Aliens Suck

nicegame · November 2002

I just got this game last night played it 13 hours straight. Never once saw the aliens win. NOT ONCE. The alien turrets are a joke. I had 5 on 1 marine he walked right towards them and took them all out and he didnt die. One of the marine turrets killed me as the onos. I dont know whats up, i read here its all balanced and what not. But as far as i could see it sucks. Sure you MIGHT be able to take a marine out if you camp for 5 minutes straight and wait for a chance encounter. But man that outs me to sleep just sitting there waiting.. boring.. i thot this game was supposed to be really action packed. I cant stand just sitting around and waiting for a marine to just walk by.I hate waiting games.

A marine in heavy armor was afk or something, i bit him i dont even know how many times,(around 10-15) then he came back turned around and killed me.

Also, i thot the Onons was supposed to be bad ass. I got killed by a heavy armor marine in a 1 on 1 fight. I had him in a corner biting him, and he still just shot, reloaded, shot, reloaded. Then i was dead. So even the most powerful alien class cant take on a marine. ANy other aliend class dies to marines in a split second. like 3 bullets and youre dead.

SO much hype was surrounding this game. Least amount of fun ive ever had playing a mod. Hell i had more fun playing Vampire Slayer, and that mod just about sucks.
I cant complain too much was a free game.
Im never playing this mod again. Even tho i waited 3 yrs for it to come out, i cant stand it now i played it, it sounds alot funner than it is IMO. Unless you play marines i guess. Which normaly most poeple do. 3 games ina row i played teams 2-14. Why the fuck do poeple do that shit. I neevr once in 13 hours of playing saw aliens with just as many or more poeple. this game seriously needs some type of auto balancing.

Stratesiz · November 2002

bye and thanks for leaving.
I can't believe you got killed by one turret as onos.

Otacon · November 2002

You had no fun but you played for 13 hours? Right.

The aliens are suppost to use their speed, stealth and abilities to climb and hide to ambush the enemy. They use cloak and their advanced sight to stalk and tackle the marines. They aren't suppost to run head on down a long corridor screaming to take them out. That's the marines job <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'>

Until you work out strategies and work out how to use the abilities the aliens have properly - you're never going to get the hang of it. Don't use brute force - it won't work.

Use your head.

Vangor · November 2002

First, I win as Kharaa around 1/4 of the time, mostly because I get in late and the Kharaa team has no clue wtf to do to win. You can't beat out Marines in a lengthy fight, you must assault them like a machine trained simply to die, and others must play their true role, this is how it must be.

For the Offensive Chambers, they are designed to simply slow them down, however, most marines cannot really take down 5 at once walking straight near em, soon, he would die. If a commander was healing him and he was super lucky, possibly, but, highly doubtable. They aren't as bad as people think, even designed this way.

If a marine turret kiled you as an Onos, you were probably using Charge, which doesn't work on structures (it should, don't know the reasoning for it not, but it was designed not to). I can kill atleast one sentry turret standing there chopping as a fade with multiple others on me. I can kill many more if I use actualy tactics, and often, I do kill many, many of them as a Fade.

I never need to camp for 5 minutes, you need to learn how Marines are meant to act on maps, and need to learn moving around in hiding, as well as how to kill multiple marines at once. I have killed 5 marines at once with a skulk by running around them and biting em all quickly, then died to #6. I have killed 2 or 3 marines at once with a skulk multiple times. So, you need to learn the game, but some of it will be waiting, RTS games are like that, and this game is quite a bit of an RTS with slow people.

After 15 bites, a Heavy Armor marine would die, after around 6 or so bites they would, you probably weren't really coming close to hitting em, you can bite from a decent length away, and bite ont he sides of your mouth, so it should be fairly easy.

Considering Heavy Armor Marines are harder than Sentry Turrets, and I know as an Onos I have killed four in a group of Heavy Armor Marines, and I rarely use Onos (three times, once when I began, once for that time, and once cause we had called a build time so we could fight HMG/HA to Onos, no sentries, no health, nothin, winner take all).

People unbalance the teams, it is a fact, a dumb fact, and those people are all weak sissies. Tell them to come back, or just leave. It doesn't happen often enough, it is unfortunate, a drastic change needs to be made somewhere, hopefully this patch will heal all.

Banan · November 2002

Well as you are describing it if you really trapped a heavy marine into a corner and bit him while he just reloaded it sounds like one of the admins had been messing with the skill.cfg

Quietus · November 2002

I must've played atleast 10 full games yesterday and only lost as aliens once.

Squeal_Like_A_Pig · November 2002

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (nicegame @ Nov 5 2002, 02:37 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

SO much hype was surrounding this game. Least amount of fun ive ever had playing a mod. Hell i had more fun playing Vampire Slayer, and that mod just about sucks.
I cant complain too much was a free game.
Im never playing this mod again. Even tho i waited 3 yrs for it to come out, i cant stand it now i played it, it sounds alot funner than it is IMO.</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Yeah, thanks for the "constructive" crits. Reeeallly helpful. Do you have any way of posting your thoughts WITHOUT making the devs feel like complete crap?

Aliens Suck

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