Some qs
Thansal1
Join Date: 2002-08-26 Member: 1233Members
Join Date: 2002-08-26 Member: 1233Members
<div class="IPBDescription">From a newbie</div>okI have read through many of the stories as well as reading the FAQs I could find (including RRs)
so here they are, point me to any place that could help pls <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->:
1) wall crawling, which aliens (just bobs?) can fo it, can they do it any where? how does it work (I have heard that the HL engine can't handel wall walking)
2) Parasite, it marks where a marine is permanantly?
3) alien evolution, is there a detailed explanation of it anywhere (I am sorta confuzed just how it works), are recource points gained usable by any one? (could some one just hog up all the resources and force every one else to be stuck as lvl 1s with no power ups?)
4) Team play, I know that this mod is realy focused on team play, will it work? with the inumerable llamas, newbs, cheaters, idiots in the HL comunity? (this one I would like a big explenation on b/c it worries me)
umm, yah ty for any one who helps me out (ok I am desperate for knowledge, I want this game ;D)
so here they are, point me to any place that could help pls <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->:
1) wall crawling, which aliens (just bobs?) can fo it, can they do it any where? how does it work (I have heard that the HL engine can't handel wall walking)
2) Parasite, it marks where a marine is permanantly?
3) alien evolution, is there a detailed explanation of it anywhere (I am sorta confuzed just how it works), are recource points gained usable by any one? (could some one just hog up all the resources and force every one else to be stuck as lvl 1s with no power ups?)
4) Team play, I know that this mod is realy focused on team play, will it work? with the inumerable llamas, newbs, cheaters, idiots in the HL comunity? (this one I would like a big explenation on b/c it worries me)
umm, yah ty for any one who helps me out (ok I am desperate for knowledge, I want this game ;D)
Comments
1) Only the level 1 alien (the "skulk") can do this. Do wall-crawl, just look up the wall and move forward, you'll stick automatically. If you want to disable wall-crawling temporarily, you can hold your crouch key.
2) Yep, parasite is permanent. If a player dies, it will of course go away. Parasited players sometimes change how they play by hanging back in the base (where their position won't give anything away), or sometimes they move around by themselves as kind of a feint.
3) This isn't really written up anywhere right now I don't think (the system has changed a lot). Resources are gathered by resource towers, which the builder alien (the "gorge") builds on resource nozzles. These resources are divided up by the team evenly. Each alien has their own resources, and can spend them how they see fit. They can evolve new traits (upgrades), change lifeforms, or build structures (more resource towers, offensive "turrets", new hives, etc.).
4) Only time will tell, but we'll keep at it.
'I'M NOT WORTHY'
hehe, very cool thanks alot <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
(/me relizes that that is another thing this mod has going for it, the head of the Dev team, as well as other members of it seem to be rather regularly here <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->) (hehe, dev leader with 3k + posts is odd for me, I am used to seeing them with like 300, tops, but thats just from a few mods ;D)
Luck? Most newbies ask : When is the releses, but Thansal1 asked questions worth asking, infact theose are hardly newbies questions.
And also 3000+ posts , well that or and extra number or two were added <!--emo&:0--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'><!--endemo-->
How true is that! I thought the wall-walking was reversed (you have to old down crouch in order to wall-walk)
ok few more Qs ;D (I am full of em, primarily b/c the first thread I read was the stories andI love em ;D)
this one is sorta basics of the game:
how do you win?
I get the destroy the other guys hive/CC, however that dosn't actualy end the game, does it?
forinstance the CC can be rewelded, can the hive be fixed/regrown?
I also get that if you destroy the CC all the marines have got is whats already droped (untill they repair) if the hive is nuked do the remaining aliens have anything to do?
umm... , oh yah
whats flying like? (aliens that is) (marines I am assuming the jetpack is standard)
can you hover, do you tire, is it alot like you standard jet pack (hold the button and you go up, let go and you go splat?)
umm, yah ;D thats all I can think of for now (I probably will have a few more)
PS this is basicaly my way of staving off insanity till the release ;D (I like to learn alot about games before I play, normaly I will create a lan game and test stuff out with new mods, thus I don't come in with llama Qs)
Once a hive or the inf portal is removed, you need to eliminate the other team.
1b. Aliens can regrow hives, so dont worry, they can come back after devastation <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
2. Flying is as folows: You press jump to leap into the air, then you bigin to glide down and forward, press jump again and you flap again, and go up a little, then begin to glide again. Basically "jumping in air".
so destroy the inf portal and the hive, then kill all of the opposing team, then get yourself killed by turets, who wins? ;D
oh, and TY
EDIT: Im wrong about winning conditions, read Silvers answer.
can the inf portal be rebuilt? can the main (is there suchthing) hive be regrown?
and again TY (hmm, just got a sig ;D)
A) Only units and unit-respawning structures (Hives and Infantry Portals) count towards winning the game - turrets, marine structures, upgrade chambers, etc. do not count when looking for a "game over."
B) We've never tried it... however, the chance of the last two players on a team simultaneously killing each other is so small (if it's even possible) that I don't think it's a danger; whichever player dies last wins.
yah, basicaly what it comes down to is that once the hive/port are nuked it is DM time (seek and destroy ;D)
@alius: I love you too
over watch? perfect aiming, basicaly a meat popsical turet?
umbra? how does it work? are you invulnerable to turets or do they just not target you? or do they shut down turets so they don't target anyone?
nuke? I have seen a few mentiones of a satchel charge like wep, is this just BS?