Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-33644240-20171114012906

Quick introduction, I'm Pyro_Shark. As this is my first post here, I'm sure you've never seen me before, unless you're active on the Discord server. I played R2D back in 2014 and played the very early stages of R2DA, however I took a break from ROBLOX and in that time very much forgot about the game. A friend of mine reintroduced me to the game a month or two ago and I'm now a fairly active player.



I'm sure that most of, if not all of us remember Tanks from classic R2D. Now while you may be thinking that Brutes are a sufficient replacement for Tanks, that's not what I'm getting at. Instead, I'm suggesting that the Tank be reused to be a middle ground between normal and charged Brutes. With the addition of the M249, Brutes aren't nearly as threatening as they once were. However, I don't feel that changing Brutes is the best way to combat this issue. Instead, a new mob should be used.

If my ideal version of Tanks were added into the game, they would fill in for the threat that the M249 has taken much of from Brutes. Here are some rough properties that the Tank would have.

Tank

*+2.5K health

*+Can throw rocks short ranges

**This move would have very high energy consumption as to prevent spamming

*+Melee attacks do 100 damage and trip players

*+Resistant to bullet damage

*-Weak to fire damage

*-Same movement speed as Brutes

*-All survivors will be alerted upon one spawning by either a music cue or a roar, depending on PlaceRebuilder's preference should my suggestion be put into the game

*-Slow attack speed



The goal of the bullet resistance and weakness to fire is to create an enemy type that is not undermined by the M249 as well as making fire more prominent. If this were added, the Flamey would be much more useful than the farming tool it is currently and molotovs would be much more valuable to survival than just blocking off a choke point so you can get ammo or heal yourself.

<p style="font-weight:normal;">So tell me what you think, I'd like some feedback. No idea is perfect and I'm not sure how this would play out in practice, but I hope that you at least find my proposal intriguing.

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