Re: [HoE] Problems with Medusa

["Fuzyn9feet" <Fuzyn9feet@email.msn.com>]

Gus wrote:
>Remind me if we've talked about this or not, but I've got some real issues
>with Cyborg's "Medusa Virus."   Namely.... (Major Spoiler, so if you're not
>a Marshal ignore my rants.)
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>1. Insta-Servitor!?!  I don't think so!  At least not with my posses.
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought; (a: Servitors are supposed to be
>very rare.  Any disease, even just a cyber-virus, that can conceivably turn
>every Cyborg into a Servitor of Pestilence, will not only make the very
>rare, very common, it also totally unbalances the game. And (b: I thought
>Servitors developed because they made some very bad life choices.  If there
>is a Servitor-creating virus out there, it completely removes choice.
>Which, in my opinion, kinda defeats the whole purpose of Servitors in the
>first place.

I think they worded it badly and the fact that the word 'sevitor' isn't
capitalized (like it usually is) IMNHO it means that they were think a
servant or a "not-abomination abomination."

>2. The Virus is called ‘Medusa' because supposedly it freezes Cyborgs in
>place.  So once the ‘Servitor virus' has run it's course, what are they
>supposed to do?  Stand there and hope someone walks close enough to get
>infected?  That doesn't sound like a very effective Servitor to me.

That one got me too. I'm guessing that once the virus has run it's course
and the target is under full control the unit 'reinitializes' and starts up
an abomination.

>3. I thought that Servitors of Pestilence were supposed to be sneaky and
>able to blend in.  Unless Medusa only targets Infiltrators, most of the new
>Servitors created by this virus are going to be pretty obvious, or at
least,
>they're not going to blend in very well.


What about plague zombies, except the Great Mall strain (which are only
covered because of Kane).

>Those are the major reasons that, at least with my posses, Medusa is just
>what it says it is.  A Cyber-Virus that destroys cyborgs, and nothing else.
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>-Gus