Lamers

AnlarAnlar Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8519Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Onos wannabes</div> The 2.0 version is superbly balanced, tweaked and polished. <b>Thank you for making perhaps the best game ever. It really rocks. </b> Flayra, will you marry me? There is one thing that pisses me off though.. <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->

Some people refuse to build anything on Kharaan in the beginning of the game. Why? They want the onos the first possible second to start fragging. Bad? I don't usually care. If someone wants to leave the rest of the team to play the game and just jerk off in the corner, fine. It's just that sometimes...

I have been on 32 player server couple times when from 16 player bug[tm] team over 10 (12?) has been these people. What happens for a bug team that does not get resource nodes? Take a wild quess. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

Then starts the whining, blaming and lurking in the vents with skulks only when ha-hmg marines stomp all around the map taking care of the 4-6 players who are actually trying to even play the game.

I am not saying that a team should be forced to play well or cooperate. That's what makes a good team and victory and is what the game is mostly all about. Although the bugs can do a lot things solo, they also need usually teamplay. It is just that there are some evenings way too many of those frag hungry kids that ruin the game for the rest of the players. <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'><!--endemo--> There are not many low ping big player amount servers around to choose from <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->

How about a small tweak? Nothing big, just a tiny tiny thing aimed at laming?

(Btw, I just love the new gl. It absolutely rips away the whole bug team if you can handle it. )

Comments

  • MrMojoMrMojo Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9882Members, Constellation
    So..um...what possible tweak would you suggest for this to not happen a lot?


    Oh, and no one can really balance the game if such a big part of the team isnt working as one.
  • PegePege Join Date: 2002-11-27 Member: 10088Members
    Just yesterday I had a humorous experience of being in a same team with an NSPlayer. The guy kept spamming text in caps and acted all nervous like winning was the only thing that matters. Basically he saved for onos the entire game (got it first too), then killed a few LA/LMG marines and got wasted. After that he felt appropriate to whine about what an idiot I was for not gorging to give him health (had like 5 resources) and acted all bossy like he was the king of the world. He stayed stereotypical to the end and quit after losing his precious "big monster" spouting babble in full caps about us being ignorant idiots... We won in the end, but certainly not because of his n00bish "help" <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • XCanXCan Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5904Members, Constellation
    How about a tooltip saying: "Don't you dare just saving for your own sake, get your **** off and build something to help your team instead!!11one!" <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • DarkWulfDarkWulf Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4662Members
    edited August 2003
    I've never understood that whole obsession with pretending to be cool by mocking those non-existent people who speak "elite" speak. (I mean, honestly, has "elite" ever gone past the point of just being a funny thing?)

    I could live quite happily without ever having to see "OMG I'm cool because I'm making fun of silly CSers!11one! lolol". Its an overdone joke, and kind of silly when you look at the overall community has a whole. It is rare to see people who even post with atrocious English, much less some strange variant of "elite".

    and... thats it, we're back to lurking.

    oh wow. l-33-t gets changed to "elite".
  • SudzzSudzz Join Date: 2003-08-01 Member: 18663Members, Constellation
    edited August 2003
    You call them 'bugs'? O_O <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> Aliens <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> > <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> > <!--emo&::lerk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/lerk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='lerk.gif'><!--endemo--> > <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif'><!--endemo--> > <!--emo&::onos::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • p4Samwisep4Samwise Join Date: 2002-12-15 Member: 10831Members
    They prefer the term "monsters".
  • fo_sheezy_my_neezyfo_sheezy_my_neezy Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10768Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--DarkWulf+Aug 6 2003, 02:13 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DarkWulf @ Aug 6 2003, 02:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I've never understood that whole obsession with pretending to be cool by mocking those non-existent people who speak "elite" speak. (I mean, honestly, has "elite" ever gone past the point of just being a funny thing?)

    I could live quite happily without ever having to see "OMG I'm cool because I'm making fun of silly CSers!11one! lolol". Its an overdone joke, and kind of silly when you look at the overall community has a whole. It is rare to see people who even post with atrocious English, much less some strange variant of "elite".

    and... thats it, we're back to lurking.

    oh wow. l-33-t gets changed to "elite". <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    two quick replies (being the threadjacker that I am).

    1) The art of making fun of the ""elite"" speak is funny in and of itself. It wouldn't be funny if some people weren't actually doing it. This brings me to:

    2) I've met a ton of people who post "YA I NO RITE OMG 4 REEL DUD!!1!!1!!11!!" on a regular basis, so don't think that it doesn't exist.
  • Cheez1Cheez1 Join Date: 2003-01-28 Member: 12900Members
    On the one hand I really, really, REALLY hate "Onos savers" as I like to call them. On the other hand if you can get them defence chambers before they go onos they can become the game ending factor. An early onos can cause enough damae to delay HA or stop it all together. Of course if the guy saving for onos is a total n00b and can't kill a thing, that's another story. I usually only end up going onos after two ro three have already shown up becuase i'm busy building OCs, sensory chambers, hives, RTs, and all kinds of other "Non-essential" buildings for those lamers.
  • DeronokDeronok Join Date: 2003-03-17 Member: 14613Members
    Actually -most- games where theres people I know on my team I save for fade, then go fade, stick with the main gorges, and when those rambo marines come running into the room thinking they're going to kill the gorge I -try- to swipe them once to bring them NEAR death so the gorge can get res for healspray kills. Works pretty well too, esp with sens first.
  • BugBrainBugBrain Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16279Members
    Like cheese! said, you you just have to work with them sometimes. If you have 2 hives, evolve into a lerk. Umbra those onos from the corners. Even redemption onos last quite a while before redeaming if they have a comfy cloud of umbra to protect them. <!--emo&::onos::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::lerk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/lerk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='lerk.gif'><!--endemo--> *sshhhaaaa* AAAHHH <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> "It's not going going away!"
  • NecrosisNecrosis The Loquacious Sage Join Date: 2003-08-03 Member: 18828Members, Constellation
    I don't mind Onos savers if they pull their fnarking weight and there's tons of gorgers working away.

    IMHO you need one or two nutbusters to keep the pressure on. If he can get those points so fast and use them well, then all power to him.

    In a small server though its totally unforgivable.
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