Just A Couple Quesitons....

monkeymaster

<div class="IPBDescription">weeeeee :0</div> questions.

1: are marine gettin any new weapons anytime soon ?, because long game get boring after using HA + hmg or JP + hmg for over 30 mins.

2: with less aliens on the team, aliens get res alot quicker, will this change ? because its really not fair for marines. ( i onosed in 4 minutes and 59 seconds the other day with 5 aliens on the team and i only killed 10 ppl )

Jasp

Marines are getting cat packs in 2.1, as for new weapon i dout it very much, thier was a post by the vets a few months ago asking for what weapons people would like added, it ended up about 19 pages and even flay himself responded, so a new weapon may be on the cards for upcoming versions. AKA a volumetic flamethrower. Altho this would near enough kill any game if it was server side and if it was client side it would be open to exploits and hacks aswell as needing a fast PC to run.

NS isent balanced for pubs the game itself is made for clans as such is most even at 8v8 i hear, thier was talk by a vet of using the amount a gorge gets during a normal 8v8 game as a guide to how much res the aliens should get when the game is smaller the problem was that a gorge getting the same in 1v1 as a gorge in 8v8 would never stand a chance. If you was wondering why it was based on a gorge they get the least kills in a game *normally* as such provide a better guide.

Zunni

Actually the "best" game of NS is played at 6 v 6 that's what all clan matches (CAL/UGL/OGL/etc) and most scrims are played at.

As for the second point by the original poster, aliens do get an advantage of res in small games, and keep in mind aliens don't get res when they are dead/respawning, so if you stay alive the longest you may have a res or two extra.

Also the number of res nodes you have make a huge difference. 3 res nodes for aliens means a res every 2 ticks (which is like 6 seconds).

For the marines they have different advantages such as each alien must upgrade himself. For marines once the comm has started lvl 1 armour or guns then every marine (even on respawn) gets this advantage. But in really small games aliens have a huge advantage.

monkeymaster

yeah 5v5 and 6v6 seemed ok, but i played a small game of 2v2 and aliens rapes us....fully... lol..

a flame thrower hey, hmmm that would be great for structures n stuff, i understand about that it might make the game run a bit crappy, hmmmmz......looks like the dev team put alot of thought into it, i guess ill wait for the final release of 2.1 and see how it is.