new form of life

spawnof2000

<div class="IPBDescription">just a thought</div>well i have been thinking the kharaa dont seem to have any medium class aliens they have the light skulk and lerk the have heavy fade and onos well i know fade is heavy but is nigh on invincible in the right hands and well the gorge cant fight they dont have anything that has a fair amount of survivablity but not too much damage something imbetween the speed of a skulk and a gorge is needed because it all seems to be to tough or to weak like a skulk or lerk against a HMG gone before you even see the person who did it fade and onos you can pummel them with one for a fair time before they die there isnt anything imbetween but personally i would like to see a larger lerk or something that can fly that is more focused on doing damage than supporting well please reply with opinions i would like to see what people think

NEX9

Dude whats with the same two threads posted, I agree there needs to be a new life form, but a flying one i think not. I think a slow built like a tank ambusher that can sort of climb, or a ground base ambusher with balancing tweaks. Basically a slow moving player controlled trap, coupled with SC's and it's deadly, but you have to play a waiting game. can raise its self above doors or in corridors, has armor plated belie but a vulnerable back, can be boosted on top of. - see it needs some form of balance/weakness.

Perhaps its like a HL tentacle it's blind, hears sound in a heightened sense in which case, it gets a quick glimpse if the sound is loud enough?, if it attacks something/draws blood it gets a quick glimpse. if it takes damage it gets a quick glimpse, can only be damaged by grenades needs 2+ marines or one marine with GL, moves around like a trebuchet has to pack up, move, unpack. When moving, its lower submerged body drags its tentacle around like a scorpion. one tentacle in a door way or hall plus a sulk could be near impossible to get through. Hum this plus stealth. This would be really fun. having some one scout your targets and saying "now" as you lunge blinding at your pray killing it in one shot. If it lived in darkness plus hive sight, obviously parasite and scent would still work through walls but they don't work through its blindness in direct line of sight. if it pivots at its based once its set up, so when no touching of the direction keys, it resets to being like a scorpion tail, hovering lingering in the air up out of the way, but if you push forward it has like a 12 unit reach, pushing backward would curl it up again but keep it at ground lvl, mouse turning would turn you at your axis not you head.

I mean seeing one of these at a corridor as a marine you would be ###### scared, it cant attack you but you and your Buddies have to make sure you get close enough, then sneak through, if there are other kharaa around you can kiss that chance good bye, you wanna try and chance it by bunny hopping? by all means but your one click from death.

Slot one is the main attack, with focus could two shot a heavy with lvl 3 armor. Slot 2 if pack up and unpack cant be bound to space bar or E movement and or they require a ability slot each, in turn leaving this thing bound to the ground at all times.

Slot two is test a little tap tap tap on the floor deals ten damage if your silly enough to walk into it. *note only the head deals damage, It's alt attack could pull, scrap3 or drag any guns or ammo slowly close into its sunken base, baiting those stupid enough to try and pick them up.*note obiously you cant see what your trying to scrap towards your self.

Slot three wail heightens your hearing, you sing across the map like orca, in turn volume of certain marine traits is increased stepping, not walking, jumping, it could even add a sound wave indicator in your pool of blackness as to which direction the sound came in.
Two types of sing could be used, one a sort of gurgle which gives a rough flat shaded lay out of your surroundings Grey like a weird wire frame, think the rain in dare devil, but only works on the map layout liek a bat sonar.

Slot four I want to say turn head to the side and swipes, one at ducking hight alt fire at jump/ head hight, can get off two swipes per energy bar, in swipe even the trunk does damage. Swipe even does massive psychical knock back or knock over, could send rolling sentry guns flying as well as damage them. Perhaps swipe at what everhead hight in which ever direction and alt fire is impale. Impales the target lifts them up off the ground drops them clsoe to the base or holds them shackes them screaming thru the air allowing other kharra to kill them or allowing it to drop that marine at its base so it can go for a second attack alt attack.

Is completely vulnerable to bullets when it packed and slug like crawling along the ground also has no attacks while packed, takes a few second to pack into the ground and unpack, only when its fully in the ground is its body immune to bullets / knifes. while packed and moving views the world normally.

Kharaa flash light would show up kharaa and structures, marines would only appear on the map if a second alien had them in line of sight?

Some areas would give a no unpack responce due to limited terrain area, mainly hight or if your on a cat walk, in whcih case unpackign there may give marines below the at walk a chance to shoot your under side.