Infested Marines Public Repo

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Hey everybody! Got a cool idea for how to improve Infested Marines? Now you can help! We've decided to make our Github repo and Trello board for Infested Marines public. This means that everybody now has easy access to the all the source assets and code for Infested Marines. If you want to contribute to the project, submit a pull request, and if we like your changes, we'll include them in the official mod!

Github repo: https://github.com/sclark39/NS2-InfestedMarines
Trello board: https://trello.com/b/JQ7A4oaP/infested-marines-todos

Deck_

Great idea. I hope you get some interest.

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Just FYI folks, I've cleaned up the way the mod is tested/released, and cleaned it up on the workshop. There are now only two "Infested Marines" mods on the workshop -- a "release" version, and a "beta" version.

Unfortunately, since everybody had decided to subscribe to and comment on the one that wasn't actually the "real" version, those comments are lost now. Terribly sorry about the confusion. Moving forward, this shouldn't be an issue anymore though.

radforChrist

Simple idea. Reduce, slightly, the hunger bleed when infested are on infestation. allows them to set traps and wait a little for prey.

Vetinari

radforChrist wrote: »

Simple idea. Reduce, slightly, the hunger bleed when infested are on infestation. allows them to set traps and wait a little for prey.

Also, to combat the "jumping from behind corners"-thing, how about giving marines full minimap functionality in a ten meter radius or so? Or a beeping noise that beeps faster the closer a fellow marine is... could make for some nice paranoia when you're travelling with friends.

No idea how you'd justify that beeping scanner in universe, though.

Zek

Personally I'd like to see infested be a little less effective at the corner ambush (which is basically a guaranteed infest in the right locations) and instead have better tools for taking marines out of their comfort zone. For example:

• Let the infested actively infest RTs. So once a room is lost it immediately becomes infested, and marines have to patrol more actively to fix it.
• Make the marine infest a channeled ability - hold the button to infest, takes longer but with more reliable targeting and/or slightly longer range.

With just those two changes the game becomes more about active territory management than just "wait for marines to get bored and then ambush them." Less waiting on both sides.

Zek

Oh also, flamethrower hit detection can be almost as frustrating as infest targeting. It would be nice if the hitbox were just a little bigger, even if it means lower damage. Plus some kind of hit confirmation so you get some positive feedback on your aim.

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Zek wrote: »

Personally I'd like to see infested be a little less effective at the corner ambush (which is basically a guaranteed infest in the right locations) and instead have better tools for taking marines out of their comfort zone. For example:

• Let the infested actively infest RTs. So once a room is lost it immediately becomes infested, and marines have to patrol more actively to fix it.
• Make the marine infest a channeled ability - hold the button to infest, takes longer but with more reliable targeting and/or slightly longer range.

With just those two changes the game becomes more about active territory management than just "wait for marines to get bored and then ambush them." Less waiting on both sides.

Yea those are two things I've wanted to change since even before release. Just tough to find the time to do it.

Zek wrote: »

Oh also, flamethrower hit detection can be almost as frustrating as infest targeting. It would be nice if the hitbox were just a little bigger, even if it means lower damage. Plus some kind of hit confirmation so you get some positive feedback on your aim.

The flamethrower rate of fire has been doubled in the testing version, should be able to release this thing soon. Hopefully that helps the flamethrower feel a bit better.

radforChrist

We added the 33% hunger drop on our server. Really works well. We had an issue with marines pairing up and holding locations, hoping air quality outlasted hunger. Now marines are more aggressive which is more engaging.

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Update! Lots of nice tweaks and bug fixes.

Changelog:

11/15/16
- Fixed a bug where the red outline used by infested players to target uninfested players would "stick" if the infested player was killed before they could infest a player.
- Infested "feed meter" (bottom-right corner) is now (hopefully) a bit more obvious. It flashes when it first appears, and flashes red when the infested player is about to starve to death.
- Cysts are green on minimap for infested players. Hopefully this makes it more obvious to infested players that cysts are good and shouldn't be killed.
- Enable all-chat at round end, when victory splash appears (Thanks Wyzcrak!)
- When the air becomes fully toxic, uninfested marines now suffocate and die. Before, it felt very anticlimactic when a round would end due to the air becoming toxic.
- Dead player's voice icons are red (Thanks Wyzcrak!)
- Fixed a bug where infested wouldn't die from instant-death triggers (eg falling into the pit in The Gap, on Mineshaft, wouldn't kill an infested player)
- Added a large number of "Tips" to the game mode that will appear based on what the player is doing or not doing. For example, if an infested player is killing cysts and there aren't any uninfested players nearby, a tip will popup telling them that cysts are good for infested players, that they should only kill cysts if they need to pretend to be human.
- Added a popup telling the infested how to infest other players (usually the right mouse-button). We saw this question pop up a LOT when people were playing the mod. "How do I infest people?" WOOSH, they're dead.
- Tweaked the cyst toxin particle effect to be more obvious.

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Minor update. With the release of 312, all strings used in Infested Marines are now present in the locale files. This means it can now support other languages!
The update is to make the mod use these updated strings.

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Update again, fixed a bug caused by a change in scoring mixin that we didn't catch.