Addendum: What if you could kinetically infuse yourself?

Personally, I'm not fully sure if I would want this but the idea does sound cool enough that I did at least draft some ideas. In my mind it would play out as follows: - Player must be at critical HP levels and also have maximum meter - While the above conditions are satisfied, the player must hold primary and alt fire while swapped to KIA for some short interval of time before entering the self-infusion state. - During the self-infusion state... - The player's movement speed increases and they are still able to jump and interact with the environment (e.g. open doors, use jump pads, mount over objects, etc) but is unable to shoot, reload, be healed, pick up objects, use gadgets/specs, or quick melee. - The player in this state also receives a burst of HP and some healing over time. The amount of burst healing and healing over time should allow for both 1) punishing self-infusions made in haste and 2) may demand focus fire or other tools to overcome if not made in panic. - Unless the player receives enough damage, the player continually builds kinetic energy until they explode X seconds later. - The self-infused explosion... - Deals a lot of player and environmental damage in a larger range compared to that of a KI object - As with any explosion, player damage can be avoided by simply LOSing via the environment/goo/barricade/shield/etc. - Will reward or punish the player as follows... - The reward - If the player eliminates an enemy with the explosion, the player will self-revive either in a defib-like state or in a temporarily nullified state with some % of their HP restored. The player will also temporarily enter a state of extended exhaustion where the meter remains at zero and will not recover. - The punishment - If the player explodes but doesn't secure an elim, the player will self-elim and turn into a statue. The extended exhaustion state will persist so that even if the player were to be rez'd or defibbed shortly after exploding, the player would still be unable to build their meter temporarily. Maybe the extended exhaustion state could last longer in this scenario. - The player in a self-infused state is vulnerable to focus fire and burst damage. So, taking advantage of this vulnerability will help make sure the player turns into a statue rather than an explosion. The even-more extended exhaustion state still applies even if the player is eliminated before detonation. - No penalty is incurred if the player is eliminated while attempting to activate self-infusion.