Whip Hive

PsiWarp

Dare to dream of a 4th Kharaa tech path? What evolutions, Drifter cloud, and Whip active ability would you suggest?

For me:

Whip Hive - choose a path of siege and offense.

Wyrm - evolution structure.

Demolish - evolution, attacks spread 50% total damage to armor vs. structures, +25% dmg spread to armor per level, max 100% dmg spread to armor (aka destroy armor before damaging HP).
Revenge - evolution, reduces respawn time by 3 seconds per level, max 9 seconds reduction.

*** - Drifter cloud, thinking...

Bombard - active ability, TRes to activate ranged bombard bomb for selected Whip for ability duration, cooldown per Whip.

Melancor

Cory will like this.

Shadoko

Why not ! But your evolutions are a little bit overpowered I think.

turtsmcgurt

rewarding a player for dying is a bad mechanic, i'd suggest reworking #2. edit: although it would make forward base xenocides even better...

Nazo

I wouldent mind just copying the evolutions from the NS2C whip hive

Focus (slower attacks that do more damage), bombard (Do extra damage to structures) ([Name I cant remember] gain a little HP for every kill)

PsiWarp

@turtsmcgurt: Yes, I may have to rework Revenge. Who knows what the repercussions of allowing instant respawn/Skulk rushes would do to balance :P

@Nazo: You mean Frenzy? That one could work with some tweaks, like only +25 HP/AP per kill, instead of added all extra damage on the killing blow to HP/AP.

Ghosthree3

I believe this has been tried or at least come up before.

meatmachine

PsiWarp wrote: »

Revenge - evolution, reduces respawn time by 3 seconds per level, max 9 seconds reduction.

Say goodbye to all your eggs!

How about

Ability #2: Denticle - Aliens skin has shark-like texture, dealing minor abrasive damage to anything the alien rubs against (again, effective mainly for extra damage against structures)

Drifter Cloud: Embyrogenesis (5 res? 10 res?) - AOE that insta-respawns any skulks queued to eggs in the area.
(just an idea inkeeping with your previous ideas, take it or leave it)

xen32

Ability 1: Root - alien roots into infestation, enabling bombard ability.
Ability 2: Grenade whack - tosses back any grenade that lands on khaara bacteria (those worms all aliens have)

Scatter

A lot of the suggestions are overly wordy and require me to think for too long to understand what is going on, sort of like some of the dota 2 abilities with too much text.

Frenzy might be worthwhile in a non-op state.

On a side note; Is there still a reason to disallow multiple upgrades from the same hive type as was featured in the beta at some stage?

sHawke_Native

why not just have whips on the hive....?that'll prevent players axing/welding a hive, also it can beon any/all hive you have so it'll be a hive upgrade

BestProfileName

Don't want too much PvE so perhaps this hive should unlock as a thid hive after 6 biomass has been accumulated. Either that or a fourth hive to help break that boring marine turtle.