Your Fave Alien/marine

MEShootHereMEShootHere Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 6975Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">What do YOU like?</div> We've had favourite map, but what about the aliens? the marine weapons? configs? Tactics?

As an alien I like being skulk cuz they are fast and fast and SO SO fast and ready to go the moment they spawn.
Upgrades: Carapace (a good team always has defense chambers near the fighting)
Cloaking (make that marine kill himself through a heart attack)
And I use celerity for skulk and adrenaline for anything else.
Don't like fades much, ya have to be too careful.
Lerks arent my cup of tea.
The Onos..too easy, not that much fun, only good for rushes and ending a game.
The gorge is good! Nothing is more fun than webbing a marine that COULD have torn through 3 skulks with his HMG but suddenly cannot do much except watch the skulks munch at him.
I usually like to explore and keep an eye on the enemy with a skulk, waiting for resources to come in and build at odd and advanced points in the map, just to keep the marines on their toes. Of course stalking is fun!

As a marine I may sound stupid, but I like the generic marine.
HMG is too costly to take a risk with and takes WAY too long to reload (i dont like having a half empty clip)
Nade launcher is just not fun and a skulk can have your hide so easily.
I seem to suck with a shotgun.
I like the LMG, its easy, its fast, reloads well, good aim and basically allows you to nuke a skulk easily and still work well on off chambers and fades.
Heavy armor, again, isnt my thing. I like being able to run. That Onos is not gonna wait for me to run back to the reinforcements.
Jetpack is ok I guess, getting in vents is nice. But prolly not worth the cash.
I'm more of the support player as a marine. I tend to go towards spots and setup something from there.
Or follow 2 other players and help'em nuke whatever comes at'em.
Somehow I always end up the welder, so that pretty much gives me a purpose in life.

Just my rantings, thought that voting for maps is good, voting for fave way of play is just as important!
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  • StormehStormeh Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3541Members
    As an alien i like to play Lerk. When flying they are the fastest unit in the game. So even if a marine stands in the end of a long long hallway, you are only two seconds away anyway.They are good in close combat, and they exel in turret removal. They are powerfull early, mid and end game.
    The umbra is good for covering fades and onos as they attack a marine base, and the poisonus cloud is good at groups of marines. Quite simply a good alaround unit. And to make a good unit even better i choose carapace, cloak and adrenaline.

    I dont play marine as much as i play alien, but when i play as a marine i like the shotgun. Very powerfull up close, its one shot kill vs skulks and lerks. However when the aliens get the second and third hive up, my choice of weapon is the HMG. Good at killing fades and onos, its also good at clearing offence and defence chambers.
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  • RanmaRanma Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5151Members
    Gotta be skulks. Fast, lethal, hard to track, and when you're desperate just blow yourself up. What could be better? Oh yeah and tagging your enemies while cloaked or moving into their base slowly while you're cloaked to appear right next to the command chair and then to chomp it to bits while they think they're protected by their turrets. I've done this only once but it was hella fun. For marines I think jet pack with HMG is pretty fun, just fly in the sky so skulks can't hit you while you kill their hive. Just gotta watch out for those lerks and fades...Shotguns are fun too for destroying alien chambers.
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  • JynxDaddyJynxDaddy Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8151Banned
    Aliens : Kinda hard to chouse, im a good skulk <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> but i dont really like them i only use them at the start of game a bit and when hive is being attacked and i dont have time to evolve, but i love gorge <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> and lerk <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo--> cus they can fly and im good and yeh as he said they are a all rounder and they are Uber fast in vents, and im like one of the only NS players that can fly properly, and gorge cus they cute and are builders, and i kinda like building and taking care of what i make and helping the team alot

    Marines : I normaly play what i get, jetpack plus HMG in a big high roof map, just zoom around while reloading, and i use the welder for blocking vents and other stuff.... dont like comm much, never been comm with a non-n00b team
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  • trhktrhk Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7245Members
    Skulk and Marine with shotty (no jetpacks or HA.)
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  • MobayMobay Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 6986Members
    Well i like Alien the most.... not as skulk, lerk, fade, onos...but the <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> gorge... this thing rule the world
    i usale start the game by making 1 recource tower... and then i make defence around that place... when thats done i go near the marines and i try to make a load of offence + defence towers behinde a door... so funne when u lure a marine over to the door and open's it (then the marine see all the offence towers staked on top of eachother... and tryes to run...) but i usaly web'em ... when granades and HMG comes i just close the door... when i they open the door to look in they will get a few (clone skulks in their head witch will make em afraind cuz they won't see the diffrence betwen a normal skulk and the one's gorge make... and again web+ offence

    Alien er the ultimate team... cuz they are independet from others... u dont have 2 whine to the commander to get at recource tower og health packs...

    But when i play marine i just sneak in to a large hall way w8 4 some to come by..... then its sh00tgun up i skulk's azz <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • GwahirGwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation
    alien, I like fades. I vary between carapace and regen depending on how the team is playing. always adren and cloak. Against more expereinced players, I can't skulk well. When playing on a regular server I tend to act as ground commander no matter which team I'm on, though far more on alien, and really only when I feel the marine commander is a little unaware of opportunities, like locking down empty hives...

    As a marine, I don't like having an HMG without heavy armor. When I have heavy armor, I don't like to go around without at least one other heavy and a welder, we just weld each other back and forth and we last forever. We're just good investments like that. Though, on the occasional cases I'm alone, I can take out a fade by myself fairly well. And if I see him coming with motion tracking, he's as good as dead.
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  • Private_ColemanPrivate_Coleman PhD in Video Games Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7510Members
    Marine:
    Shotgun, Jetpack, full armour/health (obviously) or commander

    Aliens:
    Skulk with Silence, Cloaking and Carapace
    or
    Fade with Adrenaline, Cloaking and Regeneration (for assaulting bases)
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  • SharkySharky Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 8079Members
    any marine is fine w/ me, but me fav. alien is skulk or lerk
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  • sqwurlsqwurl Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3260Members
    lol gwahir i dotn mean to be a **obscenity**, but i think its spelled gwaihir <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • WheezerWheezer Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 3926Members, Constellation
    edited November 2002
    Yeah, probably

    <a href='http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.htm?http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/g/gwaihir.html' target='_blank'>Encyclopedia Arda</a>
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  • GingerGinger Join Date: 2002-08-01 Member: 1043Members
    best alien: onos
    best marine: shotty and jet pack!
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  • IdenIden Join Date: 2002-10-16 Member: 1513Members
    Favorite alien?

    Gah, I really can't choose, but I love not eating up resources and taking out things as a skulk. Being eaten late game by a skulk is always so much more demeaning <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Not enough commanders give out shotties, I love just being a plain simpel shotty man and protecting my group with it.
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    Skulk or Gorge, and Shotgun. Mmmmm, shotgun.....
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  • MaxPepper13MaxPepper13 Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7375Members
    Alein: Gorge... I've always been support.. always be support... in the end game I typically one of the dorks who can't get away from being onos.
    But almost the whole of any game I'm gorge.

    Marines: I don't like em... i can't play comm and well I can't stand it when others do (I've had my fair share of idiots.
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  • DezmodiumDezmodium Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1575Members
    skulk stalkin is by absolute, my favorite thing ever.

    cloak
    silence
    regenerate

    i can sit right outside the marine base forever just picking off the marines one by one.

    freaks them out and it is the best gaming experience i have ever had.
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  • RhoadsToNowhereRhoadsToNowhere i r 8 Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 33Members
    Either Fade or Lerk for me as an alien. I really enjoy the brute-force intensity of just barging in as a Fade and thrashing marines to bits, but at the same time it's a lot of fun to fly circles around a marine until his head's spinning, then biting him in the behind. Spikes and spores are a lot of fun too.

    As for a marine, give me a jetpack and either a shotty (when I'm hot with a shotgun, look out) or an HMG and I'm happy.
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  • TyphonTyphon Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 1899Members
    I gotta go with a carapaced, cloaking, adrenalined fade. I dont find regen to be that necessary as theres always defense chambers available to fall back to, and carapace is a must for going toe to toe with ha/hmgs.
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  • MR_GUMPMR_GUMP Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6869Members
    Well for aleins i would have to say either lerk or fade. If there is no lerks in the game then im lurk and i gass junk and use umbra to defend buildings and junk.... I use fade for taking out bases

    Oh and onos are not a noob class at all, if u can play them right you can absolutly slauther everything, just paralize and then kill....

    For marines i would have so say heavy armour with a HMG (yes i know im a **obscenity**) but i just love being a big beef with a big gun.
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  • AnarchyAnarchy Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 3969Members
    For aliens, definetly a carapace/cloak/clerity <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> These things honestly own all if used right. Sometimes I use redemption if I keep on making little hit and run tactics on a base early game, to harass the marines.

    For marines, I honestly almost never use marines, but I'd say just plain shottie, but HA or Jetpack are not neccessary, although helpful.
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  • LejLej Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8209Members
    Skulk is nice. Early rushes <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> and Xenocide <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> (yeah look at my sig)
    Gorge is fat and evul. Webbed mariens are easy pray, but I never get any real use of the babblers. <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo-->
    Lerk is nice. Good in the begining to take out turrets and stuff. Umbra is great and the spores are kewl to.
    Fade stealthy, lethal and cool. This guys awesome.
    Onos... yeah raw power... some def. chambers outside their base and a single onos make short work of 'em. <!--emo&::onos::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tiny.gif'><!--endemo-->

    My fave would be the fade with cloaking, adrenaline and carapace all at lvl 3 and with backup of gorges and defence chambers. Just stand in the middle of a room. When a enemy enter wait until he have his back against you or are just a few feets away and throw yourself at him in a mad rage ripping him apart with your razorsharp claws.. <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Marines are not as fun as the alien I think. Get a HMG and HA and you're a living tank killing aliens like I don't know. Of course you have to look out for webs but that isn't so hard. Thanks god the nerfed the Grenade Launcher a bit. With a good comm marines are fun to play. With a newbie comm... well... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • standard1standard1 Join Date: 2002-10-02 Member: 1408Members
    fades. absolutely suits my playing style.
    i usually have carapace, and adrenaline if possible. im not the sneaky type of player, so i dont use cloak and regeneration very well.
    lately i discovered the power of "scent of fear". makes hunting down marines much easier (now i can imagine why wallhack cheats are so evil, never used one so i didnt know)
    and like someone said, you need to be carefull as fade.
    so i usually play defense or hit&run tactics. recovering health at def chambers or hive. or supportive offense if we have a gorge on offense too.
    patroling between the 2 hives, and trying to take out marine forward bases.

    ps.
    im a bit embarrased <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> but i have to say that, but i cant blink. i dont know why. i tried all the hints people gave me.
    tried in big open hallways. nothing works. same goes
    goes for the lerk leap. maybe it has something to do with my controls
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  • DrSuredeathDrSuredeath Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8217Members
    edited November 2002
    Gorge...

    When those <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> come charging at me, the poor <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> , hoping for an easy kill. I shoot webbing at their feet and the wall, using them as my spitting practice, rinse repeat as necessary. Love stacking tons of defensive and offensive tower.

    Adrenaline, cloaking, and carapace.

    Marines...

    Welder is all you need.
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  • TieomTieom Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1774Members
    If the marines aren't loaded with resources, and are usually going around in light armor/LMG and the rare shotty/HMG, then my favorite is:
    Skulk
    Carapace
    Cloaking
    Silence

    If you can face their backs, you've already won...

    I only wish that silence included the attack sounds. That way I could leap around without that infernal 'Scree-ahh!"
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  • KobraKobra Join Date: 2002-06-09 Member: 744Members
    edited November 2002
    I mostly play alien as it seems the marines are to much of a conflict in the marine team and no teamplay, they play more like the aliens atm. As an alien i generally start as a gorge, helping to build up the base and get new hives as well as build small outpost here and there. And when we get 3 hives i evolve into a lerk and use ´spores at marine installations while my teammates runnign around as onos and fades.

    Gorge:
    Carapace
    Celerity
    Cloak

    Lerk:
    Carapace
    Adrynaline
    Cloak
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  • KobraKobra Join Date: 2002-06-09 Member: 744Members
    edited November 2002
    Error
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  • OALensOALens Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8228Members, Constellation
    marine o_O like <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> die die die <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo-->
    <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
    just kiding

    alien:

    skulk fast and letal...
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  • BattousaixBattousaix Join Date: 2002-06-25 Member: 822Members
    Skulk carapace celerity cloacking
    Onos regen adrenaline and cloacking
    lerk adrenaline regen and cloacking =)
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  • XentorXentor Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5877Members
    Lerk, all the way... Pump it up with carapace when you're winning, redemption when you're losing... Give it cloaking and adrenaline, and just let loose... The spikes rip through turrets and marines... The umbra lets your friendly fades do likewise... And that spore cloud.... Well... Let's just say when our Onos'es are rushing into their base, I make SURE that there are NO marines waiting for them... Even before the Onos'es arrive, the air is full of hissing gasses, and the sounds of guns falling to the floor... Muahahaha!
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  • LoRdKaLiBahLoRdKaLiBah Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7830Members
    When I play alien, Regular marines taste best. Its like eating lobster you know? I like the end result but its too much work to get past the armor of a HVY marine. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • SmellslikefecesSmellslikefeces Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8194Members
    The best marine is the DEAD marine.
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