Alien structures

Gasfiend

<div class="IPBDescription">Look at the new piccies for details!</div>hey, anyone notice in the new pictures from Flayra's playtest diary, that there are alien structures built by the builder present in them?  If you look closely, you can see how cool they look!  Then of course, i realize that if i had only downloaded the mapping utilities, i could've probably seen them earlier, but anywho, i'd just like to point that out, and that they do indeed look cool...methinks i'll be an alien for the sheer unbalanced joy of them, and the neato building stuff's.  
Gasfiend
And for one dark moment, he looked at the corpses, and saw a banquet.....

Elowind

ya i knoticed that too, but not everything is in the tech release just some basic models to make sure ur map works and to see how things fit, those arnt in the tech release and niether are any of the classes/levels for aliens

Moleculor

Actually, the alien buildings you're talking about aren't in the NSTR2. They're new.

MonsieurEvil

So very, very new.

And who's this nasty fellow lurking in the shadows?

Comprox

Oh no...dont let Moleculor see that! *scribbles all over the screenshot* <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
Cant wait to drop on your head Monse and chomp down...

Moleculor

BOB! *leaps forward and kisses and hugs and squeezes Bob alllllll over!* Awww.. look at him! Ain't he soooo cuuuuuuuuute!!?? Yes he IS!
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ThrillKill1

lol

Yup, that Bob is a real cutey. Can you house train them? Oh wait, there might be some territory issues with the local mutts...

Oh well, they dfeficate in my front lawn, let ol' Bob run some pest control. ;P

Elowind

cool, that alien looks pretty small next to bob

Jacius

Yea, he sure is a cutie when you *cant see anything but his profile* heh

I'll have to say, the balloon rat (alien resource collector) is pretty cool (although you might say he really sucks.. heh heh...) and the spike thing (what is that, a turret? or an unpgrade structure? either way its cool) looks really great in that nice glow from the furnace <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> makes me want to sit and watch the sunset with a cuddly little pudgy <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

-Jacius

[PS -- the playtest diaries have to be the best feature on NS ever done! Its a very good idea, and the new screenshots really do it good. Nice job MonsE, Flay, and everyone else!]

MonsieurEvil

Gosh Jacius, thanks! The NS team aims to please...

And that particular Lev1 was being interviewed by 20/20, as a whistleblower for unsafe alien working conditions near the hive. They had him in shadow to protect his identity...

Lazarus

but the player who took the screenshot, what alien-class was he playing?

Kassinger

Those arms shows that a nasty builder (as in rush-tactics) is ready to feast on comrade bob.

MonsE, you should make a direct link to the Flaytest diary in your sig since it's about to get more famous than the rest of rr.org... <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->

Lazarus

but in the consept art at <a href="http://www.readyroom.org/models.html," target="_blank">http://www.readyroom.org/models.html,</a> the builder doesnt have any arms.  <!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo-->

MonsieurEvil

The arms you see are pure placeholder for all aliens. When the mod releases, each alien will have his own viewable arm/tentacle/spikes/tongue/eyestalk/bile launcher/claw/jehovah's witness pamphlet/etc. model.

Nemesis_Zero

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Automatic weapons, claws, spikes, flamethrowers, nukes - OK.

But implementing a jehovah's witness pamphlet as weapon - <b>that's</b> mean.

Lazarus

thank god, I got a bit scared when I saw those arms and thought they would be for the builder. btw, last night I dreamed that I was playing ns, probably the best dream ever <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo--> .

RhoadsToNowhere

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I think MonsE just came up with the deadliest weapon ever conceived in an FPS.  Screw the BFG or the Redeemer.