Departures Hive Spawn and Marine Static Spawn

Tavarus

In my experience over the last few months nearly every time Aliens spawn in Departures it makes for a very difficult game. Since Marines always spawn in one spot, as soon as they find out aliens are in Departures they can easily rush other locations without much fear. The best tactic ....well close to the only tactic that I've seen be effective besides marines being bad and aliens being good is to spawn a shift somewhere and force your guys to take Lockerroom. What is the reasoning for a static marine spawn on this map anyway? It sets Departure spawn up as something close to a guaranteed bad round..because even if you gorge up East Wing marines can typically arc that down with little trouble.

I'm not sure what a good fix for this would be other than removing the static spawn or disallowing the alien spawn in departures...thoughts?

Daxx

Same issue occurs if you get Server Room/Warehouse or Cave/Repair spawns.

I can't say I like it, but there are counters to rushes from either team, mainly communication to intercept the rush or counter-rushing for a base race.

The only spawn I truly hate is Pipeline on Veil. Sooooo far away from everything.

Savant

If you're in departures then a marine base zerg is an easy win.