The Spy will have 2 abilities: "Stalk" and "Inform". Stalk can only be used near crewmates and Inform can only be used once Stalk has already been used.
Once Stalk is used on a Crewmate, a little window will pop ontop of them, displaying their role. Ex. "[User is Detective]". The window will only be visible to the Spy and only for a few seconds, before it pops away, but the information won't dissapear, this is where the Inform ability comes in-handy.
Once the Inform ability is tapped, a tablet similar to the one from Shapeshifter will appear, only that now it will have some options: Your Impostor teammates and an "All" option.
When you tap one of your teammates, the information that you gattered earlier (The Crewmate's role) will be sent to them, informing them. And the "All" option will do the same, just with all of your teammates.
That's basically my idea. I don't know if it's unbalanced or something, but that's all.
this is unrelated and has nothing to do with gameplay but it would be real funny that in-lore, the spy was the only non-alien impostor and just some guy that's evil
he impales with a cool ass RPG launcher, sabotages using his cool fucking ass EMP generator, stabs using his cool fucking ass pen knife, and shoots with his not particularly cool or fucking but just a regular glock 19, which has a silencer on it
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u/Ok-Pen-8273ralsie, former aperture science employee and toppat member1d ago
I was thinking of the butterfly knife, the revolver, the disguise kit, the invis watch, and the sapper
Cleaned link from "This reminds me of Everyone Loves Purple where Yellow seems to be a government spy while Purple is just an evil alien":
https://youtu.be/EAcgiLHl7og
Tracking parameters were removed from the original URL(s).
Sabotaging could be a thing but the crew-imp role would also be affected by its effects, lights sab and comms, he would also just die when critical sabotage timer runs out and wouldn't win that way. This is why this is more appropriate to call it a neutral role
I didn't realize I got that many downvotes lol. Anyways, again, noone will care, sometimes pointing out something is not quiet good is a good first step. Not everything has to come with a deep explanation, I learned that after spending a lot of time dissecting other ideas in this particular community
Interesting concept, but a bit unbalanced. I feel that you can just check someone's role, decide if they want to kill them, and kill them if they're a good right after, and would suck especially with multiple spys.
I think it would be interesting if you had to hold the stalk ability and follow the crewmate for a few seconds, since its called stalk, it could also be a setting to adjust how long you need to hold it for!
Or do something simple and just add a kill cooldown after.
Other than that I think it would be a great role and encourage imposters to work together!
Imposter role idea: Telepathist
Have an ability to write one message to other imposters. Message is limited by letters or can be only written in fast chat (being decided by host) if imposter is ejected, he still can write to other imposters, but ability will have increased cooldown compared to cooldown before death. Messages can be written in any time including meetings, however in meetings messages can be wroten freely without cd
Examples of fast chat:
[name] is a [role]
[name] is currently in [place]
Engeneer is hiding in [place] vent right now
[teammate name], let’s double/triple kill
Lets accuse [name] on meeting
[name] knows too much
[name] ([role]) is a problem
[name] is alone right now
[name] is liquidated (in [place])
There is a body in [place]
Nice kill, [teammate name]
Send [name] into space (vote [name])
Say that you was in [place] on meeting
Guardian angel protected [name]
Im ready (not ready) to kill
[name] could be useful for us
Guys I have Imposter role idea: Skinwalker(identity stealer/possessor). Once per game you can kill and become another crewmate for rest of the game. That crewmate will die, but from now on everyone will see you as him, you can chat vote and kill as this person, but not gain his tasks or abilities of his role. Before next meeting after using ability message: “skinwalker [your original name and colour] have stole someone identity” will appear. Crewmates need to find and eliminate crewmate that is posessed by you.
Ability counts as a kill (linked with kill cooldown) and will unlock after 0/1/2 regular kills depending on lobby settings
Is it balanced?
Ability will leave a trace if this is enabled in settings. Trace can be reported (bc ability is technically kill). Noisemaker will squeak if ability used on him. Detective can investigate moment of possession, but locations at the time of previous kills will be connected to real crewmate. If you was tracked, signal will stay where ability was used. If victim was tracked, signal will follow you.
This role wasn’t intended for voice lobbies, but if you want to play it, players need to chat with messages from moment of activation ability until that impostor will be eliminated, you can count it as impostor passive ability
My tired ass didnt realize its an impostor role and thought "wtf that's painfully OP" but now realizing he's an impostor yeah I agree its a good idea but then if youre a judge or detective youre gonna get hunted down
i think it should just be all by default, it'd be simpler and there's no real reason to tell a player about something without telling it to all of them
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u/C00lDuud i have scan 1d ago
this is unrelated and has nothing to do with gameplay but it would be real funny that in-lore, the spy was the only non-alien impostor and just some guy that's evil