Egging

OnosFactory

<div class="IPBDescription">Its not a mini game</div>High, could we players please have the egging mini game removed?

I must have literaly spent an hour of my life trying to evovle in stupid vents.

Or the best of all: utterlly critical moment in game, marines have more res than aliens, *just* got bile, egging up top in flight, game drops egg to floor level on evolve.

Can you sort this out?

It replicatable:

Find a vent, press evolve key, select adren and cara, click evolve, nothing happens.
Find a vent, press evolve key, select adren and cara, click evolve, nothing happens.
Find a vent, press evolve key, select adren and cara, click evolve, nothing happens.
Find a vent, press evolve key, select adren and cara, click evolve, nothing happens.

When you do evolve, you then get placed in the least desirable position.

Frothybeverage

Working as intended.

rantology

hold down your crouch key so that your skulk drops down to the floor of the vent, you'll be able to evolve almost without fail.

ogz

i think you get a message saying 'not enough room to evolve'

also to egg in a vent, hold your crouch button while evolving

nSidia

The one thing that is really dumb is how it moves you across a room when you egg. O i will just go fade by the hive in data core... o! looks like my egg wanted to evolve in glass hallway instead lol. BOOM dead. + you do fall out of the map in many places when egging also. They should just remove p res from the game and let the alien commander give you what he wants to. I hate how the commanders have no control. Its like playing starcraft and your larva just choose what they want to be.

Frothybeverage

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That's kinda the point.

Same with the marines not following orders on the marine side.

It'd be sweet if they got the RTS segment working well enough that having useless players on your team didn't mean you lose the game.
You know, assuming both teams had equally useless players and equally skilled commanders.

Xao

I thought this would be about the other egg issue, you have 24 eggs, game randomly assigns you to an egg, marine randomly shoots your egg you're evolving in at 3 seconds to spawn, BAM, 13 seconds to spawn, respawn timer is reset.

Stupidest ###### I have seen in a game in a long, long, long time. I've been shooting a hive, killed 2-5 eggs, 10 eggs in front of me, no aliens spawn in over 30 seconds, I can only imagine I completely lucked out and shot the ones being spawned into while the rest spawn at the other hive.

edit: I used to spawn camp in NS1 like a mother######er and I remember it being a HUGE problem if you let 1-2 decent marines into the hive early game, the spawn positions were like 5-7 presets and it was easy as ###### to nail the 3-4 spawn wave max each time, fire up NS2, it's now literally 2x easier to spawn camp and completely prevent aliens from spawning at all...that's ######ing innovation right there.

elmo9000

Random egg teleportation is definitely a lot of fun, especially when your egg teleports from safe gestate spot behind a corner right into marines face. Also random marine shooting one egg at hive - new spawn wave. Marines assaulting a hive - lets spawn aliens there instead of the safe hive so they can be spawnkilled instantly, or atleast put into waiting for the wave as all the eggs died.

Best spawn system in a game ever.

Robby

+1

Tizo

I've read something here in the forums about aliens being able to choose which egg they would spawn into, back in an older beta build. If this was in the game before, why did it have to be taken out?

Is coordinated spawning such an imbalancing factor that the current crazy system becomes necessary? I've read that it gives priority to eggs in hives that are under attack, but I've seen cases where a hive with eggs was under attack and I spawned in a random shift halfway across the map!