Hive Teleport

NurEinMensch

<div class="IPBDescription">Am I the only one who thinks aliens need it back?</div>I think aliens should be able to teleport from hive to hive like they could in NS1. Especially if a hive is under attack currently it's very hard to come to the defense in time when you have to run across the whole map.

Syknik

I'm pretty sure that will be available whenever the shift chamber is introduced into the game... They just haven't gotten to tossing it towards our way yet.

NurEinMensch

Yeah you're probably right. Still might be worth it to have this as a reminder. ;P

Iacto

They've already explicitly said that this is going to be in the game

Feha

I am not sure, but I think this would be easy to mod. Just a matter of stealing the phase gate code and modify it to tele kharaa to the comms exit point of the hive, whenever they trigger it. I got no idea how one would trigger it tho (using it makes you a comm in ns2)

Quovatis

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Could just tie it to the crag or whip to hit use until the Shift is released.

culprit

There was some talk about canals a while back that could be opened in the DI by a comm and/or gorge. It seemed like the idea was to have a DI room that you would transverse so the travel wouldn't be quite as instant as PG. I thinks it's a pretty cool idea.

You can probably do some interesting quick-and-dirty modding to make a MC out of a different colored armory or some such.

Shilorius

From the language file enUS:

SHIFT_TOOLTIP = "Speeds energy recovery for units and shift units around map"
SHIFT_RECALL_TOOLTIP = "Aliens can use the shift to teleport to the nearest hive"

I guess either it works like a phase gate or it will move the aliens from hive to hive... maybe only after you researched something called "recall"

ScardyBob

I'd rather be able to choose where I spawn. Aliens are fast enough that they can traverse the map pretty quickly, but its still pretty annoying spawning at the hive the furthest you want to be.

Horseless Headman

<!--quoteo(post=1864407:date=Jul 29 2011, 12:47 AM:name=ScardyBob)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ScardyBob @ Jul 29 2011, 12:47 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1864407"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I'd rather be able to choose where I spawn. Aliens are fast enough that they can traverse the map pretty quickly, but its still pretty annoying spawning at the hive the furthest you want to be.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

This.

NurEinMensch

Alien travel is not really that much faster than marine travel I think, and marines got phase gates.