Making vox raiders not trash
Created by: jakmak3
As we all know raiders is one of the WORST game modes in rotation. What this devolves into 90% of the time is idiots running around trying as hard as they can to collect valids on a bunch of under equipped birds who cant fight back or stealth raiders which turns into SMELELELELE.
This of course is a awful gamemode that does have potential. Essentially post ideas to not make raiders garbage.
My ideas as follows
Remove the raiders flying home = round end
have auto traitor running in the background with of course the raiders exempt from being tatored. The main issue with the valids is the entire crew knows they can trust eachother. They have no fear around eachother so you see everyone getting all access and a shotgun as soon as someone yells BIRD OPS. If they crew knows that they cannot trust eachother then they will be less inclined to take up arms to fight the group of bird niggers stealing engineering equipment
allow the raiders to speak common. Not being able to speak common makes a peaceful resolution much much harder to come to. Yes sure you can use a translator but it always turns into a complete mess trying to do so. If not all of them speaking common have atleast 1-2 of them speak common
Downsize the raider team size from 6 to 4. 6 birds is way to hard to control
Allow the raiders to pick their own names. Having a preset list of names makes it easier for powermemers to figure out there are raiders.
Give the raiders normal gray backpacks. That yellow engineering backpack sticks out like a sore thumb
Borgs. Borgs ofcourse always are a problem for raiders since a single non sec borg can and will fuck up the entire raider party's day. The thing is that the raiders do have anti borg weapons (emp rifles and ion grenades) BUT as we all not these weapons are not at all suited for fighting borgs. The solution? Make the anti borg weapons actually effective
Remove the feature of their radios being able to hear all station side frequencies. If they cant speak common its useless and if they CAN speak common it would be unbalanced. Maybe instead give them normal encrypted freq radios capable of only hearing its own freq and some station bounced radios so they can blend in as traders more easily and still be able to hear common
Deep space. As we all know when the raiders go to deep space round ends and everyone gets a antag re roll. Instead have deep space be a location similar to the nuke op base in which they can go there with no risk of having an assistant stumble upon them in deep space so they can respite and store all their stolen goodies. Along with this add the area this base would be in to count as the raiders WIN space where objects on those tiles count towards the victory conditions. Ofcourse like the nuke op base have it be 200% resistant to keeping the crew/raiders from being able to get out of the base into z level 2
Skipjack. The skipjack design does have some issues. This is what changes i feel the skipjack need some changes to be able to suit the raiders
Circled in blue in the bird prison. The bird prison is not fit to hold people for several reasons.
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there is no air tanks or masks for the prisoners who would suffocate on the vox air unless they had a large 02 tank with them when they were kidnapped. Give them a few airtanks and masks
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If a prisoner has a air tank then that prisoner could just use that tank to break the window/windoor and escape meaning the vox cannot reliably hold prisoners hostage in that room since they would just escape. Instead replace it with a ultra reinforced wall and a airlock that can be bolted via button outside of the cell.
Add some N2 tanks in the green X and in the ships airlocks so the raiders can always have some spares.
And replace the circled in purple stations alert with a camrea console so the birds can scout ahead.
Also a key flaw in the skipjack is that it can go to 4 places (5 if you count the round ender)
3 places around station and the vox trade post. All of which are very predictable places.
As oppose to the nuke op ship which can go to 8 locations around the station and several locations on other Z levels.
The raiders who are intended to be a agile and very mobile attack force can only go to 3 places around where the target station is and 1 place away from the station. This is completely ridiculous and locks the raiders into a select few places they can go to hide making easier for the crew to valid them. Bottom line is raiders need to be able to fly more places
Last broken bones for a raider usually mean that individual is useless to the team since the raiders have no way to mend broken bones. Adding a surgical setup would be to much so instead add in some of those advanced medikits that have the medical splints in them that allow for temporary mending of bones.
I know most of these ideas suck but i mean they cant be any worse than what we have now