Guide: Death Squad

[Marde]

Death Squad

If your reading this, your already dead. Not really. Death squad is a special job on the station that is admin spawned. Basically after some sort of disaster, basically anything, occurs Death Squad is an attempt to re-add dead players to the game to complete goal based objectives. Their objectives might be simply to kill everyone and escape alive, detonate the nuke, fix atmospherics, or kill aliens. It can really be anything.

Benefits of being Death Squad:

You are completely overpowered.

You have access to specialized mechs.

You have explosives.

You come with multiple guns to use for the job.

Your Maurader comes with a missle launcher and a gun.

See Chain of Command section

Cons of being Death Squad



Tasers still affect you.

People will try to rob you of everything if you get tased.

People fear you, even when your objectives are not to kill.

Chain of Command:

You are directly employed by Cent Comm and it some cases, syndicate.

Know your Workplace:

Pretty much when you spawn most things in here are for show. Behind the doors are Mauraders you can pilot. You can mass eject them out or put them into the shuttle. Be warned though, they run on fuel and will shut down in the middle of a fight if they run out. In the shuttle are bombs, so close to the ones Scientists make.

Examples of Death Squad:

Rather then give you a comic at the bottom of this, I give you actual footage instead of the basic how not to play comic. This footage was captured during my first and currently only time as a Death Squad member. You can see that a maurader ran out of fuel at the airlock into the shuttle. I had to make my own way in.




What to do against Death Squad:

OOC when someone announces Death Squad in IC, you know your going to die. IC, you don't. This quote from the How not to Get Banned Thread should say enough

I was on a round and made a deathsquad due to people wanting a restart and whatnot, anyway I made an annoucment saying
"Oh now you guys have done it!"
Next second one guys yells "DS!"
A borg bolts all the airlocks where the DS comes from, turned on the fire alarms and got people to clusterfuck around the shuttle with weapons.
I decided to drop a bomb on them naturally, but seriously do not metagame, your character should not know about deathsquads cause they kill everyone, you will know about them but that does not mean you can do that shit.

Anyway if one attacks you, you have two choices. Run and hide in a locker or attempt to fight back. If you hide in a locker, you will be in critical if he fires at it. If you attempt to fight back without a stunning device of some sort, space gods help you. If you can get them down, you can get their stuff. However they might have a spare weapon on them if you take their main one.



What to expect:

This video sums up Death Squad in a nutshell, not only from the stations point of view, but from the Death Squads

[theredscare]

I see my report in annoucements. Hehe.
Yeah that video sums it up but we should have a idiot ds one.

[Marde]

Done. I suggest playing the What to Expect video at the same time as reading it.

[DestroOmega]

I'd just like to add a small note to this.

If you get an objective (such as 'kill everyone'), you don't necessarily have to kill the AI first thing. It tends to have a lot more control then most like to admit, and with something as simple as some low level reprogramming, it can be a weapon in and of itself...

[criptfeind]

It is much easier to just kill it though.

[Jerkael]

Sadly, this is mostly true. The squad thinks they're indestructible killing machines, the crew also does, the smart people on both know that they're both retards.

So, you get a cookie.

[Marde]

Apr 26, 2012 17:42:00 GMT -5 Jerkael said:

Sadly, this is mostly true. The squad thinks they're indestructible killing machines, the crew also does, the smart people on both know that they're both retards.

So, you get a cookie.

I would also like to point out that people with power use it. If the Death Squad's job is like the earlier example is (Call the shuttle and take down telecomms), chances are that once they step off the shuttle they begin hunting down every single person they see even though their objectives do not list kill anyone as their objectives could potentially save people, like the example one. Out of the five of us of that round, two survived to complete the mission, rest were killed by the station crew. I also recall there was a round DS was called in to fix atmospherics and just that and left after they fixed it. Anyway even if their mission is peaceful, it takes one taser shot and they are out to kill.


DestroOmega & criptfeind
This is both true and false. The AI is both a prime target to destroy and yet a prime tool to use. Basically if very small death squad team of lets say two arrives and are tasked with killing everyone and no one has noticed them, they could easily sneak through maintenance and blast their way into the upload to rewrite the AI's laws to say have it listen and protect the Death Squad members and bolt down all doors leading to survivors. The AI could on the other hand catch you breaking in and alert everyone causing them to mass drive them selves to the armory to get guns.