Teamplay Is Double Edged Sword

heathenSlayer

<div class="IPBDescription">arggggggg!</div> Last night I played one of the worst games ever. I joined aliens when they had two hives and quite a few res nodes. The marines start setting up a phase gate and res node outside of the CC hive at South Loop on eclipse. I tell everyone that a phase is going up. Another skulk and I start making runs at the phase, but some guy with shotgun is killing us from across the room with 1 shot even though I had L3 carapace which only adds to the frustration. I could only get about 2 kills at most each run. Then they start building a a TF and I start telling our 2 fades to get their hineys over there or its gg.

During DEAD mode I painfully watch as the fades just meanader around the map, running in straight lines. Within 4 minutes of the TF, we have turrets right outside the hive and then a siege kills it. After CC went down, it wasn't long before we lost Eclipse. What really bugs me is that I had been warning that the phase and tf right outside our hive would be game-ending, yet only 1 or 2 people helped.

Do you think NS might have too much emphasis on teamwork, so much that if only 2 yokels on your team are not pulling their weight you lose directly because of it?

It also kind of stinks to join midgame because you have 0 res. I definitely could have prevented that if I had enough res for lerk or fade.

ShuflY

Yeah, it sucks having to deal with inexperianced or just plain dumb players on your team, but there isn't much you can do outside of finding another server. I have alot of friends that are into FPS and RTS games, so when I started playing NS and told them about it, so did they. So I had a good amount of people to play with at any time, then I joined a clan and now I never have to worry about having a crappy team. You should get a friend to play with you, join a clan, or just get to know a few decent players and try and find what server they are on before you join. Just having one or two people on your team who are competent can be powerful on a pub server.

Mart

<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=1&t=24698' target='_blank'>Good NS Public Servers Thread</a>

^Go there, and play on some of those servers.

Grimm_Spector

About the shotgun killing across a room, it's not a rifle, the shot should spread out over distance, but it doesn't, it's a fixed area effect. I hope the NS team changes that in the next release, because it makes a LVL 3 shotgun WAY too powerful, you can practically snipe with it, and it'll take down a carapaced fade in no time, at close range it should, but it's a shottie, long range it's useless....or should be.... <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo-->