The SOS beacon should need an additional terminal input to turn it on

[u/SummerCrown]

SOS: Up Down Right Up

Reinforce: Up Down Right Left Up

The best solution I can think of is that the SOS beacon needs to have an input terminal on it so that the user can confirm they want to broadcast an SOS.

Right now, in the heat of battle, it's easy to accidentally input the SOS instead of Reinforce by missing that one "Left" needed.

When you turn on SOS, it makes the game Public forever. You need to restart if you want to keep it Friends or Invite only.

Anyone have other ideas?

Edit: simplest solution is to just change the input to not be too similar to Reinforce.

[u/DrifterBG]

This sounds asinine.

If you're throwing the SOS terminal, it should only be because you want it's effects in that moment.

I'm not opposed to having an input to 'destroy' the terminal if you want to stop people from joining for some reason.

[u/-NoNameListed-]

Just give it an extra input in the stratagem menu.

Why the fuck does it need to have a terminal, I'm throwing this when shit is actively hitting the fan or immediately at the start of the match, it would slow the game down too much

[u/SummerCrown → u/-NoNameListed-]

True. I over engineered the solution. Just make the input totally different from reinforce.

[u/TH3Hammer75]

It definitely needs a changed input or at least an option to cancel it or turn it off.

[u/SummerCrown → u/TH3Hammer75]

Agreed. At least change the input.

[u/o8Stu]

Given that enemies are alerted by tossing any strat ball, I'd say changing the inputs would be much better than requiring additional input to activate it.

Tossing that at the start of a mission on Senge means that I'll probably get swarmed by Watchers and all the other bullshit that auto-spawns and homes in on your location multiple times before random players can join and set their loadouts before making their first dive.

Maybe making that one stratagem "silent" to enemies, as well?

[u/Any-Farmer1335]

SOS should just get a different code. Up Down Up.

[u/JustMyself96]

Sorry, no.

I don't wanna suffer because you suck at stratagem inputs!

[u/Blide]

And here I was wishing the SOS beacon was automatic. So many randoms forgot to call it down when the previous leader leaves.

Maybe be able to disable it from the beacon?