There’s been some discussion in the Morbus Discord lately about grenades. A leading thought is that the explosive grenades are too favorable for aliens, specifically brood aliens. This is a pretty valid point, the explosive grenade allows a brood alien to chuck it into a room and inflict damage outside of line-of-sight (LOS) from humans.
This sucks a bit as a human and i’m not a super big fan of aliens having a strong ranged attack. But on the other hand, I’m torn because I also think this could be useful for Brood Aliens in certain situations where humans are camping in a room and you want to jostle them around a bit.
I think the long detonation delay is helpful for humans to scramble out of range from the grenade, but it also allows aliens to do the same.
The fantasy behind the explosive grenade in the first place is that it’s a tool to chuck into pursuing or oncoming aliens to weaken/damage/kill some of them. Or it forces them to back off for a moment to avoid the explosion damage. It’s not a primary killing tool, it’s utility. For a brood alien it would be to sow chaos in a room and create confusion to hopefully be able to take advantage of that confusion.
Some Balancing
I’ve decided to lower the max grenade damage from 150 -> 100, HOWEVER, the grenade is now 2x more effective against swarm aliens, and 1.5x more effective against brood aliens (in alien form.)
The grenade should be lethal against swarm aliens but not be so lethal against humans. Brood aliens typically shouldn’t be getting hit by a grenade because they should be able to run out of range really fast, but in case they do get hit, they should be punished hard.
Fire Grenades
A grenade that would be very helpful for humans is one that creates an area of denial. Being able to throw a grenade in a tight hallway or doorway to block aliens from passing through it would be incredibly helpful.
So I’ve made an incendiary grenade that does just that. Aliens take extra damage from the fire; 2x for swarms and 1.5x for brood aliens.
The Alien Angle
This is a powerful tool for humans, so I wanted to create a direct use for brood aliens using this grenade.
If a dead body is lit on fire then it enters a “burning” state. After 5 seconds of burning it becomes fully burned. When a body is burned you can’t tell who the body belongs to anymore, thus you’re no longer able to mark them as a verified alien.
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