u/KJ_DiamondMiner

It would be really cool if every charger on the spore burst strain was a spore charger. I feel like they fit that faction a lot more given their name and behavior, and it would also be cool if their presence gave the other spore terminids the speed buff just from the cloud around them. (And maybe change their color to orange so they look like the other spore burst bugs.)

(Yes I know you cant prevent the speed boost with fire)
I like the idea of spore burst terminids being faster but they just dont have a meaningful downside like the other bug subfactions. The speed is fine, but its really annoying that every single spore burst bug is more durable than their normal counterparts, giving pretty much every unit more effective hp. Also every single chaff unit exploding, slowing you down and damaging you when they die is really lame and invalidates all melee builds. The other terminid subfactions generally have meaningful drawbacks such as:

Rupture strain completely lacking behemoth chargers, making their chargers much easier to kill.

predator strain eating up spawns of tankier units and providing you with large swarms of light-pen glass cannon chaff.

The spore burst faction has no such downside, they have better stats, they have higher spawns, and they are faster. This especially shows itself spore titans, who are not only unreasonably tanky, but also have an absurd spawnrate to the point where they are just not fun to fight. I think the whole subfaction would be a lot better if they made the spore units have the same or less durable values and health to their normal counterparts and keep the speed boosts, while maybe doubling down on their weakness to fire so they die to it even faster than normal. This way they would actually have tradeoffs, rather than just being more powerful than normal bugs in every way.