cmss13-devs
SL Kits Tweak
About the pull request
Removes the MK2 and M4RA kits as SL squad support kits.
Adds HPR and breaching shotgun as SL squad support kits.
Explain why it's good for the game
Removes two filler choices / noob traps and adds in two proper squad support kits to choose from for your squad. Gives more variety of choice and ensures all kits are in line with each other.
The only time where the MK2 and M4RA choices would ever be chosen is if you woke up as a SL / Foxtrot SL right before hijack dropship landing and were desperate for a weapon, but this is such a niche case that it is not worth keeping these kits as they are baseline worse than anything else you can choose.
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:cl: Swagile add: Adds the HPR and Breacher shotgun kit to SL squad kit choices. del: Removes the MK2 and M4RA kits from SL squad kit choices. /:cl:
Why not just keep the two original kits? Your weapon doesn't matter as SL, and the 2 free AP mags are nice
Why not just keep the two original kits? Your weapon doesn't matter as SL, and the 2 free AP mags are nice
Because the point of the SL kits is a /squad/ kit that is supposed to benefit the squad. The M4RA and MK2 kits, much like the old MK1 kit, are just kits that a SL will utilize, not squad overall boosters like an HPR / Flamer / Engi kit, etc.
Why not just keep the two original kits? Your weapon doesn't matter as SL, and the 2 free AP mags are nice
Because the point of the SL kits is a /squad/ kit that is supposed to benefit the squad. The M4RA and MK2 kits, much like the old MK1 kit, are just kits that a SL will utilize, not squad overall boosters like an HPR / Flamer / Engi kit, etc.
You're going the game development way.
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Currently conflicted on this one, + that it leans more into the squad support aspect of these kits rather than being holdovers of the legacy kits. (mini medic and veteran kit those who remember...) - that it does so by just adding more req cases to the SL vendor, I'd be more interested in seeing a more comprehensive change that gives it it's own identity leaning into the squad support role.
All I can say is that SL kits never actually used to be called Req kits; the literal only way to get SL kits was through a SL but over the years, SL kits got added to Req instead.
Thats why things like flamers were rarer back then; since the only way to get them was a SL.
As for making a more comprehensive change, I would not even know what to start on since I have no ideas at the moment nor willpower to make sweeping changes to the SL kit system in a way that is balanced and more interesting than the current system.
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