ZavaroTucson, ArizonaJoin Date: 2005-02-14Member: 41174Members, Super Administrators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Playtester, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
Babblers were skulks, man, and spawning another gorge would be catastrophic. Building a massive wall of offensive doom in half the time, including cloak and defense and movement chambers backing them all up.
<!--QuoteBegin-master wong+Mar 25 2005, 12:30 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (master wong @ Mar 25 2005, 12:30 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->um i got the mental picture of babblers, but can any1 gimme screenshots of it?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> No, but picture a gorge spewing out 3 or 4 skulks in random directions hopefully heading for the eneny and then exploding, wreaking havoc to nearby marines and equipment.
a babbler is a skulk, controlled by AI. It does everything a skulk does, but is dumb, (runs into walls and stays, stays in corners, takes hits from marines and keep hitting equipment,) weaker (weaker attacks, less HP), and xenocide at the end when they are done.
I would like to see the CODE for babblers put back in, like spikes are, but not officially in, so admins can use them to their discretion.
<!--QuoteBegin-Swift+Mar 24 2005, 11:48 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Swift @ Mar 24 2005, 11:48 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> a babbler is a skulk, controlled by AI. It does everything a skulk does, but is dumb, (runs into walls and stays, stays in corners, takes hits from marines and keep hitting equipment,) weaker (weaker attacks, less HP), and xenocide at the end when they are done.
I would like to see the CODE for babblers put back in, like spikes are, but not officially in, so admins can use them to their discretion. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I would be satisfied with this proposal.
fyi though, if a gorge has the ammount of res to build a WOL, at hive three, it wont really make a difference if he has a babbler-gorge building with him. A babbler-gorge isnt smart enough to build its own, nor does it posses res to do so. But even if it isnt a single babbler/babbler gorge. Babblers in NS would be great, and babblers in CO would make it even better.
I was just suggesting a single babbler gorge since it doesent boost the gorge's offensive abilities as much as babblers would. But it has better effects on defense for the gorge.
Why not have the gorges just spit out modified-snarks (since that's basically what babblers were). Gorges could launch them like bile bombs, and they could attack marines and structures.
That would take the whole skulk part out of it while still retaining the essence of what babblers actually were AND retain the purpose of a bile-bomb type weapon.
I'm sure there are plenty of modellers in the NS community that could make an NS style Snark/Babbler.
ZavaroTucson, ArizonaJoin Date: 2005-02-14Member: 41174Members, Super Administrators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Playtester, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
edited March 2005
My grand assault of the marine base on Eclipse! But.. it was only me playing!
(yes, they are in the comm chair, because in 1.04 they had bad collision models <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
<a href='http://nsmod.ugleague.org/forums1/index.php?showtopic=42' target='_blank'>This thread</a> on the Mods Maps and Models for NS Forums is a babblers work in progress. It won't be long now!
ZavaroTucson, ArizonaJoin Date: 2005-02-14Member: 41174Members, Super Administrators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Playtester, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
edited March 2005
<!--QuoteBegin-Swift+Mar 24 2005, 11:48 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Swift @ Mar 24 2005, 11:48 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I would like to see the CODE for babblers put back in, like spikes are, but not officially in, so admins can use them to their discretion. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> This would be a grand idea, because then server admin's could CHOOSE which one's they would want in the game. Then we could all be for Babblers, because even if they do get put in, not everyone will be forced to use them.
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No, but picture a gorge spewing out 3 or 4 skulks in random directions hopefully heading for the eneny and then exploding, wreaking havoc to nearby marines and equipment.
I would like to see the CODE for babblers put back in, like spikes are, but not officially in, so admins can use them to their discretion.
I would like to see the CODE for babblers put back in, like spikes are, but not officially in, so admins can use them to their discretion. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I would be satisfied with this proposal.
But even if it isnt a single babbler/babbler gorge. Babblers in NS would be great, and babblers in CO would make it even better.
I was just suggesting a single babbler gorge since it doesent boost the gorge's offensive abilities as much as babblers would. But it has better effects on defense for the gorge.
That would take the whole skulk part out of it while still retaining the essence of what babblers actually were AND retain the purpose of a bile-bomb type weapon.
I'm sure there are plenty of modellers in the NS community that could make an NS style Snark/Babbler.
(yes, they are in the comm chair, because in 1.04 they had bad collision models <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
But of course, because of the 120K limit, here is the link to the almighty screenshot!
<a href='http://img20.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img20&image=whichbots7ge.jpg' target='_blank'><img src='http://img20.exs.cx/img20/5823/whichbots7ge.th.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /></a>
I would like to see the CODE for babblers put back in, like spikes are, but not officially in, so admins can use them to their discretion. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This would be a grand idea, because then server admin's could CHOOSE which one's they would want in the game. Then we could all be for Babblers, because even if they do get put in, not everyone will be forced to use them.