While I like the idea of skulks eating dead marines, I think it would slow the game down too much unless they could consume the corpse in only a few seconds.
<!--QuoteBegin--NinjaBurger+Dec 25 2002, 01:53 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (NinjaBurger @ Dec 25 2002, 01:53 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->While we're at it, why not let the marines eat dead aliens to gain their powers.
If a marine eats a skulk, he gains the ability to climb walls.
If a marine eats a gorg, he could shoot webs.
If a marine eats an onos, he could gain super strength and health.
If a marine ate all three, he would become Spider-Man.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> LOL!
I don't care if you are 13 years old. That's a heck of an idea...the technical issues might not allow some aspects of this idea, but I like the thought of aliens <i>eating</i> the marines. It so totally fits with the theme of the game. Hope the developers are reading this thread.
I completely fail to see what this would bring to the game, other than a better position to stand on when begging for blood and gore (something else I don't want to see in NS).
Half the point of skulks is that they're cheap and expendible. Why on earth would you want to make them waste time by eating a victim to heal up? And doesn't this weaken the strategic value of defense chambers?
I quite like the idea of skulks dragging corpses off, maybe they would still be alive. It would be better to have the aliens 'feed' the body to a structure, a little modification of the defense tower model would let you pop a fresh warm human down it's gullet.
It would be extremely cool to be a marine, slowly being eaten by a tower. Of course, rescue would be possible, which would be even more fun.
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"While I like the idea of skulks eating dead marines, I think it would slow the game down too much unless they could consume the corpse in only a few seconds."
Like is said before they don't have to be bloody, I mean "Half Life" has gibs, And if you don't like the gibs have a option to turn them off and a HUD display of a metre Draining when u eat the marine until he disapears. Like eat a marine in 2 seconds.
I think it'd be funny to see yourself getting dragged and eaten as a Marine, still from the first person view. Knock 'em out and drag 'em to a vent, then chomp on 'em, all while they're watching.
if they dont want to or cant put the eating in the game they should put the draaging in the game.it would be awesome. like 0ne guy said drop the body from a vent to the other marines to scare them or to distract them(bunch of marines one skulk drops the body every marine reacts and start shooting there or just watch the vent hoping to kill the skulk, meanwhile the other skulks attack them from behind). the eating and regenerating would make the game more like avp because the alien in avp heals only by biting off heads.
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->A few ideas that have already been discussed, and really don't need to be discussed any more because of a general consensus for/against them, or an official stance from the dev team:
- Vehicles, Never Ever. <b>- Blood, Gibs, and Gore: This has been discussed several times. It has been thrown out each time, for the same reasons. It has been decided that gore is not wanted or needed in NS. When you play it, you'll understand why. - Any sort of corpse-usage ability. Not sure if it'll ever go in, due to the idea above this one.</b> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
i think it has been well said that we dont really need gore, bodies dont have gore in half-life anyway, no blood pols ore anything, so how would draging/using boddies be any different.
i think that the idea of feeding to building would be great, then they could use that to hp spray the bacteria out. (they would have a body metre <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->)
OK, I really don't see the whole blood and gore issue... you have a game where one side plays as horrible, disfigured monsters with sharp teeth and spikes for legs, where the first person view is from within the horrible, long-toothed mouth, and the objective is to bite marines, and you're worried about violence?! I think some people really need to take a good look at the meaning of violence. It's bad enough that currently shooting an alien with an HMG will make them magically disappear. At least make the building destruction effect more interesting. When I hit my computer with a chair it doesn't vanish in a puff of smoke.
i did that to an old monitor once, it made some puffs of smoke but didnt vanish <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> stupid faulty wiring
Ok combining ideas of mine and other peoples here is what I came up with
Option 1 -Skulk Kills Marine -Skulk Drags Marine into Hive -Hive gives Temporary bonus HP to players (like Q3A and stuff)
Option 2 -Skulk bites marines legs and takes its gun -Skulk Drags marine into hive -Hive gives Temporary bonus HP to players (same as above) -Marines can rescue the marine by dropping med pack into the hive with marine into it and the marine knives it way out, Has to do it quickly before it gets dissolves in digestive juices -Aliens stop marines by attacking the marine in the hive stopping him.
this could also go for webbed players, if not welded out, they could be "collected" and taked back home for a roast dinner, him being the roast... (hehe)
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If a marine eats a skulk, he gains the ability to climb walls.
If a marine eats a gorg, he could shoot webs.
If a marine eats an onos, he could gain super strength and health.
If a marine ate all three, he would become Spider-Man.
If a marine eats a skulk, he gains the ability to climb walls.
If a marine eats a gorg, he could shoot webs.
If a marine eats an onos, he could gain super strength and health.
If a marine ate all three, he would become Spider-Man.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
LOL!
Skulks should eat and get a slight bonus health, this bonus health drops every 2 seconds, and can only be gained from eating marines.
Half the point of skulks is that they're cheap and expendible. Why on earth would you want to make them waste time by eating a victim to heal up? And doesn't this weaken the strategic value of defense chambers?
It would be extremely cool to be a marine, slowly being eaten by a tower. Of course, rescue would be possible, which would be even more fun.
"While I like the idea of skulks eating dead marines, I think it would slow the game down too much unless they could consume the corpse in only a few seconds."
Like is said before they don't have to be bloody, I mean "Half Life" has gibs, And if you don't like the gibs have a option to turn them off and a HUD display of a metre Draining when u eat the marine until he disapears. Like eat a marine in 2 seconds.
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(Yes, I'm a sick **obscenity**...)
the eating and regenerating would make the game more like avp because the alien in avp heals only by biting off heads.
- Vehicles, Never Ever.
<b>- Blood, Gibs, and Gore: This has been discussed several times. It has been thrown out each time, for the same reasons. It has been decided that gore is not wanted or needed in NS. When you play it, you'll understand why.
- Any sort of corpse-usage ability. Not sure if it'll ever go in, due to the idea above this one.</b>
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Pulled off the pinned thread in suggestions forum
i think that the idea of feeding to building would be great, then they could use that to hp spray the bacteria out. (they would have a body metre <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->)
Eater.
Option 1
-Skulk Kills Marine
-Skulk Drags Marine into Hive
-Hive gives Temporary bonus HP to players (like Q3A and stuff)
Option 2
-Skulk bites marines legs and takes its gun
-Skulk Drags marine into hive
-Hive gives Temporary bonus HP to players (same as above)
-Marines can rescue the marine by dropping med pack into the hive with marine into it and the marine knives it way out, Has to do it quickly before it gets dissolves in digestive juices
-Aliens stop marines by attacking the marine in the hive stopping him.
BTW i have never seen/played AvP 1 or 2.
i think feeding to building is a good idea =)
PS: wrong place to post