I suppose friendly fire would encourage more communication between the team.
It would just require thinking before shooting and swarming phase gates etc. Mistakes on marine often make the difference between 1 & 2 bites, and mistakes on alien can cost a skulk his life (important when that skulk could have survived at 1 hp to bite RTs) or even a fade
We used to use DAK on NG servers... Turned on FF a couple of times without telling anyone just for lols. Oddly very few people noticed; pretty much just the marines on the receiving end of a "support" grenade and the unfortunate souls welding their exo friends. Nothin' so funny as seeing a skulk leap at an exo and having the exo punch his buddy to death in a feeble attempt to protect himself.
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On to the 32 man UK server to test how friendly fire affects pubs! :P
It would be for competitive games only. But it wasn't included in the patch
It would just require thinking before shooting and swarming phase gates etc. Mistakes on marine often make the difference between 1 & 2 bites, and mistakes on alien can cost a skulk his life (important when that skulk could have survived at 1 hp to bite RTs) or even a fade