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Xeno Support Caste Rebalancing - #12743

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@Ammoniacres Ammoniacres commented Jul 26, 2026

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About the pull request

An assortment of small changes to xenomorph support castes to shake things up a little.

In short;

  • Burrowers have access to moderate pheromones.
  • Carriers universally have strong pheromones now, and base carrier's plasma reserves increase from 500 > 600.
  • Healer drones have their pheromones nerfed from strong to moderate (reduction in 1 level)
  • Gardeners have their doafters for plucking/feeding mature fruits removed.

Explain why it's good for the game

Moderate shakeup to the xeno support meta. Healer drones are far too over-represented and are too valuable and passive for what they do, Gardeners in comparison have more meaningful ways to hurt their intended gameplan of keeping the hive alive- but are obnoxious to play if people don't actively cooperate with you. Reducing the time spent being immobile for gardeners and letting them be more mobile in comparison to healers should help increase their representation and make them more approachable.

Carrier's lack of plasma reserves make them horrible to play in general, but making them completely independent of the hive ensures hard-to-push areas and backlines practically everywhere. Buffing their pheromones gives them a stronger place on the front, while the changes to their reserves assuage the time constantly spent waiting.

Burrower practically doesn't exist, giving it pheromones doesn't solve its underlying problems, but it is very odd it doesn't already have access to them, being the only drone evolution that doesn't. Should help it be valuable both independently and on the backline/front.

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pugie.mp4

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balance: let Burrowers emit moderate pheromones.
balance: increased base Carrier's pheromones to Strong.
balance: reduced Healer-strain drones' pheromones to moderate.
balance: made plucking/feeding fruits instantaneous for Gardener-strain drones.
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@cmss13-ci cmss13-ci Bot added Balance You need to be a professional veteran game maintainer to comprehend what is being done here. size/S Denotes a PR that changes 19-49 lines, ignoring generated files. labels Jul 26, 2026
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I'm fairly certain it's been stated before by head maint that carrier will never receive a plasma reserve buff. Might want to consider atomizing this PR so it doesn't get closed over a single change.

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