Can we have Focus?Focus

countbasie

<div class="IPBDescription">plz</div>Trying to damage level 3 marines as either a skulk, a gorge, a lerk, or a fade is just not fun, and it doesn't feel balanced. Focus was the perfect solution for that in NS1: dbl damage, dbl cooldown. It feels good to make precise hits rather than biting/swiping endless times and just retreat/die without a kill.
Right? It'd be one step towards a better balanced fade as well.
Marines also only need to get to an armory to make any effort from the alien side worthless, since the armory repairs armor.
I understand that UWE mainly goes for win/loss ratios when it comes to balance, but the aliens need to be more fun. Focus it is.
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snowfox86

Work with your team. If your main focus is getting kills as a Lerk, then you're playing the Lerk wrong. If you see some one going Fade, and you're a lerk. Do you know how devastating that combination can be?

Lerks and gorges both have the potential of harrassing and melting away hp/armor on marines enough to allow skulks and fades and onos to clean them up without much loss.

Sehzade

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Metro

I, too, miss Focus. It would help the fade a lot.

And marines being repaired by the armory is something I always found silly. It negates harassing by a lot and enables marines to turtle even when their games are lost already. (Kind of like how NS1 was in earlier versions. You know, until they changed the balance to fix that bore. Kind weird that the same issue is here in NS2 again.)

statikg

+1 harass devs til we get it lool

unkind

+1 one of the few ways to make aliens fun

IeptBarakat

+1

Tell me a good reason why 0 res skulks shouldn't be fighting 0 res Armor3 marines.

Defcon2021

We're gonna have to harass the devs a lot more since we don't have Focus. I'll bet you they have an armory that heals armor in their office as well... good luck with that harass.

BearTornado

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From what I've read on the forums (according entirely to other player's experiences), the marines were just better at whining about every little thing.

So I guess 0 res aliens are underpowered at that too?

countbasie

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Neither Vs Exos nor vs JP marines with lvl3 weapons is that a good combination right now. Talking about a good marine team, of course.

TimMc

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This +1.

Shrimm

I miss focus :(