I almost always get redemption when I am all classes except for skulk. It's important to get redemption as a gorge, especailly early game... so if you're saving up for a hive, if you get killed you won't lose it all.
There really isn't anything worth getting besides Redemption for the Onos; carapace only adds 50 armor points, and if you're onos, you probably have nests of D chambers around anyway.
<!--QuoteBegin--Windelkron+Nov 26 2002, 11:14 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Windelkron @ Nov 26 2002, 11:14 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->There really isn't anything worth getting besides Redemption for the Onos; carapace only adds 50 armor points, and if you're onos, you probably have nests of D chambers around anyway.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Carapace does bigtime damage reduction.
From what I know carapace might just ADD another 50 armor to the Onos, but it also revamps the armor. Whats its default, like 150? Itll be like 150 light armor into 200 heavy.
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<!--QuoteBegin--Catgirl+Nov 27 2002, 12:28 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Catgirl @ Nov 27 2002, 12:28 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Carapace is currently bugged, so enjoy its bugged state while you can. It makes you about twice as hard to kill.
So no, it's not all "leet skillz".<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Once carap isn't "bugged", expect the armor/health bonus to increase. After all, the game is balanced with lvl 3 carap doubling the damage taking ability of the Kharaa. If it would increase it by a paltry 10-20% (as the raw numbers indicate), then it would be a completly crap upgrade (about the same as 1-3 regen ticks).
What bother me in general about the upgrades is that you "tech out" each upgrade really fast. The only time you don't have lvl3 in each upgrade you can have is very early on, when you have to choose between dropping down a resource tower or a defense chamber. As soon as the second hive comes up, you have three movement chambers about 45 seconds later.
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There really isn't anything worth getting besides Redemption for the Onos; carapace only adds 50 armor points, and if you're onos, you probably have nests of D chambers around anyway.
Carapace does bigtime damage reduction.
So no, it's not all "leet skillz".
So no, it's not all "leet skillz".<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Once carap isn't "bugged", expect the armor/health bonus to increase. After all, the game is balanced with lvl 3 carap doubling the damage taking ability of the Kharaa. If it would increase it by a paltry 10-20% (as the raw numbers indicate), then it would be a completly crap upgrade (about the same as 1-3 regen ticks).
What bother me in general about the upgrades is that you "tech out" each upgrade really fast. The only time you don't have lvl3 in each upgrade you can have is very early on, when you have to choose between dropping down a resource tower or a defense chamber. As soon as the second hive comes up, you have three movement chambers about 45 seconds later.