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Watching Schu stream just goes to show how hive is not a "skill" based score. His aim way better then mine... his hive score, not way better (4200ish v 4400ish). i guess this shows that you can contribute a lot to a team aside from killing.
I also blame bad commanders who over use Echo. To many times I see commanders echo built RT right in front of a gorge. Mean while there is an infested natural RT spot without a gorge that is clear....
I also don't see many gorges clog …I love my rail gun... evey alien except the onos is fodder, which forces the onos to act. That 45-2 fade can't hid behind the hive. That 20-4 lerk who's spiking lives in fear... and the wave after wave of fullhardy skulks go pop.
Is …So I use fpsmax 145... but I don't quite understand how it it works. (Keep fan noise down with my open hd598)
For example if I'm in an area where I get a solid 100fps, and I use fpsmax 50... which 50 frames don't render? Does it ju…I created a "smurf" account specifically to gorge/command. Now my main account is 4K and my smurf account is 3.5k. And if I get in the chair or gorge on either account people bitch...
Still think we should get a skill plot added to the…I'd bet that while typically 50% of gamers play at less then 1920x1080.... NS2 loyalists are not typical.
My last computer that I built in 2009 ran NS2 at 45-80 FPS @ 1920x1080 (its at my in-laws and I still play on it). I saved up an…I love mid-late game harvester or echoing... I'll echo a harvester to a marine natural every time! Ties up the marine but more importantly its the only way to convert T-res into P-res, it doesn't have to pay for itself.
By mid game I h…The way I see it is...
Shift enhances skill- A good player plays better; better movement, ambush, etc. silence is also forgiving for "bad" players who don't know when to walk or miss that first sneaky bite...
Crag buffs inex…Issue for most with fade/lerk is that at any given point a team has 3 players with 400-1000 hive, 3players with 1000-1700 hive and one player with 3500 hive.
So for average players lerks/fades there is always the strong possibility of g…I find lerk and fade to role specific for PUB play. If you fade you are reliant on your team to bite RT's, PG's, etc... the higher structure DPS of skulk gorge and onos allows for good players to offset bad players not hitting res.
Does mouse even matter if a persons accuracy is <10%???? They are probably better off "accidentally" aiming.(Quote)
Deescalation??? You hippie! Nuke the map
Right now rines like "get to pipe we can't let them get third hive or its GG"....
Solution 3rd chair unlocks...
Observatory-motion tracking
Armory-heal…Hmmmm...now I feel "fast" I like getting all 3 spurs by 1:20. The time between hive upgrade and shells/spurs is surprising. Why would people not get the second and third upgrade ASAP. They already invested the time and money into the hive upgrad…Lol, I gave my wife my MX518 from 2007 when I got my G9x back in 2009. Maybe I should switch from my 8 year old mouse to my 10 year old mouse..,,Since NS1 I have always viewed sound as being 50% of the game. I can remember in NS1 hearing something behind me, turning around and reflexively shooting my SG at nothing only to see a dead skull de-cloak (and then get called a hacker).
…(Quote)
But I love my G9x?!?!?!?
I have also heard requests for a color coded "heat map" that showed where PG, tunnels, damage, kills took place on the mini map.
Sounds cool but a lot trickier then adding another graph.But half the game is about killing the other teams RT....This devalues the RT and would encourage more players to ignore them. While biting RT's is one of the less fun parts, it is also part of what makes NS/NS2 a stratagy game@IronHorse
I was specifically speaking to skulk's leep and gorge bile bomb (maybe even bone shield but that's a 12+minute shift in the scales)
Bile bom…As to the general shift in balance from early to late game....
I chock 1/2 of it up to an imbalance in base life form abilities.... low level aliens inherently change roles as new abilities are unlocked.
- rines get armor an…they do act fairly well as a deterrent... "oh there is an EXO in there ... maybe I'll go somewhere else".
Would I rather fight an exo then a SG/JP? Probably but JP/SG tend not to be as easy to avoid...
That said in higher s…Exo have low skill ceiling and high skill floor compared to JP. This makes them advantageous for less skilled players...
So yes exos are viable in low skill games but less so in high skill games...
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@nordic
I understand the issue with diminishing returns, I was contending that the "returns" from a match making would be less then the "returns" from further h…Why is match making important? Improve balance? Improve player retention?
My problem with matchmaking is NS1&2 has always had a large degree of server loyalty (and hate) due to the independent server ownership. In a small communit…I think the question is "do I, you or we want a larger player base? And why?" Once you identify this the rest is simply a matter of logistics (how? And to what end?).
Potential answers (probably not all inclusive..,)
1. I don't …EASY SOLUTION- Go play on an oversea's server where you have the high ping.... then comeback and report how amazing it was!You could make it FTP and start all current (paid) players at the max lvl, say lvl 50.
Start FTP players at lvl 0 with reduced armor, ammo, etc... have them pay 1$ for 5 levels or allow them to progress to lvl 50 via accomplishments.<…The only time I've felt like this is on large servers when I late join. I am "told" that there is some sort of first join preference "stack" for server reg. Also if your standing/waiting/camping the person running at you gets a peeking head start…But I feel like the alternate tech paths had more viability. Without infestation gorges could place forward chambers for support. A forward SC chamber and scent-of-fear and the ambushes were amazing. Add to that vent chambers, a gorge could pla…While we can all agree that NS2 =/= NS1
We can all hope that NS3 = NS1 in Stop making everything parasite you and remove the alien commander Comment by maD_maX_ May 2016