A Short Post In The Vain Hope...

Shockeh · November 2002

<div class="IPBDescription">GORGES WILL READ THIS</div> Why, oh Why oh why oh why....

Does there, in EVERY game, have to be one Gorge who thinks that if he spends NO rez, and goes straight to a hive and sits in it, that he'll somehow get the hive SOONER?

Go! Build some resource towers! Actually SUPPORT the team! Make yourself vaguely USEFUL! Don't suck up 3 shares of rez per shot just because you want to be the one that clicks that 80 rez button! B@H!!!

(I think my ire was fuelled as the only thing this Gorge did apart from this in my last game was build a movement chamber - As the VERY. FIRST. ONE. Grrrrrr!)

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='skulk.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='pudgy.gif'> <- Me deciding that that one marine is just too hard to deal with. Shame he died eh?

Ahnteis · November 2002

lol.

If you have 1 (or 2 depending on team size) gorges getting res points and the other saving up for hive, you can get that hive REALLY fast. Just cus one is saving doesn't mean someone else isn't getting res nodes. Of course, if you're on a five man team, you don't want more then 1 (maybe 2) gorges so things change.

Shockeh · November 2002

No, I went with the guy, to clear out any defenses as Skulk.

And he just parked his genetically huge butt in under the hive, typed "I'm saving for hive" and did sweet F.A.

And this was start of game, with a 6 man team, with 2 gorges.

xioutlawix · November 2002

Heh, the times I get **obscenity** with gorges are when out of a team of 6 four of them go gorge, PLUS they all seem to obsess with just randomly collecting nozzles and getting that hive, instead of fortifying the hives we do have late game.

WarpZone · November 2002

I wish the game would not tell noobs to immediately go gorge. =(

I wish the pop-up HUD instructuions clearly said "You only want 1 gorge per 3 other aliens."

I tried a new technique the other day. I said "I'll be gorge, everyone else harrass" at the start of the game and nobody on my team objected, but I didn't transform right away. Instead, I skulked my way to the nearest non-occupied hive location and set up my first resource node there. Then I'll build my second at the nearest point outside that hive, then start setting up defenses in the hive around the resource node there. Eventually I'll save for a hive there.

The reason I did this was to hopefully rush to my hive locations and get stuff built there before the marines can do it.

Now, this was an experimental technique, and I obviously can't say "Do this it works all the time!" yet, but it seems to me that at early game when you can't afford to build OCs around every resource point, it makes more sense to build the first few resource points as far away from the marine spawn as possible.

Does this sound like I'm making sense...? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'>

Shockeh · November 2002

That'd have a huge range of how well it worked, based on which map you played & which hive you started in and went for.

frances_farmer · November 2002

just see how it plays out. don't go shouting at a gorge if you think he is doing something wrong, theres nothing quite worse than seeing "omf, he is a n00b. someone tell admin to kick him. ffs n00b what r u doing!" it puts you off the mod.

maybe they have a better strategy. for example i got a right earful when i decided it was better to build an offence tower before a node to offer some protection against marine activity while i built it. i left soon after i got claims of being a "n00b" and decided i would only truely be happy playing in my clan.

Typhon · November 2002

I was on an alien team last night that decided BOTH gorges were gonna grab one node each, and then BOTH save for hives AT THE SAME TIME. No chambers, no nothing. The skulks decided to try their best to protect the saving gorges, so we rushed the base over and over. We managed to smash the CC, so there wasn't much competition after that, but it was really weird seeing everyone go ONOS simultaneously instead of going FADE simultaneously.

JooJooFlop · November 2002

I remember one time I and some other guy was a gorge. We were both at the vent chamber hive we agreed he would save up for the hive while I fortify the area and claim resource towers.

After we both finish our job some guy starts bitching about how I'm a horrible gorge, saying I didn't do jack **obscenity** while the other guy did all the work <i>because he was the one who gestated the hive</i>.

Teufel_Eldritch · November 2002

You wanna know whats annoying? Playing Gorge and having some dimwit poop-for-brains tell me how to do my job! Ill do my job the best way I see fit. This may not always coincide with what you think is the best way either.

SkWyReL · November 2002

You cannot win as a gorge (aka build towers that kill, defense, etc) until the other team doesnt have enough resources to build seige cannons. The plan is with 6 ppl on 6, 4 rush 2 gorge and defend and start taking resources. Then, when they are unable to really move, start building hives. But make hold your ground before jsut trying to get hives. They will die.

.:SkWyReL:.

Destiny · November 2002

if the gorge's plan was to expand - build hives asap, its not such a bad idea man...
ur gorge knows wut makes a win...

i played on servers where gorges concentrate on towers/walls of death - did not even bother much to support offence chambers with defence chambers.... not to say, we only had skulks n lerks ( only one **obscenity** hive.) and we r overpowered with HA/HMG/welding marines.

btw... if you could rush the marines till their cc died, the marines are probably running arnd alone, exploring n such... not defending till safe... or their commander sux at turretplacements..

Bluee · November 2002

As a resident skulker, I feel a huge neccesity to get Defense Chambers up first, AND VERY SOON. With Lvl3 Carapace, my skulk is nearly 5 times more effective than when he is with no carapace. Very annoying when the 2 gorges in the game both grab a resource, and then both save for seperate hives. Boy are they angry when our unarmored skulks can't hold off the marines at their chamberless expansion!

Defense Chambers, please, and very soon. You don't need that many OCs at all. Skulks with armor can swoop down and take out 3 marines attacking a RP/DC, kill them all, immediately heal, rinse and repeat. With no armor, he usually dies after killing the first marine. Hum...

Kobra · November 2002

A good working tactic is to have some people evolve into gorges, not more then 3 tho, no matter how big your team is, and then 1 or 2 gorges will ehad out towards the other hives, while one stays and build defences at the hive. On the way to the hives, the other 1 or 2 gorges drop a resource tower at any node they see. There is no real hurry to get the hives early if you cant have resourses to evolve or defend your base.

Resorce towers, Defense and then go for hives.

A Short Post In The Vain Hope...

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