Devour Onos
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Join Date: 2011-10-05 Member: 125899Members
Join Date: 2011-10-05 Member: 125899Members
This may sound silly, but the main reason why I played NS1 for so long was because of the Onos's devour ability; I recall spending countless hours sharpening my Onos skills until it was nice and pointy. Here's hoping that Unknown Worlds brings back the devour Onos.
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Also, their stance on taking away control from players is kinda set in stone, so it probably will not make an appearance in the official game
But I don't remember where I read it.
I too played the game for ages due to this game mechanic it was too funny and very satisfying.
Yes as a marine I grumbled when getting eaten but thats what made me truly fear the Onos. Also the satisfaction and team moral when freed of the onos was always worth it.
Actually, There was a plugin made so you could "sacrifice yourself in ns1 to be devoured by an onos even if you are an onos.
Example:
All members of the team evolve to an onos and place themselves on the sacrifice "list" via console command, The "chosen one" (onos) devours each onos on the list taking that onos's HP and armor. The result was a single onos that was nothing short of a locomotive. That is a fun plugin!
So yes you can. <!--sizeo:1--><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--coloro:#0000FF--><span style="color:#0000FF"><!--/coloro-->*Sticks tongue out at Koji<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->
Also big lolz to waiting cloaked in a hallway then eating a lone rambo as he turns the corner. Devour shouldn't return in its previous form since it was pretty wimpy to have onos run in a room, eat someone, then run back to somewhere safe for the next 30 seconds or so it took to digest them. It's kind of sneaky and sly, whereas the onos should be busting through walls throwing multiple marines around and stuff.
When I would talk about the game to others about how you can evolve into this big rhino like thing and swallow players whole. Then they watch the inside of your gut and digest over time. The part about the Onos dying and the marine coming out alive just made it really cool.
I would have thought they would keep this feature in purely for marketing purposes at the very least.
+1
In a previous thread this seemed to be the common reason that people did not like devour.
I however did like it for the following reasons.
It was a great tactic in the middle of a brawl.
It was awesome saving someone.
It was awesome being saved.
That all being said I think if UW implemented devour ....
they should do it later (their plate is pretty full)
they should chew hard on all the reasons people liked or didn't like it.
So if you care state reasoning not 'it ruled' or 'it wuz dumb'