THAT is why sensory (in 1.04) WILL LOSE YOU THE GAME unless you're against sub-par marines.
Sensory is fun, don't get me wrong, but movement gives you better benefits for the sensory style of play (silence anyone? best ambush upgrade there is at present), and carapace outstrips both of the other upgrades because it's overpowered (or they're underpowered).
Don't forget the hive healing rate... 2 hp per second? That's a LONG time to recover from a short lmg burst.
I'm all for variety, but when you're up against marines who can aim, defense first is sadly the only way to go to win (OK OK sometimes movement if you have a really REALLY decent alien team too).
Lastly about sensory...
YOU CAN HEAR SKULKS CLOAKING AND UNCLOAKING from about 500m - Where is the surprise element now?
Yeah Silence is great <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> it is a shame people wont accept that defence not first will not mean you lose tho <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
When I am a Gorge, I don't set up DC for the abilities, I set them up to back up my OC's, if it has the added advantage of giving my team new ways of killing, fantastic!
Once I have a Hive safe and enough RES, I am only to willing to diss out the Res for a Movement or a Sensory. Movements I only put up, when I have another place to warp to, I will use a sensory to block the abilities of the Marines, proves useful, if you know how to use them.
The only reason I put up DC is to have the regen ability on my Perimeters of OC's. <!--emo&::sentry::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/turret.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='turret.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'><!--endemo-->
If the marines commander was skilled enough in commanding he would have realized that cloaking can be temperarly disabled by a scanner sweep. One scanner sweep, a few health packs, and your shot of living now becomes zero. With defence or movement you always have some nice special ability that the marines cant take away from you for the low cost of 3 RPs.
When 1.1 arrives, I'll love going Skulk with cloaking and silence. If you do it right, you won't NEED carapace. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--ZERG!!+May 29 2003, 11:37 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ZERG!! @ May 29 2003, 11:37 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--Boltman+May 29 2003, 09:46 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Boltman @ May 29 2003, 09:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Oh yeah, I forgot to mention: Not everyone finds fun in standing still, cloacked for 10 minutes waiting a marine to come by. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> DOD players, those guys can sit in one spot camping/sniping for hours... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> That's why I hate DOD, Firearms, CS, and thier ilk. First time i played, I was like "OK, time to kill some peopBANG!" I'm dead. What, I have to wait till the next game? Ok, lets try this again. Hey guys, where do I go? Hello? BANG dead again. "LOL NOOB BUGBRAIN!!!11!!1!11!"
NS is just so much more fun. The people who play the game seem to be much more mature as well.
with the common dc, mc, sc, i always get scent of fear, carapace and adrenaline (usually still lerk by this time), it really help with farting all over the marines, round corners and in vents, and they have no idea how i knew...
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And I support Sensory first, and regularily use it. But I can still see why the DC is a better chamber.
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THAT is why sensory (in 1.04) WILL LOSE YOU THE GAME unless you're against sub-par marines.
Sensory is fun, don't get me wrong, but movement gives you better benefits for the sensory style of play (silence anyone? best ambush upgrade there is at present), and carapace outstrips both of the other upgrades because it's overpowered (or they're underpowered).
Don't forget the hive healing rate... 2 hp per second? That's a LONG time to recover from a short lmg burst.
I'm all for variety, but when you're up against marines who can aim, defense first is sadly the only way to go to win (OK OK sometimes movement if you have a really REALLY decent alien team too).
Lastly about sensory...
YOU CAN HEAR SKULKS CLOAKING AND UNCLOAKING from about 500m - Where is the surprise element now?
Once I have a Hive safe and enough RES, I am only to willing to diss out the Res for a Movement or a Sensory. Movements I only put up, when I have another place to warp to, I will use a sensory to block the abilities of the Marines, proves useful, if you know how to use them.
The only reason I put up DC is to have the regen ability on my Perimeters of OC's. <!--emo&::sentry::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/turret.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='turret.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'><!--endemo-->
If the marines commander was skilled enough in commanding he would have realized that cloaking can be temperarly disabled by a scanner sweep. One scanner sweep, a few health packs, and your shot of living now becomes zero. With defence or movement you always have some nice special ability that the marines cant take away from you for the low cost of 3 RPs.
DOD players, those guys can sit in one spot camping/sniping for hours... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's why I hate DOD, Firearms, CS, and thier ilk. First time i played, I was like "OK, time to kill some peopBANG!" I'm dead. What, I have to wait till the next game? Ok, lets try this again. Hey guys, where do I go? Hello? BANG dead again. "LOL NOOB BUGBRAIN!!!11!!1!11!"
NS is just so much more fun. The people who play the game seem to be much more mature as well.
"H4X"