to be brief, blood brothers get some random syndicate items
according to the roundstart status report, “the syndicate is looking for people who share a brotherly love who must prove themselves before they are brought into the fold”
which suggests that blood brothers have syndicate connections but aren’t necessarily actual syndicate agents who are given uplinks and whatnot
so therefore, i propose that blood brothers get a handful of random syndicate items in the same vein as the Overthrow gamemode
because the centcom status report suggests that although blood brothers might not be full fledged syndicate agents with uplinks, they might have some low level syndicate sponsors who can’t or won’t exactly afford them with telecrystals and the like, but can source them some low tier syndicate items
it would go a little something like this…
all blood brothers start with a storage implant (or not)
one blood brother will have a Hacked AI Upload Module (in a storage implant or their bag), and an uplink implant with 5 telecrystals
the other blood brother(s) will get a random syndicate item in their storage implant/ their bag
the syndicate items that they could recieve are…
Stechkin Pistol
Box of Throwing Weapons
Energy Dagger
Sleepy Pen
Syndicate Soap
Agent ID Card
Chameleon Kit
Seems… fine? It might be for balancing reasons that they don’t get any items, since, y’know, 2 people teaming up is robust in itself. Then again lings and cultists get OP shit even though they’re team antags.
“blood brothers don’t get bona fide syndicate items for balancing reasons because they’re a team antagonist and that’s powerful enough in it of itself”
My only concern is that the storage implant is pretty powerful on its own. Ideally the best way to implement this would be a random syndicate item placed into their internals box on roundstart.
the way i intend to balance blood brothers, is to give them more shit
because my hope is that they’ll be incompetent with the shit that they are given (like with normal blood brothers) and they get themselves caught and sent to pound town for having proper bona fide syndicate items
But on the other hand if they’re lucky they like, actually get shit, other than just greytide with a friend
so basically it’s better for everyone
it’s more fun for security because they’re more sure of themselves and it’s more fun for blood brothers because they get proper tools
as i said in the suggestion it’ll also make sense lore wise too
also, the list of items i put for the items that BBs would get is literally just straight ported from syndicate mutineer item selection
i.e. it’s up for change
as i said the whole storage implant shebang is optional since we know how useful it can be
I genuinely think that Changelings being a team antag is retarded though, it doesn’t have to do with blood brothers. They’re already one of the strongest antags in the game and on top of that they are teammates.