[186] Egg Balance
TechnoMuffin
Join Date: 2004-05-16 Member: 28713Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2004-05-16 Member: 28713Members, Constellation
Hey all, got done playing a couple games...first off, I want to say that I love the new egg spawn concept, it's great. That said, some flaws are becoming apparent...
It seems to be 1 egg per 15 seconds, rather than 1 egg per hive per 15 seconds? I think it should probably to looked at to be for each hive independently. We ended up getting Crossroads killed, and none of us could even spawn at alien start despite a lack of marine presence there. Basically the marines could lock down our entire spawn (by killing eggs as they came up) just by attacking one hive.
This is paired with the fact that aliens just feel squishy at the moment, both from lack of late game defensive options, as well as the fact that marines can actually shoot straight now that some of the video lag has been alleviated :P. Two square on shotgun blasts to down a fade is...painful. So after the marines pick up grenades/flamethrowers for the area effect goodness, we can see a lot of alien death on coordinated marine pushes, which we can't sustain a defense against due to the egg mechanics. Just need some tweaks =).
It seems to be 1 egg per 15 seconds, rather than 1 egg per hive per 15 seconds? I think it should probably to looked at to be for each hive independently. We ended up getting Crossroads killed, and none of us could even spawn at alien start despite a lack of marine presence there. Basically the marines could lock down our entire spawn (by killing eggs as they came up) just by attacking one hive.
This is paired with the fact that aliens just feel squishy at the moment, both from lack of late game defensive options, as well as the fact that marines can actually shoot straight now that some of the video lag has been alleviated :P. Two square on shotgun blasts to down a fade is...painful. So after the marines pick up grenades/flamethrowers for the area effect goodness, we can see a lot of alien death on coordinated marine pushes, which we can't sustain a defense against due to the egg mechanics. Just need some tweaks =).
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