Building Armor Upgrade

nsguy

It would be nice to have a building armor upgrade for the Marine team which can be researched by the commander; enabling the buildings to withstand more damage (i.e. increase their health). It would be a good alternative to placing the practically useless turrets by giving the Marines a bit more time to respond to an attack, but without being able to deal damage to the Aliens as the turrets do.

CrushaK

Nanoshield works on structures too. A permanent HP buff, even for res, would flaw the balance and the TTK for aliens on structures that is required for successful counter rushes.

nsguy

Every new idea practically "flaws the balance". Of course things would need to change but I'm sure it could be implemented correctly.

sHawke_Native

marines can kill alien structures fast with a flamethrower while it takes more time for aliens to destroy marine buildings to make it more balanced alien buildings need an HP boost to

nsguy

But aliens don't need teammates to build the structures so they can concentrate on fighting instead.

sotanaht

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Flamethrowers are only fast at killing cysts and gorge piles, they do regular damage to everything else and typically don't have enough range/spread to benefit heavily from damaging multiple buildings. Grenade launchers on the other hand...