Best Marine Weapons

RatDragon · January 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">what kicks the most alien butt</div> What do you people think the best Marine weapon in ns is? give the weapon and your reason why you like it. Post away! My favorite is the Shotgun. You gotta love the damage on that thing, especially in places like vents and tight corridors when the Kharaa have nowhere to run.

Laggy_Banana · January 2003

Hard to really say since i don't really play marines alot but it would be the welder.

Beuase i like to Weld Stuff!.....it's fun!.................. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'>

Error404 · January 2003

The knife kicks butt believe it or not, wait for the skulk to attack you, face the right direction while knifing and that skulk is dead..

T_RAT · January 2003

i love the pistol because of its damage and accuracy. I love the sound of when its going off and the splat when u have capped him 4-5 nice ones.
Next would be the GL or maybe that first actually.

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PIMAWang_Hung_Lo · January 2003

Phase gate and ip. Spawn kills rule!

Hozart1 · January 2003

Spawn killing an Onos is an excellent sensation. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Orcrist · January 2003

Not that I am very good with it but the shotgun is a good weapon <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'>

Doombringer · January 2003

HMG.

So much ammo, such a high ROF.. so little enemies. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'>

Aside from that, I'll take a grenade launcher or siege cannon. Big explosions are big fun.

Paranoia2MB · January 2003

Shotgun + jetpack

Shotgun is a great weapon at the start of a game since it takes out gorges/skulks/ and lerks in like 1-2 shots and it's cheap! hehe

I use up 29 credits if i'm a Marine. JP and Shotty hehe

uranium_235 · January 2003

The best weapon out of what? 7? Until the marines get some variety... this is kinda a silly topic.

ogz · January 2003

knifes are the most fun
altho it kinda sux vs lerks who keep flying away and shoot spikes at u <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'>

and onos that paralyse u on the spot <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'>

BlueGhost · January 2003

The best marine weapon?

Teamwork.

BlueGhost

Paq · January 2003

Shotgun owns when i get close to fade <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'>

tseepra · January 2003

Pistol..... because I LOVE the reload animation...

Align · January 2003

The GL of 1.0. Fast RoF, 6 'nades in one clip, extremely hurtful, easy to pay for with the resource bug! What more can you want?... Plus its accurate, if you stand still, and have sv_gravity 0!!!11

Akira · January 2003

Definately the Shotgun <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Ak.

Sirus · January 2003

LMG, I use this with fades, screw an HMG , get me lvl 3 upgrades and a little assistance and fades are toast.

Next, Pistol. Good times, when lerks poke their head out and immeaditely get 6 rounds in their face.

Insidious · January 2003

Grenade launcher. That's mainly because no matter what game it is, if it has grenades in it, they're my favorite <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

You gotta love bouncing shots around corners, launching in one side of a vent and out another, taking out walls of alien structures, and scaring the heck out of lerks/gorges, lerks because umbra won't help and gorges because they're too slow to escape grenades <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'>

My next favorite would be shotgun with jetpack. HMG is actually probably better for killing, but with a shotgun I can pay full attention to my flying, and thus I live longer, and it's great fun swooping in for a shot, then backing off.

But half the time I'd rather have an LMG, pistol, and full upgrades. I almost never kill fades, but they're usually down in the danger zone by the time I die, and they die shortly after if there's another marine nearby.

sekdar · January 2003

grenade launcher for its massive crowd control and suppression abilities....

shotgun for the fact that it just owns 1 hive aliens like nobody's business and will make a fade run for its life.

lmg because its your damned-reliable basic weapon.

pistol for its stunning accuracy and stopping power at long range.

hmg because you can just cut a bloody path through your opponents with it

welder for killing buildings, repairing stuff, and murdering skulks that imbed themselves in your resource tower.

knife for giving me more onos/fade/gorge/RT kills than i can count <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'>

oops. it seems i have mastered every weapon and love them all <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'>

geldonyetich · January 2003

For Ultimate Weaponry: I'd have to say that the best marine weapon is not so much one weapon as a *combination* of weapons.

The two most potent weapons in the game are the HMG and the Grenade Launcher. Only problem is, the HMG is lousy at long range and the grenade launcher is lousy at short range.

Give one marine a grenade launcher, another marine a HMG, and have them stick together. Now you've got the long range firepower to take down stuff that harasses you far out, and the short range firepower to kill anything that tries to rush your grenade launcher user.

Of course, acid rockets can still take out the both of you in most cases. Good to have medkit support and extra marines around to weld your armor and pick up the guns when one of you inevitably buys the farm.

Along that same like of weaponry, for the starting guns I prefer a LMG/Shotgun and Pistol. The Pistol is the only pinpoint accurate weapon the marines have. You can't kill a fade with a full clip, but you can with two or three. It's excellent for popping any skulk or lerk whose silly enoug to think they can stand still in plain sight of you. The LMG/Shotgun is for when the alien gets up close and personal. The LMG is better off being used as the alien approaches, the Shotgun when they are already within close range.

TeoH · January 2003

The best marine weapon is a near-meaningless horribly over/miss-used cliqué that no one dare dispute for fear of being associated with the red menace.

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.....Teamwork!
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MithStrifer · January 2003

LMG just because I love to use it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'>

The_Mad_Knifer · January 2003

Definately the LMG, due to its (mostly) accurite fire, and does a significant amount of damage. Second welder just for its ability to rape towers and skulks. <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/skulk.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='skulk.gif'>

Chron · January 2003

I'm not even going to read the posts, because someone is going to say shotgun, then I will try to wrap my mind around how that gun is at all usefull compared to the free lmg, then I will die.

Weedkiller · January 2003

It's not an issue of the shotgun being better than the lmg or not: it's an issue of whether you find it enjoyable to use. I certainly find it lots of fun blasting a skulk to smithereens in one or two blasts.

Teufel_Eldritch · January 2003

siege

dighn · January 2003

shottie

Chron · January 2003

using the shotgun is like turning yourself into a skulk with a high damage melee attack. The spray is so crazy wide you need to be in melee range to get a good hit. at like 7 feet 75% of the spray will completely miss the skulk hitbox. lets not even think about lerks. I love shotguns in games. I'd love this gun, but its boring to use any gun that you need to BEG for if it can't even defend you. You have shotgun + 1 armor upgrade; skulk has lvl 3 carapace. you see him coming. You fire right at him...hes still coming, you fire again. Only a total of 5 pellets have hit. Now hes right in your face running all over the place biting at 3 times your rate of fire. You have time to get off one last shot as hes frantically strafing you like a flag pole. Oh but you only clipped him in the ****, he still has 40 health left.
Some people would actually be surprised by the range of the bitegun. You pretty much need to get a perfectly direct hit while hes jumping towards your face the split of a split second before he is able to bite you. too late and chomp. too early and chomp. the skulk is skinny, too, so hitting an incoming one thats on the ground with a shotgun is harder than one jumping on your face.

Archzai · January 2003

the GL... and LMG

the GL why? becuase i run around as a HA marine wif a pistol.. and a fade thinks im weak.... he comes up close and tries to slash me.... thats when i pull out my GL adn aim 4 nice grenades right in his body... before he knows wuts in his face and runs.. hes dead <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'>

lmg? high accuracy... free.... good effective weapon against skulks, lerks, and gorges....

in groups... deadly to anything

Archzai · January 2003

the GL... and LMG

the GL why? becuase i run around as a HA marine wif a pistol.. and a fade thinks im weak.... he comes up close and tries to slash me.... thats when i pull out my GL adn aim 4 nice grenades right in his body... before he knows wuts in his face and runs.. hes dead <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'>

lmg? high accuracy... free.... good effective weapon against skulks, lerks, and gorges....

in groups... deadly to anything

CWolf · January 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BlueGhost @ Jan 19 2003, 02:09 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>The best marine weapon?

Teamwork.

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I have to agree here - but also LMG .. hehe. Not sure why but I just love that gun - It's skulk killing time!!

CWolf

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