Onos Parlysis - Best Use ?

Syclone · January 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">How should you use "Onos parlysis"</div> =============== <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tiny.gif'> ================

This would have to be my least used attack when going kharaa
Not only do I hardly ever use Onos, but I dont think I have ever
use "Onos parlysis" ( attack slot 3 on Onos).

<span style='color:blue'> How exactly does it work ?

When should you use it ?[</span>

Pugsley · January 2003

Point on them, fire it and it has a similar effect to being webbed, except you cant move or shoot AT ALL for 10 seconds, great for them pesky jet packers, paralyse them and their stuck on the ground to be chomped upon <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'>
Also good for them GL'ers who try to run away.

Larofeticus · January 2003

point at a marine and click, that marine can no longer move

the most fun ability in the game

marine wanders out of base, *thwit*, he looks around frantically, focuses on you, shoots frantically, you saunter up, pause for a moment right in front of him, his clip empties... maybe if you're lucky he pulls out his pistol in desperation... *chuckle* bite bite, and the clank of his gun hitting the ground (or hovering in midair like dropped weapons sometimes do)

thats the goof off use for it, if you wanna be even nastier shoot people who've just spawned and are still standing on the ip, so they get tellefragged, but thats really really mean

the real use for it is to paralise jetpackers, canceling their little mobility advantage I've dropped several into the pit's of nothing, and gotten a couple cries of "bull (not poo but close)!!!!" and "what the (not sex but close)?!?!" the pits are just extra fun though you don't need them, get any marine with paralize and it's an easy (ier) kill

Syclone · January 2003

Has anyone noticed that sometimes it does not work ?

rebo · January 2003

Best use is, marine Jetpacking around viaduct, zap zap marine paralyzed mid air then falls to his death. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Archzai · January 2003

or.. runing in and paralyzing all the spawning infantry coming out of portals <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'> heheheh cheap but funny <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Rue · January 2003

btw u can still shoot <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'>

Kiz · January 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Rue @ Jan 6 2003, 04:57 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>btw u can still shoot <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
But what use will that be against a giant mutated elephant-rhino crossbreed that's looking to turn you into marine pancake? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Onii-chan · January 2003

I think you can still shoot if the <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tiny.gif'> uses paralyze 1 time however ... well Im not sure

YOU CAN GET KILLS WITH PARALYZE BTW ... ahahhaahahaa it takes health real slow but its funny <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

DArtagnan · January 2003

So there is no maximum range? If you can see it, you can paralyze it? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'>

BaBy_SnIpEs · January 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (rebo @ Jan 6 2003, 04:20 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Best use is, marine Jetpacking around viaduct, zap zap marine paralyzed mid air then falls to his death. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
nah wats even better (and more humiliating) is on ns_bast you chase a jetpacker as an onos with para, if hes going fast enough, chase him into one of the sides of the room with the inclined ceilings, if your chasing him, hes shooting back at you, thus hes moving backwards, and when he hits the top part of the side, he gets thrown down rapidly and splats to his death <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

EDIT: when i was a noob i did that so many times as a lerk rofl

Larofeticus · January 2003

hmm there seems to be some misinformation here...

paralize lasts for six seconds

it stops movement, but the marine can still fire and turn

it does no damage whatsoever

OWA · January 2003

Paralize seems to be like parasite, instant hit, infinate range, 100 percent accurate

TheHornet · January 2003

i belive parasite has a range limitation.. far, but not infinite, and i have gotten a paralysis kill before... i dont think it does damage... but somehow it killed the guy... so i dunno

Lightning_Blue · January 2003

See Viaduct.

See me, as Onos. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tiny.gif'>

See three marines high up in the air with jetpack laughing cause I can't kill them. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'>

See three smears on the ground cause the marines forgot about parlysis <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'> = <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wow.gif'>

verbose · January 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (_Superi0r_ @ Jan 6 2003, 09:08 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>YOU CAN GET KILLS WITH PARALYZE BTW ... ahahhaahahaa it takes health real slow but its funny <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
If so, it's a bug. Never does any damage when I fire it. But then again, I've seen Primal Scream kill:

L1126020.log:L 11/26/2002 - 22:14:55: "[FARM] Gollus<69><1623696><alien1team>" killed "verbose<72><1520671><marine1team>" with "primalscream"
L1126020.log:L 11/26/2002 - 22:15:04: "[FARM] Gollus<69><1623696><alien1team>" killed "[Taco]MenTaL<77><2197092><marine1team>" with "primalscream"

Error404 · January 2003

Doesn't seem to paralyze marines on ladders, does anyone else have this problem?

Havanna · January 2003

Does it or does it not have unlimited range?

Some previous poster said that it was like parasite, "unlimited range." Someone else stated that parasite has "far but not infinite range," the latter being correct, so what's paralyze? Unlimited or not? Frankly, in my opinion, the range on parasite isn't even that far, so I'm curious exactly how for paralyze goes. I've just found out that paralyze shoots, I always thought you had to get on top of a marine and spear him with those 3 things. Can't wait to try it out, hehe.

ElvenThief · January 2003

I have personally seen 1 paralysis kill, but the death icon was the same death icon you'd get for worldspawn deaths, so it could be a bug.
However, the HANDS down best use of paralysis I've seen was when I was a marine on bast. I had managed to get into the feedwater hive, but the aliens knew I was there, so I attempted to take the dive through the water to get near the refiniry. What I didn't know was an Onos had spotted me and began paralyzing me. Every few seconds, he'd nail me with another. Until I sank to the bottom and drowned. Just grimy....

Ardesco · January 2003

Paralyze grenadiers. With the new 1.04 patch in progress, nades have become very powerful. So powerful that unless you kill the grenadier first, paralyzing him might buy you enough time for you to take out his HMG buddies and then remove the threat itself. (Note: I saw 3 onos go down to 2 grenadiers. This was the most amazing thing I ever saw. ever, and probably a fluke on someone's part). Jetpackers are also good to paralyze, although if the ceiling is low, usually you can just jump-gore em, and they go down like swatted flies.

Also, it's sometimes more expedient when travelling with a group of fellow aliens to just paralyze a couple of the marines you discover in your patrols and take on the others--your alien buddies know what to do with a paralyzed marine <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'>

tleng · January 2003

Hmm the only time I use paralysis is to paralyze them on the spawn portal so their buddy telefrags them. Muhuhahahahaha. Very evil

Oh and I always get regen with the onos because he gets like 30hp per tick since regen gives you a percentage of your total health. Much better than carapace IMHO. So the poor marine on the IP cant kill you since you regen so fast... and then... Telefragged!

Syclone · January 2003

do you get a cross hair for parlysis ?

RhoadsToNowhere · January 2003

For rampant death, paralyze a marine then have one of your Lerk buddies sporecloud him. Nothing like slowly choking to death and being unable to do a single thing about it. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

J2pc · January 2003

When paralizing, always remember:

Marines can still shoot (I found an onos who forgot, he paralized me, and I killed him :DDD)

so, just paralizing granade-marines, isn't going to help much, unless u kill them right away.
Otherwise, They know they'r going to die, and might decide to suicide-spam-grenades on your big fleshy onos-back.

now, can someone tell me about the range

Larofeticus · January 2003

you do get a cross hair for paralasys

Error404 · January 2003

I don't find paralysis useful, having said that, I can't even remember the last time I went Onos.

Insidious · January 2003

I think it exists specifically to stop jetpacks from being the perfect anti-onos. But it's one of the funniest skills in the game. Paralyzing a lone marine, taking the hits until you hear the click, click of doom, and then chuckling before you kill him is great fun. Dropping jetpackers is always good for a laugh. Keep paralyzing them, and they eventually die. I've done this on at least three occasions, and it does result in a death, but I think it's a bug, because the weapon icon is just the standard skull-and-crossbones like a suicide or accidental death. But it does work, and reliably, it just takes awhile. When cloaked you can fire usually at least one shot before uncloaking, at least acid rockets work this way, so I assume you could tease a marine this way. Stay cloaked, fire only one paralyze so you remain cloaked, and chuckle, make funny noises with the alien's communications commands, spray your tag at his feet, whatever. Then kill him. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Vash · January 2003

Yes there is a crosshair for Paralysis. It's not a real useful ability though. I think originally it stopped them from both shooting AND moving, but now it's only movement. So basically it turns LMG/HMG marines into turrets and GL marines into siege turrets. I'm pretty sure it used to stop shooting also, I remember one time i saw 3 marine building an RT, killed 2 and paralyzed the last one. He pointed his pistol at me and i heard the click click click like he was out of ammo...most hilarious thing I ever saw. Maybe he was actually out of ammo...But If you turn on the autohelp the description for paralyze will say it stops movement and firing...but only stops movement.

J2pc · January 2003

I have to agree, paralyzing them will only stop movement (I killed an onos while paralyzed, he was harassing our base, and I ran out, past him in caged, he caught me at the bridge at sewer-vest, he paralized, so I opend fire and killed him <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'>, then made fun of him)

Gargamel · January 2003

Paralizing is used as webbing with gorges.
You paralise/web a Marine. When the Marine has screamed enough of his horror out, you can start chewing on him.
What else? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Sephiroth2k · January 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Syclone @ Jan 6 2003, 08:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Has anyone noticed that sometimes it does not work ?</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
no, i have not noticed that. it always works.

Onos Parlysis - Best Use ?

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