What Do You Think Of Fatty? (gorge)

ethTheMedic1 · January 2004

Whats your personal preference on gorges?

Like/dislike

when you go gorge do you stay gorge for the whole game or switch to onos/fade, etc.
What do you think about there combat.

I personally like them, and good gorging can make or break the Aliens game. so its pretty much a like situation.
When I go Gorge, I usually stay for the whole game, sometimes I may go lerk or fade to help an attack.

Gorges can be pretty useful in combat. Spit, Healingspray,etc.

Warrior · January 2004

When im gorge, its only for one purpose. It could be to put a hive up, an rt, or upgrade chambers. I rarely gorge for long periods of time. Its not that i dont like the gorge, id rather fight and kill stuff.

Cold_NiTe · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (§ethTheMedic. @ Jan 3 2004, 07:36 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Whats your personal preference on gorges?

Like/dislike

when you go gorge do you stay gorge for the whole game or switch to onos/fade, etc.
What do you think about there combat.

I personally like them, and good gorging can make or break the Aliens game. so its pretty much a like situation.
When I go Gorge, I usually stay for the whole game, sometimes I may go lerk or fade to help an attack.

Gorges can be pretty useful in combat. Spit, Healingspray,etc.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
I:

- Like

- Permagorge (relatively often)

- A good gorge does indeed make or brake some games. They can certainly brake the game if they want to be llamas, and no one will ever know they did it. I've seen some gorges specifically put OC's and WEBS on RT spots and other nonsense. I've also seen some gorges **** healing stations (3 DC's 3 MC's, fully ready to go) in seconds to prep for a battle, making even a single onos nearly indestructable when he can just walk back to the healing station and completely refill on health in 3 clicks.

-Combat gorges require specific setups to overcome their disadvantages. I.e. Celerity[Run in and out of battle], Regeneration[Regain HP while hiding], Cloaking[lets not be stupid, a gorge is never truly the equal of a good marine till he gets webs, so hiding is necessary] for me.
When a combat gorge gets web, its over, even for the heavies.

-Basic gorges on the other hand tend to require a specific setup also. For me; Adrenaline[for continuous healsprays], Regeneration[to recover minor hits], SoF[to avoid enemies or head towards battles for support].

As for the different types of gorges, I've seen really really good and really really bad versions of each.

Grillkohle · January 2004

I admit, I am not a good battle gorge at all. When I go gorge, I put up my chambers, hive or whatever, and I am going to go back to skulk asap.

krunaldo · January 2004

Gorge = Adrelenine = 3 OC and 1 dc = Indestructible Outpost <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Just heal heal heal the ocs.<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

DragonMech · January 2004

I like gorging, and permagorge quite often. If it's a small game and res isn't a problem, prepare to meet lots of WoLs. You can get mad RFK with a good WoL.

Extreme · January 2004

If I'm needed, I go gorge and as long as we have dcs I stay gorge (get redempt) and turn into a psychotic battle gorge, then when I die I wait for fade/onos. I personally like killing things, so I don't gorge unless I need to.

POOP_Akira · January 2004

Im Gorge usually 100% of the game. Its meh favorite alien

: D

aonomus · January 2004

I usually gorge for long periods of time building most of the structures after people votebanning me while they wait for onos gestation at 7 minutes

I build rts and ocs to defend them, and upgrade chambers as needed. I usually save for a hive to and I have been known to put up one, skulk until I can put the other up and then go gorge and put a hive up again (and yet still be the 2nd-3rd best alien player <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>)

Evo · January 2004

I generally don't permagorge until the very end of the game.
Usually I start out by running off, gorging, dropping a res tower, and then going back to a skulk. Then I run around and rip up 'rines, until I get enough RFK to do something useful. Usually I save up for more chambers (or a second hive if im doing really good). Sometimes i'll go Lerk or Fade, if my team needs that kind of support (unfortunatly its not often, as by the time I'm ready to go Fade, all the res **** have already done so). I tend not to stay gorge permanently though, because I usually blow all my resources in one shot (hive, chambers, etc), and I hate sitting around waiting for more resources when I could be killing rines. That and i'm not a very good Battlegorge <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>. After that, I generally save for bigger evolutions to fight off the mean upgraded marines. If additional combat classes aren't needed, I gorge again and put up a 3rd hive and then start making WOLs, healing & bombing on the front lines, and then eventually Battlegorging on the final push into the rine base (when the rines are too busy shooting Onos to bother with me <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>).

The only thing I hate about my "usual tactic" is that I haven't been an Onos in months. I'm serious. I actually can't remember the last time I got to play as an Onos in a normal game. My desire to play as a team always seems to outweigh my desire to be a selfish jerk and res**** like the rest of the loosers i'm usually supporting <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>
*Sigh* Such is the life of a selfless player <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

DragonMech · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Evo @ Jan 3 2004, 09:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> The only thing I hate about my "usual tactic" is that I haven't been an Onos in months. I'm serious. I actually can't remember the last time I got to play as an Onos in a normal game. My desire to play as a team always seems to outweigh my desire to be a selfish jerk and res**** like the rest of the loosers i'm usually supporting <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>
*Sigh* Such is the life of a selfless player <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Sadly all to true. I'm almost never the onos - I'm the gorge keeping his sorry butt alive with healspray.

Epidemic · January 2004

OMG, Im liek teh spitzor ownage death of my team.
After that I usually evolve to a dolphin that can make pickaxes and use it's mental power to evolve opposable thumbs <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Bobbybirdtree · January 2004

I was gorge when i was learning how to play the game. Now i often try to evolve but usually end up wasting my res on stuff as a gorge because no1 likes to build.

DragonMech · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Epidemic @ Jan 3 2004, 09:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> OMG, Im liek teh spitzor ownage death of my team.
After that I usually evolve to a dolphin that can make pickaxes and use it's mental power to evolve opposable thumbs <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Check the OT forum to understand what this man is yammering about. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Buggy · January 2004

-usually- i just go gorge at start of game and drop an RT, then go skulk again. maybe every once in a while when i ditch my res for a hive but thats about it...i like gorge, but i like killing marines more.
i very much like the scenarios when a marine stumbles upon me building the rt and he goes like "muha, fatteh kill woop woop" and then i just own him with spit <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

so yah i like gorge, but i dont play it often

Ahnteis · January 2004

It used to be fun to be gorgie, but now it's just a boring pain to stay fatteh longer then necessary.

Cold_NiTe · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Dragon_Mech @ Jan 3 2004, 10:40 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Evo @ Jan 3 2004, 09:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> The only thing I hate about my "usual tactic" is that I haven't been an Onos in months. I'm serious. I actually can't remember the last time I got to play as an Onos in a normal game. My desire to play as a team always seems to outweigh my desire to be a selfish jerk and res**** like the rest of the loosers i'm usually supporting <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>
*Sigh* Such is the life of a selfless player <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Sadly all to true. I'm almost never the onos - I'm the gorge keeping his sorry butt alive with healspray.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
I hear ya. I think it's been about a month for me too. I also follow around the packs of strong units when I'm not doing anything else. IF it is a major attack I'll usually put up a healing station, as best as I can afford, minimum 1 dc 1 mc, so the attack reaches higher than 100% efficiency...

Fat_Man_Little_Coat · January 2004

I don't mind gorging unless I see a res **** on my team. Something about using my res to benefit my team, while one guy just **** res out of greed. It ticks me especially when its a guy who does it regularly.

That said, there's nothing more fun than while as a gorg, you run into another gorg or two, and without saying a word, you guys just know to group up.

Its like the unspoken code of brotherhood for the gorgs.

Cold_NiTe · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Fat Man/ Little Coat @ Jan 4 2004, 04:26 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> That said, there's nothing more fun than while as a gorg, you run into another gorg or two, and without saying a word, you guys just know to group up.

Its like the unspoken code of brotherhood for the gorgs.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
That does rock. I never even thought of it that way before. Usually, on the servers I go to, Gorges get all hyper and start spitting at you and jumping when you come into their view and attract their attention (if you are another gorge). It's kind of fun to play long range tag, especially since you can just about dodge spit.

DragonMech · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Fat Man/ Little Coat @ Jan 4 2004, 03:26 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> That said, there's nothing more fun than while as a gorg, you run into another gorg or two, and without saying a word, you guys just know to group up.

Its like the unspoken code of brotherhood for the gorgs.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
One of the best ways to use the BoG is to make a trap with bait that is surprisingly tough to kill. Have one gorge lure a marine around a corner - into your two gorge buddies. HEALSPRAY KILLS! Plus skulks can drop from cielings to finish them off.

Evo · January 2004

Heh, me and another gorge pulled a nice (albet flukey) bait n switch today. We were wandering around together when we decided to check out Laser drilling... poked my head out, sho' nuff, rines had a RT there. We started spitting at it a bit just for fun (not like spit does great damage after all), when two rines showed up. So we turned our big fat bottoms and ran, spamming healspray ahead of us as we ran side by side. Round the corner and down the hall we went, with the two rines in tow, blasting away at us. We turn the second corner and stop to heal up and make a last stand, when all of a sudden I hear *CHOMPCHOMPCHOMPCHOMP*. So we run back around the corner and nail the one (surviving) 'rine with spit while he spins around like a top <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>. Turns out, a friendly skulk was just coming from Furnace, and pwned the two 'rines from behind while us fatties were running for our lives. w00t for impromptu teamwork! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>
<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'>

Wirhe · January 2004

Gorging can be fun when you have high lag or are just feeling like "hey, now I need to build something and spit some poo" <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

BUT it isn't fun at all when the rest of the team can't keep areas safe for building.

"Incoming rine. Just one."
"Could a skulk come to here? The rine is almost dead."
"Er... Anyone? I have only 4 hp left..."
"Guys, seriously, only 1 skulk."
<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'>
"Thanks guys. And I just build a hive."
<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/siege.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='siege.gif'>

Roger_Dodger · January 2004

Yeh i preferred the 1.04 gorge where everyone had to cover him and if a rine found one it was like striking gold. But thats in the past, way too often the gorge is only used temporarily just to build for a second then go back to fighting.

very sad...

- RD

CMaster · January 2004

The rpoblem in larger games is that you just cant afford to be a perma gorge - no res to build anything except your first RT.

7Bistromath · January 2004

I'm almost always a dedicated base-builder. I'll rfk up to fifty, drop a hive, (or chamber it up, if that's done) then depending on how fast res is flowing, I'll wait for enough to chamber my hive, (or put a new one up) or reskulk to tag some rfk for same. I enjoy the job, and I've got a pretty good build pattern worked out, but it can be annoying when my team doesn't give me enough time to Fade into the final assault. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'>

PS: One good thing about anybody who gorges is that you can always rely on them to be cooperative. If you're trying to get something built in a certain way, or need a WoL finished <i>right now</i>, they'll always gung ho.

Snidely · January 2004

I hate gorging now. If I don't go gorge, I'll get harrassed for "whoring res"; if I do, you can guarrentee that the the rest of the team won't come to save my rt if a rambo gets me.

Buggy · January 2004

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Tails @ Jan 4 2004, 08:09 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Gorging can be fun when you have high lag or are just feeling like "hey, now I need to build something and spit some poo" <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

BUT it isn't fun at all when the rest of the team can't keep areas safe for building.

"Incoming rine. Just one."
"Could a skulk come to here? The rine is almost dead."
"Er... Anyone? I have only 4 hp left..."
"Guys, seriously, only 1 skulk."
<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'>
"Thanks guys. And I just build a hive."
<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/siege.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='siege.gif'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Seconded. The last bit that is. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>
have seen my 50 res get blown away all too often because teammates dont care/dont realise if there are marines near a hive.

The_Bends · January 2004

They should make the /res plug in part of the game. Then you can see who's whoring and if not force them you can at least make them justify it

panda_de_malheureux · January 2004

i luv my lil gorg, usually i gorg right behind the main rush (which naturally takes everyone out) and drop a couple ocs, by the counter rush they are both up and the rines turn around and go the other way (which is great for the team, res for all!).

DC_Darkling · January 2004

I can say I like them

I spend 75% as gorge, 20% as fade and 5 as skulk preferably

What Do You Think Of Fatty? (gorge)

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