Thoughts on getting rid of Hive Sight...

Chalarie

<div class="IPBDescription">Why?</div>Somehow It got buried at the bottom of the changelog, but what is with UWE removing hive sight for aliens? Now all we get is a mechanistic red comm chair that makes absolutely no sense as to why it would be there. I saw in another thread that that was added to make it easier for new players, yet is even more confusing.
First of all, my thoughts on the pros and cons to this change:

PROS:
-Easy to identify what the main target is for new players
-Simplifies alien UI

CONS:
-Removes the necessity of teamwork involved in parasiting structures and players
-Looks completely out of place in the organic feel of the alien UI
-Parasiting is practically worthless now
-Messes with the 'Balance' of the Alien Vision where you are unable to see tagged marines or structures through walls
-Further removes the asymmetry of the two sides. (Aliens had organic view of tagged structures, marines had minimap and waypoints
-Makes no sense like alien vision did

Obviously I am not in favor of the change, but I wanted to know what you all thought of this, maybe try and persuade me why it is a change for the better?

PsiWarp

Don't worry, Hive Sight 2.0 is in the works. It's just been removed in preparation for the new version.

Nordic

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yay

ellnic

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Can you give details on what it will be like? or do we have to wait and see?

H3lix

the only thing i want for this so called "hive sight 2.0" is the old hive sight back but only turning marines/structures orange not everything. it may just be me but i dont like the entire screen turning orange, it ruins the immersion of the amazing maps and lighting. I feel as though the alien vision mod on the mod forums does it perfectly. sadly this release broke that mod.

IronHorse

Its.. its been green for some time now, not orange anymore?
And that mod is what got adopted, and the author became a PT, TwiliteBlue?..

And.. hive sight =/= hive vision or alien vision, just fyi. This thread was referring to hive sight
Hive sight refers to seeing objects/friends/enemies through walls due to parasiting or nearby friendlies having eyes on their position. It used to be that red circle around marines after you parasite them.

You'd actually lose hive sight when using alien vision , as a trade off.
Who knows how its going to all end up now though, we'll see :)

Chalarie

:S Hoping the new hive sight is awesome! I really hope they retain the same idea for hive sight, because it was a very unique feature for aliens that showed the great asymmetric gameplay this game has to offer.

CobraCommander

I saw the old hive sight when I started playing and they removed it all of a sudden. They're working on a new set of effects for Hive sight. I can't wait to see them!!