Aliens seem tougher today
nicholmikey
Join Date: 2012-10-31 Member: 165281Members
Join Date: 2012-10-31 Member: 165281Members
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On the other hand, exos acutally have to move in and target support stuctures now.
Improvement as it is, the percentages are WAY off. Onos and fades, hell whatever, can cause an unprecedented amount of harassment. A single onos managing his HP properly can preoccupy half a marine team until they loose
Just tweak the rates. I think 5 +1.5% hp would be best. And crags are even more unbalanced. Should reset those to whatever rates were in NS1.
Camo + Regen is super fun.
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no Aliens apart from me as Gorge
the Marines got 2 Minutes until my team comes back, gatherd and killed them.... the hive went down to 40% at its lowerst point, i jumped in the hive to press the active heal from the crags, than i jumped back out to healed, from my point as the Gorge it was fun, but it is way to much healing from the crags.
The Marine Rush after that, they focused the crags, 2 of 4 died in 1 Minute, wich is to long!
I think the crag heal in special the active heal is way to big, i would say OP, there was some points in that game, who 4-5 Marines shot a Onos who stands next to a few Crags, he was outhealing them!
to powerfull in my opinion!
Almost a 10% increase in alien win ratio
Every match as marines seems to be: spread out to get rts. If you spread too far before phasegate you will lose most of the rts you've built. If you don't spread out the alien khamm takes all the nodes while the skulks stream in from a centrally located shift to two different sides. About 6 minutes later fades and lerks come in if the aliens are bored of winning as onos'. If the aliens really want to win they tres an onos egg and systematically destroy what little the marines have been able to build up.
Despite the NS2 stats I really think that aliens are winning much much more than 40% atleast for the last 2 days or so.
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it feels like more than that, but when i'm on the losing marine side i press tab and see that my team has like 3 frags 20 deaths or 5 frags 19 deaths etc.
that's quite a telling sign of lesser skilled players. your teammates were getting ripped apart by skulks - how does that happen? it's not because of regen or any of the 229 changes... i think this swing was to be expected even without the patch, marine team attracts the newer players :O
it's also a significant problem with the fundamental game design in the 'lower skill' bracket... skulk can 2-shot a marine in early game, so it's to be expected that new marine players struggle with the deadly accurate weapons and panic fire - miss their shots and then get taken down instantly even to new skulk players who have much easier time aiming with the massive cone.
Don't look at the 10% shift but look at it from what it was in build 228. However no matter how much UWE trys to balance I don't think there will ever be a perfect 50/50 win loose percentage in this game.
Before this patch, there was the problem in needing multiple crags for it to be effective. Now its that multiple crags are cheese.
Keep the current percentage heal rate, but remove the stacking. Only reason to build multiple crags should be to cover more space...just like shades and shifts.
Well, that's a common rules in multiplayer games. A bigger flock makes it easier to carry the weak links.
If you play Left 4 Dead and one guy in the team keeps dying or can't keep up, the entire rest of the team will suffer greatly from being one man down. In Planetside will you probably not even notice the new guy who keeps getting killed over and over again.
In 16 player matches in NS2 is every player more in the need to perform exceptionally well and to be able to hold positions on his own. In 20+ matches will he likely always have some backup.
Yeah. I've played 8 games today, and Aliens/Kharaa won all 8 games.
I already preferred playing as Alien, but now there's almost no reason to ever join Marines.