Thus spoke the voice of many voices (part I)

The great spirit of he-who-was-neonstorm spoke to me with the many voices that passed trough my mind, and he told me* "thou shall bring forth upon the zero-k forum today, a piece of my ever-expanding wisdom, so that it’s progress may be blessed and plentiful [...]

20 minutes of creative prophetic slang later:

"the Warrior shall be cured of it’s uselessness (for it is slow, and short ranged, and weak of hp) and shall become a true defender of the k-bot spirit upon realizing that he too can cloak, true, only while stationary and with a reasonable delay, but in this manner it could ambush and smite those who would otherwise kite it or avoid it without becoming stronger of the offensive,
(For the warrior has sinned with his exhaust ports and was punished to eternal defensiveness in role.)"

"The Athena shall become a terrible foe once it realizes it should be able to build while landed and thus have a chance to remain out of sight in hostile lands even without it’s blessing of invisibility
(That flees from it when it uses its constructor module, for it has sinned along with the warrior oh so long ago)"


"The skuttle shall be feared by all things airborne should it ever automatically jump straight up and go boom under the force of the holy toggle function, thus becoming the bane of crowded groups of airborne miscreants. And in this way experience many more deaths
(for it was the skuttle that first tempted the Warrior and the Athena into the unholy union of exhaust port and constructor module and the intense sinning that ensued and resulted in many atrocities...but that is a tale most souls are not yet ready for)"


*among other tings, like a recipe for CFC (Cold Fusion Cookies), and the blueprint for an amphibious rat-monkey warrior race transcribed in audio format

Warrior is OP. You high bro?

awsome.

... other than the Warrior, those sound way too hard to implement.

Agree that Warrior could use a small buff (feel free to correct me here), but I don't know if being a cloaky boobytrap is the right one.

Best riots will always be leveler and mace.

best riot IRL is outlaw, closely followed by riot.

I think warrior is only slightly UP, if at all. Balanced I say. Giving it ambush would make it interesting but it needs to be a lower weight riot if we're going to go that route.

Ambush riots needs to be able to cover ground, so if you split warrior in half (half cost, half hp, slightly more than half dps; which is a nerf) you can give it stationary cloak.

Would totally change cloaky bot play in 1v1 though. Maybe make it more interesting, maybe not.

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I agree with the skuttle toggle though, might be useful.
We could have an air-blast jump command that times it for us to explode at the top of its jump. You give it like a jump command, it jumps to that spot but never arrives.

The only thing i dislike about the warrior is the ease at which it succumbs to puppies.

It's somewhere on the list of my favorite raiding units. You know, our glaives are bigger and such.