Aliens get Panic
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Join Date: 2003-09-27 Member: 21247Members
Join Date: 2003-09-27 Member: 21247Members
<div class="IPBDescription">You know, if the marines have 2 hives and HA, the game ist mostly over</div>We all know, if the Marines Team have 2 Hives and Heavy armor, the game almost ends for aliens.
If the aliens have one hive and the marines have the heavy armor, the aliens get a bonus.
The Skulk(*gorges to?) Aliens get a X speed bonus, because they are in panic.
So every Alien, who see an Heavy armor, get panic bonus for a while.
Maybe the skulk* screams all X seconds, so the bonus is not overpowered.
All skulks* they have contact with the skulk, get the bonus to.
To remove the bonus, just stay in the hive for a while.
If the aliens have one hive and the marines have the heavy armor, the aliens get a bonus.
The Skulk(*gorges to?) Aliens get a X speed bonus, because they are in panic.
So every Alien, who see an Heavy armor, get panic bonus for a while.
Maybe the skulk* screams all X seconds, so the bonus is not overpowered.
All skulks* they have contact with the skulk, get the bonus to.
To remove the bonus, just stay in the hive for a while.
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that add some addmoshere a screaming skulk to see who try to escape
But I dunno, getting a free MC upgrade because the other team is controling most of the map? Now I do like epic long battles (part of the reason I don't play NS anymore), but giving away freebies like this has to have a downside as well. Otherwise it's just an extra free MC upgrade when you only have DC/SC with one hive...
And what if the aliens have all of the map with all upgrades, what do the marines get. Now I know this is a rare sight in NS its current state. But I do see a viscious circle here of:
"what if >insert other team status here< , do we get"
But I dunno, getting a free MC upgrade because the other team is controling most of the map? Now I do like epic long battles (part of the reason I don't play NS anymore), but giving away freebies like this has to have a downside as well. Otherwise it's just an extra free MC upgrade when you only have DC/SC with one hive...
And what if the aliens have all of the map with all upgrades, what do the marines get. Now I know this is a rare sight in NS its current state. But I do see a viscious circle here of:
"what if >insert other team status here< , do we get"<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah...
Although it could be kind of cool in concept, I don't think that it would solve as many problems as it would create.
Aliens don't feel fear!
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />
Sounds like a different approach on primal scream. Or perhaps something new as charged attacks (hmm combopoints even?)
Ah well nevermind <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
So they have fun even while they lose, I can see the point to that. No one likes to get completely bent over and hog tied. That's one of the things I liked when I first found NS1, like just before version 2, people would play hide and seek even when the match was lost or they would play "Alamo" and turtle up.
Even with that said, the method proposed is not one I think would help with that, as has already been stated by others it could be open to abuse which would make the game less fun, not more so.
Prolonging the game when it's already lost isn't something desirable. It's already bad enough in NS1 with hour long marine turtles.
<!--quoteo(post=1668705:date=Jan 28 2008, 02:07 PM:name=CanadianWolverine)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(CanadianWolverine @ Jan 28 2008, 02:07 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1668705"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->That's one of the things I liked when I first found NS1, like just before version 2, people would play hide and seek even when the match was lost or they would play "Alamo" and turtle up.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Those DC forts and lone marines hiding in vents are only fun for the limited few involved. I can guarantee you the majority of the server is waiting just a tiny bit pissed for the round to end.
Those DC forts and lone marines hiding in vents are only fun for the limited few involved. I can guarantee you the majority of the server is waiting just a tiny bit pissed for the round to end.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Seconded. And not just a tiny bit pissed.
Better to end it quick and start afresh.
edit: actually, I'm reminded of this RTS, Battle Realms, where if a player has lost all his buildings and units except his single peasant or so, the game would, after a certain amount of time, reveal the single player's location to the other teams, so he wouldn't be able to stubbornly rebuild and prolong the game. I forget when, specifically, that 'revealing' would arise though.
Sure, people are pissed now, I accept that and don't bother with the vent hiding stuff, but last stands at the Alamo do still happen and they get broken and we had fun to the last man.
Even then, I am not suggesting those are the only ways to the have fun even if you are losing. Is there no importance at all to have some fun even if your team is losing? Since someone has to lose, surely you want to seek ways in which even while biting the dust one can enjoy something or why the heck would anyone stay to play a second match after they get, er, for lack of a better word "owned". Are you going to tell me you haven't noticed a rise in the number of "rage quits" over the years?
Here's an idea, if your side is clearly losing, have a way for the team to make it to some sort of "escape pods" as a way of having some small victory, an incentive to end the match early where both sides feel like they have been victorious somehow. Like some actual fun game play instead of just F4 to the Ready Room as it is in NS1 now.
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" /> That would be good! Such a stylish way to say "Advance to the rear! They win this time!"
advance to the rear? huh? you mean retreat?
i guess that's an idea, though.. escape pods. hmm...