New Healing Items, New Crewman, New Ship

When I started thinking about this idea, I originally just concived an item. The Suppressor. Similar to a Healing Burst, It’s a PBAoE. Unlike the Healing Burst, it persists for a Moderate duration. It does not remove Fire. It negates Burn Damage for Friends inside the Area. It’s neat. It’s useful, It has reasonable flaws.

Then I thought, but how would you upgrade it without a Crew to be asigned to it? So now I had to make the Crew up. Enter; CHARLY the Fire Marshal. Then I thought, well Crew also have ship stuff in their tree. Which ship would he be on. Fixer? Sure.. but it doesnt look right for the task. So instead, I concieved the PUMPER. This would be a similar ship to the Fixer, but with less healing slots and more Blue slots. Making it more like a hybrid of the Defender and Fixer.. which interestingly enough also fits the billing for the spirit of the ship. A tough support ship that fills an open niche in the game.

The other New Item I devised was the Foam Bomb Launcher. Sort of like the opposite of a Fire Bomb Launcher, this Item fires an Area effect that persist for a moderate duration, similar to Napalm. Friends that enter the floating foam blob, have Fire removed at a rate of 1 effect/second of time in the area.

Thank you for your feedback in advance.
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+1
Please make a submarine with crew members of
Com: Communications Specialist
Nuke: Reactor Operator

@Miika @Zeus @The Grim Repair @Pinecone @TheAntiSnipe

 

I had one idea which is relevant here
make duct tape purple (or whatever color you want) item
make new ship with 2 purple (or the chosen color) slots and one half slot (that's also new thing and I think that it might be applied to the other ships, one half purple, the other is green) which will move selfish fixers (SF) to new better suited ship
to make it acceptable for SF I suggest giving everyone free option to move MK of fixer to the new ship so they don't have to level it up again but it wouldn't be for free-fixer would be set back to mk1
that could make SF and also people like @SupremeCalamitas happy, SF could have better ship for their setup and the others could finaly stop complaining
than we would also need another purple (or the other color) item and crew for it so I think that these ideas might be fused together, what do you think? @Captain Ike

 

if it was real submarine, it would need something liek limited oxygen to force you to surface instead of being permanently dived
and it should be limited to use torpedoes and mines when dived and other items when surfaced

 

I would be happy if duct tape was a separate color so that you could apply items that actually help your team instead of do nothing, along with those ( stupid) duct tapes

 

I would like that too (but still make it able for fixer to carry one duct tape for decent self healing when teammates ingore that fixer and he needs to heal himself)
and this would also require new ship and I doubt that devs will add any new ship/s soon

 

Why not instead of making Duct Tape a specific color, it’s made ALL colors and can universally be put anywhere? Then you don’t need a new ship JUST for Duct Tape. Let’s face it, Duct Tape is pretty universal

 

interesting idea but then bandage would become totaly useless because tape is better

 

The idea of foam and not bad. But if it hides the players, it's even better and more strategic for the fixers to hide from the speeders. We do not see players outside and inside the foam.(Yellow object)

 

Not true. There is a big difference between them. You have to activate Duct Tape. This takes time away from using other items that activate. There’s also the cooldown between item switching. So while the Duct Tape may heal more per usage, you don’t actually have to use a Bandage, as it’s an automatic effect.

 

This is why I stopped using my StC on my selfish fixer. When fired continuously after igniting the target, its dps is about 50% higher than blast, but leaves no time to use your tapes. Using them between shots drops the dps to about the same as the blast so you might as well take the blast for burst.

 

Lol submarines = a shooter than can only use torps but only takes damage from torps, mortars, mines, and grenades when submerged. Still visible at all times. Also can't be healed when submerged except for when you already have the pulse effect active. Takes maybe 3~5 seconds to switch between the two stages, has less base hp than a standard shooter as well. Is vulnerable to airborne projectiles while switching.

 

It could use Standard Cannon when not submerged , because Deck Gun. Honestly though, I think the best way to do a Sub is to make it “Stealthed” when submerged, and only able to fire when surfaced. While it makes less sense realistically, it would provide a better play balance and likely be an enjoyable ship.

 

With the advent of Gatling Guns and the removal of Rudders and Grease, I would like to revisit the Pumper fire supression ship, and it’s crew Charly.

Is this Idea still valid with the new Playstyle?

 

Well the Idea of for the Suppressor is the one that negates, but does not remove, fire effects. So as long you stay near the Pumper, it would keep you from burning, until you leave, or the Fire goes out itself. The Foam Bomb actually removes the fire, at a rate of 1 fire effect per second of time in the Blob of Foam. The downside is you cant see from inside or outside the foam, whats in the Foam Blob (mines, a passing Torp, etc), and there would be nothing to keep a fast minelayer from making the Foam Blob dangerous to enter lol.

But the new topic is “Is this ship idea still valid after the new Handling System and Item update?”

 

Absolutely. As would be the case with any new addition. However with the way the devs have handled the Gatling Gun, so far, I have faith that anything new will follow the same implementation. Start conservative, ramp up balance as needed. Everyone loves buffs. No body likes nerfs. It’s always more favorable to improve.