Anyone Know Exact Details About Some Structures?
Kitsune
Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7843Members
Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7843Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Couple things I'm not too clear on...</div> I'm trying to figure a couple of things out here, since the manual descriptions are a little vague.
Infantry Portals: Manual says that having multiples of these makes troops respawn faster. Just how much faster are we talking, here? I've never seen more than two portals in a game before, and am wondering if a third or fourth would make things noticably faster for spawning marines. Also, is the portal that a marine spawns at random? Say I set up a second base in a hive and drop two more portals there, is it just a 50/50 chance which base they appear in? I know it doesn't make a huge difference, as long as I've got a warp gate up between the bases, but still something to wonder about.
Distress Beacon: Where do the marines pop, around the sensor that I activated the beacon from, or back at their original spawn point from the beginning of the game? Is it just the dead ones who appear there, or are the living ones teleported to that spot as well? I'd very much like to know the details about that trick, but it's not exactly something I could just play with in the middle of a game to figure it out. At least, not without annoying the marines.
Infantry Portals: Manual says that having multiples of these makes troops respawn faster. Just how much faster are we talking, here? I've never seen more than two portals in a game before, and am wondering if a third or fourth would make things noticably faster for spawning marines. Also, is the portal that a marine spawns at random? Say I set up a second base in a hive and drop two more portals there, is it just a 50/50 chance which base they appear in? I know it doesn't make a huge difference, as long as I've got a warp gate up between the bases, but still something to wonder about.
Distress Beacon: Where do the marines pop, around the sensor that I activated the beacon from, or back at their original spawn point from the beginning of the game? Is it just the dead ones who appear there, or are the living ones teleported to that spot as well? I'd very much like to know the details about that trick, but it's not exactly something I could just play with in the middle of a game to figure it out. At least, not without annoying the marines.
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Each Infantry portal can only respawn a certain number of marines per minutes, so if a group of 5-6 guys die all at once and you only have 2 portals it would be a little while before they all respawn. And yeah, it is random, no matter where the portal is.
When you use a Distress beacon, they appear at the original start location of the game, not the sensor or any other place. I'm not sure either if only dead ones respawn or if it's everyone myself though.