What Did "babblers" Do

ZiGGY · September 2003

never liked babblers, never found a use for them. at hive 2 you got web and marines couldnt do a thing afterwards.

Cheez1 · September 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Hawkeye @ Sep 3 2003, 02:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Yeah, I think gorges are waaaaaaaaayyy too strong to cost just 10 resources.
I know they don't want to raise the cost, because they are builders. Just nerf gorges a bit. They shouldn't be powerhouses with 3 hives. They should just be builders.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Yeah...costs 10 res and very powerful? Hmm...sounds familiar...can't quite put my finger on it... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Majin · September 2003

I'll give you a hint
it makes this sound
*Chook Chaaaa*
when you load ammo

Kid-A · September 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Jaml @ Sep 3 2003, 12:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> As someone suggested before why not give the fade the babblers instead of metabolize which is rather useless.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
How is healing yourself useless?

I think meta is a godsend as a fade...

Teflon · September 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cheez! @ Sep 4 2003, 12:45 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Hawkeye @ Sep 3 2003, 02:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Yeah, I think gorges are waaaaaaaaayyy too strong to cost just 10 resources.
I know they don't want to raise the cost, because they are builders. Just nerf gorges a bit. They shouldn't be powerhouses with 3 hives. They should just be builders. </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Yeah...costs 10 res and very powerful? Hmm...sounds familiar...can't quite put my finger on it... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Following 'Flayra-logic' spit should do 200 damage then, so it kills everything but HA and level 3 upgrades in one hit...

kingmob · September 2003

i miss the babblers
they were not what you would call scary because they were stupid
maybe if they parasited they would be of better value

but if a gorge spit some out
and you as a skulk mixed in with them

you could do some serious damage

SMOKEDHAM · September 2003

Babblers could fulfill the same role as bile bomb, it would be an intresting switcheroo.

wlibaers · September 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (wRaven @ Sep 2 2003, 11:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> They were like the Snarks from standard HL.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Except the babblers made the snarks look like Nobel prize winners...

If they were as good as snarks, that would be fantastic. Hmm... Maybe we should replace spit with snarks <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

MrMojo · September 2003

Gorges shouldn't be weakened. Without any upgrades a 10 res gorge dies to an LMG marine. With upgrades, a 12-16 res gorge beats him. That's how it's supposed to be.

Jane · September 2003

I love my battle gorges, don't whine about them, they should not be nuked! Good comparision gorge to shotgun, lol.

Pepe_Muffassa · September 2003

I used to love gorge rushing in 1.04 - babblers ruled. my personal favorite was when you "launched" them wrong and they turned around and bit you!! I used to get babbler kills all the time - simply because of the hummiliation affect. It was totally demorializing - even worse than heal spray kills (though not as bad as parasite).

I used to set up web traps (5-6 strands on the ground hidden - stacking slow down affect) and then noiselly build a structure until a marine came walking into it. then i would turn and babble them to death while they were defenseless for 30-45 sec. My all time fav camp spot for that was Eclipse, horseshoe area. Not to mention the assult on the eclipse marine spawn was awesome with babblers. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Cypher · September 2003

how can you guys say anything bad about babblers? I saw many babbler kills, healspray was much less common...all you had to do was web the marine and babbler him, and he easily died...with the marine webbed it would do like 50 damage per babbler...not to mention them exploding at the end

JohnnySmash · September 2003

Wait... healspray does damage?

-JohnnySmash

Jasp · September 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Wait... healspray does damage?</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>

lol yes altho it doesnt fire asfast as spit it does slightly more damage.

Babblers used to do about 10 bite damage and 30-40 xeno damage i think, 3-4 babblers could take down most marines <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'> They were very fun and i often sore full teams of aliens going gorge just to get those babbler kills <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

FrickenMoron · September 2003

Snarks in NS = teh win!
<img src='http://www.shark5060.net/forum/fricken/snarks.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

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