Why doesn't Onos eat marines anymore?
RedTalon
Join Date: 2012-11-14 Member: 171203Members
Join Date: 2012-11-14 Member: 171203Members
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Just saying.
Want to give the marine more control? Let him use his axe/welder while devoured.
I like this idea. Devour is the most bemoaned missing feature by all of my friends that I play NS2 with.
I don't think devour would be a good idea, it's just a free frag for the Onos. Unless it's reworked, so that it's either hard to pull off, or that the marine has a chance to escape it.
Devoured marine gets knife out - a minigame starts where he has to hit round objects in the Onos' belly in rapid succession - if he gets it right (this should be very hard) he escapes the belly and the Onos is stunned for 2 seconds. >:D
because lets say you have 3 onos, instead of now when you kill marines they respawn almost instantly, well in less than 10sec.
If you had 3 onos with devour, you could eat 3 marines thus taking them out of the game for maybe 30sec or 1 min. that would really help those turtle scenarios
99% of players LOVED being devoured. They'd joke about it and carry on in all chat while they're getting devoured. It was one of the signs of a great community, seeing players VOLUNTARILY putting up with that.
EDIT: That wasn't intended to be aimed at the WHOLE |R18| clan btw, sorry zerg :>
Stomped or eaten. . . hmmmm
To be honest though I thought it was a pretty silly and OP ability in the first game
It would be like if Vortex did damage over time in addition to removing players
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really?
30 seconds is a conservative estimate, if you have level 3 heavy armor in ns1 you'd be inside the onos for several minutes. it was so annoying that people would disconnect and reconnect to the server cause they didnt want to wait that long watching something not far off goatse.cx
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:( huh?
I loved devour, celerity + charge through spawn, gulp a JP and bunny away... good times
4 Marines just laid there unable to do anything for the entire 2 minutes.
1 Devoured Marine for 20-30 seconds, dies, respawns
Versus
4 Marines immovable for 2 minutes then killed then added to respawn queue.
Taking out devour because it takes away 1 players control and is considered unfun.
Replaces it with ability to take away more than just 1 players control not even slightly amusing.
Good one Charlie good one.
basically, devour would be more fun for all parties involved, stomp is horrible
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spam space bar to get up faster. Go mac go!
99% of players LOVED being devoured. They'd joke about it and carry on in all chat while they're getting devoured. It was one of the signs of a great community, seeing players VOLUNTARILY putting up with that.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I kind of agree. NS2 is one of those few games where losing is actually fun "WHILE" the game itself isn't mindless (there are strategies to do and lots of team coordination).
There are few (multiplayer) games where losing multiple times in a row is fun. NS1 and NS2 are one of those rare multiplayer games where losing can be really fun.
Getting devourer then calling your teammates to chase the onos is always fun.
As someone who is not devourer but seeing a fellow marine devourer, trying to save the marine is also fun.
And finally as the Onos, it's also fun.
Fun for everyone!
In flight meals would still be valid though.
There are few (multiplayer) games where losing multiple times in a row is fun. NS1 and NS2 are one of those rare multiplayer games where losing can be really fun.
Getting devourer then calling your teammates to chase the onos is always fun.
As someone who is not devourer but seeing a fellow marine devourer, trying to save the marine is also fun.
And finally as the Onos, it's also fun.
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This! Also, wasn't aiming my comment at ALL the |R18| players zerg, editted my post to be clearer :>
"He ate me! OH GOD, HE ATE ME! SAVE ME! What are you doing? FOLLOW HIM, KILL HIM! SAVE MEEEEE! I'm dead. Great job, guys. Great hustle."
yeah, great idea, let's give onoses their skillback so they would never use it.
because no one would eat marine after that, someone axing onos = no regen during that time, you underestimate dmg axe does, if you're digested 15sec you can almost kill onos solo that way etc.
99% of players LOVED being devoured. They'd joke about it and carry on in all chat while they're getting devoured. It was one of the signs of a great community, seeing players VOLUNTARILY putting up with that.
EDIT: That wasn't intended to be aimed at the WHOLE |R18| clan btw, sorry zerg :><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
WRONG
I wasn't in R18 and I bloody HATED devour. MOST. BORING. THING. EVER. In my personal opinion, NS1 was fantastic... until they brought in devour. That pretty much killed the game for me.
I was so happy to see it out of NS2 and would strongly support all manner of inaction on this topic!!
Any post starting with "wouldn't it be great if" should be auto-deleted by the forum software tbh :)
Roo
Yes, the moments when you get devoured can be frustrating. But this emotion is something that makes the game stand out. Look at Dark Souls for example. The game is ridiculously hard and you die a myriad of deaths. But that is its appeal. This easy going COD mentality of automatic health regen, instant respawn without any punishment is whats making games less impressive.
I for myself could use a few more seconds to respawn to calm my rage sometimes and the thougt of the onos crapping me out somwhere always brought a smile on my face :D.