<div class="IPBDescription">What are they?</div>What exactly can the aliens build? Ive heard about marine buildings a lot but not alien. What do the alien sentry guns shoot? Do they have any type of buildings that the marines cant build (factory type things).
- Hives - Upgrade Chambers (Defense, Sensory, Movement, each with abilities in the buildings as well as providing upgrades) - Resource Towers - Turrets - Webs
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/me hurts Conan.
Gorges (alien builders) can build:
<i>Offensive chambers.</i> These are ugly, spikey, and shoot globs of something or other at marines. <i>Defensive chambers.</i> These provide healing for nearby aliens and buildings, and enable defensive upgrades. <i>Movement chambers.</i> These can be used to teleport to the nearest hive, and enable movement upgrades. <i>Sensory chambers.</i> These mark visible marines in hive sight, parasite any marine that touches them, and enable sensory upgrades. <i>Resource Towers.</i> Placed on resource nozzles, these harvest resources for the aliens. <i>Hives.</i> Hives can only be built in 3 locations on each map. The number of active hives determines how many upgrades can be researched, what life forms can be evolved to, and what weapons are available.
Necro<insert non-birthday-related title here>Join Date: 2002-08-09Member: 1118Members
/me hurts conan some more
about building webs how does it work? i though it was a class ability? <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/bob.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='::skulk::'><!--endemo-->
You select it like a weapon, point at the wall, and fire. Then point at another wall and fire. A web is formed between those two points (as long as they're not -too- far apart).
Necro<insert non-birthday-related title here>Join Date: 2002-08-09Member: 1118Members
...so you could JUMP over a web?
i always got the idea it put lots so u cant really go around it...kinda like tripmines...ez 2 avoid <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/bob.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='::skulk::'><!--endemo-->
Yes, you can jump over a web. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
The smart builder always places more than one though... =)
<!--QuoteBegin--Spyder Monkey+Sep. 30 2002,15:25--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Spyder Monkey @ Sep. 30 2002,15:25)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->The smart builder always places more than one though... =)<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Which would certainly explain why I only ever see one of your webs at a time. <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->
Which are usually only a precursor to my room of 1 billion turrets.... I'll be the alien in the far corner... chuckling at you. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
Necro<insert non-birthday-related title here>Join Date: 2002-08-09Member: 1118Members
had 2 be sure <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/asrifle.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='::asrifle::'><!--endemo-->
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- Upgrade Chambers (Defense, Sensory, Movement, each with abilities in the buildings as well as providing upgrades)
- Resource Towers
- Turrets
- Webs
<!--EDIT|Moleculor|Sep. 30 2002,12:25-->
Gorges (alien builders) can build:
<i>Offensive chambers.</i> These are ugly, spikey, and shoot globs of something or other at marines.
<i>Defensive chambers.</i> These provide healing for nearby aliens and buildings, and enable defensive upgrades.
<i>Movement chambers.</i> These can be used to teleport to the nearest hive, and enable movement upgrades.
<i>Sensory chambers.</i> These mark visible marines in hive sight, parasite any marine that touches them, and enable sensory upgrades.
<i>Resource Towers.</i> Placed on resource nozzles, these harvest resources for the aliens.
<i>Hives.</i> Hives can only be built in 3 locations on each map. The number of active hives determines how many upgrades can be researched, what life forms can be evolved to, and what weapons are available.
about building webs how does it work? i though it was a class ability?
<!--emo&::skulk::--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/bob.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='::skulk::'><!--endemo-->
You select it like a weapon, point at the wall, and fire. Then point at another wall and fire. A web is formed between those two points (as long as they're not -too- far apart).
i always got the idea it put lots so u cant really go around it...kinda like tripmines...ez 2 avoid <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/bob.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='::skulk::'><!--endemo-->
The smart builder always places more than one though... =)
Which would certainly explain why I only ever see one of your webs at a time. <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->
OMG Oh no..... Ah... That´s disgustin......
Jeez... That´s not right....
Juicy details!
I always wanted a complete summary of the alien buildings and what they did.
--Scythe--
P.S. I now foresee a post by coil along the lines of "Complete? tehehe".