Sensories

JaGman · March 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">Where to put them?</div> I never really understood the purpose of sensories. I know that if a marine touches them, they get parasited and I know they seem to add the marines to the hive sight if they are close to a sensory......but where should one place them and how? What is the most useful use of a sensory besides building it to get upgrades?

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p4Samwise · March 2003

Sensories are mostly useless thus far - we're hoping to see them get made cooler in 1.1.

But for right now, I say put at least one at each hive. Whenever a marine gets close to a sensory, everyone hears "the enemy approaches". If you've got one in each hive, then that alert tells you that a marine is near one of your hives, which is always good information to have.

Incarnated · March 2003

you can get creative with 'em. Stick them just around a corner so the marines blunder into them. Put them a little behind a wall of lame so any high jumping marines trying to make a run past will at least be tagged. On a similar note, you can even use one to plug that last gap in yor wall where you cant build any more defs or off.

Or you can just throw 1 or 2 down as bait for turrets or whatever while you lay down some off or your skulk type friends go in for a munch. At only 10 res a pop, they're the cheapest thing there.

p4Samwise · March 2003

The important thing to remember with sensories is the "the enemy approaches" thing. If you put down too many of them, all you'll ever heard is "the enemy approaches", and you won't ever know where exactly it is, since very often the sensories don't succeed in tagging the marine. Woe betide the gorge who puts one too close to the marine base!

TheWizard · March 2003

In their current state, I believe that the one sensory per hive is the best way to go.
If you have enough res and are pretty much secure in your position. 1 sensory per entrance to your hive is also a good bet. This way no marines can sneak too close to your hive and weld or setup a phase without at least a little warning.

coil · March 2003

3 per hive. Redundancy is your friend. (:

TheWizard · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (coil @ Mar 22 2003, 11:21 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> 3 per hive. Redundancy is your friend. (:  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
redundancy yes... but you arent trying to sense them to death <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>
I would rather save res for the 3rd sensory per each hive and just invest that into def and o chambers

or a fade <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>

mogg · March 2003

If a sensory is placed near an offence chamber is its aim improved?

MasterEvilAce · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (mogg @ Mar 22 2003, 12:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> If a sensory is placed near an offence chamber is its aim improved?  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
No. I don't believe putting chambers near other chambers benefits them in anyway (except defense, which will heal them)

LeetVegeTa · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> If a sensory is placed near an offence chamber is its aim improved? </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
thats a cool idea i would like to see that
and movement could cake the oc shoot faster(in effect giving it celerity)
those would be cool

masterswordman · March 2003

this has been discussed before <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Bogglesteinsky · March 2003

i thought it did improve the aim

but thats probably just me

Spidernumerouno · March 2003

Well sens you build when your 3rd hive is up.
So aliens already won then (or they really would FU).
I just build 3 wherever in 1 hive.
Then all aliens go 4 the last kill.

Cereal_KillR · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (l337vegeta @ Mar 22 2003, 11:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> If a sensory is placed near an offence chamber is its aim improved? </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
thats a cool idea i would like to see that
and movement could cake the oc shoot faster(in effect giving it celerity)
those would be cool  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
mmm cake...

imagine 8 movements behind a wol D: omg that would be craaazy.

oh, and you can do sensory since first hive and you will be able to do it (I mean its viable) in 1.1

That_Annoying_Kid · March 2003

a way to stop that would be make the speed non stackable
as in you get 3 MC around your wol and then any other MC's don't do anything but provide redundancy if the others get's killed
and I hope they make sensory better in 1.1

Bogglesteinsky · March 2003

no need to hope

The_Muffin_Man · March 2003

The sensory at a hive is a good idea. If you're going to do that, you might as well put all 8 down around the hive, or wherever you might get sieged from. This is so the team will have more time to take out any marines if they're sieging a hive. I heard somewhere that they have 1/3 the hp of a hive, so would probably be useful.

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