What's the extent of the communal mind?

Pi_Gi

Do the aliens still have the wall-hackish thing.  Like, if one alien can see past a wall, can another alien see through that wall?

and the marines still show up as blips on the radar right?

coil

It's not entirely implemented right now.  The final version, to my knowledge:
1) Aliens can see each other and alien buildings, all the time.
2) Aliens can tell when an ally/building is under attack.
3) Aliens can see any marine (and marine building?) that any other alien can see.

Sgt_X

u see a symbol through the wall that shows other aliens and marines within alien LOS. I guess it gets scaled to about proper hight.

Imperial_Fist

so why would alians need eyes they could use pharamons smell and have really god noses lol screach that ill keep my eyes write were they ... damn there goes the left one

Gwahir

you're referring to an unofficial explanation of bob's sight being in his mouth
but as for smelling instead of seeing, try it sometime
*bump* sorry miss
*bang* owe!

KrunCh

Well why just use one sense when the aliens have the ability to use both.

If the marines were smart they could mask their pharamons with alien pharamons. Though that would only work if the aliens only use smell to go about.  <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->

Crim0nKing

I thought aliens could see marines through walls only if they had been marked by a level 1 alien?

Moleculor

Sorta. That is true only if no other aliens can see them.

Basically, an alien will see a marine if:

Nothing is in the way (line of sight).
Been marked by a Bob.
Another alien sees it.