Lerk Problem
Tyrsis
Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8804Members
Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8804Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Anyone else notice this?</div> Yesterday I was playing and noticed something that became really apparent as marines if you're fighting aliens that are lerk crazy. This game had been going on for awhile. Marines had 2 hives, but the aliens seemed to have an endless supply of res, even though marines controlled most of the map. The aliens constantly went lerk. Pretty much every player except a gorge or two. Even with full upgrades, a carapaced lerk is really tough to kill, but that's not the problem. Chasing a lerk is. When they fly away, most of the time a lerk's entire body will clip right into a wall or ceiling, almost making them vanish for a short time. This makes it extremely hard to aim properly at a lerk. Not to mention when they are flying, the model also has a real strange animation. I'm not entirely sure if this is an engine problem, or a model problem, but I was wondering if this will get fixed some time? Yeah I guess you can get used to it as sometimes you can still spot part of a wing, but to say it's annoying would be an understatement.
Tyrsis
Tyrsis
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Oh. My. God. The only thing easier to kill is a babbler.
(sarcasm)
"Oh no, Babblers! I fear their terrible pathfinding!"
Truthfully, the Babbler should be a separate alien life form, not just a brainless Skulk. The design could be similar, but smaller, and.. well.. different <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
As for lerks, the only aspect that makes them tougher to kill (for me) is the fact that they can fly. Duh. If airborne, they can ROCKET away from you, and a good lerk can be evasive enough to get out of nearly any situation. Even so, they're not all that hard to kill.
I've emptied my Primary and Pistol clips at a lerk from point blank range, I switch to knife and get at least 1 swipe in before he kills me with bite. This has happened to me many times.
I die as lerk so often that I don't bother with it, unless everyone else is fade and no one is lerk, and I don't have enough res to go fade.
The other major sufferer of the CRIDR is the Onos. If an onos storms into your base he is helluva tough, if you, as an onos, storm into a marine base you will die within half a second.
Or maybe I just suck with those two aliens, and at killing those two aliens...
I've emptied my Primary and Pistol clips at a lerk from point blank range, I switch to knife and get at least 1 swipe in before he kills me with bite. This has happened to me many times.
I die as lerk so often that I don't bother with it, unless everyone else is fade and no one is lerk, and I don't have enough res to go fade.
The other major sufferer of the CRIDR is the Onos. If an onos storms into your base he is helluva tough, if you, as an onos, storm into a marine base you will die within half a second.
Or maybe I just suck with those two aliens, and at killing those two aliens... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
this is true... are you 56k?
if onos storms my base he will kill 40 marines.. If i become onos and storm a base i will kill 3 marines and immediately explode
I've emptied my Primary and Pistol clips at a lerk from point blank range, I switch to knife and get at least 1 swipe in before he kills me with bite. This has happened to me many times.
I die as lerk so often that I don't bother with it, unless everyone else is fade and no one is lerk, and I don't have enough res to go fade.
The other major sufferer of the CRIDR is the Onos. If an onos storms into your base he is helluva tough, if you, as an onos, storm into a marine base you will die within half a second.
Or maybe I just suck with those two aliens, and at killing those two aliens... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Gah! I know EXACTLY what you're talking about! And it has nothing to do with connection, I'm on a T3. But isn't that weird? It shouldn't take that much skill to play as onos when you think about it...
What I'd like to see as a babbler model is more of a big chompy mouth with feet... Like those windup chattering teeth, only alien. Big green mottled eyeless head, great big mouth with chompy teeth, and 2 (or 4?) little legs with big feet on em... about knee-high to the marines. They should also jump around alot. Maybe I'm just infatuated by the "squeaks" from HLDM, you know, the grenade-weapon aliens that track and bite and explode?
And they should Babble!!!!! They should be talking their little heads off, babbling, growling, grunting, gnashing their teeth... making a noisy high-pitched din. Crowds of them should drive the marines nuts with their incessant chattering. That would give the marines something else to think about other than their "less than excellent" tracking. I mean, why not just call them "Quiets"?
But seriously, I think the babblers look like skulks for a reason. A real skulk or two in a crowd of babblers is not easy to differentiate. Skulking amongst the babblers is FUN! And probably it was simpler for the Dev Team to shrink a skulk and call it a babbler. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
But I still think they should babble. Alot.
i also have a habit of shooting wildly at a lerk and then getting jumped from behind by something and killed when the lerk was already dead anyway.
there are many animation problems with this game. many animations don't loop seamlessly. i think the only time i've seen the animations looking really good is when i get disconnected from the server.
a tip for killing lerks - their wings do not have hitboxes, only the actual "bone" parts of the wing, the joints.
The biggest problem I see right now is insane-magical-flying-fairy-jetpack-marines. It is a LOT harder to kill a jetpack marine than a lerk especially when a com is spamming health all over.
One question: does the Lerk bite do 50 or 75 damage per bite?
And as far as I'm concerned, EVERYONE hax when I'm not a skulk.
Everyone hax when I am a skulk. I have better chances killing a marine as Gorge with health spray. Last time I killed 2 marines at once with Healthspray. One of them must have been injured before though.
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