Stamp+devour

master_wong

<div class="IPBDescription">Is this a efficient strategy?</div> I love devour, but im having a hard time devour moving marines. I found stamp very useful, even the most experienced marine player becomes helpless against stamp+devour. After I ate the marine I just flee to a safe exit and take some damage. Is this strategy the most efficient way for onos? Or is it a noob way to get a cheap kill?

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fried_rice

erm its the way to go. otherwise with enough practice you could devour marines without having to stomp. I highly recommend getting one of the custom crosshairs on these forums or from someone on the ns IRC channels. It will greatly improve your aim and your chances of killing that one marine you want to see cry while he's in your belly. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

taboofires

It's only a cheap kill if the marine had no chance to start with. Stomp and devour is how you remove HA/jp from co easily, or "deposit" an hmg somewhere next to a lot of OCs in classic.

If they can't kill you anyway, just go kill them the old fashioned way. Plague. Er, gore.

Krad

I only stamp people when I want to send them in the mail.

Hybridclaw

stomp is not as useful as it was before 3.0
when it would last for more than a second and work on JP.....
all the memories...... <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

MONSTERFACE

Thats usually what I do, I stomp, devour the strongest looking marine (heavy armor.) Then keep stomping and using gore to pick off a few more marines, when im starting to get low on health, I hightail it out of there and heal myself while digesting that delicious marine.

TheAdj

Don't devour LMG marines, just gore them down. Stomp is much more effective if you time it right and keep marines constantly stunned while other aliens chew them down, it's the onos' best use at Hive2 really.

j3st

and just practice with ur devouring..sometimes u just want to go in and devour, then save the adrenaline to stomp them while fleeing backwards.

Necrosis

My opinion:

Stomp is best used in assisting other players. Use it to help skulks get kills, to help gorges spitkill marines. That way your weaker players get enough points to do something useful.

Stomp and devour are big drains on your energy, so really you don't want to use them both frequently. Second, devour only kills one person. If you MUST stomp and attack, then use gore, as it'll do a better job for killing squads of rines.

If you're nailing some poor lost marine in a corridor, then by all means waste your energy by stomp-devouring him for laughs. However, in team situations you really need to think about how you could be benefitting the team, and that means you have to miss on devour (unless you've got lucky and the only HA with the HMG hasn't seen you sneak up on him...).

kolokol

Stomp devour and run will keep you alive...which is the whole point.

Hydra

I figure you are probably not speaking english as your native language, so for the benefit of my urge to flame spelling I will correct it, just because I am that bored.

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Wow I am really bored.

Necrosis

IMHO thats not viable, unless you're using adren. If you ARE using adren, then you could be doing way more damage by goring a whole slew of people instead of stomping ONE and then running.

Its all about teamwork, realise that the onos can take a bit of punishment and thus should be stomping marines so that the weaker guys can get some res. You've got you res, you've went onos, now think about those other guys who you will be relying on to help you win.

master_wong

actually, i just type too fast.

Necrosis

Even with corrected typing, I think my point is valid - you're wasting an Onos when you could really be helping the TEAM end the game and get a WIN.

SLizer

Problem is that people like to think that you are just one more stompdev onos instead of horror-stomp which means everyone sticking with him will have fun.

tuutti2

It depens.

Ordinary lmg-marines die faster when you just gore them down.

Use stomp to stop bunch of shotgun and hmg-equipped marines killing you. Remember that you don't have to kill those marines yourselves, you friend can finish them off when they are stunned. Many times onos just stomps and draws fire in siegespots.

Stomp + devour is very good for devouring heavy armored marines one by one but remember that celerity and caution is very important in that situation. Otherwise you end up with too many bulletholes in your skin.

Stomp is nice in stopping escaping marines.

SLizer

Beeing good debourer is actually harder than peoples think. You need to be master of the devour crosshair(consti 1 any1?) + you need to know when to go out and in.

Mr_JeburtO

i only use devouer if the marine is jumping all over the place but other wise i dont really need to use it

That_Annoying_Kid

when I pwnos I usually play the role of stomp-and-let-the-smaller-nice-lifeforms-get-the-kills <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->


but I will devour that HA or JP if I see him, or someone with a heavy weapon

stomp and devour is not cheap, it's intended... if your a marine get JP's who are immune to stomp

fried_rice

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absolutely.

you gotta be smart when you use devour as you can only eat ONE MARINE not 2304723489. So eat the one that has had the most res spent on him or poses the greatest threat and run your onos **** outta there.