How to fight as an alien, and win!

mcevil · November 2002

<div class="IPBDescription">Time to turn the tables</div>This stratigy starts when your second hive is finished, but it will make you a force to be recond with... well of cource that is before they get grenades and fill your hives with turets. <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/turret.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='::sentry::'>

Step 1: making a more effective attack key pattern
In your consol type-

bind q “slot3;+attack;wait;-attack; bind mouse1 sp1”
alias sp1 “+attack;wait;wait;wait;-attack;wait;slot1;+attack;wait;-attack;bind mouse1 +attack”

Now your ‘q’ button has become the primer for your attack with: skulk, lerk, and fade ( once you get a second hive) hit it when you are just walking around getting ready for an attack, and during an attack at intervals.

What it does:
Skulk: your attack after hitting q is: leap, bite, bite, bite, etc…
Lerk: your attack after hitting q is: umbrella, bite, bite, bite, etc…
Fade: your attack after hitting q is: blink, slash, slash, slash, etc…

NOTE: If you want the Lerk to shoot after the umbrella, you will need a separate key.

Step 2: Upgrade:
So far the most effective upgrades have been for me:
1) Carapace: without it you are nothing!
2) Adv. Hivesight: in combat it really helps if your target glows
3) Adrenaline/Celerity: both are good, Lerk needs Adrenaline

Step 3: Kill
Skulk: Upgrade, and press “q” while you are looking for a target. Try and get behind your target without being noticed. Attack (remember that since you pressed our “q” key your first attack will be a leap), bit and circle, if there is any distance between you and your target immediately press “q” to prime another leap! Give them an inch and you are dead! Repeat process as necessary.

Lerk: Upgrade, and press “q” while you are looking for a target. Your best chance is to lend support to another alien. Once you find a suitable target close in and press attack to umbrella and bit for you life under the cloud and retreat if it fades. Or after you make the cloud switch to spikes and give them a mouth full of one-sided punishment… well, as long as your cloud lasts.

Fade: Upgrade, and press “q” while you are looking for a target. Once you find your target you have two options frontal or a faint. Frontal: click the attack button aiming directly at your target, you will blink over to them because you have primed the “q” and slash like crazy. Or a faint, strafe out to get there attention and am the blink past them a little to one side, this will cause them to focus on you and you will blink behind them and rip them a new one before they realize that they are just firing at air!

justus · November 2002

Well no doubt that your "script" is nice way to kill but...dont you peoples like to trust in skill more than in scripts?Kinda same thing like in cs to use some norecoil scripts and awp scripts and that stuff.no offence :/

Sono · November 2002

Oh I just waited for you script kiddies to ruin the game.
Go and play CS.

If you are not good at biting as a skulk or some other alien weapons, learn to use them normally or play marines.

ShAkYFoaL · November 2002

in ns the aliens need this kind of thing to be able to kill because of the weaponsystem.
otherwise ur spending valueable time in battle switching between the 4skills available.

cc_juju · November 2002

Aliens need all the help they can get.. Marines can built heavy machineguns in under 5 minutes, and as soon as they have those, any alien they see is just going to POP. Add in motion detection and the marines are practiacally unbeatable.

Seikeden · November 2002

notice the aliens emphasis on hit&run tactics, and combination attacks, whereas the marines (with a HMG) just hold the trigger down... without simple binds, trying to combine 5 keypresses into a single movement is a bit unfair don't you think?

mcevil · November 2002

I am hurt that I was called a scrip kitty
<img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('> I think the scrips I made in no way cheat they just make it easier to play. try my "script" before you call it cheating please.

I am working on a "script" to make the alian controls how they should be:
1) one-button wepon select, not select and click.
2) an improved version of the "q" button above.

I think these changes should be added to the game in general so it is fair for all.

mr_mofo · November 2002

How do i unbind this! It's really messed my game !!! PLz its urgent!! QUICK!

TacoSupreme · November 2002

To remove it all you need to do is bind mouse1 +attack and unbind q.

drunken_kitty_style · November 2002

mcevil-

I see the need for what you're trying to do and I greatly appreciate it. Don't worry about a thing.

I certainly wouldn't consider your script unfair or dishonest in the slightest. <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

I'm off to try your script right now. <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>

silver · November 2002

What I think should be done is the kharaa should have a secondary attack function, like mouse2 i guess, and leap should be bound as the secondary attack. This would make the skulks handle much like the aliens in the Aliens vs Predator games, and the aliens in those games definitely kick ###.

Mark · November 2002

in the options menu u can make it so u dont have to click to select a weapon it brings it up automatically..

m2_Sylem · November 2002

Personaly, i think the marines are FAR easier to play then the aliens, but its all preference i spose. Anyways, is there a way to bind a second attack to the Skulk and possible others? I know that a leap + bite = Super dead marine. If anyone knows how, please tell me. Im sure many other people wish to know as well.

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'> damn marines....

Necro · November 2002

all u need is hud_fastswitch 1 for 1 button weapon switch

TheRandomSin · November 2002

uhm... all you need is like... the back button to work... its what happens in day of defeat... instead of needing to switch between the weapons, you go
main, knife, last used weapon. Its in the game and very useful.

Ever consider setting the most used things (bite/leap) to maybe numpad 1? oh! you use the default settings? then press 1 and fire... idiot.

Junior_Mint · November 2002

I don't think aliens "need all the help they can get." I've won as aliens plenty of times, and that was while we were generally outnumbered and on a server that had 1000 - 2000 ping. Yes. 1000 to 2000 ping.

Now, whether or not our wins were due to skill on aliens' part or incompetence on the marine commander's part I am not sure. My point is you don't need a script to kill, just get used to killing on your own. It's like training wheels. Sure you can ride with training wheels if it makes you feel better, but the big boys don't need help.

m2_Sylem · November 2002

(refurring to the by a 12 year old, think the name was randomsin)Lets see, what was that? i think there was a bit of sarcasm in that post... oh well, i'll just have to skin you, or possible give you 1000 paper cuts and put you on the rack.

Ouch, that has to hurt. Anyways, lets keep the hating down, and try to grow up a little. They really should make an age restriction on these.

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'> damn marines...

How to fight as an alien, and win!

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