Need clarification when playing Marine Comm
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Join Date: 2003-08-27 Member: 20245Members
Join Date: 2003-08-27 Member: 20245Members
When you have an observatory in a base, shouldn't you be able to see any Aliens that are in your base and within range of the obs when comming?
Whenever I play marine comm, I do not see any aliens that are in my base even when there is an observatory. The only way I can actually see them is if I do a scan or if some marines come to base.
It makes it much harder for me to detect when aliens are attacking my base when no marines are present.
Whenever I play marine comm, I do not see any aliens that are in my base even when there is an observatory. The only way I can actually see them is if I do a scan or if some marines come to base.
It makes it much harder for me to detect when aliens are attacking my base when no marines are present.
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I had something like that (white circle) just yesterday right next to my arms lab. I hovered over the lab and saw that it was attacked... was a lerk sitting there... no alarm or map indicator though... weird.
Some times the structure getting attacked warming doesnt work...Like the power half a second from down before the game tell me my structure is being attacked.
Happens so many times...
A good priority system is in order, thats for sure
I actually lost my longest match as marine commander thus far due to that. We fought for 90 minutes and the game could easily have gone on for another 20 if it wasn't for a Skulk attacking the main power and the game not telling me about it at all before it was already down.
Happened sooo many times. Sometimes I am questioning if it is map/server specific problem. Because one game it was doing good, then the next I NEVER tell me early enough, and it happened like 6 times (i actually specifically watched for it!)
Amen
It happens 100% of the time when I comm and I'm not sure if that is supposed to be like that or not.
Are aliens supposed to show up as a white circle only if a obs is in range when comming? or should you actually see the alien model if the obs is in range?
I've got into a habit of scanning whenever I see 1-3 dots coming into a base, I'd rather be down 3 tres than a power node. Silence will not trip the alert status too, I believe you sometimes get that red flashing structure but no audio or visual cue after that.
Control groups are only handy if you train yourself to watch them and they're pretty opaque along the top of your screen.
I learned something
I only see a white circle if an alien is within range of an obs from comm mode.
It is totally op for its cost. If a few gorges run into an empty base they can have the power down ridiculously fast. And even if you manage to notice the attack right away and get back in time to kill them, they'll just re-gorge and do it again because gorges are so freaking cheap.
Not sure how they can fix this. Either make gorges more expensive or straight up nerf it. Perhaps not letting bile bombs stack so that three gorge's biling do no more damage than one.