What Do You Do In This Situation?
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Join Date: 2003-01-07 Member: 12000Members
Join Date: 2003-01-07 Member: 12000Members
I was comming in the map ns_hera the other night ... we relocated to processing successfully and set up the DCD hive res, 2 TF, around 7 turrets, lots of mines. Then much later in the game - arms lab, proto, 4 sieges ( 2 for each hive ) and ob
I needed res after that, so i sent a group of 3 rines to get res at different locations such as cargo storage, old marine start, vent hive ( i didnt bother with holo because i knew i wouldnt be able to hold it at this stage ) ... only 1 rine followed his orders and went waypoint .. only to get killed while still building the res. This happened like 5 times, so i didnt even build a res point until there was at least 4 marines ( it was a public server, so who can blame them <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> )
Soon after i upgraded motion, lvl 3 ammo, lvl 3 armour, JP and HA with only 1 res point ... the aliens had all the res points ...
Now ... what would you do in this situation where res only came at like 2 every 15 seconds? Keeping in mind that the majority of the team were newbies and constantly asking for a medpack ( 2 res each ) and i had to constantly scan the hives to make sure the sneaky gorges didnt sneak a hive in ( 3 res each scan ). The map had literally OCs spammed everywhere .. i tried giving a rine a GL only to die to a skulk seconds later
After around 2 hours into the game ... while trying to save up enough for HA and GL/HMG for everyone, the server suddenly crashed ... i don't know why but it couldnt be the mines cause i only gave 5 packs out. This might have been a good thing cause we were sort of stuck between the line of winning and the line of losing
I needed res after that, so i sent a group of 3 rines to get res at different locations such as cargo storage, old marine start, vent hive ( i didnt bother with holo because i knew i wouldnt be able to hold it at this stage ) ... only 1 rine followed his orders and went waypoint .. only to get killed while still building the res. This happened like 5 times, so i didnt even build a res point until there was at least 4 marines ( it was a public server, so who can blame them <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> )
Soon after i upgraded motion, lvl 3 ammo, lvl 3 armour, JP and HA with only 1 res point ... the aliens had all the res points ...
Now ... what would you do in this situation where res only came at like 2 every 15 seconds? Keeping in mind that the majority of the team were newbies and constantly asking for a medpack ( 2 res each ) and i had to constantly scan the hives to make sure the sneaky gorges didnt sneak a hive in ( 3 res each scan ). The map had literally OCs spammed everywhere .. i tried giving a rine a GL only to die to a skulk seconds later
After around 2 hours into the game ... while trying to save up enough for HA and GL/HMG for everyone, the server suddenly crashed ... i don't know why but it couldnt be the mines cause i only gave 5 packs out. This might have been a good thing cause we were sort of stuck between the line of winning and the line of losing
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Point two: Go to a better server. I'm sure there was a thread earlier in the general discussion about where good servers are.
Anyways, if you don't relocate, you'll likely have at least 3 res nozzles (cargo, marine start, and processing) And of course you can probably take ventilation and maintenance and leave them undefended for quite a while. Better yet, relocate to Data core Alpha (DCA) and seige like all but 3 of the map's res nodes AND archiving hive from there.
If you only send one marine to build something, that's not gonna work. You've got to have someone cover, otherwise he's dead meat (and so is your building). Send them all to the same res. It's better to hold one res than lose 2+ because you spread yourself too thin.
if your team is down on one res tower, then you are nicely said **** and I mean big time.
But anyways like the above posters said, in the early game you need to get the res income happening. Check out <a href='http://nakyveci.wz.cz/NSEcoSim.html' target='_blank'>this</a> neat economy simulator and see how much an extra res node or 2 will help you in the long run.
And yeah... if they're crying for health and you're strapped for cash, just tell em to type kill in console <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Great economy counter. It made me think once more why do I put up TF and turrets so early. Useless unless there is doublenode nearby. Mines are cheaper and will do the trick most of the time.
And when I say out post I mean armory and possibly even a spare CC and IPs. Just in case. Holding Processing is a good tactic. But only holding processing leaves you crippled because all the resnodes are hard to get at. Basicly you end up with a really really long stand off. and eventually the aliens F4.
But yeah. Even a relocation will give you the win.. eventually.
ya friggin' pessemist. I hate it when people recycle the ip's. Everything else is fine though.
After 1 or 2 hours, the aliens ress is going so quickly that they can try to build two hives at the same time. I was playing as an alien, and after 1 hour playing, the marines were stuck in processing and the aliens had all of the RTS of the map. No one could get in, no one could get out, because there were sentrys and OCs everywere. So we sent 1 gorg to each hive (1 to data and 1 to vent), while the rest of the team evolved to lerk and atacked the processing TF. While the comm was busy welding the TF and giving medpacks to marines, the 2 gorgs build the 2 hives.
5 minutes later the comm watched in awe 12 onus invading processing at the same time. Because we had so many RTS, in a matter of seconds everyone evolved to onus. In one moment we were just a bunch of skulks, the next minute we were 12 onus ready to kick some marine butt.
Sounds "easy", but I guess that my team was very good.
and build your base in gen cargo storage, not marine start
weld that door and the vents, voila, you control 2 res, plus you can seige holo, and you can weld the security door and thats 3 res, + controlling processing= win
even on a pub
5 minutes later the comm watched in awe 12 onus invading processing at the same time. Because we had so many RTS, in a matter of seconds everyone evolved to onus. In one moment we were just a bunch of skulks, the next minute we were 12 onus ready to kick some marine butt.
Sounds "easy", but I guess that my team was very good. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
ONI ONI ONI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOT ONUS
ty v much <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->