How Do You Do It?
InquisitiveIdiot
Join Date: 2003-10-21 Member: 21854Members
Join Date: 2003-10-21 Member: 21854Members
<div class="IPBDescription">kill without biting</div> I'm ashamed to admit I see a disparity between my skill as skulk/fade and the skill of my fellow aliens.
Occasionally as a marine I will be in a situation where, as a marine, a lone skulk will come leaping at me, or a fade will blink at me in its special twisted parody of a crucifix. When that happens, I often die. Even if I'm at full health and armor. Armor 2, that is. My death icon shows a bite/swipe, but I have no memory of such an animation taking place. It's as if their very touch tore my soul from my body.
Yet when I'm a skulk, I can usually get the first hit in, but very very rarely does it kill the marine. I've tried practicing leap/bite fastswitching, but I've yet to accomplish a similar feat. So tell me, alien gurus, what the **** am I doing wrong?
Occasionally as a marine I will be in a situation where, as a marine, a lone skulk will come leaping at me, or a fade will blink at me in its special twisted parody of a crucifix. When that happens, I often die. Even if I'm at full health and armor. Armor 2, that is. My death icon shows a bite/swipe, but I have no memory of such an animation taking place. It's as if their very touch tore my soul from my body.
Yet when I'm a skulk, I can usually get the first hit in, but very very rarely does it kill the marine. I've tried practicing leap/bite fastswitching, but I've yet to accomplish a similar feat. So tell me, alien gurus, what the **** am I doing wrong?
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First leap moves you, second finishes movement and adds ~30 damage, then a focus bite = DEATH
Is it possible to do these things wihtout the use of a blink/leap/fly + attack script?
I dont like the fact that Im getting owned by teenagers using scripts, but I can live with it if I know they do it 'the old fashioned way' and switch attack all the time.
Any thoughts from you guys?
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select slash
select blink
blink to target
use last used weapon button and slash
Have Fun...
There's currently a bug with lastinv (lag effects its) so might not want to use that for now. It's till fine for pulling out a welder or something, but it's often not fast enough to go back from leap to bite.
Same thing goes for leap-bite. It has nothing to do with scripts, just the timing of the weapon switch, which you can easily execute with <i>lastinv</i>. You should still hear the attack, however (if you would hear it under normal circumstances).
No it doesn't. A focus bite will kill a marine with less than around 40 armor points (level 1), and leap occasionally allows you do do a bit more damage (kill a level 2 armor marine just barely). You could have level 100 armor but no armor points left and still die to one focus bite.
JP are exactly the same as LA except faster moving.
No it doesn't. A focus bite will kill a marine with less than around 40 armor points (level 1), and leap occasionally allows you do do a bit more damage (kill a level 2 armor marine just barely). You could have level 100 armor but no armor points left and still die to one focus bite. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Actually, your math is flawed, though you are correct in the sense that focus will not kill in one hit to all vanilla or JP rines.
Think about it- focus doubles attack damage, correct? Should a lv 0 armor rine take 1 bite from a non-focused skulk, he lives with 75 hp, dieing in one more bite. Should this rine have 26 armor instead of 25, he will live with 77 hp, enableing him to take yet another bite and survive with 2 hp.
So all a rine needs to survive a focus bite is 26 or more armor.
I have tried using the old bind a bit to one button and leap to another but I cant ever get the binds to work correctly. Sometimes it doesnt switch. Sometimes it does and doesnt attack afterwards. Its very frustrating. If there are people out there that are doing it that way please let us know the commands. How many waits are you using. What order do they go in. etc. Thanks for any help on this matter. <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif' /><!--endemo-->
As for xeno exploding midair, Activate xeno before you head into the room and leap towards your targets. If you try to xeno midair, you'll usually land before you explode as it takes time for you to pop. Sometimes if you've got adren you can usually get off a bite too. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
skulks and lerks i find myself doing it from the right side because it is easier to move your mouse to the left if you are right handed
lerks, i do it from above so it is harder to hit me, then i loop around the base and regen the little health lost and continue
you can rack up scores doing that, i always lerk in combat because the umbra support is needed and few do it also lerks are great for the end game because they arent meant to kill the comm chair, only the spawning marines