#vex asks

> cuz fuck yeah werewolves.

> it's the fucking in golden flame dev???

uh. hi. heard of your work. probably going to actually dig into it now. small world.

Also, I'm terribly obsessed with all the female npcs, and it's a personal goal to make my girl smooch them all

The funniest thing is that people said "hey Vex thank you for making a diverse cast instead of just making people you found sexy" and it's like I'm sorry to inform you that I did not in fact do that, I just have very diverse tastes

2: I have been trying to find that one NHP post about emergency procedures in event of cascade for. ten minutes. Help? /lh

Tumblr's blog search function has always sucked, but I have found the thing you seek. Here I am:

I'm gonna be real, a lot of you just seem to want me to do the work of putting your builds together for you. That's not how this is supposed to work. By asking me to do it for you, you are denying yourself the pleasure of finding the weird, specific synergies this game allows and making some jank totally unique to you.

All that being said...

-- HA Genghis @ LL6 -- [ LICENSES ] IPS-N Nelson 3, HA Genghis 2, IPS-N Tortuga 1 [ CORE BONUSES ] Sloped Plating, Overpower Caliber [ TALENTS ] Juggernaut 3, Duelist 3, Skirmisher 3 [ STATS ] HULL:2 AGI:4 SYS:0 ENGI:2 STRUCTURE:4 HP:15 ARMOR:4 STRESS:4 HEATCAP:12 REPAIR:5 TECH ATK:-2 LIMITED:+1 SPD:5 EVA:10 EDEF:8 SENSE:5 SAVE:13 [ WEAPONS ] FLEX MOUNT: Missile Rack / Missile Rack MAIN MOUNT: War Pike (Thermal Charge) // Overpower Caliber HEAVY MOUNT: Krakatoa Thermobaric Flamethrower [ SYSTEMS ] Siege Ram, Ramjet, Personalizations

monday i have a few free hours to get lunch, should i go to an all you can eat sushi or go get a lunch meal at a korean restaurant? if i go monday to the korean ill go thursday to sushi, if i go to sushi monday ill go to korean next week probably or the one after that

Define "bad thing."

The Balor already has exceptional healing capability applied strictly to itself, to the point that it fundamentally alters its relationship with Lancer's core gameplay loop. While it has a below-average Repair Cap, it fundamentally doesn't need as many Repairs as most mechs because it never needs to spend a Repair to come back to full HP after a fight, and it takes less structure damage because it constantly regenerates HP.

It would be bad if too many mechs had this power, both in that it would trivialize the Repair system and dilute the gameplay appeal of the Balor. But I don't think it would be bad if a couple of other mechs had somewhat similar abilities.

Another fundamental issue we've got to address when examining the Lancaster's healing ability is that the Lancaster's healing ability kind of... sucks ass? You take a quick action to make an attack that can miss and spend a Repair to give an ally half the HP they'd get from just spending a Repair themself - or one of yours, if they're standing next to you. There's a sorta-kinda action economy benefit if you hit (which, remember, is not guaranteed) and it has niche utility if your ally needs to pop off next round but is dangerously close to being Structured, but it's just... in most circumstances, your allies are better off just refilling their full HP during a Stabilize, which can also do other useful things.

Honestly the Lancaster's support traits are kinda mid in general. Combat Repair is "congratulations, you spent a full action and 4 Repairs to restore your dead ally to 1 Structure, 1 Stress, 1 HP, a state of being from which they can be sent back to dead with a single activation of an enemy with Reliable damage." Latch Drone, as mentioned above, sucks. The only genuinely useful support abilities are Redundant Systems, which is absolutely goated, and its ult, which it can usually only use once per mission.

All player mechs have the ability to heal themselves to full HP for one Repair and a full action. Any mech system or trait that heals HP (rather than some other mechanic like applying Overshield) needs to:

be better in terms of either cost, action economy, or both