Spawn Portals

Jett-OMEGA · January 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">most over looked unless gone</div> Yes we are all aware of our spawn portals and if they’re chewed up or not. We all know to keep them welded but what we don’t seem to keep in mind is that you can build as many as you like.

Later on in the game were sitting with 2 spawn portals and a definite one hive and working on the second. That second hive already has a phase in it but nothing else. Well the aliens have finally decided to work as a team and make a mass rush on you. They successfully wipe out the majority of your marines. Well in a frantic fight to hold that hive your marines are jumping through phase gates two at a time only to meet 4+ skulks.

What do you think happens when your whole team respawns at the same time and hits that phase gate?

Don’t underestimate the power of mass spawning. If you prepare ahead of time for that big rush to take you out than you have the war half fought.

It is also very useful to have a second command chair in the second hive you get with a few spawn portals. To be able to spawn back and attack from all sides at the blink of an eye is always a winning strategy. Please don’t overlook the power of the spawn portals.

Canadianmonk3y · January 2003

Two words:
Distress Beacon.
Fast spawn time, and everyone spawns at once.

statusq · January 2003

Actually I have never even thought of building several infantry portals.
I always build two of them when I command.
I really have to give this a try someday.

Jett-OMEGA · January 2003

yea distress beakon is nice if you havent relocated. If you have than you better have money to slap up a phase gate also. Plus it makes that very obvious sound that any alien can pick up on. Multiple spawns are the silent distress beakon and a solid investment.

Jett-OMEGA · January 2003

Plus you have to think of the overall cycle of phase gates. What feeds a phase gate and how usefull is it if your guys take forever to spawn back. Do you honestly need a tfac if you have 5 guys sitting on ready?

Inexorable · January 2003

There is the other side to that argument. Multiple spawns are only a good investment if your <i>whole team</i> will be dead multiple times through the match.

Jett-OMEGA · January 2003

there will be one time when your whole team will be dead. That is almost a guarantee of every match. What you do when that happens or what you did to adjust for this happening before hand may be the turning point of holding a hive.

your just arguing for the sake of arguing
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Inexorable · January 2003

Well, I could either spend 80 RP building a half dozen INF portals, or 15 on Distress Beacon.......

sekdar · January 2003

cheap strat- off the start, send ALL your marines to near enemy hive, build CC and spend all your cash on portals. Walk in and win. (1.03)

MeltedSnowman · January 2003

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comedy as marines, but it's a hell of a thing to fight off as aliens.

I've only seen that defeated three times (I think), and two of those times there were only two ACTIVE portals (we got to it early somehow).

MutantMFM · January 2003

Yeah its best to get a more Inf portals if you have a large team that dies alot. But if you have a good sized team and they rarely die. I say two would be sufficient three would be great and four would be constant back up. Thats if you got a really good team of marines if you have a couple rambos six would be needed.

Smithboy · January 2003

I like that idea a lot. If the marines are doing very well and have a hive or two, build a few more infantry portals if you have the resources.

ogz · January 2003

multiple spawn points is good to defend against a base rush also, the aliens dont know which inf portal you're gona spawn from <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Delarosa · January 2003

now that i think of it, i would be ejected if outside a hive i built a comm chair.....but it's a good idea....

does this strat take place before, or AFTER the TF?

Jett-OMEGA · January 2003

before. Who needs turret factories if you have plenty of spawn portals a welder and phase gates?

I have secured two hives and killed the last with out a single tfac or mine. All due to the fact that we spawned really fast and we guarded phase gates till we got fully teched.

Geronimo · January 2003

I guess its a valid strat just like all others...

Once I accidentially built 4 IPs(DONT ASK) , we really got spawning up fast...but that didnt matter since two skulks killed my entire squard...several times, bah!

Error404 · January 2003

I once built a semi-circle of about 8 portals, when the aliens were in our base, they couldn't guess which one we were going to spawn in, turned into a guessing game for them. That was funny.

V_MAN · January 2003

I usually build 2 IPs but the server I play on is a 16 player server if I played on a 32 player server I would build 4.

If 2 many people get wasted I use the distress beacon.

Zerglin · January 2003

Distress beacon is better. For the few times that your marines get wiped out, it is useful for just this situation actually...

But I do see the problem with infinite IPs. In larger games, the marines become the swarm... kinda a twist for the alien versus marine genre...

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