Replacing the Racial Bonus for Hylotl Armor

Currently, the planned racial bonus for Hylotl armor is for underwater breathing and increased swim speed. I figured that since changes to the game have made underwater breathing pointless since all suit bonuses give it (and that this change is unlikely to go away) and just increasing swim speed is pretty weak sauce on it's own, how would you modify or replace the racial bonus for Hylotl armor?

My initial idea is to give a heath regeneration effect while in water as a play on their roles as ambassadors / peace bringers.

 

Honestly this is one feature I am not sure they intend to bring forward to final release. Maybe a dev might chime in and we will find out the real story. But, I haven't heard the dev talk about it at all for at least a year. Anyone else in the community here know anything?

 

Who knows if underwater breathing wont go away after a while.. I sure dont, I bet the devs will have something awesome back up their sleeve!

 

In order for underwater breathing to "go away" (aka removal of O2 from at least the last 3 suit techs), they would have to do some major changes to gameplay and progression (as an example: arctic worlds would be changed as they require both cold protection and O2 meaning they would no longer be explorable below the surface) which are very unlikely to happen. It would be very hard to balance underwater breathing useful as a racial bonus. Maybe if/when the augmentation system is added back in, this will change but that's not the point of this thread. The point of this thread is a hypothetical question: "IF the Hylotl's racial bonus is to be changed, how would you change it?"

 

Yeah, I'd like to see racial armor abilities. They're interesting yet at the same time limiting since you have to have a pure race-specific set for the bonus. You can't have half avian, half hylotl armor and get the racial from my current interpretation of it.

Life regen in water sounds pretty cool though. Sounds like a solid standard for your water gear needs.

 

I think the swimming should be made mega fast, and it should repel hostile fish.
That's all I got for armor ability suggestions...

Yeah... why is this, again? I mean, it's not like we'll ever go to these places with cold protection but not oxygen...


As a side note... what's the novakid armor bonus going to be?

 

novakid will be light/glow effect, presumably

 

They already naturally glow.