Gorge Movement Mechanic
Mephilles
Germany Join Date: 2013-08-07 Member: 186634Members, NS2 Map Tester, NS2 Community Developer
Germany Join Date: 2013-08-07 Member: 186634Members, NS2 Map Tester, NS2 Community Developer
After briefly discussing it with @BeigeAlert on discord, we came across that gorges should have a way to get to higher speeds as an escape. This would encourage gorges to play more agressively and I think that would add quite a bit of depths and fun to the gorge.
NSL Competitive Mod already has a mechanic like that in place but requires some movement skill to do correctly, which is not optimal if we want a movement mechanic that is easy to grasp so rookies can learn them quite easily.
Purpose of this thread is to ask for suggestions on how to realise a gorge movement mechanic (preferably with belly slide) that would allow gorges to increase their speed to escape from marines more easily.
Here are some reference videos on how it works in compmod atm:
NSL Competitive Mod already has a mechanic like that in place but requires some movement skill to do correctly, which is not optimal if we want a movement mechanic that is easy to grasp so rookies can learn them quite easily.
Purpose of this thread is to ask for suggestions on how to realise a gorge movement mechanic (preferably with belly slide) that would allow gorges to increase their speed to escape from marines more easily.
Here are some reference videos on how it works in compmod atm:
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But if you want a more advanced getaway ability, why not repurpose the old fade vortex for gorges? Idk in which upgrade+weapon slot it could fit, but disappearing gorges would be awesome
Oh no, it requires some movement skill to do! Yea, better reduce the skill ceiling of the game to a minimum, right?
As long as comp mod keeps its current movement, I don't really care though.
You'd just have to press space bar once and uncontrollably bounce all over the place for a minute or so. That should be enough time for reinforcements to arrive.
Easy to use, hard to master, because only few will know when to do dat jump.
Same for NS2 sadly.. I dont get this need for weird jump mechanics to gain speed, breaking my fingers to do it.
On the topic of speed, you can do the belly/clog or belly/structure speed trick just as well to gain and maintain speed in both vanilla and comp, and it mixes with the comp bhop.. although, hard to make the timings.
Requires nothing new, can simply be taught to jump and belly slide to get away faster.
If a gorge starts a belly slide while on a clog, this should have the same effect.
This type of movement should have a slighted speed boost than normal belly without a clog
I wish that placing a new Clog after exceeding the build limit destroys the last placed Clog, instead of the earliest one. That would make Clog Sliding much likely to break any existing Clog towers/ladders!
I support simple mechanisms that are easy to discover and consistent with the overall feel of the class (unlike comp mod Gorge jumping), but difficult to execute perfectly all the time.
That would also make it much harder to destroy your clog ladder before the marines can use it to kill you.
I like how it works now, though if we could destroy a clog by just looking at it and holding a key instead of having to be RIGHT on top of it that would be an improvement.
@Vetinari key combination for playing a clog is 2-2-leftclick. Seeing how 2 is directly above W I don't get what you mean with "2 far away keys"
Last time I played gorge, which was admittedly... years ago, all the structures were on 5-x.
That's still three keystrokes, though.
It also imbalances the game in that marines can essentially outnumber the alien players on the field because gorges are more concerned about gardening because of their lack of mobility in combat.
Even if it meant reducing the friction (deceleration) of belly slide and increasing the agility (turning circle) and not changing any of the mechanics so it's easy to use.
Gorges need a "blue sparks" boost for the belly slide.
I hate gorges.
Eh... I guess so. Personally I feel like it's too hard to contribute offensively as a gorge, especially when your teammates abandon you, which happens all the time ofc... you get gunned down so easily... but then again I'm a stubborn battle-gorge, so...
As someone who sucks on marine and has shit accuracy... Most "runaway Gorges" seem kinda easy to kill... Unload your clip into them then switch to pistol to chip down that last sliver of health before they escape.
Gorge is about the only alien lifeform I can successfully kill on a consistent basis. (Should change my name to Gorge hunter when on marine lol)
I tried ot bind spacebar on scroll down and up with Autohotkey but it doesnt seem to work, the game is probably preventing me from doing it, do you have any idea? I am used to CS GO scroll up/down Bhop
I've tested it with autohotkey for 100-200ms.. it works, but I couldn't get the feeling like it was in ns1.. since you need several jumps in a row really for wallhopping fast it's not very practical..