NS2 needs a 3rd race in conflict , some high-tech powered aliens , like zealots from starcraft or predator , make them melee combat with protective shields and max 4-5 in-game as 'hunters'
And then we can give them cloaking, and psi blades! That would be epic!
Seriously though, it might be fun, and someone will probably try to make a mod somewhere along the line with this. But for base NS it just isn't viable to start a third race now, even if they wanted to do so, which I doubt they do.
<!--quoteo(post=1791612:date=Aug 4 2010, 02:15 PM:name=Freddeh)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Freddeh @ Aug 4 2010, 02:15 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1791612"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->And then we can give them cloaking, and psi blades! That would be epic!
Seriously though, it might be fun, and someone will probably try to make a mod somewhere along the line with this. But for base NS it just isn't viable to start a third race now, even if they wanted to do so, which I doubt they do.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
i think the gameplay would be more fun , and those aliens could be for players who wants to go 'solo' , who wouldn't want to play as this? <img src="http://ui13.gamespot.com/908/ss45hires_2.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /> ;)
<!--quoteo(post=1791614:date=Aug 4 2010, 02:24 PM:name=Delphic)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Delphic @ Aug 4 2010, 02:24 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1791614"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Don't forget to include psi-onic mind powers, to confuse and damage your enemies. Their shields must regen!<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
why not? it can be as an upgrade , and if balanced properly i don't see why they couldn't make such a thing
it would be nice to add some nintendo caracter that could come and disturb the game like super smash bros, Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong coming and hiting people while we play
I suggest a faction of microscopic specks that float through the air that cannot affect anyone, cannot build anything and cannot be seen by anyone. I call them Spectators.
Or a rogue faction of belly-sliding suicide-Gorges with frickin' bombs attached to their foreheads.
<!--quoteo(post=1791614:date=Aug 4 2010, 02:24 PM:name=Delphic)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Delphic @ Aug 4 2010, 02:24 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1791614"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Don't forget to include psi-onic mind powers, to confuse and damage your enemies. Their shields must regen!
And if you are awesome but die you can come back as a draagon.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> This one made me laugh. Its quite brilliant if you purposely misspelled dragon.
<!--quoteo(post=1791641:date=Aug 4 2010, 09:49 AM:name=GeneralBowser)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GeneralBowser @ Aug 4 2010, 09:49 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1791641"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->This one made me laugh. Its quite brilliant if you purposely misspelled dragon.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> It's a joke about the Starcraft Dragoon.
i don't know why some of you treat this as a joke , you could laugh aswell from the current aliens which are 90% like zergs
i bet if there were only humans and it was humans vs humans and i'd come here on the forum saying "add aliens that look like zerg , can fly walk on walls and bite" you'd be LOLLOLOL IT WILL DESTROY BALANCE U SUXXXXXX
<!--quoteo(post=1791661:date=Aug 4 2010, 05:37 PM:name=gungunx)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gungunx @ Aug 4 2010, 05:37 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1791661"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->i don't know why some of you treat this as a joke , you could laugh aswell from the current aliens which are 90% like zergs<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> Even if Frontiermen were exactly like Terran and Khaara were entirely like Zerg (which they are not), that still does not mean that a third race (species, really) is necessary. Your idea, would add a lot of complexity and probably would delay the game significantly since all species would have to be balanced towards each other. Additionally a lot of the setting (world/context/background) would have to be reimagined to fit a new species. Your idea simply sounds like wishful thinking without any regard for what the suggestion would mean if actually implemented, which probably is why it's not taken seriously by everyone.
<!--quoteo(post=1791661:date=Aug 4 2010, 05:37 PM:name=gungunx)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gungunx @ Aug 4 2010, 05:37 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1791661"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->i bet if there were only humans and it was humans vs humans and i'd come here on the forum saying "add aliens that look like zerg , can fly walk on walls and bite" you'd be LOLLOLOL IT WILL DESTROY BALANCE U SUXXXXXX<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> Yes, I think you are right in principle. If the game concept were about Marines vs Marines, and you suggested the addition of Aliens you would probably be just as ignored (possibly more). Also your finishing comment does nothing to strengthen your argument, this is not 4chan (don't google it).
No this can be even easier. The third race can just be "corporate" mercenaries like from avp2. So they can be given the same weapons as marines and totally grey uniforms.
Or an AI race that develops when MACs get fed up of building, evolve from their original programming, rebel against Frontiersmen and go terminator on our asses.
see, it'd be a fine suggestion if it weren't turning the game into FPS-multiplayer Starcraft. What you're suggesting wouldn't "break balance" - anything can be balanced, if you work at it.
The problem is, we already have marines, we already have melee-centric aliens lead by a hive mind. That doesn't make the game necessarily "starcraft-y", but I think one could see the relation. Now, if they purposely add a third race of "high-tech powered aliens" that are "like zealots in starcraft", then it begins to become a little bit uncanny in relation.
A third race would be perfectly fine, if it were actually something original.
<!--quoteo(post=1791661:date=Aug 4 2010, 05:37 PM:name=gungunx)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gungunx @ Aug 4 2010, 05:37 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1791661"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->i bet if there were only humans and it was humans vs humans and i'd come here on the forum saying "add aliens that look like zerg , can fly walk on walls and bite" you'd be LOLLOLOL IT WILL DESTROY BALANCE U SUXXXXXX<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
wow, u smart -_-
of course if u go on CSS forum say "add a 3rd team, the aliens" its morronic and completely destruct the game as he is and as people who play it like it. so yes u suxxxx hard dude.
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I want the third race to be neon emitting fluffy hamsters that shoot lazers from their eyes! Their RTS mode will be similar to collecting nuts for storage!
Spaceorks and Skynet ideas are fun too, but why screw up a game that is already pretty awesome <img src="http://members.home.nl/m.borgman/ns-forum/smileys/awesome.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />
What's next when a third race is introduced, which it wont. "OMG we need a fourth race!!!" ?
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Seriously though, it might be fun, and someone will probably try to make a mod somewhere along the line with this. But for base NS it just isn't viable to start a third race now, even if they wanted to do so, which I doubt they do.
Seriously though, it might be fun, and someone will probably try to make a mod somewhere along the line with this. But for base NS it just isn't viable to start a third race now, even if they wanted to do so, which I doubt they do.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
i think the gameplay would be more fun , and those aliens could be for players who wants to go 'solo' , who wouldn't want to play as this?
<img src="http://ui13.gamespot.com/908/ss45hires_2.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /> ;)
And if you are awesome but die you can come back as a draagon.
why not? it can be as an upgrade , and if balanced properly i don't see why they couldn't make such a thing
Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong coming and hiting people while we play
Does it bollocks!
If NS2 is super successful and we get NS3 then maybe then...
Beat me to it :(
I call them Spectators.
Or a rogue faction of belly-sliding suicide-Gorges with frickin' bombs attached to their foreheads.
chop chop..get to it.....
do it...
do it NOW.....
done yet?...
its not that easy huh?...
And if you are awesome but die you can come back as a draagon.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This one made me laugh. Its quite brilliant if you purposely misspelled dragon.
It's a joke about the Starcraft Dragoon.
you could laugh aswell from the current aliens which are 90% like zergs
i bet if there were only humans and it was humans vs humans and i'd come here on the forum saying "add aliens that look like zerg , can fly walk on walls and bite" you'd be LOLLOLOL IT WILL DESTROY BALANCE U SUXXXXXX
you could laugh aswell from the current aliens which are 90% like zergs<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Even if Frontiermen were exactly like Terran and Khaara were entirely like Zerg (which they are not), that still does not mean that a third race (species, really) is necessary.
Your idea, would add a lot of complexity and probably would delay the game significantly since all species would have to be balanced towards each other.
Additionally a lot of the setting (world/context/background) would have to be reimagined to fit a new species.
Your idea simply sounds like wishful thinking without any regard for what the suggestion would mean if actually implemented, which probably is why it's not taken seriously by everyone.
<!--quoteo(post=1791661:date=Aug 4 2010, 05:37 PM:name=gungunx)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gungunx @ Aug 4 2010, 05:37 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1791661"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->i bet if there were only humans and it was humans vs humans and i'd come here on the forum saying "add aliens that look like zerg , can fly walk on walls and bite" you'd be LOLLOLOL IT WILL DESTROY BALANCE U SUXXXXXX<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes, I think you are right in principle. If the game concept were about Marines vs Marines, and you suggested the addition of Aliens you would probably be just as ignored (possibly more). Also your finishing comment does nothing to strengthen your argument, this is not 4chan (don't google it).
What you're suggesting wouldn't "break balance" - anything can be balanced, if you work at it.
The problem is, we already have marines, we already have melee-centric aliens lead by a hive mind.
That doesn't make the game necessarily "starcraft-y", but I think one could see the relation. Now, if they purposely add a third race of "high-tech powered aliens" that are "like zealots in starcraft", then it begins to become a little bit uncanny in relation.
A third race would be perfectly fine, if it were actually something original.
wow, u smart -_-
of course if u go on CSS forum say "add a 3rd team, the aliens" its morronic and completely destruct the game as he is and as people who play it like it.
so yes
u suxxxx hard dude.
Spaceorks and Skynet ideas are fun too, but why screw up a game that is already pretty awesome <img src="http://members.home.nl/m.borgman/ns-forum/smileys/awesome.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />
What's next when a third race is introduced, which it wont. "OMG we need a fourth race!!!" ?