Alien Help

maniac_cop

<div class="IPBDescription">im useless as an alien...please help!</div> Ok, i've only started playing a few days ago, and been playing as a marine as the game suggests, and have built up a reasonable knowledge of what to do... Today thought I'd try the alien side - big mistake. I didn't really have a clue what was going on, and all my attacks seemed useless - can anyone give me some general guidelines, and some tips on effective attacking..
Cheers
MC

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never mind , just read the sticky threads ... d'oh! sorry

kkoutecky

go 2 begginers guild to NS its an improtant topic it has everything you could want to know right now.

Abaddon

As alien you must be abit more careful then just rushing right into combat, use dark possible hideouts to await a lonely or lightly equiped group of marines. Suprise is allways the best attack option for a skulk because of its vurnerbility to damage. Fades onos are more effective to rush into several turrets and smash one and retreat. Strafing while hitting things is effective as alien, but it takes perhaps some skills from the player itself to handle that. A team of aliens should exist one gorg only depending armount of players to run and take a hive position as fast as he can, begin with building resource and defense, after that you can save up for the hive you just built defense around, im pretty sure you can find a resource near a hive thats why its best for the gorg to move to a second hive pos, meanwhile the other skulks harase the marines in packs if possible, its very hard to get all players to work together on public, that is something everybody gotta live with.. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

A tip to make you powerful if you ever get the chance, if you ever become a fade, see to it that you have some extra defense chambers near a possible marine base or close to a point you want to attack, when youre low on health you can simply run back to these chambers and heal up again, and continue the assault wherever that is.

Just my opinion of how to play an alien. Someone else might have better ideas but try this and i think the killing of marines will go better. And a strong factor as well, is how good you are yourself as person to handle aiming and so on to kill things <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->.

kID-Icarus

two words:

Zerg Rush <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

Nubi

Weird, first side I played was alien and it was a LOT easier for me to learn then the marine side...

Bob_the_Alien

Gah! everyone is having a hard time to learn aliens, its simple really, three steps of what to do as alien

#1 Rush, and continual attacks, keep attacking till there base is stotally locked down. Hell when there base is locked down continue and go for there CC

#2 Stalking, after there base is set up stalk around the edges LET NO ONE OUT. As much as 1 leaked marine lets them build up resource nozzles and such, DONT let them! Hold those pesky marines off as long as possible

#3 harrassing, after they have gotten to big to defend every outpost, go to unguarded ones and take out ther turret factory then turrets then structures. If they are not in there main base take out buildings, important technique, find an angle where a building is between you and a turret then chomp away. this will cause the marines to fall back from loosing outposts and such. When you can transform into a fade do so, and be as aggressive as hummunity possible, NEVER let up, EVER! Dont let the marines breathe suffocate them untill they run out of money for HMGS and such.

TheGunslinger

Learn to work with your teammates and get them to work with you. It is extremly tough, but without it you cannot be truly successful.

Also, reading the manual helps, though it is a tough read:
www.natural-selection.org/manual

Cyborgguineapig

<!--QuoteBegin--kID-Icarus+Nov 12 2002, 06:23 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kID-Icarus @ Nov 12 2002, 06:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->two words:

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Four words:

Zerg Rush Is Starcraft

kID-Icarus

<!--QuoteBegin--Cyborgguineapig+Nov 13 2002, 09:52 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cyborgguineapig @ Nov 13 2002, 09:52 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--kID-Icarus+Nov 12 2002, 06:23 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kID-Icarus @ Nov 12 2002, 06:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->two words:

Zerg Rush  <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Four words:

Zerg Rush Is Starcraft<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It was a joke... <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->