Buff Request for Infested Enemies: Volatile Runners and Boilers.

[Burnthesteak87]

I'm going to develop the post later, but it's clear as the sun that these 2 enemies are totally worthless and doesn't bring anything to the table.

Volatile Runners aren't going kamikaze no matter what. They're going to fail. Every. Time. 
Their self destruct action is really too slow for human reflexes.
Even if it manages to blow up, its damage is ridicle.
Melee Attacks stops their detonations.
Ranged guns take them down with ease before they can even be in range to stun you.

Boilers are pretty much in the same position.
If you shoot them, they will pop Spawn Pods... which get oneshotted no matter what.
Spawned infested are lv10 and can be taken down by a Sentinel (with no mods on its weapon).
They 99% get bugged and won't melee nor attack you.

There's enough space to play with better mechanics, and making them a real threat.
Start by making Volatile Runners faster in their actions and more lethal in their explosions. Give them a fair counterplay.
So, they should be fragile and fast, or slow and tanky.
Maybe telegraph the explosion with some kind of flashing texture animation.

Boilers can work in the same manner. If you're afraid of overpopulation and performance problems, just make them spawn Volatile Runners, which anyway are going to die asap.
Skip the Spawn Pods step. Too much easy counterplay there.
Eventually make them explode with a large Infested Tar slowing Tennos so they can be caught by the horde.

Make it more dynamic, let's put more risk, let's require more interaction from the player, than just holding down Left Mouse Button or spamming E...

Edited October 6, 2016 by Burnthesteak87