1.0x Aliens, Attacks And Upgrades

LockeLocke Join Date: 2002-11-17 Member: 9098Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">final thoughts......</div> As 1.1 draws ever nearer and 1.0x death looms closer, i was wondering,

What is Your favourite Alien and Why?

What is your favourite Alien Attack and Why?

What is your Favourite Upgrade from each chamber and Why?

As in 1.1 the class's are being changed abit i wanted to compair this to the next post like this i will do when 1.1 comes out.

Comments

  • SkydancerSkydancer Join Date: 2003-03-28 Member: 14959Members, Constellation
    My favourite alien is the lerk because it's pretty scary when you get one gliding on your nose and you know it's going to bite you
    My favourite attack is lerk bite because it forms the perfect couple with gliding-in-your-nose attacks
    My favourite upgrades are carapace (tank lerk), adrenaline or silence (about 50-50, depends on the situation, but I steadily admit that playing with silence is VERY fun) and enhanced sight, as you never get surprised by hiding marines and can bite and spike two times better, especially on dark maps (bast, for example). I almost never take cloaking.
  • RevenReven Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8202Members
    My favorate alein has to be the Gorge, i just love it <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->, its also funny for killing rines when they think they can kill you easily <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->.
    my favorate attack would have to be health spray. just because its so dam usefull.
    My favorate upgrade would have to be clarity on a gorge <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->. its so funny to burn around the levels at stupid speed and a fhatteh <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • MatchheadMatchhead Join Date: 2003-06-13 Member: 17342Members
    hmm... well, my favorite alien would have to be a skulk. i think that it is so cool to be able to climb the walls and hide above ceilings and drop in unexpectedly to scare the crap out of the marines, hehe. although by the time the marines get motion tracking... its a little harder to plan ambushes.... but its still one of my favorite aspects of NS. <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo-->

    i guess my favorite alien attack would be babblers, hehe. you dont get to see them too often, but they were just kind of fun to play around with. <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo-->

    i definitely like carapace, celerity, and cloaking as far as the upgrades go. i will use the other upgrades depending on the situation, but i think i take these ones the most.
  • DarkFrostDarkFrost Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15154Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    LERK!!!! Lerk will still be my favourite because im practicing without using bite and its still fun <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
    Although my number one favourite ability is leap, i love the chorus of WTH!!! as i leap like the rabit in monty pythons holy grail between the team.

    My favourite upgrade is silence, but as lerk i rarely take anything other than carapace, adren, scent of fear, as i like to spike while flying. (i find strafing the enemy works well, as they turn their attention to you (and only the very best can shoot a lerk out the air) and the skulks can take care of them while their attention is diverted)
  • Cereal_KillRCereal_KillR Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1837Members
    skulk, parasite, silence. (except in the case of hive 2 skulks where silence won't help you as you'd be screaming for leaps half the time where I take adren. Or silence depending...)


    Skulk because it's such a sneaky class. Parasite because it helps everyone. Silence because it's sneaky for a sneaky class
  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    The onos of course, as it is all-mighty. With carapace and a few DCs nearby for retreating to, the onos is practically invincible.

    My favourite alien attack is the spore cloud. It's too hilarious to spore a group of marines and send them scurrying for safety, only to then spore their new hiding place. Rinse and repeat. Xenocide comes close though.

    My favourite upgrades are:
    DC: Cara. Duh. As a skulk it's necessary, and with the other classes it's very helpful.
    MC: Silence. Ninja skulks ahoy!
    SC: Cloak. The only one that's actually useful. Once again: Ninja skulks ahoy!
  • meatballmeatball Join Date: 2003-05-10 Member: 16196Members
    edited June 2003
    <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif'><!--endemo--> I love the _fade_... <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif'><!--endemo-->
    I usualy use cara, adren/clererity (how do you spell it???) depends on wath i want to do... uhmm sens... ehh cloak?
  • NadsyNadsy Join Date: 2003-02-27 Member: 14112Members
    Hmm, I guess for me it's a toss up between the skulk and the lerk. I'm lethal with my parasite kills and can't help but crack up when I finally nail a guy I've been working on for a while with it. As a skulk, I always go carapace/celerity/cloaking. It's soooo hard for marines to shoot you when you're running around like a cheetah on crack! As lerk, my favorite attack is a combo umbra/bite. I've been working on this for a bit to get good at it, and now while the other lerks are busy spiking a turret for 5 minutes, I just swoop in, umbra, quickswitch to bite, and chomp the thing down in a few seconds. As lerk I usually get carapace/adrenaline/scent of fear. It's nice when the game is almost over to be a lerk searching for the last marines who just patrols the whole map spamming spores everywhere until a yellow/red circle shows up on hive sight.
  • CowswinCowswin Join Date: 2003-03-17 Member: 14623Banned, Constellation
    Skulk

    Bite

    D - Regen/Cara (50/50)
    M - Celerity (hands down)
    S - I usually don't waste the res but Scent of Fear if I do

    Skulks rox. I can whoop up a mean Terran Soup if given the right conditions.
  • EidolanEidolan Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8694Members
    Hum prolly Lerk because i never got blink down right, fav weapon? Xeno(just so dam funny) or spikes(its so fun to camp in a vent as lerk in the frist 5 min of the game and just **** the marine team off to no end.) Upgrades? As Lerk its Regen/Agren/Cloak
  • RoobubbaRoobubba Who you gonna call? Join Date: 2003-01-06 Member: 11930Members, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    well, I suck and I'm proud of it. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Roo
  • NadsyNadsy Join Date: 2003-02-27 Member: 14112Members
    I *love* blink. I managed to learn pretty quickly how to use it right, and contrary to most people's belief, you don't have to jump or duck when blinking. Just point your curser slightly upward (where a wall meets a ceiling is a pretty reliable point) and go. It's also a HUGE help when those jetpacking marines manage to get up in a high spot, like the walkway above viaduct on ns_nothing.

    Although, I believe it's being changed in 1.1 and blinking upward to get to high places will no longer be viable. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Cereal_KillRCereal_KillR Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1837Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Roobubba+Jun 19 2003, 01:58 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Roobubba @ Jun 19 2003, 01:58 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> well, I suck and I'm proud of it. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Roo <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    same here but I still have a favorite style of play <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Imo, cloaking is useless without silence. If the marines are close, they hear you cloaking and that's a giveaway
  • KEm1KaL1KEm1KaL1 Lerky Lerky Join Date: 2003-02-21 Member: 13797Members
    Skulk/Lerk -- Leap is definitely the best attack, but I feel myself a better Lerk. Still, crouch leaping and doing ever so much damage is ever so fun. LeapBite "combo" is also extremely lethal. Upgrades:

    Every alien but onos and gorge -- Cara -- Adrenaline -- Scent of fear.

    Gorge -- Redemption -- Silence -- Cloaking.

    Onos -- Regeneration -- Adrenaline -- Scent of fear.
  • WindelkronWindelkron Join Date: 2002-04-11 Member: 419Members
    Fade
    My favorite alien attack is blink, oh rest in peace beloved blink.

    DC: Redemption (HAH! Couldn't kill me!)
    MC: Adrenaline (makes combos so much easier and quicker)
    SC: Cloaking (no question)
  • SentrySteveSentrySteve .txt Join Date: 2002-03-09 Member: 290Members, Constellation
    What’s my favorite class, you ask? I'll tell you, Ron, it has to be the fade! For the one time payment of 54 res, oh - and Ron - that’s NO interest.

    Wait - A one time payment of 54 res? WITH NO INTEREST? YOU MUST BE OUR OF YOUR MIND!

    No, not out of my mind, OUT OF MY HIVE! Ha ha. No, but really, with a low, low payment of 54 res you can swipe marines down in just one or two hits, or shoot them from afar with acid! *rockets not included* Not to mention the fact that you can <i>blink</i>

    Blink you say? Whats that?

    Blink, Ron, is a ability that only the fade has and it comes <i>with</i> with first, and final, payment of 54 res. Blink can teleport the fade to anywhere he can see. See a GL opening fire on a hive - but you have to go though a whole team of LMGs? Not any more -- for the low low price of 54 res you can blink behind the marines and kill him!

    Wow - that's truly amazing stuff there and only for 54 res? 27 is almost half that number and you cant even buy a lerk with it, but what about at three hives, what if we have three hives, why not go something like Onos instead?

    I'll tell you why! The fade, unlike the Onos, can destroy structures from a distance. Ron - have you ever seen a group of big, thick balls flying through the air with the intent to 'explode' upon someone, or something?

    Only at Fam’s house… and SypderMonkey’s too!

    Yep - that's the fade for you Ronny! The Acid rocket *acid not included* can wreak havoc on any marine base at any time *by anytime we mean only when you have three hives*

    Wow - thanks for the great information on why Fade is your favorite - so pick up those phones and start calling -- Fade -- all you could ever ask for in only 54 res!


    *yeh, i was bored...*
  • nWAFFLESnWAFFLES Join Date: 2003-04-06 Member: 15238Members
    Fav class has to be lerk, weapon is spike for sure, because i'm just so darn lethal with it. For upgrades i usually go

    DC \\ Carapace - Cuz otherwise you die in half a second.
    MC \\ Adrenaline - Else i can't spike and fly.
    SC \\ Enhanced sight - Makes it soooo much easier to see rines hiding in dark corners. Gotta love the "WTH it was dark howd you see me, with lambent HAx!!11!?"
  • sekdarsekdar Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9564Members
    i love the skulk to death.

    even when 90% of the team is fade i often stay skulk, and sometimes i even play better than some of the fades <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->

    melee fade is a close 2nd for those times when skulk doesn't cut it (read: HA/HMG)
  • SkydancerSkydancer Join Date: 2003-03-28 Member: 14959Members, Constellation
    another one that uses enhanced sight! yay! <!--emo&::lerk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/lerk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='lerk.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • a_civiliana_civilian Likes seeing numbers Join Date: 2003-01-08 Member: 12041Members, NS1 Playtester, Playtest Lead
    My favorite species would be the fade. It is very durable, extremely fast (blink), and it has a good melee attack and a good ranged attack.

    My favorite ability would be blink. I use it to get around the map quickly, to get close to my enemies quickly, to avoid gunfire, to confuse enemies (where did that fade just go?), and to make quick retreats to heal.

    My favorite upgrades would be carapace, because it more than doubles the amount of damage I can take, and adrenaline, because it allows me to use high energy cost abilities much more rapidly.
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