Comparing the Research Wing to almost around a year now, access has became more strictly limited, with increased reliance on the hacking device following a recent update that forces rioters to hack ALL 3 DOORS now (as opposed to 1) to get the SCP crates that spawn primarily (or purposefully placed) in the backside among the 2 rooms they reside in.
I cannot stress enough how much this devalues Kingpin+ access cards as a whole now that more time gets wasted while attempting to steal SCP crates with a higher chance of failure, but also other various obstacles toppling the difficulty to a level of “complete unfairness.” Such scenarios have came with the use of firedoors to lock CDs off completely from retrieving boxes towards the hallway of SCP-294 by hiding boxes in the Turing rooms. This simply just should not be allowed to exist as to purposefully or even permanently lock off miscellaneous features such as heisting or getting item boosts. And if 005 and 1200 are behind the firedoors, that ensures very well that you WILL NEVER GET BOXES even when you purposefully paid for a hacking device to gain more access in the research wing which has been devalued enough compared to its past where it was an automatic mechanic and your screen never “darkened” as to leave you vulnerable to your surroundings.
A last critical point to be made is how the return of the regional lockdown mechanic has destroyed big riots to an excessive level because there are no regulations to the mechanic. Combatants have literally argued “CDs shouldn’t accomplish anything alone, but rather in big groups,” but that sentiment is contradicted with this feature that has made their job a cakewalk as to prevent groups from accomplishing anything now that it takes more time to infiltrate research wing’s boxes.
Solution
-Enable the first box room along with the side door entrance (between both box rooms) to be accessible with Kingpin+ keycards again. (this allows the user to at least access ONE room for SCP boxes without hacking device which is suitably fair for much it gets nerfed.
-Regulations to FORBID ‘hiding’ or leaving boxes in Turing rooms when a test is out of session
-Lockdowns in research wing can only be warranted if a Jugg enters.
-Remove Hacking device’s screen darken effect transition with only slight blurring (likewise to my previous post, in real life your vision doesn’t darken when you focus in punching in a code, but rather the surroundings out of it blur up a bit, but not too much to make you vulnerable to seeing your surroundings. As minor of a complaint it can be, it makes a vast difference with to those with an instinct to react fast and want to survive)
TLDR
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Research Wing takes longer to infiltrate now and has became more pay 2 play exclusive with hacking device
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Combatives/ScD abusing inaccessible spots (behind firedoors) in research wing to lock off SCP crates
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Regional lockdowns have been heavily exploited in large riots without regulations
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Hacking device should be modified to remove the darkness effect as for attempting to hack doors