Choosing alien spawn location - GiantBomb Cast

Jekt

So in the Giant Bomb cast, Charlie said it was possible to choose alien spawn locations as they became available.

I decided to test this in a local server and it is indeed possible to choose the hive you spawn at, when you die you can toggle views between hives and whatever hive you have selected will be the hive you spawn at.

Wasn't able to do it in a populated server however, since when you die you have to third person teammates and can't view hives.

Hopefully a proper implementation of spawn selection (and selecting evolutions while dead ;)) will be put in after 1.0.

This is probably a bug report more than anything, just looks like an oversight.

TimMc

I think its an intentional mechanic, having spawns selected by the game rather than player.

Shift eggs are selected first, giving the commander control.
Hives under attack are selected before even that, helping defense but also allowing marines to use this mechanic (if they wish) to get aliens to spawn in a different location.

Vladimir Van Vodka

<!--quoteo(post=1993956:date=Oct 20 2012, 04:39 AM:name=Vladimir Van Vodka)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Vladimir Van Vodka @ Oct 20 2012, 04:39 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1993956"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><!--coloro:#FFFACD--><span style="color:#FFFACD"><!--/coloro-->I just personally think aliens should be able to select what hive/shift egg they hatch from, their lifeform and their evolutions before they spawn, the time required for changing to said lifeform other then skulk would be stacked into your spawn time, alongside evolutions, of course.

your last evolution choices/lifeform should be kept, that way there should be less hassle having to press "B" everytime you spawn to click on stuff.

I'm not saying to remove the evolution menu, just implement it to the respawn queue too.

Obviously if you can not afford the lifeform or the evolutions aren't available anymore, you would spawn as default skulk, and the evolutions you cant use anymore wouldn't be applied.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

^ old suggestion

I just found it's horrendously similar, Aliens should be able to choose where to spawn, egglocking or running around the map in vain to defend is extremely frustrating

Imbalanxd

On a semi related note.

PLEASE, DO NOT SHOW ME A THIRD PERSON PERSPECTIVE OF MY SPAWNING EGG UNLESS I AM ABLE TO SPAWN FROM IT. I cannot convey how utterly infuriating it is to be given a view of my egg, only to be teleported away to some third person view of some alien in another hive room when I click. If i am focused on my egg, I should spawn when I click.

Codeine

I hate how your watching someone play then BAM you just suddenly hatch out of an egg"waiting to spawn", oh marines here too??? ######n ded. Sometimes you dont even see the egg or where your hatching you just pop out infront of marines etc, Makes trying to defend a hive almost impossible sometimes.

Xarius

Yea, they really need to sort this, and the alien spawn system in general. Egg locking is just ridiculously easy at the start of the game.

Jekt

I think they had the spawning (egg locking not included) nailed <b>30 builds ago</b>.

You use to be able to cycle through eggs and egg spawning locations, look at the egg you were going to spawn at in third person and then even choose when you spawned from that egg.

ogz

I remember that too

Maybe it was teh new 'wave spawn' feature that messed some things up?

can't spawn as a 'wave' if everyone can click spawn their egg :p