Level 4

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  • biofrogbiofrog Join Date: 2002-04-26 Member: 522Members
    They remind me of snow white and the seven dwarves for some reason. Don't ask me.
  • realityisdeadrealityisdead Employed by Raven Software after making ns_nothing Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 94Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    I think the skin fits in just fine with the rest. It is quite a bit darker than the rest, but I think the style is kept consistent enough.

    /me wants to see that thing in its mantis pose.... <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

    Looks great!



    <!--EDIT|ken20banks|April 29 2002,21:44-->
  • Pi_GiPi_Gi Join Date: 2002-03-16 Member: 324Members
    Yes, Level 4 blinky takes on mantis form...  hehehe...  Soon he will learn white crane form and have to do a spinning back kick onto Okinawa.  Hehe....

    Looks good!  That's all of them...  the list of things to do before release is one shorter now.
  • coilcoil Amateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance. Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Pinky, Inky, Blinky, and Sue! <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
  • JaciusJacius Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 43Members
    I love the new skin. If you look at it closely, you can kinda see that its pink underneath. I imagine the level 4 is the main stalker/hunter (bob being the scout, and the level 5 trampling rather than stalking), so it would make sense for it to be colored darker. Also, it looks like he's got some scales going there. Perhaps when his skin hardened it turned blackish? Kinda like (some) caterpillars are green or brown, but when they turn into a butterfly their body (not their wings) is black.

    Anyway, I think he looks good, except he might want to see a dentist about those swollen gums... or a plastic surgeon about those swollen lips!

    Now Mole needs a shot from the proper angle to make his avatar complete!

    Very nice job, Mojo, Beaner, and Cory <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

    (btw I sometimes call the level 3 stinky, because of the gas clouds he makes... it rhymes with 'blinky' at any rate. And it ends with an EE sound [*ahem* unlike Bob] <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->)

    -Jacius
  • coilcoil Amateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance. Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    So it's Pudgy, Stinky, Blinky, Tiny, and Bob.  I like it. It just rolls off your tongue! <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
  • MoleculorMoleculor Namer-of-Bob Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 9Members
    Sounds like a game of Pac-Man, but I like it.
  • JedisarJedisar Join Date: 2002-03-03 Member: 264Awaiting Authorization
    <!--QuoteBegin--Jacius+April 30 2002,03:15--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Jacius @ April 30 2002,03:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->[*ahem* unlike Bob] <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->)

    -Jacius<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Bobbee <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->



    You guys happy that your level 4 is released? lol the level 4 fanclub must be happy.
  • SmokeMastaSmokeMasta Join Date: 2002-04-13 Member: 430Members
    Whoo hooo finaly the level 4 is released.
  • biofrogbiofrog Join Date: 2002-04-26 Member: 522Members
    Now all we need is sleepy, and all the other dwarves who's names escape my mind at the moment.
  • coilcoil Amateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance. Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Hmm...
    Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey, Grumpy, Bashful, and Doc.
  • biofrogbiofrog Join Date: 2002-04-26 Member: 522Members
    Yes. We need aliens for all of the dwarve names.

    anyway, level 4 looks great. I'd hate to meet that sick guy on the battlefield
  • XTS_HighlanderXTS_Highlander Join Date: 2002-04-13 Member: 429Members
    Well I must say blinky looks positively evil, and he's definately the meanest looking of the bunch (yes, meaner than tiny).  Can't wait to play as this guy, he must have some killer moves which make me salivate just thinking of them.
  • Hida_TsuzuaHida_Tsuzua Lamarck&#39;s Heir Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 79Members, NS1 Playtester
    While he is cool looking, he looks like the odd man out of the 5.  Bob, Pudgy, Stinky and Tiny look like family.  Blinky must be the black sheep.

    And some more comments, reverse joint legs rule!  I love them!  And his ribs are showing, he needs some marines to eat.
  • Bob_the_AlienBob_the_Alien Join Date: 2002-01-30 Member: 135Members
    omg he can teleport and olly, this is deffinatly goign to be my favorite class!! I can already imagine ollying to a teleport then sliceing them marines up!
  • Shuvit_ViperShuvit_Viper Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 62Members
    [whine]its ollie... not olly[/whine]

    I think its another big hit. Although i pictured myself this alien the same colors as the other ones; not this black. But this looks really fine too. Also, i think he has a little bit too much toothmeat (tandvlees ?) and a too less teeth...
  • Pi_GiPi_Gi Join Date: 2002-03-16 Member: 324Members
    what's the pink flower thingy on his right shoulder?
  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    The shoulder growth fires explosive alien bile goo... ehhh... stuff. Think of it as a rocket launcher. It's not in yet, so I can't give you much more detail than that.
  • Pi_GiPi_Gi Join Date: 2002-03-16 Member: 324Members
    Explosive alien bile goo?  I'm all  for it!
  • SinisterSinister Join Date: 2002-04-15 Member: 451Members
    Now, before getting to far away from the ollying stuff, exactly how does it work?
    The only thing Ive heard about it is something like "jumping off walls", and that doesnt really say much...
    Is it similar to the "wall jumping" in megamam X? Sort of climbing walls, but not ceilings?

    *hides under table and waits for laughs*
  • the_stalkerthe_stalker Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 49Members
    well, like picture this, jumping sideways to a wall, and then jumping again i guess =P
  • GasfiendGasfiend Join Date: 2002-02-12 Member: 205Members
    gee, thanks for clearing that up for me......
    i like the idea behind blinky, really prevents the marines from utterly locking down a single place within the map, though i imagine that this may lead to unbalanced gameplay, as if the entire alien team was composed of lv.4's what would their disadvantage be?  I mean, they can phase through wall, "riccochet off of walls" whatever that means, and are some of the baddest mamma-jammas around...now excuse me, but in Gasfiend's Big Book of Gameplay, unless something like that has a huge disadavntage, we're gonna be seeing a lot of this critters running around our maps.  If we could have some disadvanages listed and a better explanation of riccochet effetcs, that'd be great...
    Gasfiend
    Probably Came In Too Late In This Topic
  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    You won't have tons of Lev4's running around, as they are a very expensive evolution; if you die, you respawn as a Lev1 and have to buy the evolution all over again.

    Try to remember why we playtest: to make sure the game is balanced. As a rule, you can assume it will be, and not worry about it as much as some people seem to do around here...



    <!--EDIT|MonsieurEvil|May 02 2002,15:50-->
  • Bob_the_AlienBob_the_Alien Join Date: 2002-01-30 Member: 135Members
    I have one question, will ollying speed j00z up!?
  • GraheimGraheim Join Date: 2002-04-02 Member: 375Members
    Wait a minute.  You mean every time an alien dies they have to start over and earn all their points again?!  So basically, you have to be a highly-skilled killing fiend with Bob or you're never getting anywhere?  The aliens just went from sounding really cool to really impossible.  Please tell me I'm missing something and there's something else a Bob can do besides wax Marines to get points.
  • Hida_TsuzuaHida_Tsuzua Lamarck&#39;s Heir Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 79Members, NS1 Playtester
    Remember Bob is still a match for more than one marine. So it shouldn't be that hard.  However I can now see I'll never be Lvl 5 since I have the annoying habit of dying.  <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo-->
  • Bob_the_AlienBob_the_Alien Join Date: 2002-01-30 Member: 135Members
    yeah I know, they should really give each level a huge advantage over the next so you have some way to stay as your favorite class...
  • GraheimGraheim Join Date: 2002-04-02 Member: 375Members
    They should pass on some of the points!  If you make it to lvl 4 you start your next life with enough points to be lvl. 2.  Something like that.  I'm going to do some serious research on this in the F.A.Q.s and see if I can find something.
  • GraheimGraheim Join Date: 2002-04-02 Member: 375Members
    From natural-selection FAQ:

    "However, alien structures that harvest resources split the resources up among the team roughly equally. The alien team also gets resources from each active hive."

    From readyroom NS Features section:

    "On the Alien side, resources are a reflection of how many hives are active, and how many Marines have been killed. Unlike the Marine team, Aliens can spend points on themselves as they wish. A player boosts his class with extra speed, armor, size, and abilties - whatever he wants to do to 'tune himself up' for duty."

    So we get resources ie. the ability to become Blinky, not just from our own personal "Dead Marine" pile but also from the Hives and various structures that Pudgy pukes up.  Ok.  I'm much less concerned now.  

    Call me an idiot but somehow I had never previously directly connected the structures with my personal ability to morph to the next lvl. of alien.
  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    <!--QuoteBegin--Graheim+May 03 2002,13:41--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Graheim @ May 03 2002,13:41)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Wait a minute.  You mean every time an alien dies they have to start over and earn all their points again?!  So basically, you have to be a highly-skilled killing fiend with Bob or you're never getting anywhere?  The aliens just went from sounding really cool to really impossible.  Please tell me I'm missing something and there's something else a Bob can do besides wax Marines to get points.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    NO! You keep your existing points; you just have to re-purchase your evolution. If you die to often, you will be get stuck with cheaper evolutions until you regain some RP's.
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