Make infantry portals and (if developed) phase gates dangerous.

VeNeM

next youll want trace rounds for lmg because you dont like dying.

yea lets address every complaint with a "fix"

I dont like having to use melee as an alien. lets give aliens lmgs too
I dont like having to heal as marine. make the game cod-tastic with no health bars just a regen
I dont like having to reload its taking too long. lets eliminate reloading by having the lmg have a cooldown instead of a reload
I dont like having to jump to get certain things, lets give the marines hoverboards.
I dont like having to go ALL THE WAY to MARINE START to attack, lets give aliens teleporters
I dont like having to aim at everyone, its too time consuming and I could be doing other things like eating ramen. give everyone an aimbot.

now that weve cleared up the next 6-7 threads lets actually start a topic that doesnt involve breaking the game because someone somewhere doesnt understand that the game requires teamwork to win.

Runteh

You have to have a negative.. if you are at the point that your entire team is dead and you can't protect the IP, you have been a bad team/commander anyway.

Here's a suggestion - buy another one. Oh and try repairing it once in a while.

Harimau

Alright so, new suggestion:
IF marines are all dead AND an alien is near your only ip THEN aliens get "you win" message and marines get "you lose" message. No need to destroy the IP, it can't be defended anyway.

twiliteblue

Spawning camping while deliberately ignoring eggs/IP is unsportsman-like behaviour, and warrants mass F4 as protest. I would say the game was clearly lost if my team cannot spawn safely at all, let alone push out.

BigD

This is a really good thread and it's addressing one of the key things that does turn new players off. It was the same problem in the original game and it's still a problem now. It's the major flaw of static, enemy accessible spawn points.

Marines shouldn't be invincible, but the IP should do a small knock back and/or small amount of damage to anything within a short radius of it. This would give a marine enough time to get his bearings and it would discourage one skulk from killing the IP, but not be enough for a group to finish it off easily. And unlike electrification, that lone skulk that's caught the entire marine team out of base can actually still kill that IP and force the marines to consider running back or get the comm to jump out of the chair for a moment.

Another idea would be to make it if your life is only certain length, every time you respawn, you get a temporary buff to your health and it'll stack (to a point).

I just loaded up the game for the first time in a couple of builds only to be spawn camped 3 times in a row. Oh, yeah, awesome. To the people saying "that's the game", go bury yourself in a shallow grave. I promise I'll stand on your grave with a shovel and smack you ever time you try to dig your way out. That's how much fun this game is when this happens.

Anyway, there is my feedback for this build.

BigD

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IF marines are all dead AND an alien is near your only ip THEN aliens get "you win" message and marines get "you lose" message. No need to destroy the IP, it can't be defended anyway.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

This is another really good suggestion. +1 times a billion. So many times people simply don't f4. Sure, maybe in dream server land they do, but not in the real world.

louis cardinal

i have the best answer for this:

the commander has the responsibility to SELL the IP if aliens are just spawn camping and not killing the IP and just stacking kills (lol thats pretty ruthless)

BUT WHAT IF you dont have a commander alive

lol good luck buddy enjoy the show of spawn killing repetitively