Newbie Questions

Chompy

<div class="IPBDescription">Total alien noobage</div> Ok, so I've played Marine for a few nights now, I've even got commanding down on a few maps. I tried alien for the first time last night and...

TOTALLY LOST.

If there is a FAQ somewhere, please direct me to it, because I've found no definitive guide for complete alien noobs anywhere.

As a gorge, how do I lay webs? How do I healing spray? All I can manage to do is build offensive chambers and resource chambers.

As an Ohno, how do I charge/cry/anything? I keep seeing people mentioning "slots" you put abilities into?

Cloaking; how do you do it?

Basically, I am a complete noob, and I'm unwilling to burden another team with my noobage until I know the basics.

Thanks in advance!

Chompy

<!--QuoteBegin--StuntCock+Nov 6 2002, 05:14 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (StuntCock @ Nov 6 2002, 05:14 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->You could probably scroll down in the Kharaa board and find all the information you would ever need.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah, did that.

No, didn't find any help. Everything I see is talking about strategies, etc. Nobody is talking about the very basics.

Spydey

One..

<b>ALIENS FLICK THROUGH ABILITIES LIKE WEAPONS</b>

Sorry, thats pretty important. Keys 1-4 flick between all the abilities an alien has. Like weapons.

Web is used by first selecting it as a weapon, shooting at a wall, then shooting at a wall opposite.
Healing spray is used by selecting it and using it as a weapon.
To build a defencive chamber/sensor chamber/movement chamber right click, then go left, and click on the appropriate title there.
To cloak, ensure that you have it selected as an upgrade. Then stay still and you'll cloak after 2-3 seconds.

To select an upgrade, look at the right of the screen, above the adrenaline bar. If your team has some hives up and some upgrade chambers built you'll see icons flashing. An image of a flashing defencive chamber ( looks like a tower made of bone) means that you can select a defencive upgrade. To do this, right click, go left, then down, then select one of the three there. Put your mouse over them to read the description.

A flashing blue tower with pink spikes sticking out of it indicates that you can take a sensory upgrade (cloaking is a sensory upgrade)

A flashing tower with black "arms" indicates a movement upgrade.

Thats the basics.

padijun

To make other chambers, just click on "defense chamber", "sensory chamber", etc, just like you were going to build an offense chamber. To web, click on one wall, then click the wall across from it. Click back and forth until it's setup how you like it. To use heal spray, get near a damaged structure or teammate and select healing spray just like a weapon in normal half-life. Then just left click to heal them. Remember that having too many gorges means slower resource gain, so never have more than 2 at a time.

Cloaking is fairly easy to accomplish. just make sure you have the ability, then stand still intil your weapon looks a lot brighter. Moving makes the cloak disappear.

As an onos, select your weapon like you would in normal half-life, then left click to use it.

Finally, don't be afraid to ask your team how to do something (for example I didn't even know that hives built themselves after you put the structure down until yeasterday). You're bound to hear the people who say stuff like "RTFM n00b" but those people are usually a minority compared to the people who are willing to help.