The Best Alien Class?

ZammaZamma Join Date: 2004-05-04 Member: 28458Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">...whats yours?</div> <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif' /><!--endemo--> What do you feel is the best class and please explain why. What do you feel is the best class and please explain why. What do you feel is the best class and please explain why.:


Anyway: Mines has to be the F|A|D|E. Although not my fave alien its the best to me. Its complete in everyway. <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif' /><!--endemo-->

It has a HARSH close combat attack. It has a nice long range SPLASH attack. It has a getaway attack and even a HEALING ATTACK!
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It can conquer any marine.

Tactics:

1) for normal marines - Blink, Swipe, Blink, Meta, Finish

2) for Jetpacker marines - Blink Swipe, Blink away, Meta, Blink Swipe ect.

3) for HA marines - I) Acid Rocket all there Armour down or to weaken their health, Blink in, Slash, Blink out Meta repeat over.

II) Blink in, Swipe, Blink out, Blink in, Swipe, Blink out repeat.


Good choice of Upgrades: Fades generally SHOULD have:

I) Redemption
II) Adrenlin
III) Focus, SOF, or cloacking


In CO my personal faves include:

I) Redemption, Regen, Carapace = Healing redeeming 250 armoured fade XD
II) Adrenlin, Silence (maybe celerity)
III) SOF


More Info:

Many of you think why SOF?

Well its a great thing with a fade. Especially when all you want to do is pwn frag. Useing the great tactic of blinking and blink swiping you can easily see where they are ZOOM in and swipe then when satisfied ZOOM out. But if still alive you can see him.


Also when waiting for regen to heal u. If one is sneaking up he can be seen and you can run.


Please post your comments and bests.
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  • ScribblesScribbles Join Date: 2003-11-05 Member: 22323Members
  • God_KillerGod_Killer Join Date: 2004-02-16 Member: 26592Members
    Oh yeah remption rocks with regen and carapace in combat for any alien, but in classic it sucks.

    My fav! Ok...

    Against Jp its the lerk with focus and celerity, or focus leap skulk.
    Against Ha, its onos, duh.
    Against turret farms, bile bomb gorge with a mc or 2 beside me.

    But in general, I like the fade a lot. Fast, strong, resonable hp, and skill demanding.
    Skulk is great if marines don't get Gl, if they do, they asked for it...no more mr nice skulk.

    Every aliens rocks in my book.
  • LitoLito Join Date: 2003-09-04 Member: 20560Members
    Acid rocket is a joke. And Celerity is the best upgrade for a fade. <b>hands down.</b>
  • DragonMechDragonMech Join Date: 2003-09-19 Member: 21023Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--emo&::lerk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/lerk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='lerk.gif' /><!--endemo--> Lerkzor! <!--emo&::lerk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/lerk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='lerk.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    I love to just make a myself as big of a pain in the arse as possible with a lerk. It may not seem like it, but sporespamming is a skill against good marines.
  • john_sheujohn_sheu Join Date: 2004-02-26 Member: 26917Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Hobojoe+Jul 19 2004, 10:31 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Hobojoe @ Jul 19 2004, 10:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Lito+Jul 19 2004, 10:18 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Lito @ Jul 19 2004, 10:18 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Acid rocket is a joke.  And Celerity is the best upgrade for a fade. <b>hands down.</b> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    except for adren <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Why adren? Only reason why I'd see a fade in need of adren is if he can't blink right and he wastes his energy. Plus since you blink faster you don't need to blink as much.
  • God_KillerGod_Killer Join Date: 2004-02-16 Member: 26592Members
    Hands down celerity beats adrenaline for fade. I never ever take adrenaline for fade, even in combat.

    Metabolise does so much more in good hands than the weak adrenaline...anyway thats why ns classes are customisable to anyones taste/skill.
  • ZammaZamma Join Date: 2004-05-04 Member: 28458Members, Constellation
    What do u mean fade clerety:


    Adrenlin is like soo much energy for blink who needs to walk just BLINK!
  • ScottehScotteh Join Date: 2004-04-27 Member: 28251Members
    celerity, aim high, travel for hundreds of metres if terrain allows it, if not bunnyhop + celerity <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> again if you are skilled enough, blink > meta > blink, lose next to no adrenaline which makes getting adrenaline pointless....
  • CrSCrS Join Date: 2004-03-03 Member: 27096Members
    <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    Skulk is the best overall alien.
    (cara, silence, sof)
  • SkulkinatorSkulkinator Join Date: 2004-05-30 Member: 29016Members
    I like the Skulk, simply because of leap and wall-walking, but...

    The Gorge is the best in my book. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> There's nothing like bilebombing a turret farm, or killing a marine with spitgun/healspray. In terms of usefulness: you can't win without a Gorge. Building is important, but it's always great to have a healspraying Gorge if you're an Onos on the assault.
  • cortexcortex Join Date: 2003-11-28 Member: 23707Members
    My fav alien would definitely have to be fade, since my skulk skills are absolutely appalling..

    redemption as a fade (for me) just counters the whole point of a fade.

    imho fades are there not as big hitters but as the ultimate hit and run machine. blinkking away > redemption. Redemption is close to useless even in combat. a fade with 5+ upgrades has no real reason to die if he/she is smart and skilled enough... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • SewlekSewlek The programmer previously known as Schimmel Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16247Members, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Gold, Subnautica Developer
    best in my book: <!--emo&::lerk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/lerk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='lerk.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    but just for co, focus + celerity owns
  • cortexcortex Join Date: 2003-11-28 Member: 23707Members
    yet when i spec the "good" fades they seem to use a ridiculous amount of energy blinking usually more than half their energy bar :S
  • CypherCypher Join Date: 2003-03-16 Member: 14579Members
    celerity is more fun...adren is better if you want to win imo, it can save you in certain moments alot more than celerity can
  • SewlekSewlek The programmer previously known as Schimmel Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16247Members, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Gold, Subnautica Developer
    nah, adrenalin is only good to pursiut JetPackers and get them out of the air.
  • AlmightyNuAlmightyNu Join Date: 2004-06-27 Member: 29572Members
    Skulk, all the way <u><!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif' /><!--endemo--> </u>
    Fear the sneak attack <u><!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /><!--endemo--></u> <!--emo&::onos::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif' /><!--endemo-->
    head bitey!
  • XenixXenix Join Date: 2004-04-30 Member: 28340Members
    i can NEVER decide which aliend is my favorite.

    skulk - sneak attacks are 1337

    gorge - fun to kill a marine whos trying to knife you

    lerk - flying is 1337

    fade - looks 1337, and being a stealthy fade is fun... allthough i dont like the way they made him look in game. i like the drawling of him.

    onos - im hungry. nuff said

    im working on mastering all classes
  • God_KillerGod_Killer Join Date: 2004-02-16 Member: 26592Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> except some of the best fades in the game take adren, you can blink and slash constantly and always meta for health. with celerity there's annoying slowdowns before you have enough adren to meta.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Practice, practice...my energy goes to zero about twice a mount, unless I don't have meta.
  • xKrazYxxKrazYx Join Date: 2004-05-19 Member: 28762Members
    Focus Lerk. I have gone 105-10 in CO games with them, they are INSANE if you're good with them, like me <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    In NS : Regen, Adrenaline, Focus
    CO : Regen, Cara, Adren, Celerity, Focus, SoF

    With Focus, I can take down ANY rine 1v1, even heavies with SG or HMG, IF there's a lot of room to maneuver. In those *fall games, I go nuts with Focus Lerk.

    In NS, I'm still good with them but my scores are usually around the middle unless we get third hive, or Sense first. Focus will take 2 hits to kill a rine without Armor 3. Combined with the Lerk's fast "get away" ability, which I think is as good as Blink, and its a **** to deal with if you're rine. Fly in, bite, fly out, fly in, bite, fly out, get +res, hear a lot of swearing directed at you, rinse, repeat =)
  • Kid-AKid-A Join Date: 2002-12-17 Member: 10908Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-CrS+Jul 20 2004, 07:38 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CrS @ Jul 20 2004, 07:38 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    Skulk is the best overall alien.
    (cara, silence, sof) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Amen. By best I mean most fun. There is something scary about silent leap, it's just mean.

    As for Fade debate: Adren, Regen.

    Sure you have meta but you need to run away. With adren and regen you can blink around <b>forever</b> in a large area. Marines can't hit you enough to cause damage faster than regen heals it.

    Blink around until their reloading. FUN FUN FUN!
  • ekentekent Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7801Members
    If you can't blink around forever with celerity you're doing something wrong. Plus there's the fact that you can tap it and blink instantly across any room. Celerity makes fades actually usable vs decent shotguns. Although... 2 hive carapace really does the same.
  • kabuumkabuum Join Date: 2004-07-25 Member: 30108Members
    I like lerk. I am pretty clumsy with fade. Too many functions to complete..
    Lerk is easy to use in beginning to kill marines with gas attack. And it can take the enemy down without beeing in centre of the action..
    Otherwise, noob me is gorge ^^ I like to surround the enemy with ocs secured with dcs. And I am usually the first one to build a hive and I have taken the enemy base down mostly being gorge... Just fil the area with offenses and heal them and build dcs...
  • CaMCaM Join Date: 2004-07-05 Member: 29735Members
    I honestly cannot pick a favorite alien class, each of them are good in their on special way depending on what your trying to achieve.
  • Bait_BoyBait_Boy Join Date: 2004-05-14 Member: 28672Members
    I like playing lerk the most, its kinda sorta like a n00b fade (Both can cover long distances quickly) and I have a tad of trouble when I fade, other than everyone calling me a friggin n00b, just because I can friggin blink-swipe <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • zephiKzephiK Join Date: 2004-06-27 Member: 29586Members, Constellation
    depends on the map i play
    i usally go fade sometimes lerk.
  • 999Hydralisk999Hydralisk Join Date: 2004-04-13 Member: 27907Members
    My favorite class is the gorge. I can heal eat and watch tv waiting for 2 more res to drop a res node.
  • ZathrilZathril Join Date: 2004-05-22 Member: 28821Members
    <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif' /><!--endemo--> or <!--emo&::lerk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/lerk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='lerk.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • DMoDblackwolfDMoDblackwolf Join Date: 2004-07-03 Member: 29708Members
    gorge for me as well as being the hive makers and chamber makers helpping other alians out haveing 1 in combat makes things better somehow
  • TheRedCometTheRedComet Join Date: 2004-07-14 Member: 29899Members
    gorge for me too , requires thinking and stratagy rather then reflexes as the fatties don't fight well <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • FiredropFiredrop Join Date: 2004-01-02 Member: 24956Members
    ive been using fade since the game came out, its all i ever play other than gorge (i never play as marines lol) and id have to say the fade's best upgrades are adrenaline, carapace, and focus =P if you can blink properly you can blink into people and take them out with a hit or two with a focused swipe, then blink away and metab. it allows for an easy getaway and your energy rarely runs out in heavy fights <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif' /><!--endemo-->
    gorge is my 2nd favorite, for that id get carapace, celerity, and cloaking <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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