EMP Nerf

[Arzion]

The EMP is OP at the moment. It easily passes through walls, and all you need to do to condemn a synth to a certain death is just by throwing an EMP grenade within A RANGE OF 15 TILES. It is a quick killer against the Station AI, as it both drains APC power, and deactivates the SMES output.

It needs a nerf. No more chucklefuck wizards who quickly kill the AI because they EMP'd in the certain vicinity with no worry for anything.

The EMP should either :

-Have less power

-Have less range

-Not be able to pass through walls

There is almost no way of ever getting out of the EMP radius in time if you are within 5 tiles of the EMP grenade. It is too overpowered against robots, station AIs, and IPCs. The IPC can be straight out immediately sent into an almost-death state if the EMP grenade detonates in close proximity to the IPC.

[Nanako]

I agree fully.

We may look at EMP more closely after skull is done porting things from upstream, including new robopeople

[CakeIsOssim]

As for the effect it has against synthetics, I disagree. It should disable, and destroy, synthetics with ease, because otherwise its only other use would be disabling energy weapons. What I do want, however, is for the environment to effect EMP like it does in real life. Everything, ever, will absorb an EMP depending on its makeup and thickness, because it's literally something something electricity and static science words. My point being, everything an EMP travels through reduces the strength of the EMP, more or less depending on what it traveled through. Steel walls should reduce its range a good deal for each wall traveled through. Reinforced walls, even more so. Things like glass and otherwise shouldn't reduce it that much.

[DatBerry]

id be ok with nerfing the range, its mostly fine as it is now, but when you get EMP'd in your department because someone threw one in the hallways it gets a bit inconvenient.

the person throwing it cant help but get collateral damage because they cant see two screens big with xray vision

[SierraKomodo]

id be ok with nerfing the range, its mostly fine as it is now, but when you get EMP'd in your department because someone threw one in the hallways it gets a bit inconvenient.

the person throwing it cant help but get collateral damage because they cant see two screens big with xray vision

 

That and one EMP in or near the AI core will hit the entire central ring and kill/cripple any synths or mechanical-implanted folk unlucky enough to be in that central ring; That range is ridiculous.