Parasite And Hud Questions

DDTrini_Lopez

1. Is parasite a long or short range hability , as it doesn't shoot any kind of proyectile i can't see that . And once I got parasited as marine , and no aliens were near me .
The really have to add a sort of spike for parasite , its very confusing.


2. It is possible to change the color of the hud ( the health, armor ammo numbers and such ) <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->

Legionnaired

The whole point of parasite is that you can track the marines, while still being stealthy. Adding a spike would make it so that you would have to expose yourself to fire. What's the point of that?

I know in some other mods, a CVAR lets you change the hud color. Check the editing sections for some new huds.

DDTrini_Lopez

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What do you mean by that ? I don't need to be looking at them to do it or what ?

Dash-o-Salt

Note that when you select parasite, crosshairs appear in the center of the screen. Yes, parasite is a long-ranged weapon. Fire at what you want to parasite - buildings/marines. Parasite does 10 damage to marines, and none to buildings.

Versable

Ok,

You choose the parasite ability, u look at ur target (a marine or a structure) then u shoot.

If you did thid right u can c a yellow-orange circle around him when you cannot directly c him (through walls etc)

It takes also 10 hp from the marine out and the marine gets a little message which says parasite detected on his hud.

Now when u rush a base at the start of a game it is usefull to parasite a building when u find there base so u can find there base after u die u can now rush directly to the base without gettin lost cus u c the parasitted structure.

Noter that once a object is parasited it can be seen by all ur team members.

Ramses

Many players doesn't know this, but the 'Parasite'-Ability can also activate buttons, doors, Elevators and such...

A short additional Question:

Does the 'Parasite'-Attack do 10 damage only once or can I kill a marine by permanently parasiting him?

Redford

you CAN kill a marine with parasites. It does 10 damage every time you hit him... so if you shoot an incredibly weak marine with parasite, it is possible to kill him. Parasite deaths are some of the most humiliating in NS... there are few other weapons that I can think of that would be worse.

Tryon

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The parasite attack CAN kill a marine. However, the trick is to hit him enough times with it to be able to inflict the damage to bring him down. I've been playing NS 2-10 hours a day since it came out (thank god for insomnia). So far, I've only been able to get 2 parasite kills. Typically, it's supposed to be a tracking method, but because of the damage it inflicts, you <i>can</i> kill someone with it, though it's kinda hard.

Hologram0

i often hide on ceilings where marines just hide and paracite every marine that goes by with out rushing them, that way my team knows where the attacking force is and can be ready for them.

Neo_Ghost

I was wondering that once you shoot a marine can they be shot again and again? I was playing and i belived that i shot a marine more than once with a parasite and i don't think i hurt him any more than the first hit. And I have never ever seen a parasite kill in my whole NS playing time.

TheGlow

I only started on Tuesday and my first day I got a parasite kill.
And then another when a guy was afk apparently in the respawn. And another on a retreating guy.
But for humiliation, id go with the rare time I went marine and got healing sprayed and died.
Marines are bumly.

Foggy

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Getting telefragged <b>sucks.</b>

TheGlow

yes indeed. I was playin unreal2k3 a few weeks ago, and some guy was doing damn good and blasting everyone away. And I happened to have been falling off a building, so I shot my translocator to teleport to safety, and by chance, this guy was flying by, right into my translocator when I teleported. telefrag.wav.
Ahh man. that musta got em worked up.

Fina

Parasite CAN DAMAGE BUILDINGS.... SLOWLY.

I've killed three turrets with parasite. However, it'd be quicker to spawn\rush\die\repeat.