Ominous Infestation

zolja

Anyone else think that infestation is way too...tame? I would think that something crawling around the floor would have some ominous purpose and make the marines say "OMG it's coming this way!!" but it doesn't. Maybe if it had the mechanic like the infestation in a gorge tunnel has: takes away armor--or even hp from marines walking in it? Also maybe give penalty to walk speed or boost to aliens? Right now it only allows for Alien Comm to build/shift structures and tame damage to marine structures. Maybe if the alien comm had some sort of ability to damage marines like spore cloud that would rise up from a cyst in a given area? It's one of the main Alien mechanics but it is woefully underutilized. It needs some bite!

Jekt

Locklear?

BeigeAlert

zolja wrote: »

Anyone else think that infestation is way too...tame? I would think that something crawling around the floor would have some ominous purpose and make the marines say "OMG it's coming this way!!" but it doesn't. Maybe if it had the mechanic like the infestation in a gorge tunnel has: takes away armor--or even hp from marines walking in it? Also maybe give penalty to walk speed or boost to aliens? Right now it only allows for Alien Comm to build/shift structures and tame damage to marine structures. Maybe if the alien comm had some sort of ability to damage marines like spore cloud that would rise up from a cyst in a given area? It's one of the main Alien mechanics but it is woefully underutilized. It needs some bite!

Well, there IS always the threat of bonewalls and rupture, but those are more annoying than dangerous. And more often than not, it seems, bonewall only acts to trap aliens up against marines and get them killed. )

Racer1

Agreed.
Infestation originally was supposed to slowly sap marine armor and maybe even make them move slower.
It used to be that you could only kill it with flame/GL.

Now it is basically worthless.

AnkleBitingKitty

Well it does give gorges better belly slide, and while it feels like its more like a alien version of power node if your pretty far in on your own or with only one other rine you can feel a bit like you can be attacked at any time, but I feel one thing that takes away from it is that the emergency lighting still lets you see pretty well, but It would need things to be rebalanced a bit for it to be dark.

Nordic

I just like hive-site.