Fighting nukies is (mostly) boring, predictable, repetitive
I'm mainly talking about rounds when we are informed about nukies arrival early on. Lets call it "Loud" mode.
No doubt there are some cool situations during "Stealth" mode. Out of my recent games:
- Me (chef) receiving a lot of explosive mice and being asked to cook rat burgers. Then this guy decides not to wait for me to trigger the explosion and just blows up my kitchen. Afterwards in a few minutes it went loud, other nukies came and started shooting people. So cool!
- Me going early to Evac due to some other danger, then nukies come and shoot me. Sad, but also cool!
Now lets talk about the most common (sadly) snoozefest loud mode when we know about their arrival early on. You can already picture in your head how it always goes, right?
Oh yea... time to build these Rimworld style mazes out of reinforced glass.
Then lets keep all but one door locked in hallways. Then we turn medbay into a military base.
Then lets wait 20 minutes for something to happen.
Oh then there's a power outtage. Then we get spaced rooms and no oxygen.
Oh well time to look for an EVA suit.
Now shift continues but with those annoyances.
Then go on, fight, until we win or loose. Honestly i just get bored on EVA suit part and go cryo.
Im not against fighting nukies or heavy-action antags, it's just that anything seems more interesting than doing what I listed above. For me, it possibly has to do something with less RP, and instead just being busy interacting or watching others interact with crafting, construction and inventory management mechanics which aren't fun by themselves.
I wanna hear opinions, do you agree or do you like it?