What's With Devour?

TeflonTeflon Join Date: 2003-08-27 Member: 20289Members
edited September 2003 in NS General Discussion
<div class="IPBDescription">What am I doing wrong?</div> 1) I spy a tasty snack for my eating pleasure. I run up to the tasty snack and press 'Devour'. The onos goes 'ChOMPEH' and the mouth moves. The marine continues to shoot me. I try again. The marine continues to shoot me. Try again (By now I'm practically JUMPING on him.). Nothing happens. By now my health is in the 100s so I have to gore him to death.

2) I see a marine jetpacker. He shoots me, touches the ground to boost again. He flies up, I look up and press 'Devour' and CHOMPEH I eat him out of midair.

What's with devour? It only works like 1/10 times for me, even in the 'perfect' situation. Then there's times where I'll use devour and it'll eat marines that are like 10 feet away from me. And when I try Stomp-Devour it almost never works at all. The chomp animation doesn't even play. I feel like I'm playing Oceans Eleven where the batteries are dead in the detonator and they have to spend a few minutes poking at it to see what's wrong.
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  • ShadowcatShadowcat Join Date: 2003-01-18 Member: 12443Members
    Its just made like that so its harder to kill the enemy because you can devour a HA Marine in one bite, it kinda suxs.
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  • steamedhamssteamedhams Join Date: 2002-11-30 Member: 10333Members, Constellation
    it has a minimum range limit for some reason, try taking a few step backs and giving it a go.
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  • Big_Chief_Brown_BottomBig_Chief_Brown_Bottom Join Date: 2003-01-22 Member: 12584Members
    you also have to aim it. the very tip of the horn should be pointed at the target's chest
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  • criticaIcriticaI Join Date: 2003-04-07 Member: 15269Banned, Constellation
    Out of all the attacks in the game, devour behaves most strangely. I suspect its the same problem when you sometimes can't bite a marine because you are so close to him.
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  • ScuzballScuzball Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20657Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    It does have minimum range, I think.

    Also, what really helped me was imagining a crosshair. Aim with the center of the screen, don't (as I was tempted to do) aim with the mouth itself.
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  • BlehBleh Join Date: 2003-02-09 Member: 13305Members
    Try aimming so when you're devouring, you're trying to devour the marine's legs & feet, not their body/head. I've found I get devour to work more times than not when I aim for the lower end of the marine thats directly infront of me.
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  • Tuistid_NuckaTuistid_Nucka Join Date: 2003-09-09 Member: 20680Members
    Gather round children! I shall tell the tale of the Devouring Ownos!

    There once was a hungry onos, who could not seem to eat his pray successfully, his chomp would not fit around the marine. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> Untill one day, when chasing after a meaty Heavy Armor, the onos fell in mid chomp! And easily ate his foe. From that day on, the onos would always CROUCH while he attempted to eat his pray. Making him the most fat, happiest onos in all of ns_Nothing!


    (just crouch when you devour, SURE way to eat any marine)
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  • GolathGolath Join Date: 2003-05-20 Member: 16532Members
    When the oni devours it actually leaps out towards the marine, since the animation is not played it looks wierd.
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  • ViolenceJackViolenceJack Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5624Members
    animation or no animation it looks wierd, u could only fit about a helmet off a HA suit in his mouth so how he get the rest of it in an instant. its a great wonder of the NS universe. I bet it puzzles the TSA scientists.
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  • GolathGolath Join Date: 2003-05-20 Member: 16532Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--ViolenceJack+Sep 9 2003, 04:50 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ViolenceJack @ Sep 9 2003, 04:50 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> animation or no animation it looks wierd, u could only fit about a helmet off a HA suit in his mouth so how he get the rest of it in an instant. its a great wonder of the NS universe. I bet it puzzles the TSA scientists. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Well a snake can 'devour' a person. Well at least in 1 case it did.
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  • DelarosaDelarosa Naturally Custom Join Date: 2002-11-29 Member: 10214Members, NS1 Playtester
    thank you teflon, much better post even if it doesn't cover as much content as the other one.



    i too had trouble with devour, but once i figured out that i can skool as fade, i just don't bother with onos.
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  • RoobubbaRoobubba Who you gonna call? Join Date: 2003-01-06 Member: 11930Members, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    similar to delarosa - once I learned how to lerk, gorge and skulk effectively, I never bother with the higher life forms - it just wastes valuable killing time <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Roo

    PS Just a message to all those people thinking of using devour with redemption: DON'T!
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  • Pr0phecyPr0phecy Join Date: 2002-04-04 Member: 381Members
    just aim down and it does the trick.Its where the mouth is,not your eyes.
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  • OlljOllj our themepark-stalking nightmare Fade Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10696Members
    When devouring do NOT aim with your horn.
    aim with the middle of your screen.
    Devouring onos always looks down much.
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  • Tuistid_NuckaTuistid_Nucka Join Date: 2003-09-09 Member: 20680Members
    did no one read my post? all you have to do is crouch, why waste time trying to get the correct aim, hit your DUCK key.

    <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> stomp
    <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'><!--endemo--> walk up to marine
    <!--emo&::onos::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif'><!--endemo--> crouch
    <!--emo&::onos::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif'><!--endemo--> devour
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  • MrMojoMrMojo Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9882Members, Constellation
    Yeah, crouch usualy does the trick.
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  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    Just reinforcing that crouch helps out devouring muchly.
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  • NecrosisNecrosis The Loquacious Sage Join Date: 2003-08-03 Member: 18828Members, Constellation
    There was a thread covering this in the Kharaa forums, but in any case....

    Summarising and addressing the first post -

    Ground based snacks - you are nearly always too close and aiming too high. Aim at your snack's feet and you've a better chance of eating. Failing that aim normally and use crouch.

    Air based snacks - because they are usually going UP you will virtually always end up devouring lower than they appear to be. Thus you'll be more successful (since you want to aim low anyhow).



    Also make sure you're still not currently digesting a rine <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> I know i've forgotten sometimes, hehe.
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  • Hell_KnightHell_Knight Join Date: 2003-08-02 Member: 18759Members
    I've never tried crouching before, mayeb that would help lol, since the onos are maybe....2x bigger than marines

    Thank you lol
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