Your ability to state the obvious is only outdone by your face. Of course it would need to be playtested. Also, I realize that matters of individual preference are nearly meaningless, I posted to see if anyone else felt similarly, which would have boosted the suggestion from "preference" status to "group preference". W/E
Oh and what's your bibliography for what-you-said-the-devs-said ?
It seemed to me that you were pretty confident that faster chomp but less damage would keep the alien the same, so I decided to state the obvious. So sue me.
Also, it's pretty widely known that really the only stuff left for 1.2 is a couple more gameplay and coding tweaks and for Stannum to finish making new models for current weapons/alien claws, and possibly a couple new maps. The evidence is all over these forums. Take a look around.