Introduce a new alien lifeform

McBerns

Where this one is mainly projectile based, has a low skill ceiling, but quite weak with melee. Make this as a starter, put aside the skulk as a evolvable lifeform for 20, 15, or 10 pres. By doing so will make new players feel more comfortable playing as the aliens and more likely to do so, and less likely of team stacking. So as long as both sides can shoot like bullets, it would be fine. If your not really fond of being original, then you could gather can some ideas from the Zerg race in Starcraft 2 for our new projectile based life form. There is a consistency of certain ground units where it does projectiles and melee together (hydralisk, queen, roach, etc.)

I am thinking of a way to decrease the learning curve this game has to offer, and this is one of these ideas. We could get more players this way.

wulf

The best new alien lifeform idea I've seen thus far:

forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/126132/lockable-vents-and-baby-lerks

Maxx11_v2.0

I'm going for a big fat NO on this one. Its true that NS2 has a high learning curve, but the things that make it difficult are also the things that make it unique. This would be a drastic change to the game, upsetting the core mechanisms.