Lesser drone nerfs

[Git-Nivrak]

About the pull request

Explain why it's good for the game

Lesser drones can go for extremely high risk high reward strategies without any risk as there is basically an infinite amount of respawns and no punishment for dying.

I don't see why they should get a different treatment than huggers as they can just run in and apply facehuggers manually or for going off weeds to sneak into backline and place huggers on AFK marines they saw from ghost or just running around being an annoyance.

And this is coming from a xeno main.

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Changelog

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fix: You can no longer infinitely extend facehugger's lifetime by REDACTED
balance: Lessers now lose 5 hp every 2 seconds off weeds
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[morrowwolf]

None of the explanation here covers what you believe lesser drones should be. In a vacuum, this PR feels reasonable.

But it feels reasonable because there's zero context or actual design considerations here. This is a consistent theme across dozens of PRs that slowly but surely creep their way along to making something either useless, no longer interesting, or completely and totally different. The ancient open source trap of incremental changes where each step feels reasonable but then you look back and go, "How did we even get here?"

Moreover, why should facehuggers and lesser drones be considered under the same umbrella? An apple and an orange are both fruits but that doesn't mean an apple should have the same characteristics of an orange. And sure, facehuggers were stunned to avoid screech hugs right? And yes, lesser drones can go and do similar by just carrying a hugger. But, that doesn't encompass all that a lesser drone is. Extending this behavior means you should justify the behavior in the new total context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

Iunno, maybe this PR is good. Hard to say with how little justification is given and it genuinely reeks of salt PR.

[Git-Nivrak]

None of the explanation here covers what you believe lesser drones should be. In a vacuum, this PR feels reasonable.

But it feels reasonable because there's zero context or actual design considerations here. This is a consistent theme across dozens of PRs that slowly but surely creep their way along to making something either useless, no longer interesting, or completely and totally different. The ancient open source trap of incremental changes where each step feels reasonable but then you look back and go, "How did we even get here?"

Moreover, why should facehuggers and lesser drones be considered under the same umbrella? An apple and an orange are both fruits but that doesn't mean an apple should have the same characteristics of an orange. And sure, facehuggers were stunned to avoid screech hugs right? And yes, lesser drones can go and do similar by just carrying a hugger. But, that doesn't encompass all that a lesser drone is. Extending this behavior means you should justify the behavior in the new total context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

Iunno, maybe this PR is good. Hard to say with how little justification is given and it genuinely reeks of salt PR.

Yea I am going to have to say that's one of the few times I actually agree with you however the reason I think they should get the same treatment as facehuggers (which is also stated in the PR description) is there being no cost \ punishment for them dying while having a lot of impact if they do succeed to facehug someone. Perhaps their cost \ cooldown can be modified in a way that killing them becomes significant and they can be allowed to go along with screeches but that's out of scope for this PR

[Skatuk]

They could still bypass this since they can weed.

[Drulikar]

They could still bypass this since they can weed.

They require weeds nearby to weed and have very low plasma. But yes we are completely aware the fact that weeds bypass the health decrease when not on weeds.