Can we have Focus?Focus

countbasiecountbasie Join Date: 2008-12-27 Member: 65884Members
edited November 2012 in NS2 General Discussion
<div class="IPBDescription">plz</div>Trying to damage level 3 marines as either a skulk, a gorge, a lerk, or a fade is just not fun, and it doesn't feel balanced. Focus was the perfect solution for that in NS1: dbl damage, dbl cooldown. It feels good to make precise hits rather than biting/swiping endless times and just retreat/die without a kill.
Right? It'd be one step towards a better balanced fade as well.
Marines also only need to get to an armory to make any effort from the alien side worthless, since the armory repairs armor.
I understand that UWE mainly goes for win/loss ratios when it comes to balance, but the aliens need to be more fun. Focus it is.
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  • snowfox86snowfox86 Join Date: 2012-11-01 Member: 165579Members
    Work with your team. If your main focus is getting kills as a Lerk, then you're playing the Lerk wrong. If you see some one going Fade, and you're a lerk. Do you know how devastating that combination can be?

    Lerks and gorges both have the potential of harrassing and melting away hp/armor on marines enough to allow skulks and fades and onos to clean them up without much loss.
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  • SehzadeSehzade Join Date: 2010-12-29 Member: 76024Members
    edited November 2012
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  • MetroMetro Join Date: 2007-09-15 Member: 62316Members
    I, too, miss Focus. It would help the fade a lot.

    And marines being repaired by the armory is something I always found silly. It negates harassing by a lot and enables marines to turtle even when their games are lost already. (Kind of like how NS1 was in earlier versions. You know, until they changed the balance to fix that bore. Kind weird that the same issue is here in NS2 again.)
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  • statikgstatikg Join Date: 2012-09-19 Member: 159978Members
    +1 harass devs til we get it lool
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  • unkindunkind Join Date: 2012-02-04 Member: 143563Members
    +1 one of the few ways to make aliens fun
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  • IeptBarakatIeptBarakat The most difficult name to speak ingame. Join Date: 2009-07-10 Member: 68107Members, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow
    +1

    Tell me a good reason why 0 res skulks shouldn't be fighting 0 res Armor3 marines.
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  • Defcon2021Defcon2021 Join Date: 2007-11-07 Member: 62850Members
    We're gonna have to harass the devs a lot more since we don't have Focus. I'll bet you they have an armory that heals armor in their office as well... good luck with that harass.
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  • BearTornadoBearTornado Join Date: 2012-11-02 Member: 166223Members
    edited November 2012
    <!--quoteo(post=2017974:date=Nov 9 2012, 10:25 PM:name=IeptBarakat)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (IeptBarakat @ Nov 9 2012, 10:25 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2017974"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->+1

    Tell me a good reason why 0 res skulks shouldn't be fighting 0 res Armor3 marines.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    From what I've read on the forums (according entirely to other player's experiences), the marines were just better at whining about every little thing.

    So I guess 0 res aliens are underpowered at that too?
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  • countbasiecountbasie Join Date: 2008-12-27 Member: 65884Members
    <!--quoteo(post=2017910:date=Nov 10 2012, 05:06 AM:name=snowfox86)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (snowfox86 @ Nov 10 2012, 05:06 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2017910"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->If you see some one going Fade, and you're a lerk. Do you know how devastating that combination can be?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Neither Vs Exos nor vs JP marines with lvl3 weapons is that a good combination right now. Talking about a good marine team, of course.
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  • TimMcTimMc Join Date: 2012-02-06 Member: 143945Members
    <!--quoteo(post=2017974:date=Nov 10 2012, 12:25 AM:name=IeptBarakat)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (IeptBarakat @ Nov 10 2012, 12:25 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2017974"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->+1

    Tell me a good reason why 0 res skulks shouldn't be fighting 0 res Armor3 marines.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    This +1.
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  • ShrimmShrimm Join Date: 2012-10-05 Member: 161652Members
    I miss focus :(
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