Improve hermit

To reiterate my previous neonstorms on the subject of buffing the hermit beyond simply ++stat:

1) Strongly increase its DPS but slow its projectile to make it more effective against immobile targets (but weak vs mobiles). One of Godde's spider-strats is to use flea->glaive->warrior morph to execute stunned targets. A high-dps executioner would help.

2) Give it the old dirtbag's deathmound (but a spider-only spike) and replace its weapon with a powerful, accurate, high-trajectory cannon so you can pile them up higher and higher and fire from behind the new cover and exploit heightboost. This would also make it a useful support-unit for the Crabe that is fantastic at exploiting heightboost, and providing cover for recluse. Spotting would be an issue though.

3) Give it capture. Synergy with Venom. The problem is the Dom-capture-beam is super-accurate and that would break the Hermit, so you'd need to devise a new capture weapon that can't hit raiders.

4) Let it jump. Crazy, but if you think about it this would fix a lot of its problems.

All-terrain spammable assault dominatrix! Yeah!

Personally, I think we should give it disruptor beams. Also, the venom needs its damage removed and stun time lessened. With infinite stun it is impossible for stunned units to fire back at all, and then the units you send to fight the venoms just get stunned too. Slow firing disruptor hermit with nerfed venom would make good synergy in the factory.

Like a miniature Spidermonkey?

ah yes, i mean monkey lord.

Why did i call it spider monkey?

You should really toy with what that experimental thing using /give spideranarchid. It's incomparable to a penetrator.

Pene is: high-alpha, quick-aim, high-range, low overall dps.
Proposed spiderlight: low-alpha, slow-aim, low-medium range, moderate-high dps.
Current spiderlight: low-alpha, fast-aim, low-medium range, low dps.

Neither are like penetrator (or monkeylord).

What it could do: kill of stunned/paralyzed units, kill structures, hide from enemy fire behind solars/terrain, hit slow units, be borderline effective on its own, cause ton of collateral damage to allies (like starlight does).

What it wouldn't: fight raiders alone, skirmish at long range, raid, dodge shots, snipe things alone.

A lot of those seems to correlate to the assaulty role. Hence thought of this, as Hermit is assault.

quote: more like starlight (hilarous anthena flying over ur unit, giving enemy great inteligence, were ur units are) ?

Except not that high. Please try the current implementation.

Particle beam hermit sounds murderous, but is also something much quicker to try and less finnicky than slow-aim lazor.

I'm not doing a slow aim laser because messing with aiming on mobiles is painful. Units which have turnrate much higher than their gun turnrate are just a pain to use because the slow aiming can be worked around with move orders.

So I don't know what you would suggest. Make the Hermit deploy to attack which fixes it in position so the slow aiming is relevant? Sounds bad.

If you can figure out how to implement a direction independent satellite then we would at least have a usable unit. Your solution must be script based, no fake units are to be used because linear increase in unit count is likely to hit the unit limit.