Remove the sacrifice rune

[Nantei]

I seem to be on a cult kick lately. The recent player complaint had me thinking on what the sacrifice rune actually does, and a cursory look through the code has seemed to give me the answer of: Literally nothing. It just kills the person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMm1RLF32ig Is really all I can say.

I don't think I need to make a particularly strong case for why a TG holdover that seems to be only tied to objective code, and only exists to gib people shouldn't be a thing. Also it seems to confuse the crap out of cult players too, so that's not great.

Edited November 6, 2019 by Nantei

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

My best rounds involved sacrifice. It's good sportsmanship to put the ghost into a construct. 

[Nantei]

10 minutes ago, Marlon Phoenix said:

My best rounds involved sacrifice. It's good sportsmanship to put the ghost into a construct. 

Sacrifice isn't necessary for this, though. If you have three people and you want to shove someone into a juggernaut, I think you can lynch them just fine.

[MattAtlas]

Meh. Sacrifice is cooler, though I'd like there to be at least a timer with spooky effects or a restriction on mob health.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

A full blown sacrifice is cooler and more fitting to the mode. 

[Brutishcrab51]

Sacrifice doesn't put people into constructs. It gibs them. If you want to put them into a construct, you can tap them with a spirit stone while they're in hardcrit after poking them nearly to death with your glowing swords.

[Azande]

Sacrifice was originally used to gain extra cult words when we had a word-based system. It is literally pointless now except to kill and leave gibs behind.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

I like to use sacrifice to gib people and have my cultist feast on their innards to be really extra and dramatic.

[Doxxmedearly]

13 minutes ago, MattAtlas said:

Meh. Sacrifice is cooler, though I'd like there to be at least a timer with spooky effects or a restriction on mob health.

Siding with this. Sacrifice is thematically cool, but instagibbing is pretty lame. It could be much more dramatic if it took time. 

[Roostercat]

Every cult round I have died in was via a sac rune. And every time there is zero interaction and no soul stoning either. I have bo problem with it going bye bye.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

Oh if its mostly used to be a butthead then sure

[Nantei]

45 minutes ago, Marlon Phoenix said:

I like to use sacrifice to gib people and have my cultist feast on their innards to be really extra and dramatic.

I feel like those moments are more rare than not. I think it makes a lot more sense to remove the word since the only 'good' usage of it is purely thematic, and in my experience not a common usage of said word as is. It's often used as a borderline ganking tool for anyone that has the misfortune of coming near the mob.

Like, don't get me wrong, that's cool, but I don't think most people use it that way unfortunately.

Edited November 6, 2019 by Nantei

[Crozarius]

I've only ever seen this rune used by people dragging bodies while spamclicking swords on them to get that quick gib to remove their enemy from the round. If you want to sacrifice, ghetto surgery their heart out without anaesthesia, don't just spam click the bloody gib button.

 

I agree with removing the sacrifice rune.

[Carver]

The amount of times as a cultist I see other cultists saccing people when I know for a fucking fact they can make soulstones is aggravating. Granted, sure, some people would rather die anyways than be soulstoned, but don't just gib people off the bat when I know for a fact you're rushing Nar-Sie and need the numbers for it anyways. They never seem to realize how counterproductive it is to their own rush strat and would rather just permakill people ASAP 4noraisins.

[Seeli]

It serves no purpose other than to instantly gib someone and it has been abused lately. No rp, just flash and gib.

Maybe instead, they have to chant around it, make it a cool sacrifice thing, THEN gib?

Edited November 7, 2019 by Seeli
removed some sass xD