Quick Questions
MasterEvilAce
Join Date: 2002-11-29 Member: 10268Members, Reinforced - Shadow
Join Date: 2002-11-29 Member: 10268Members, Reinforced - Shadow
<div class="IPBDescription">about gameplay</div> Just wondering about a few things considering how things work in the game
Having played Half life (and related mods, IE: CS, TFC) and Star Craft, I found it really easy to figure out things on the Marine aspect of things.
First, though.. Waypoints.. I've selected the marines, and i've right clicked, and sometimes just nothing appears.. I've right double-clicked and sometimes it works, sometimes i have to right-click three times.... most of the time this happends when i waypoint a building to tell them to build. is there a trick? ehhh.
second, how exactly does building with gorges work? I can build hives, offensive towers, resource nodes.. but for the life of me i can't figure out this "defense" tower, and upgrades.. the defensive towers are listed under upgrades i believe.. Do i have to upgrade an offense tower or something? I just.. nothing seems to want to build under "Upgrades" even when I have enough resources...
I know i had more questions, but i can't remember them at the moment..
To those saying "blah is too powerful!" nonsense. Having seen the battles from a commander's point of view.. I can say that, yes, the fades are hard to handle (if there are many of them) but when the marines had heavy armor... I never saw any of them die, and whenever i hovered over them to see how much health they had, the always usually had half or more. then I just healed them to 100%, and they were hard to take down.
I've also played on aliens.. the aliens organized a massive rush (everybody in) and we won within 30 seconds of the round... Of course the second time we tried it, oh boy were they ready (they were all standing side by side aiming at the doors)
I've lost many times, and I've won many times.. It just depends on who you're playing with, and how good your defense (and commander) is.
suggestion:
Possibly maybe a "report in" button.. when a marine needs something (shotgun, etc.) they can ask, and hit that button. the commander would hear a simple beep or something, but not too distracting. the player would flash on the minimap (2 or 3 times). but limit how fast they can report in, you know? spam sucks. There are many times when i was commanding and people would ask for a welder, and i just didn't know where in the blazes they were.. This would allow the commander to easily see them. Before hand, i just told them to request ammo and i'd hit spacebar to check them out (wasted some time telling them to request ammo for me), even then is semi-hard if there are many people in one place.
I also see a lot of people who get really angry over more than 2 gorges (I see why, also) maybe a server variable to set a MAX number of gorges. (Hey, there is a set number of commanders <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> )
PS: Upgrade to Beta4 of Invision Board.. It fixes many bugs (and one big one) over Beta2. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Having played Half life (and related mods, IE: CS, TFC) and Star Craft, I found it really easy to figure out things on the Marine aspect of things.
First, though.. Waypoints.. I've selected the marines, and i've right clicked, and sometimes just nothing appears.. I've right double-clicked and sometimes it works, sometimes i have to right-click three times.... most of the time this happends when i waypoint a building to tell them to build. is there a trick? ehhh.
second, how exactly does building with gorges work? I can build hives, offensive towers, resource nodes.. but for the life of me i can't figure out this "defense" tower, and upgrades.. the defensive towers are listed under upgrades i believe.. Do i have to upgrade an offense tower or something? I just.. nothing seems to want to build under "Upgrades" even when I have enough resources...
I know i had more questions, but i can't remember them at the moment..
To those saying "blah is too powerful!" nonsense. Having seen the battles from a commander's point of view.. I can say that, yes, the fades are hard to handle (if there are many of them) but when the marines had heavy armor... I never saw any of them die, and whenever i hovered over them to see how much health they had, the always usually had half or more. then I just healed them to 100%, and they were hard to take down.
I've also played on aliens.. the aliens organized a massive rush (everybody in) and we won within 30 seconds of the round... Of course the second time we tried it, oh boy were they ready (they were all standing side by side aiming at the doors)
I've lost many times, and I've won many times.. It just depends on who you're playing with, and how good your defense (and commander) is.
suggestion:
Possibly maybe a "report in" button.. when a marine needs something (shotgun, etc.) they can ask, and hit that button. the commander would hear a simple beep or something, but not too distracting. the player would flash on the minimap (2 or 3 times). but limit how fast they can report in, you know? spam sucks. There are many times when i was commanding and people would ask for a welder, and i just didn't know where in the blazes they were.. This would allow the commander to easily see them. Before hand, i just told them to request ammo and i'd hit spacebar to check them out (wasted some time telling them to request ammo for me), even then is semi-hard if there are many people in one place.
I also see a lot of people who get really angry over more than 2 gorges (I see why, also) maybe a server variable to set a MAX number of gorges. (Hey, there is a set number of commanders <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> )
PS: Upgrade to Beta4 of Invision Board.. It fixes many bugs (and one big one) over Beta2. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Comments
I realize what upgrades are, now. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
But....How do i build "Defense" towers, sensory, movement, blah?
and the other questions still go unanswered <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
The Upgrades section refers to want you as an alien can upgrade. That's why people always build chambers in groups of 3, you get a level 3 upgrade, instead of a level 1 upgrade, had they only build 1 chamber. You can't upgrade buildings. (Although that would be friggin' cool... advanced defensive chamber... advanced offensive chamber... <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo--> )
No clue about commanding. I suck at it <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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maybe lag?
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maybe lag?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
probably..
i played again today and i didn't have those problems at all
yippie <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo-->
all we neeed now is a liosting thing on the side of the commanders screen 2 see all marine name and then u click on the names and then place way point