Maybe give basis a cloaking ability? Say, where you'd right-click to go near-invisible for 10 seconds, then you become visible again and it takes about 10 seconds before you can cloak yourself again. And your cloak would disappear when you grab someone or when you slash.
The basi is a n1nj4 alien. Instead of giving it an attack that has to be used by stupidly jumping up to a group of hummies, it needs something to enhance its n1nj4 abilities. Here are some thoughts:
- The aforementioned 10-second cloak
- Allow basis to toss a sticky blob, at about 2/3 or 1/2 the range of a granger blob. These make a similar splatter to what the granger's blobs do, however it's less visible and when a human walks over it, it drastically slows him down. A basi could drop a blob around a corner, hide further ahead of the blob, and wait til a human passes by. Then the human gets stuck, the basi jumps in from behind and owns him.
- A variation of the the cloak. Instead, the basi right-clicks to inherit the texture of the surface he is standing on (or wallwalking on) and to be removed from radar for 10 seconds. 10 second recharge.
- Regular gas, exept it hangs in the air for 5 seconds after being sprayed. 6 second recharge on the gas ability. Basically, would be used for aiding in escapes, as it can be used as a) a smokescreen, and b) to make all persuers have distorted vision and poison, increasing the chance of getting away alive.
- Regular gas, (or maybe the gas that "hangs) exept instead of moving your crosshair around, it actually makes you see LESS. Think flash-bangsfrom CS, or the squid item from mario kart DS: something that either covers the screen uniformly (like a flashbang) or something that creates random splotches on the screen to obscure vision.
- A "poison mine" ability. Right-clicking allows you to place a granger-blob-sized ball at your position. It takes several seconds to grow, probly about 8 seconds, and it's vulnerable since it only has around 20 hp. Then, when fully grown, it explodes in a shower of acid (like when an alien structure blows up) as soon as an enemy comes in range (3 or 4 meters maybe), allowing the adv basi to plant another one. After 30 seconds of inactivity, however, the blob detonates itself. The blob would do the damage of an exploding structure exept with a larger radius, and would also poison. And finally, it works against buildings, so a basi could go hide a mine behind the armoury to have it explode in 8 seconds if noone noticed.
Yes, most of those ideas are crap, just trying to throw new ideas out there. Personally I like the sticky blob idea, it'd be good for both ambushes and escapes.
Also, basis need more than 100 hp. The adv mara meets the mara and goon in the middle with 175 hp, and it should be the same idea for the adv basi. Give it 120 hp or something, cause it does cost the same as a mara you know, and is considerably less quick.
