override on the chappy's arm.

[Cik]

the chaplain can sac if you disable his rod

[PKPenguin321]

chaplains null rod doesnt prevent sacrifice anymore, that got removed once the nodrop ones got added
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/16068

[ShadowDimentio]

Then what prevented me saccing him?

T H E W O R L D M A Y N E V E R K N O W . . .

[Boredone]

Well, the sacrifice TARGET requires three cultists to sacrifice, not just a lone cultist. That was probably it.

[jaxy15]

>Shaft miner
>You're also a traitor, kill this mime
>I immediately realize that it's DA, whatever
>Go mine
>Mime goes loud and gets himself killed early on
>Join Tim Ebow in his quest to kill an Ash Drake
>He's also a traitor
>We attack the Drake with a Honk Render, then the combined might of spending all our telecrystals on dehydrated carp
>We finish off the wounded drake
>Get lava staff
>We head back to the station to get on the shuttle
>OH WHOOPS, AI'S MALF
>Grab a suit from EVA and use mesons to lava-fy the tile under the AI
>Shuttle gets emagged the instant the AI dies
>Marooned

[Darno]

>Latejoin as HoP
>Chill in my office for a while
>Have to update BYOND, can't even see tables
>Come back, rev talk in common channel
>Check cargo and see what's all the talk about
>"HEY GUYS GET READY WE ARE RAIDING BRIG"
>QM comes out with a chainsaw
>'oh holy mother of god not this shit'
>All of sudden HoS comes in yakkety saxxing a rev
>HoS' taser hits me
>HoS and me is down, revs come with chainsaws
>Salt so hard thunder mutes me for a while

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[MrEousTranger]

>Assistant
>Traitor
>kill plasmaman chemist
>go to HoP
>say I want to be third chemist
>gives me access
>go to chemistry
>tell Argon that HoP wanted 3 chemists
>wait
>buy sleepy pen and energy knife
>Argon leaves chemistry
>follow to cloning
>Argon is cloning
>poke
>falls over
>drag to maint
>kill without problems
>leave maint
>go back to chemistry
>time passes clown throws bannana through open window
>other chemist is walking through chemistry with unstable mutagen
>slips
>Covered in mutagen
>MUTATION
>comic sans voice
>epilepsy
>*SEIZURE*
>Drops 100 potasium, 100 water
>They mix
>*explosion
>DEAD
>failure

[Cayce]

Playing chaplain on Efficiency
>Get a canister of heavy duty hallucinagen.
>Encourage spiritual development.
>See crazy shit.
>Security arrests me.
>They're skeletons and corgis.
>I'm amazed.
>A bomb is thrown.

Me: That can't be a real bomb.

>I'm dead. Security is dead.

Me: That was a real bomb.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[PKPenguin321]

>Assistant
>Traitor
>kill plasmaman chemist
>go to HoP
>say I want to be third chemist
>gives me access
>go to chemistry
>tell Argon that HoP wanted 3 chemists
>wait
>buy sleepy pen and energy knife
>Argon leaves chemistry
>follow to cloning
>Argon is cloning
>poke
>falls over
>drag to maint
>kill without problems
>leave maint
>go back to chemistry
>time passes clown throws bannana through open window
>other chemist is walking through chemistry with unstable mutagen
>slips
>Covered in mutagen
>MUTATION
>comic sans voice
>epilepsy
>*SEIZURE*
>Drops 100 potasium, 100 water
>They mix
>*explosion
>DEAD
>failure

holy fuck lmao
i wouldnt even be mad

[MMMiracles]

>be miner.
>grab dorm medkit and a sassy pAI, Knives.
>get back to dock after getting all my shit together, miners actually waited for me. good start.
>get abandoned crate, obtain un-filled water balloon on planet with nothing but water.
>at least it wasn't ugly ties
>dom goes down literally not even 10 minutes into the round, in the middle of the hallway
>crew applauds gang leader for his choice of placement and proceeds to kick him/his dom into submission.
>go mining things, nearly die twice because the game is rigged and I can never do anything wrong
>pod down, roll for survival with dicebag
>4
>its just bad luck lets try again
>7
>pAI suggets rolling again and taking the average
>16
>9 average
>fuck off i make my own fate
>deposit lodes of ore, get sick new toys from vendor because science gang are all lazy fucks
>decide to go tendril hunting because i have nothing better to do
>grab a legion soul and proceed to jump across a lava river to western side of while pAI screams at me for being suicidal
>legion soul supreme
>storm comes, throw down pod as I see a helmet and red uniform out of view as pod materializes, holding a gun
>well it was nice living anyway
>5 prisoners all pile in at once to get out of the storm, one is in a full skin suit, assures me hes not a murderer
>make small talk with the prisoners and give the """""security guards""""" with them directions to the outpost, explaining that its past the lava river
>embark slightly to the north-west, two tendrils
>both legion
>so many FUCKING SKULLS
>"""""security guard""""" comes over to help melee the skulls off while I push the tendril
>1 down, phat loot sighted
>it wont be that bad I'll just jump into the corner section I can see
>goliath
>watcher
>tendril blocks off the way I came with a chasm
>baby jesus what did I do to deserve this
>trapped by lava and ever-increasing amount of FUCKING SKULLS
>goliath entraps me as 200 skulls proceed to make me their bitch
>become legion with a sassy pAI trapped inside that can do nothing more than ask for retrieval and call me stupid for not listening to his great advice, chest sitting there as a reminder of why im now an ugly mass of skulls

prisoners never made it to the mining outpost, either. no happy ending.

[TechnoAlchemist]

Playing chaplain on Efficiency
>Get a canister of heavy duty hallucinagen.
>Encourage spiritual development.
>See crazy shit.
>Security arrests me.
>They're skeletons and corgis.
>I'm amazed.
>A bomb is thrown.

Me: That can't be a real bomb.

>I'm dead. Security is dead.

Me: That was a real bomb.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is fucking good shit everyone should aspire to have these stories

[Wyzack]

hilarious shit

holy fuck lmao
i wouldnt even be mad

Dear god, shit like this is the lifeblood of this game. A honk to pierce the heavens

[confused rock]

>see holopara user bleed out
>they have minibomb
>ling challenges me to a duel
>make minibomb spear
>hit them with spear
>theres still that bug where bombs at point blank don't hurt always
>he isn't even killed, let alone gibbed
>I cri

[InsaneHyena]

> Spawn as a prisoner in lavaland
> The mining station is far, far away, but I must make it.
> There are only three sources of light on the prisoner shuttle, so realistically I only get three lives, if I get killed by monsters. There is no way I can navigate in lavaland in pitch black darkness.
> With every broken tile of stone, with every click of the mouse I get closer to freedom.
> My first prisoner runs out of oxygen and dies.
> Spawn as the second prisoner, get to the spot the first one died in and continue digging.
> Get past sloth ruins, continue digging around them to the south.
> Die due to goliath/watcher combo.
> Spawn as the third prisoner, dig around monster infested area and continue working my way to freedom.
> Holy shit, this... This is it.
> I've made it! The mining station, it's in front of me!
> There's even someone there, someone with a...
> Spectral sword, and twenty ghosts circling him.
> Oh.
> Die.

[Armhulen]

> Spawn as a prisoner in lavaland
> The mining station is far, far away, but I must make it.
> There are only three sources of light on the prisoner shuttle, so realistically I only get three lives, if I get killed by monsters. There is no way I can navigate in lavaland in pitch black darkness.
> With every broken tile of stone, with every click of the mouse I get closer to freedom.
> My first prisoner runs out of oxygen and dies.
> Spawn as the second prisoner, get to the spot the first one died in and continue digging.
> Get past sloth ruins, continue digging around them to the south.
> Die due to goliath/watcher combo.
> Spawn as the third prisoner, dig around monster infested area and continue working my way to freedom.
> Holy shit, this... This is it.
> I've made it! The mining station, it's in front of me!
> There's even someone there, someone with a...
> Spectral sword, and twenty ghosts circling him.
> Oh.
> Die.

Every time, prisoner gets fucked when they make it

[Not-Dorsidarf]

Truly they are the best lavaland role

[EndgamerAzari]

Super slapstick shitshow

Holy Goddamn

How big of a mess did that explosion make?

[Mainvity]

This was almost a month ago, and I suppose it could be considered awesome, but I failed, anyways. I'll try to remember what I can.

>Basil masterace, Metastation round.
>Decide to play as Dr. Rockso the rock and roll clown
>Finally get clown after several rounds go by.
>Spawn in and change to sexy clown outfit.
>Immediately start running around and shout at people or on comms 'I DO COCAAAAIIINNNEEEEE!"
>Most people don't seem to care.
>I ask anyone for drugs, and even try chemistry, but there was no one I think.
>Get a message form the gods, and an objective.
>1. Produce 1000u of spacedrugs.
>2 O.D. on the shuttle or a pod during escape.
>Bring it on...
>Go to HoP and ask for chemistry access for drugs. HoP agrees and gives me access.
>Go to chemistry and spend almost half an hour making space drug pills, and putting them in pillbottles.
>Fend off assholes trying to remove me or kill me, including some bartender sonic the hedgehog asshole.
>Eventually the shuttle gets called when I hit around 700u of spacedrugs (or close to that).
>Start fucking spamming pills as fast as I can. Get around 1080u by the time I am done.
>For some reason i decide to run to arrivals pod, so I could avoid any traitors on the shuttle.
>Run as fast as I can (removed clown shoes and put on regular shoes i think)
>Ten seconds.
>Shuttle is down the hallway, just about the open the door.
>I am literally one space away form the open shuttle door when the shuttle launches, and I get spaced and die...
>Never got to take a single drug, and OD to death.
>The admin after round OOC said he watched the whole thing and felt awful that I failed.

Shit was funny as fuck though. Might try it again.

[ShadowDimentio]

>Be HoS
>Doing my job, scanning the station for suspicious persons
>Find a greyshirt holding a power sink
>Taze and cuff
>They shriek about how they dindu nuffin and were about to call out that they found a sink
>X Doubt
>Take them back to sec and search them as per routine
>Their bag is LOADED with candy-- syndie hardsuit, a few C4, and a minibomb
>Welp, so much for doubt
>Execute them on the spot
>Be later
>Got dunked because I tried radioing for help in bagging a perp rather than just bagging them
>The greyshirt's salt levels have reached critical densities
>They're absolutely furious that I dunked them
>Eventually reveal that they had a storage implant and an emag in it
>They would have escaped if I had perma'd them
>My gut feeling completely cucked them

This is less of a rage story about me and more one with me in it

Actual recording of the round

[youtube]5VCGPvPU_gY[/youtube]

[Reece]

>Be chem.
>Make modern art piece by welding plasma in a 1x1window room in front of sec.
> Warden breaks a window to try and clone me. Plasma fire is freed, kills HOS, Warde, atmos tech and Chef.
>What have I done

[Comrade Leo]

>Be chem.
>Make modern art piece by welding plasma in a 1x1window room in front of sec.
> Warden breaks a window to try and clone me. Plasma fire is freed, kills HOS, Warde, atmos tech and Chef.
>What have I done

You had a space adventure without me ;_;

[TheNightingale]

Wouldn't the plasma fire have broken the windows anyway?

[Reece]

Wouldn't the plasma fire have broken the windows anyway?

Nope, the previous one burnt itself out before breaking from a 70u plasma fire grenade.

However if you place a 1x1 glass room with the back wall being a normal wall the plasma can vent out the sides...on that note I've had a warning today for accidentally burning a large area.

[Anonmare]

>Be Librarian
>Roll traitor
>Neat
>Deadmin because the other admins prevent me from cheating
>Buy chamo kit and Agent ID and syndi-key
>Chamo myself up a schoolgirl outfit with beret and jackboots just like in my Chinese Cartoons
>Go to bar
>Betrays is there and my instincts went off to push his shit in (literally push) for some vague reason I had at the time
>Some guy named Justice baps me on the head with a crowbar and BYOND RNG decreed that was a knockout
>Get dragged to sec for some reason and searched for basically no reason
>Chamo kit gets discovered
>Get implanted with chem and tracking implant, box confiscated
>Get dragged into maint by a sec officer
>Beg not to be Changeling-raped
>get stripped and dragged to medbay
>Get left alone
>Convince Betrays to untie me
>Get my equipment back from maint
>Break into medbay to steal some toxins med-kits and pop my chem implant, using the charcoal to purge it.
>Spend about 20 minutes nursing a morphine addiction, no way I can hold a gun with these shaky hands - I'll have to think of another way to kill my targets
>Shuttle gets called
>Fuck
>Okay let's just hijack the shuttle and vaguely accomplish my objectives, oh not enough TCs for an emag
>Okay I'll take a C4, a carp and something else (I forgot)
>Go to tesla area, shaking and dropping anything I try to carry because >morphine
>C4 into the tesla, try to loose the goose one way but realise too late due to the set-up I have to turn off all the emitters, not just one side
>Shuttle arrives
>Fuck, turn off all the emitters and disable the cameras so the AI can't see the danger
>Head to the shuttle maybe I'll get lucky and drag my targets off
>Miner in a hardsuit comes out with a hyper KA
>Oh hello fam
>BANG
>Bleeding and nearly in crit
>Loose my carp on him and try to get to the sec pod
>Someone emags the shuttle
>Get left behind
>Commit sudoku out of frustration

[Xhuis]

>Assistant, non-antag
>Contemplate suicide but change my mind
>Grab a set of tools and hack the YouTool for an upgraded welder
>Try to figure out door wires, get shocked and go almost into crit
>Budget insuls are of the bad variety, swap them out for a new pair and heal up
>Try to figure out door wires again
>Accidentally hit the same wire and go from 100 -> 0 in a single shock
>Those gloves were bad too
>Doctor finds me and brings me to Medbay
>Straightjackets my corpse but defibrillates me
>After some explanation, I'm released
>Try to swap my gloves again, but the YouTool is sold out
>Get some building materials from EVA with the help of a friendly peacekeeper borg
>Decide that I want to make a lounge
>Set up in Construction Area and start building
>After a while it's pretty fleshed out, some tables and chairs but not much else
>Mime shows up and returns shortly after with an Orion Trail machine
>Starts playing and wins astral carpet on the first try
>Put down the astral carpet in the main area
>He then wins a toy singularity
>I set up the toy as a decoration and rename all the doors to "The Drifted Away" as the new lounge name
>Put up windows in the wall
>Now it looks like a completely new room and is great
>Mime leaves to grab a soda dispenser, I head to the maintenance bar near the old incinerator to grab the Booze-O-Mat
>Door is bolted, I'll just unbolt it
>Click it with my multitool
>The door's shocked
>Go into crit instantly and bleed out
>Doctor finds me on suit sensors and asks an atmospheric technician to find me
>He sweeps, thoroughly, the entire maintenance I'm in and passes only a single area: the place I died in
>Mime gets converted into a cultist and doesn't maintain the lounge
>CE finds my body, yes!
>Stares at it for a few seconds then walks away
>Later: engiborg and detective find my body, yes!
>Engiborg leaves immediately; detective drags me for a few tiles then drops me and leaves
>Nobody finds me after that, and the round ends with me still dead in maintenance after three separate people found my body

Spoiler:

[Takeguru]

>Be miner
>Pull plasma cutter from abandoned crate, disgonbegood
>Go directly east for a tendril
>Bubblegum is also chilling next to it
>Fuck off, go to bluespace shelter and wait out a storm
>Check notes out of bored-
>YOU DA TRAITAH
>Buy support holopara
>Tell him we're gonna be stupid and kill a boss
>Return to where I fought bubblegum earlier
>Support holo is antsy, keeps running off
>Have bad feeling
>There's bubblegum, fuck up and take his charge, start running off
>He takes "We're gonna be stupid and..." literally and runs towards the boss
>BLOOD SPRAYS FROM TINA MACTAVISH AS CHUCKLEFUCK MCHOLOPARA TAKES DAMAGE
>THE ABSOLUTE IDIOT IS TANKING A BOSS IN MELEE
>Drop into crit before I can force recall him

Can gross incompetence be banned
Please

[ShadowDimentio]

Sometimes you gamble and you lose

[MrEousTranger]

Super slapstick shitshow

Holy Goddamn

How big of a mess did that explosion make?

Large enough to blow every limb off me and the other chemist then die instantly.
All of chemistry was covered in blood and limbs.

[EndgamerAzari]

Super slapstick shitshow

Holy Goddamn

How big of a mess did that explosion make?

Large enough to blow every limb off me and the other chemist and die instantly.
All of chemistry was covered in limbs.

Bravo! The best accidental deaths are the ones that leave a hole and a whole lotta carnage.

[MrEousTranger]

Super slapstick shitshow

Holy Goddamn

How big of a mess did that explosion make?

Large enough to blow every limb off me and the other chemist and die instantly.
All of chemistry was covered in limbs.

Bravo! The best accidental deaths are the ones that leave a hole and a whole lotta carnage.

Artists rendition.

[ShadowDimentio]

>Be test round to see if clockcucks are actually impossible to lose as
>It's confirmed clockcult
>Be HoS
>Search all over the place
>No clockcult
>Eventually go to check the AI
>Get bogged down because the CE I'm with is literally the slowest player I've ever seen
>Takes four minutes trying to hack a door
>Stun and take the hacking gear from him
>SUDDENLY MINDCONTROLLED
>No way to avoid it
>It lasts for a century and they have enough time to take a slow as fuck route to their base, virology
>They cuff me and wait another century for someone to let them in viro
>Get converted
>I'm mad
>Get dunked shortly after because someone saw my missing implant
>I'm very mad

That spell needs fucking diminishing returns on how far the person is away.

[Mainvity]

This jsut fuckign happened on Bagil not too long ago. I am sitll pissed.

>Be Chaplain
>YOU ARE THE TRAITOR
>Kill doctor, steal nuke disk, escape alive.
>Buy roundstart Syndybomb, and decided to bomb cloning by putting bomb in mourge.
>Buy stetchkin as well for shits and giggles.
>Bomb goes of, half of medical is gone
>All of a sudden,. hear a whisper form the 'gods'.
>Kill all the heads.
>Round is now a Revround. Get covnerted early
>Anyways, all the heads die, and now the Station is apart of the USSR.
>USSR sends a new Captain.
>By this point in time, I have my disk, and I ma sure my target is dead.
>Fuck aorund, shit happens but I don't pay attention
>Eventually notice I now have a fourth objective
>Topple the soviet union!
>Fuck... Okay...
>Decide to just get the Nuke codes and try to blow everything up.
>I put in order for nuke codes, and run to vault
>They scream about fidning me and murdereing me. Find the vault EMPTY, no nuke at all...
>Run aorund trying not to get killed, go to the shuttle the captian and their guards came on. Hide there, trying to get Centcom to take me there.
>Radio message comes in say Centcom has been taken over.
>Fuck...
>Decided I need to kill the USSR admiral/captain.
>Step outside and find a miner suit.
>Yes..
>Start putting it on when a ninja comes up.
>Wait, I am friendly, do-
>Fucking dead.
>Salt
>Round eventually ends with apparently the Ninja's objective to also kill the Russian captain.
>My target is also alive somehow.
>Fucking RAGE uncontrollably.


Still very angry... I fucking hate that ninja.

[Not-Dorsidarf]

How could the nuke be missing, it's immovable now.

[Xhuis]

Sorry to say it, but they were using that scripture exactly for what it was intended for. It lasts for only a minute and boasts a five-minute cooldown and tremendous component cost. They sacrificed a lot of their resources to bring you down there, and I'm surprised they didn't just off you or jump out of an airlock like most people use the scripture for.

[onleavedontatme]

>cooldowns
>cost
>duration

All these balance considerations don't mean much to the fact that it's really not fun that someone on another Z level can scribble your name in the death note and that's it, your round is over, nothing you could have done about it.

Unless I am completely misreading this code.

[InsaneHyena]

If clockcult got to the level when they have this death note, it's basically over. It's the same when you're playing xenos, and you let RnD live for long enough to develop xrays, tesla revolvers and reviver implants.

[onleavedontatme]

Obscene science guns still require you shooting at the xenos. You can run away or get lucky or outsmart the scientist. Even ascended shadowlings and Nar-sie you can run away from. You're still playing the game, even if you're basically screwed.

Literally typing someones name into a list and they die is just terrible.

[Xhuis]

Obscene science guns still require you shooting at the xenos. You can run away or get lucky or outsmart the scientist. Even ascended shadowlings and Nar-sie you can run away from. You're still playing the game, even if you're basically screwed.

Literally typing someones name into a list and they die is just terrible.

I deliberately put restrictions on mind control in place. You can't suicide or ghost while controlling someone. If a player wants to be a douche and waste their entire team's mind control on offing someone they don't like, it's a player problem, and I'd rather not change the code unless it's very prevalent.

[Wyzack]

stuff

That round was a fucking mess. I was the detective all alone on sec. Apparently it was clock cult and they somehow fluked in the first couple minutes of the game so Jud created revs (FUCKING REVS WHEN THERE IS ONE GUY ON SEC WHY WHY WHY) at the same time it mulliganed to traitor. I manage to pull the RD out of a gangbang and heal him before i get stunprodded and murdered like 20 minutes in. Revs obviously steamrolled so it became a communism event round that was kinda neat if you were on the communism team, but otherwise it was mostly just death

[ShadowDimentio]

>cooldowns
>cost
>duration

All these balance considerations don't mean much to the fact that it's really not fun that someone on another Z level can scribble your name in the death note and that's it, your round is over, nothing you could have done about it.

Unless I am completely misreading this code.

You read it right. Once every five minutes the clockcult get to basically /kill one guy and they can't do a thing. They were in virology on Meta, I was at the AI sat, literally as far away as possible and it lasted so long they had time to teleport me closer, walk to the viro airlock, and have time to wait for some dude to cuff me for them.

It was absolutely zero fun whatsoever for me because there's actually no possible way to avoid it. I'm not often one to get cucked and demand something be removed, but this is straight up a terrible idea and needs to be removed.

[onleavedontatme]

Obscene science guns still require you shooting at the xenos. You can run away or get lucky or outsmart the scientist. Even ascended shadowlings and Nar-sie you can run away from. You're still playing the game, even if you're basically screwed.

Literally typing someones name into a list and they die is just terrible.

I deliberately put restrictions on mind control in place. You can't suicide or ghost while controlling someone. If a player wants to be a douche and waste their entire team's mind control on offing someone they don't like, it's a player problem, and I'd rather not change the code unless it's very prevalent.

Even just being converted with 0 chance to stop it because some guys on the white ship farmed some parts for half an hour wouldn't be fun either if you spent that last half hour bitterly contesting the cult.

I don't think it's really a player problem either if they're using a capability given to them (other than they're playing sub optimally), and you know the restrictions of the suicide verb don't really stop suicide.

[MMMiracles]

I've yet to see a clockcult when observing that didn't bee-line for the white shuttle and proceed to sit there building up a base in deep space, 100% away from any actual threat until the entire shuttle was basically brass and full of components.

Having a literal death note ability that can be used from any distance just sounds like more reasons for people to avoid security/head roles like the plague, if the giant target painted on them in most gamemodes wasn't already enough.

[InsaneHyena]

I never go to the white ship as a clockcult. Instead, I go full Rambo from the minute 5. Ratvar snowballs MUCH better than Narnar, if played properly. And by properly I mean "Audentes Fortuna Iuvat".

[Xhuis]

All right, I've put up a nerf that significantly reduces the duration of the mind control, down to 30 seconds. Anyway, that's off-topic and can go in the feedback thread. Let's get this back on topic.

[Screemonster]

All right, I've put up a nerf that significantly reduces the duration of the mind control, down to 30 seconds. Anyway, that's off-topic and can go in the feedback thread. Let's get this back on topic.

did you miss the part where kor pointed out it's fuck all to do with duration, cost or cooldown but the fact that it can fucking snipe you at any distance with absolutely no way to defend against it

Put it this way, one of the most broken tactics on FTL if you can swing it is to get a teleporter and a mind control device and spend the rest on shields and defence drones, and from there you can literally just sit there mindcontrolling their crew one at a time, beaming them onto your own ship, and opening whatever room they wander into to space or else just siccing a pair of mantis on them.

Imagine playing a tabletop game when you're just minding your own business and all of a sudden the GM starts declaring your actions for you without any warning, defense or counter.

It's nothing to do with the !!NUMBERS!! that define the power. The very core of the power itself is flawed. It's one of those things that's "cool idea for a powertripping elder scrolls character, but absolutely not appropriate for a multiplayer game"

[Xhuis]

All right, I've put up a nerf that significantly reduces the duration of the mind control, down to 30 seconds. Anyway, that's off-topic and can go in the feedback thread. Let's get this back on topic.

did you miss the part where kor pointed out it's fuck all to do with duration, cost or cooldown but the fact that it can fucking snipe you at any distance with absolutely no way to defend against it

Put it this way, one of the most broken tactics on FTL if you can swing it is to get a teleporter and a mind control device and spend the rest on shields and defence drones, and from there you can literally just sit there mindcontrolling their crew one at a time, beaming them onto your own ship, and opening whatever room they wander into to space or else just siccing a pair of mantis on them.

Imagine playing a tabletop game when you're just minding your own business and all of a sudden the GM starts declaring your actions for you without any warning, defense or counter.

It's nothing to do with the !!NUMBERS!! that define the power. The very core of the power itself is flawed. It's one of those things that's "cool idea for a powertripping elder scrolls character, but absolutely not appropriate for a multiplayer game"

Duration absolutely has a significant effect on its power. If you manage to just barely pull off a mind control in a full minute, then there's no way you can do it in thirty seconds, and that's a five-minute cooldown time wasted. By that logic, if I made stun batons do 30 damage on-hit, it wouldn't be a significant change because it would just be numbers.

Now, as I tried to say, can we please get this back on-topic?

[DemonFiren]

No u.

Not reading through this wall of text the most obvious solution seems to be a somewhat short-term warning before ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL that allows the mind control target to, say, strip and self-cuff or report to security for temporary containment or shit like that.