People Hiding When Their Team Losess....
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Join Date: 2002-11-18 Member: 9180Members
Join Date: 2002-11-18 Member: 9180Members
This would be like the "camping" in CS to waste time,except,worse,theres no time limit!!!
Its really irritating to take out all the hives and a bunch of skulks/lerks are hiding in some vent(easy to find) or some obscure place in the map(VERY hard to find).,or marines with jetpacks hide in vents.......
Will anything be done to counter this probelm?
Its really irritating to take out all the hives and a bunch of skulks/lerks are hiding in some vent(easy to find) or some obscure place in the map(VERY hard to find).,or marines with jetpacks hide in vents.......
Will anything be done to counter this probelm?
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I think a gorge should have access to offense chambers at a minimum even if there is not one hive alive. Just one gorge, by himself. WITH SPIT? The possibilities of ANY sort of comeback border on 0.
suppose it is part of the game but when you get taunting from that last player "ooh can't find me!", you've got to think of the poor sods who are part of the losing side who are stuck watching and waiting for the annoying bugger to die.
*edit - how is this fixed?*
Just say that much Flay; I know you gotta keep most of it hush hush. It'll just clarify what your saying 'fixed in 1.03' to
is this the part where aliens get hurt when they are too far away from the hive? Since with no hives u are too far from one <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I know, stupid idea... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
it's certainly amusing to see a lonely gorge hanging out waiting for a hive to rebuild as the marines try to search him/her down.
how?
a little more information would be nice but not necessary...
i believe he means that when the aliens have 3 hives, then the game automatically ends and the aliens are awarded a win, or when the marines get 2 hives then the game automatically ends and the marines are awarded a win. that's what he means he fixed it since that's probably the only way to prevent players hiding and trying to make a comeback and possibly winning.
You know, I'd love to constructively criticize this post... but that's possibly the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
--edit--
Elaboration:
1) If the game ended as soon as aliens got 3 hives, you would never see an Onos in-game, nor any of the aliens' 3-hive attacks, nor any triple-upgraded aliens. 3 hives are required for all of these top-tier elements.
2) Marines up against 3-hive aliens have come back to win; I myself led a marine team to victory in one game where the aliens actually got 3 hives up TWICE.
3) Aliens reduced to one hive against HH marines can come back to win; I was personally responsible for such an upset once when I single-handedly slipped through defenses on NS_Hera to destroy the CC and IP (Ok, I had help on the IP, but the CC was all me).
4) This isn't about making comebacks; it's about preventing people from hiding and prolonging the game. Comebacks are an unlikely and unbelievably exciting element of NS.
Hrmph. You'd think that if I had lost the game, I'd get to go out in a blaze of firey grenaded glory like I wanted.
Oh, and I almost forgot, I've had a game where a gorge had half-completed a hive, under turret fire, no less, before a flock of marines figured out where he was and stormed in.
As for the bit about 3 hives=marine defeat, I've seen the marines come back and exterminate all three...and vice versa regarding a single hive of aliens. Once again, its all player skill, not the cool junk you have--I've even had a friend pull out a win when their CC was destroyed. Talk about dramatics.
If it is, you really should play more rounds with better people--I've watched my team of marines **obscenity** [edit: sn*tch is an obcenity?] victory out of the jaws of a Fade and off the horns of an Onos, and turn it around to win..
Just as I've watched the aliens turn the game around and take the second, and then third hives, and then marine spawn.
Its not game mechanics, its player malfunction.