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Also, note that in every one of the scoreboards the top players have green pings, and they're not even close to "dominating" the game.
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Back in 1997-98, I registered for an account at MSN Gaming Zone (remember that?) to play Age of Empires online. I watched lots of Pokémon back then, and one of my favorites was Scyther. I read in a magazine that its "beta" name (so to speak) was Str…
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Gorge spit projectile sometimes isn't destroyed upon contact, dealing damage every tick. It's especially obvious against the command station and armory, but can sometimes happen against marines.
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I never heard of Savage 2 until it became "free to play" (the kind where you have access to everything but have some limitations which are unlocked by purchasing the game), and by that point it had at most 600 players online. I think the reason it d…
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TL;DR: I agree with the OP on all three points, expand a bit on them, and talk about SC2 and Savage 2 and how they compare to NS2.
1) Just look at the latest match… -
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Jumping on top of marines as an Onos should instantly kill them, no matter what. Exos should take a lot of damage as well.
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Thanks for mentioning my blog here. I just earned a few extra cents from the visits of this page alone.
Also, this is relevant, since wiry obviously doesn't care about divisions below 1: in about fade. Comment by StrikerX3 September 2013 -
Haha, I almost forgot about this. There are some neat ideas in there, if a bit too powerful.
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Well, sorry for trying to extrapolate scenarios with my imagination. Still, as far as I can tell from watching Season 3 games and some scrims between Titus and priori yesterday, in all divisions, Fade is pretty much worthless compared to other lifef…
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You do realize I had some competitive experience in the past, right? Unfortunately, it seems like my credential is no longer valid since the game changed so much between then and now.
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Exactly like me. I used to play Fade in competitive matches back in Season 2, when Shadowstep+jump was the norm.
b250 Fade was just ridiculously OP. Now it's just ridiculously unenjoyable. Not only that, but very limite… -
Unfortunately I haven't been able to play competitively recently, so yeah, most of my opinions here are based on pub games. Take them with a grain of salt.
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I still didn't have time to watch competitive games, nor did I play any (since my team dropped a few days before Season 3 started, and I have real life stuff to deal with). From what I've heard, Fades are no longer overused now. No fadeballs, yay!I got the part where he talked about hexadecimal numbers. The rest is too philosophical for a computer scientist.Woot, shadow skulk!
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I still want to see how Fades will perform in Season 3 before jumpin…For me, it's not about being viable or not. It's about my confidence with the lifeform. I know for sure I will underperform as a Fade and don't want to waste the p.res on it when I could have spent into something more useful. Also, I had no proper p…(Quote)
That happened to me on a non-full 16 player server without performance issues. It's due to collisions and ridiculously short melee cones, although server performance can make it even more evident with rubberbanding.(Quote)
That's exactly what I'm gonna do in Season 3. Not going fade even if I have all upgrades and abilities. I don't feel confident at all with it. I have a harder time hitting marines than with a skulk, and the structure damage is so a…That mod looks neat! It would be cool if you could add to the options menu an option to display your character and then let you move the camera around, zoom in/out, etc. Also would be great to be able to pick any alien lifeform, not just the Skulk. …Try playing Fade vs. jetpack on any good server. Thanks to collisions, movement changes and very short hit cones, it's incredibly hard to land swipes on any jetpacker that can hold spacebar + any combination of W, A, S and D.(Quote)
Not the way he wants. That "record" functionality does not give you freedom to watch the game from any perspective; it simply records your game state and input over time and then replays that, essentially reproducing what your game…Let's see what happens in NSL Season 3. It's almost here.
With these changes the Fade is still reasonably powerful, but definitely not worth 40 p.res anymore. Maybe 30 or 35 is more like it. Not sure how I'd fare against strong players, …(Quote)
I didn't know it was a bug. It looked perfectly fine to me and should become a feature. A few more examples of bugs that became features:
- Strafe-jumping in Quake giving speed boosts
- Cancelling attacks in Street Figh…I'd recommend getting some experience in pubs before jumping into gathers or pugs, as people expect you to know the basics of the game and have a bit of game sense. Some people don't have the patience to explain that during a match. Don't be afraid …(Quote)
I meant the black screen freeze right after loading. Freezes during the game don't happen to me, and neither does extremely low FPS, input lag, etc. that people are complaining about all over the place.The freeze is because the game is recompiling the basic GUI shaders. It cannot display stuff until those are ready.I noticed that every shader is being recompiled always. This started happening on b254. Might explain why loading times are so slow now.