Babbler Rework

aeroripperaeroripper Join Date: 2005-02-25 Member: 42471NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
in Ideas and Suggestions
Babblers could use a bit of an overhaul. Some additions:

1) The first mode babblers work exactly like they do currently. Gorges can still get their armor or have them with dps.

2) The second mode would allow gorges to place them on any stickable service to immediately burst open when a marine walks within proximity. This would allow them to set up babbler traps in contested areas, or would be the first salvo of an ambush for other skulks waiting nearby. Even an early warning system.

With the secondary mode you would see them get a LOT more use.

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  • NordicNordic Long term camping in Kodiak Join Date: 2012-05-13 Member: 151995Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Shadow
    2x structure damage for babblers. Increased babbler speed. Longer jumps. Better targeting so a babbler actually does something.

    Maybe, just maybe put babblers on marines so they slow him down and eat his armor slowly. Is your battle gorge getting chased by a pesky marine? Babbler him and run away!

    I do like your #2.
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  • N@uralBornNoobistN@uralBornNoobist Gorge-N-Freeman,2Gorges1Clog Join Date: 2012-12-24 Member: 176138Members
    edited September 2014
    Kinda cool if you could place babblers on an rt and let them "micro" heal it whilst you go about your business. Babblers are not all about TOTAL CARNAGE.

    Putting babbler eggs on to Gorge Webs....hatch when proximity tripped"GET THEM OFF ME!!!!! ARGHGHGHGHGHG". "only really work if you had them cloaked, or the eggs obstructed via clog wall etc"

    "gorge web implying that gorges can spin silk like webs around their proximity eggs to give them a secondary layer of defence" "automatically happen when placed on a web,growth over time"

    If you got any better ideas COME AT ME BRO
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  • AnkleBitingKittyAnkleBitingKitty United States Join Date: 2014-01-19 Member: 193284Members
    edited September 2014
    One idea I really like for babblers is that when they pounce on you they stick on and nom on you till your dead, the more babblers, the more DoT. They can be shot off by a fellow marine or by swinging your hatchet you can kill them one by one. I wouldn't like it if it needed someone to shoot it but you couldn't take them off your own, I do feel it would a bit op, its not always possible to be with other people, or maybe your partner dies in a fight and your doomed. Also their giant mouth design is perfect for this, it looks like some kind of big bug you dont want anything near you, not like something that wanders around and just pounces at you only to just go down then try and pounce again.
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