Onslaught
Heliocentric
Join Date: 2005-04-24 Member: 49650Members
Join Date: 2005-04-24 Member: 49650Members
<div class="IPBDescription">yunno like ut2004?</div> some thing that appealed to me... say, marines sapawn with ha and wielders, a series of objectives and 1 life each.
they'd find ammo by pushing forwards. and every time an alien is dropped he gets up again. every minute, aliens would have 1 res per life, and kills, or at least damage would allow them more res.
i think we don't really need traditional onslaught, as its not too dissimilar from CO
its not really a suggestion, as such a reach out, what game play modes could ns support?
to be honest? the onslaught idea draws its breath from alien swarm, being stuck between hiding in a corner or getting your **** to the objective so you can get home, all the while watching your ammo, and indeed your team mates whittle away.
maybe regular ns maps with objective integration, say wielding enough of a series of points would result in a hive being jettisoned into deep space, a cache of HA's becoming available, a marine friendly tunnel that is normally filled with water draining, allowing for a relitively safe siege.
and too for the karhaa a 4th hive build location which is very safe, which requires resorces, or infection with a heal spray for a sufficent time.
even "dug in" maps with slightly random turrets and chambers scattered about their respective halfs of the map from the first moments.
i guess some of these things are quite possible, but should they be done? and please bring your own game type concepts
they'd find ammo by pushing forwards. and every time an alien is dropped he gets up again. every minute, aliens would have 1 res per life, and kills, or at least damage would allow them more res.
i think we don't really need traditional onslaught, as its not too dissimilar from CO
its not really a suggestion, as such a reach out, what game play modes could ns support?
to be honest? the onslaught idea draws its breath from alien swarm, being stuck between hiding in a corner or getting your **** to the objective so you can get home, all the while watching your ammo, and indeed your team mates whittle away.
maybe regular ns maps with objective integration, say wielding enough of a series of points would result in a hive being jettisoned into deep space, a cache of HA's becoming available, a marine friendly tunnel that is normally filled with water draining, allowing for a relitively safe siege.
and too for the karhaa a 4th hive build location which is very safe, which requires resorces, or infection with a heal spray for a sufficent time.
even "dug in" maps with slightly random turrets and chambers scattered about their respective halfs of the map from the first moments.
i guess some of these things are quite possible, but should they be done? and please bring your own game type concepts
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Very nice first post.
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But seriously, i highly highly highly highly doubt there will be new gamemodes introuduced to NS anytime in the next 1-2 years. Maybe once its been converted to source and that's been out and updated they'll probably start tinkering with gameplay features rather than new gamemodes. Something like welding doors, flamethrowers, new marine tech, physics puzzles etc... would be a lot more realistic objective than a new gamemode at this point and in the future.
Although, completely going against everything i said above, Nexus is a new gamemode for NS that pits ONOS vs. SALAMANDERS in a battle to the death. Flippity flop my amphibious friends!
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Very nice five thousand and second post.
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youre just jealous he has more posts!
It's a "what if" discussion which may or may not yield some cool ideas, and there's no problem with that.
I only say this as a lot of people seem to be needlessly predicting that NS will not receive any new gameplay modes.
as for the CO/NS hybrid, could it be like battlefield? where being near a res node uncontested would turn the res node to neutral after a short while, and to your side after a while longer. the more players the faster the change, (aliens could even have modifiers, like fade and onos slow effect, gorge accelerated effect)
these res nodes would act as experience pumps, handing out a low yield of exp to all players on the team that owns them. this would encourage having a battlefront where you know you can find a fight, and in turn, quiet points for a little stealthing.