alien respawn idea

megas64

i just had a good idea about the respawn for the aliens
the humans respawn through those respawn platforms well i think aliens should respawn from eggs which would be dispenced from the hive (like the alien queen scene from aliens) say like an egg every 5 sec or something and if theres no eggs available that person cant respawn

Battle-Bug

I like this idea and have had it before. Unfortunately, making a bottleneck for alien respawn would make them vulnerable. Also, the eggs out on the ground would make for easy targets, especially for gls. I would recommend that the eggs grow out of the infestation around the hive and not only on the ground. This would eliminate the bottleneck.

RobB

Ahem. I do think it will work like that, that was at least mentioned when the Fireflies where introduced.

Cruor

As far as I understand it the Hive dispenses these glowies eg. nymphs and they fly around the hive area and upon a player entering his spawn cycle a glowie would land on any available infested area and turn into the cocoon/egg which spawns the Skulk of the player.

So it adopts the whole larva to butterfly morphology concept which I think sounds much cooler than the the hive simply laying the eggs. And it would also allow the option for the glowies finding a safe spot to hatch in during moments of siege by marines, to possible avoid the whole spawnkilling concept.

So the hive is jampacked with eggs and hatches them inside of her to release the nymphs that than cocoon into players, just plain awsome.

RobB

I hope we can control "our" Nymphs. I want to be able to choose at which Hive and where I spawn, so I would land on the ceiling for example.
Of course, if you stroll to far away from the Hive you wither up and die.

FocusedWolf

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Not much more so then a marine IP.

huhuh

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Ever heard of "Comm, build a 2nd ip pls !"

Voyager I

Getting spawn raped <i>was</i> one of the least fun parts of NS. I wouldn't go too overboard looking for solutions, but any reasonable measures to make it a little less effortless (Focus Fade on the IP...) would be nice.

xmaine

all aliens should come out of the hive's vagina