When playing as a commander and building drifters, they dont spend the 30 res needed. If its below 30, it is not possible to build drifters but as you reach 30 its spamable.
Well, from what I have experienced as commander you can spam drifters and build bots to your hearts content. In fact I think I played on some servers recently with TrC, and the aliens sent in about 20 drifters (or something) to the marines base near the end. Flash banged everyone.
During this period, the server stuttered. Huge lag.
Also the excess of build bots meant everything was far too easy to repair. So disposable in fact, that you can send 3 to every structure being attacked - and they can repair it very well before being chomped to death. By that time, the marines have backed things up and you don't get the structure down in time.
Res and Build Bots/Drifter need sorting for the next patch.
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Oh yes, I particularly like the bots that repairs structures while they're outside the wall or under the floor, making them impossible to kill.
That reminds me, in regular games MAC/Drifter pops up instantly when you click the button, but with cheats turned on they have a brief build time. This seems to be backwards.
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I think when you find bugs in-game, you're supposed to press F1 and do it that way.
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<!--quoteo(post=1815335:date=Dec 12 2010, 08:14 AM:name=peregrinus)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (peregrinus @ Dec 12 2010, 08:14 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1815335"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->What is hive energy? Where can you see how much hive energy there is?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Hive/CS energy is shown below the hive/cs icon at the bottom of the screen. Its the XXX/200 number that keeps increasing over time. Still, I think they should remove that energy and just make everything the comm does cost carbon. Much simpler that way.
Or plasma. Otherwise a commander will find himself with this huge cache of unusable stuff, forcing him to jump out and someone else to take his place if you don't want it to go to waste.
QuovatisTeam InversionJoin Date: 2010-01-26Member: 70321Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
I've noticed if you need to build a whip (for example), you actually need at least 11 res to build it, even though it costs only 10. Kind of stupid. I assume the same bug exists for energy.
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During this period, the server stuttered. Huge lag.
Also the excess of build bots meant everything was far too easy to repair. So disposable in fact, that you can send 3 to every structure being attacked - and they can repair it very well before being chomped to death. By that time, the marines have backed things up and you don't get the structure down in time.
Res and Build Bots/Drifter need sorting for the next patch.
Res and Build Bots/Drifter need sorting for the next patch.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Oh yes, I particularly like the bots that repairs structures while they're outside the wall or under the floor, making them impossible to kill.
Confirm?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think when you find bugs in-game, you're supposed to press F1 and do it that way.
Hive/CS energy is shown below the hive/cs icon at the bottom of the screen. Its the XXX/200 number that keeps increasing over time. Still, I think they should remove that energy and just make everything the comm does cost carbon. Much simpler that way.