Drifter spam
Nordic
Long term camping in Kodiak Join Date: 2012-05-13 Member: 151995Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Shadow
Long term camping in Kodiak Join Date: 2012-05-13 Member: 151995Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Shadow
<div class="IPBDescription">Much fun</div>In the last 3 hours I had about 5 games I used drifter spam, all in a row. I denied my aliens upgrades half the time. I would parade my 50+ drifters around the marine base killing all the marines with drifters just for fun and trolling. I then sent them to the comm chair which would be down in 15 seconds. This was incredibly fun to do. My team and I had such a blast.
On the last game I did it in, I decided to make a serious ton of drifters. I don't know how many but the line went from cave to operations in mine shaft. The marines knew this was going to happen. I did it the last 4 rounds, and they had the heads up of major server lag. I went strait for the comm chair. They planned ahead though. As soon as it got super laggy, they all bought grenade launchers. All those grenades took out probably a half of what could of been a 300 drifter army. There really was a ton. I spent awhile making them. The comm chair went down in about 10 seconds with the lag.
As much fun as this is... it is a lot overpowered.
On the last game I did it in, I decided to make a serious ton of drifters. I don't know how many but the line went from cave to operations in mine shaft. The marines knew this was going to happen. I did it the last 4 rounds, and they had the heads up of major server lag. I went strait for the comm chair. They planned ahead though. As soon as it got super laggy, they all bought grenade launchers. All those grenades took out probably a half of what could of been a 300 drifter army. There really was a ton. I spent awhile making them. The comm chair went down in about 10 seconds with the lag.
As much fun as this is... it is a lot overpowered.
Comments
It's fun if you can do it right
And its hilarious if the marines rage at you and throw as many insults as they can at you after the match.
shh!!
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It's fun if you can do it right
And its hilarious if the marines rage at you and throw as many insults as they can at you after the match.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Level 3 grenades aren't even enough to stop a drifter rush of the magnitude I described. Especially if you have aliens cleaning up the marines.
<!--quoteo(post=1962630:date=Aug 14 2012, 03:54 AM:name=elodea)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (elodea @ Aug 14 2012, 03:54 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1962630"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->wat the hell. james, please edit out your post right now.
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Not really an exploit and is a pretty cheap stratagy, albeit hilarious. I should record of drifter spam for the archives. Just because it is hilarious. My favorite part is chasing and killing marines with drifters. All you need is 10 of them. The marine can't even run away because the drifters are faster.
<!--quoteo(post=1962704:date=Aug 14 2012, 07:01 AM:name=NolSinkler)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (NolSinkler @ Aug 14 2012, 07:01 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1962704"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Solution: cap number of drifters allowed on map at any one time.
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The best viable solution, agreed. Should be somewhere around 15-20 I think.