Someone I Know Thinks That...

Black_Vault

someone i know thinks that the commander should just jump out of the command chair and do stuff like a normal marine, which is wrong.
but he just says that he is right about it, but just wanted for me to post in this forum to prove that he is right (which he is not)
a commander should always stay in the chair, right?
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im making a swedish clan, and becouse im right he will make a own clan with his rules, but he will not be the commander.

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Brave_Ulysses

Depends on the situation and a comm's general marine skills. If he can shoot devastatingly well, then if his base gets attacked and everyone else has gone out, I think he SHOULD hop out and kill harassing skulks, etc. If he sucks then don't. Hit distress beacon to reincarnate dead marines to take care of the problem (only works if you remain in your original base). When you have a 2 vs 2 situation then it really DOES cut down on building time if a comm hops out and helps.

Etc.

Frikk

basic rules seems to be is to only get out if the base is getting hammered by 1 skulk whos about to take it all down. If there are more aliens outside the cc than you can take, relocate. If you can take them, kill them all, rebuild base with whoever is around, but really, try to stay in the chair as much as possible, it's invaluable to your team to relay positions/drop health/ammo/ etc.

antichrist

I sometimes jump out when I tell team to do 2 hive lock down I gaurd main base and they tell me when they there and need comm fo PG

Zeus

It depends, the only time i usually hop out is near the begining of the game to help build things quicker before the skulks reach the base in their early rushes.

Rue

your friend is right, at the start of the match when skulks still seem to try and rush you i build ip then lay down a obs tower and armoury then get out and help build /defend

Zunni

I'd say your friend is right...

There are many times having a comm get out and fend off an attack gave us enough time to get back to base... he fights, dies, respawns and resumes in the chair..

The tactics today seem to be build mines by doorways and get as many marines out of the base, its getting rarer and rarer to see a marine in base defending....

*EDIT* Thought I would also mention the same principle holds true for aliens... Spawn campers happen generally for the same reason */EDIT*

So once one skulk has suicided a path through the mines, the entire base is easy bait unless... the comm hops out and defends..

I've been that one skulk on many occasions and generally get quite a bit of the base chomped before anyone gets back (PG, OBS, ARmoury and perhaps even the arms/Proto lab)

When this tactic is usually used is when the marines are all out capturing an objective (locking down a hive etc), they see the phase and think they can get back to base whenever they want (esp if they have 3 phases, and you eat one, they don't see the lights go out on it)

so to conclude, your friend has a valid point...

my 2 cents,