Never trust the guy who is always 'away from keyboard' (AFK), it's like, 'Hey dude, watch my back while I build teh RT'. He looks like he's standing guard attentively, next you're both dead.
<b>Also</b>
Why is it that the best player on the team always has to go to bed really early??
This marine will stand around in base drooling until you give him orders and then he'll follow them to the death. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
rofl
<!--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-->The Scout(Also called The Ninja):
This is the type of Marine that'll run around the map and can somehow get past 3 skulks, 2 fades, and 5 Sensory chambers without being detected. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
For some reason this Marine gets immense pleasure from constructing things, if you need something built this guy will be there .000003 seconds before you ask him to. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Incessantly using the voice comm non-stop to report stuff that everybody knows, or does NOT want to know, for example..
'OMG, whaaaaahhh RUN! AAaaargggh, he nearly got me! Whooahh' <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> First let me say, funny post <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I'm like a engineer/reporter. I love to build and weld things. I love the welder and lmg (no GL). As for the reporter, i'm like the good kind: Reporting where is being attacked, how many marines/aliens are somewhere, which rt is free/capped, etc.
This post reminds of a strategy i read. It included the scout, engineer and a 'flex" (kinda a PG hopper). It was a great strategy.
The birdbrain: whines for a JP every time he spawns. Never leaves marine base. Just flys around bouncing off the ceiling until a fade or lerk shoots him out of the sky . . .
I'm a rabid engineer/thinker.. And I find it great fun to weld ever single vent I see, and follow around the HA guys welding them... When they're not even in combat. I'm standing there, right behind them. Welding. I love my job. Also somewhat of an avenger (see below) <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
The Avenger:
He'll kill that skulk who parasited him 2 minutes into the game if it's the last thing he does. Takes personal offense to anyone or anything that wrongs him/her and will track them down and personally make sure they get their guts made into Christmas Tree ornaments. Obsessed with motion tracking and commonly prefers the shotgun.
Is it bad to be a grunt/ninja? <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
i dun think so. i can play a grunt fairly well and i tend to contribute a lot to the game flow <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Grunts are fine.. and those hardcore defenders that keeps jumping between pg and defend each hive is a key player as well..
A noob Rambo is obviously just a hinder to the team.. A good rambo can be useful or not useful depends on actually how many players you have on the team.. Usually a good rambo that tries to secure critical areas early on will usually create the game winner..In a massive games (6vs6 or higher), having 1 good rambo actually works pretty well. .But in a 5vs5, having 1 Rambo means the marines are going to lose (because that leaves only 3 active marines that stay together and follows orders)
As for comm type.. a good comm is the ones that states his strategy explicitly and early so the marines understand what to expect and their priority. (for example, if I say I want jp/hmg rush.. I expect them to know that I don't want hive but I want every res node I built proper defended)
I like going Ninja. Sitting and waiting for the aliens and gorges around corners and in dark places. Fighting fire with fire on their turf that is. Also im a Fade-Nemesis:
the Nemesis Once he see a fade/lerk/onos he just got to have it down. He hunts it through half the map if neccesary with just a LMG (50/100 ammo) and a Pistol (10/10 ammo). sometime he get them sometimes he dont.
Ninja sounds a lot like a camper. Either way I do that sometimes. I'll stock up on ammo and find a nice long hallway near a hive. I can rack up the kills as long as they don't attack in a pack of three or more. I've killed a dozen skulks in a sitting many times doing that.
ShockehIf a packet drops on the web and nobody's near to see it...Join Date: 2002-11-19Member: 9336NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
Nah man, by Ninja, I'm the guy who runs straight to Powersilo, nips through vents & other places the 'Rines aren't meant to go, and finds himself sat right by the 'other' entrance to the main hive (Most aliens will use the quicker one to Marine spawn at the start of the game, 90% of the time, except for the newbs, who you shoot & don't report you being there) then gets a phase down & p*sses the whole Kharaa team off. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
His name is NSPlayer. Always tries to join marine team even if they're a hundred others chilling at "Join Marines". Once in game, sees a gorge and tries to pet it. Thinks that they are cute teddy bears and attemps to protect it from the skulks, only to be run over by five of them. Can barely get out of base, if he does it is pure luck. Asks: "s1 tell me how 2 buy a gun plz". Stares at offense chambers in confusion and gets killed 5 seconds 10 seconds later. Receives a jp/hmg, doesn't know where the hive is, uses all the jp's energy and falls do his death.
offtopic: you cant pick up a dead person's shotgun nymore? are u serious?
i would further like to add that if a ninja is the type who finds res solo and secures a hive solo.. im that type.... before in 1.03 and still in 1.04... my personal record is securing both hives in less than 5 minutes <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> hahahah
right when the game starts for example i run right to noname on ns_nancy <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> ... of course knowing that it is empty <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> hehehe
btw.. ARE THEY GOING TO NAME THAT HIVE?? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Sneaking in NS is soooo much fun... it's like Thief only with real people. You can't really do it in other games like TF because the maps are too bright, but it's sooo much fun... I once hid as a gorge in a corner in comp core while the marines built a phase gate under my nose (the key here is standing still and not moving your nose around). Once the pg was up and all the marines popped out for a second - just a second - I put an OC on the phase gate (this was pre-1.04) and retook the hive. I also once hid as a marine in comp core, in the same corner, for about ten minutes after the game "ended" (CC and IPs destroyed), while skulk after skulk just ran past me... Also, with motion tracking and two hives sneaking actually becomes a very useful tactic - you use motion tracking to avoid the fades and sneak into a hive. Since fades don't die that often, you won't get many people spawning in the hive and will be able to see anyone else coming via MT, so if you get the comm to put down a phase in some not-so-obvious spot (easier in some hives than others) and build it while no one is around, you can rush a hive and make a comeback. I know this is a bit off topic, but it's 4 AM here - just feel fortunate that I managed to type out something half-coherent. Anyway, g'nighsat satasdnf nasdfn alfdsavcv ahat./....................................................
A gifted marine. He can shoot straight, maybe not with aimbot like skill, but he's good. He gaves useful suggestions to teammates or the commander, but neither does he spam voice without good cause.
Fades hold no fear for him. He will gladly charge them down to exchange 5 deaths for just one fade kill.
He has no weaknesses in his skill. He can defend in base for the entire game without a grumble, run around welding structures and hopping through phase gates but is equally happy JPing hives or mixing it up in HA gear. He can use each weapon equally well.
Unfortuantely, <b>The Jack of all Trades</b> is an endangered species. If you find one, my suggestion is to marry them <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin---_Phoenix_-+Feb 19 2003, 08:12 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (-_Phoenix_- @ Feb 19 2003, 08:12 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Unfortuantely, <b>The Jack of all Trades</b> is an endangered species. If you find one, my suggestion is to marry them <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> ROFL!
Does that mean we also have to <b>breed</b> with them??
<b>The Jack of all Trades (Version 2)</b>
He's the ultimate lamer, haxor, cheater, annoyance on voice comm, and the greatest saboteur of games, apart from that he also uber sux at NS.
<!--QuoteBegin--Archzai+Feb 19 2003, 06:11 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Archzai @ Feb 19 2003, 06:11 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->btw.. ARE THEY GOING TO NAME THAT HIVE?? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> It has a name. It's called Mother. The mapper missed including it though. He wrote about it in a post somewhere.
You can pick up any weapon and you should. Recykling is a skill all marines should learn. You have saved a lot of res if you can retrive the same gl after 5 deaths. Its worth picking up a weapon even if you die only a couple of meters away from where you got it. You have then prolonged the time during some one else can pick it up and that its a bit closer to base.
Eh... would it sound like bragging if I said that I'm allmost a Jack of all Trades(v1)? <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> I have made a com nervous by on his command sitting in base a whole game guarding. It was a fun game. No one even lived long enough to hurt our base <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> My best moment in the game was wit MT and shottie. Saw a blip coming near so I hid around a cornour and timed it so I fired one shot just when he ran out. I don't think he even had time to know I was there <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Sorry, I'm all to fond of telling game stories <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
I'm definitely an engineer. I can't really go offense (Unless i have an HMG, HA and a long hallway with skulks on the other end) cuz of my 56k, but i can definitely build you a base in no time.
I'm also a kick **** gorge and i've been told that many times. (Clans keep asking me to join as their main gorge! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> )
<b>The engineer's moto : "Gimme a welder and i'll build you the DeathStar in 30 minutes or your pizza's free!"</b>
ShockehIf a packet drops on the web and nobody's near to see it...Join Date: 2002-11-19Member: 9336NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
I always seem to grab a few clips, smoke my way through some vents that I (notably) <b>never find when I'm alien</b> and find myself, WuTang style, hidden by the hive, asking the comm <b>not</b> to drop any structures as it would alert the Skulks to my Shaolin presence. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Always travels in pairs but never takes point. Always trains his gun on the man ahead of him, waiting for a skulk to take the "bait". When your "bait" dies, run back to base to get some more.
Comments
Never trust the guy who is always 'away from keyboard' (AFK), it's like, 'Hey dude, watch my back while I build teh RT'. He looks like he's standing guard attentively, next you're both dead.
<b>Also</b>
Why is it that the best player on the team always has to go to bed really early??
Incessantly using the voice comm non-stop to report stuff that everybody knows, or does NOT want to know, for example..
'OMG, whaaaaahhh RUN! AAaaargggh, he nearly got me! Whooahh'
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the.
most.
annoying.
marine.
ever.
holy fark, those quote you have of the Reporter are SOOO true. shiza.
This marine will stand around in base drooling until you give him orders and then he'll follow them to the death.
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rofl
<!--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-->The Scout(Also called The Ninja):
This is the type of Marine that'll run around the map and can somehow get past 3 skulks, 2 fades, and 5 Sensory chambers without being detected.
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OMG so true!
<!--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-->The Engineer:
For some reason this Marine gets immense pleasure from constructing things, if you need something built this guy will be there .000003 seconds before you ask him to.
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burst into an inexplicable fit of laughter here
the Psycho:
see, "sekdar"
Incessantly whines about things missing from 1.04 that used to be in earlier editions. See also <b>Exploiter, the</b>
"If we still had nukes, we'd have won this by now."
"You're no skulk hunter. Back when we picked up shotguns from marine corpses and used them, THAT was skulk hunting."
"WTF is with this shotgun? I KNOW it does more damage than this!"
"Back before this game started to suck, Umbra blocked ALL bullets!"
I'm sure many of you know more... ^_^ -_-
Gets overly attached to that Res Node and cries when the skulks eat it.
or
Starts crying when they finish getting full ammo from the Armory.
Incessantly using the voice comm non-stop to report stuff that everybody knows, or does NOT want to know, for example..
'OMG, whaaaaahhh RUN! AAaaargggh, he nearly got me! Whooahh' <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
First let me say, funny post <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I'm like a engineer/reporter. I love to build and weld things. I love the welder and lmg (no GL). As for the reporter, i'm like the good kind: Reporting where is being attacked, how many marines/aliens are somewhere, which rt is free/capped, etc.
This post reminds of a strategy i read. It included the scout, engineer and a 'flex" (kinda a PG hopper). It was a great strategy.
Shockeh = Teh Ninja. Occasional Reporter.
"C'mere Fatteh!"
'The humper' deserves a classification all of his own.
BlueGhost
The Avenger:
He'll kill that skulk who parasited him 2 minutes into the game if it's the last thing he does. Takes personal offense to anyone or anything that wrongs him/her and will track them down and personally make sure they get their guts made into Christmas Tree ornaments. Obsessed with motion tracking and commonly prefers the shotgun.
A noob Rambo is obviously just a hinder to the team.. A good rambo can be useful or not useful depends on actually how many players you have on the team.. Usually a good rambo that tries to secure critical areas early on will usually create the game winner..In a massive games (6vs6 or higher), having 1 good rambo actually works pretty well. .But in a 5vs5, having 1 Rambo means the marines are going to lose (because that leaves only 3 active marines that stay together and follows orders)
As for comm type.. a good comm is the ones that states his strategy explicitly and early so the marines understand what to expect and their priority. (for example, if I say I want jp/hmg rush.. I expect them to know that I don't want hive but I want every res node I built proper defended)
the Nemesis
Once he see a fade/lerk/onos he just got to have it down. He hunts it through half the map if neccesary with just a LMG (50/100 ammo) and a Pistol (10/10 ammo). sometime he get them sometimes he dont.
His name is NSPlayer. Always tries to join marine team even if they're a hundred others chilling at "Join Marines". Once in game, sees a gorge and tries to pet it. Thinks that they are cute teddy bears and attemps to protect it from the skulks, only to be run over by five of them. Can barely get out of base, if he does it is pure luck. Asks: "s1 tell me how 2 buy a gun plz". Stares at offense chambers in confusion and gets killed 5 seconds 10 seconds later. Receives a jp/hmg, doesn't know where the hive is, uses all the jp's energy and falls do his death.
also see: Why commanders press the "Log Out" key.
i would further like to add that if a ninja is the type who finds res solo and secures a hive solo.. im that type.... before in 1.03 and still in 1.04... my personal record is securing both hives in less than 5 minutes <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> hahahah
right when the game starts for example i run right to noname on ns_nancy <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> ... of course knowing that it is empty <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> hehehe
btw.. ARE THEY GOING TO NAME THAT HIVE?? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
A gifted marine. He can shoot straight, maybe not with aimbot like skill, but he's good. He gaves useful suggestions to teammates or the commander, but neither does he spam voice without good cause.
Fades hold no fear for him. He will gladly charge them down to exchange 5 deaths for just one fade kill.
He has no weaknesses in his skill. He can defend in base for the entire game without a grumble, run around welding structures and hopping through phase gates but is equally happy JPing hives or mixing it up in HA gear. He can use each weapon equally well.
Unfortuantely, <b>The Jack of all Trades</b> is an endangered species. If you find one, my suggestion is to marry them <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
ROFL!
Does that mean we also have to <b>breed</b> with them??
<b>The Jack of all Trades (Version 2)</b>
He's the ultimate lamer, haxor, cheater, annoyance on voice comm, and the greatest saboteur of games, apart from that he also uber sux at NS.
It has a name. It's called Mother. The mapper missed including it though. He wrote about it in a post somewhere.
You can pick up any weapon and you should. Recykling is a skill all marines should learn. You have saved a lot of res if you can retrive the same gl after 5 deaths. Its worth picking up a weapon even if you die only a couple of meters away from where you got it. You have then prolonged the time during some one else can pick it up and that its a bit closer to base.
Eh...
would it sound like bragging if I said that I'm allmost a Jack of all Trades(v1)? <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
I have made a com nervous by on his command sitting in base a whole game guarding. It was a fun game. No one even lived long enough to hurt our base <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
My best moment in the game was wit MT and shottie. Saw a blip coming near so I hid around a cornour and timed it so I fired one shot just when he ran out. I don't think he even had time to know I was there <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Sorry, I'm all to fond of telling game stories <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
This is my res tower.
I will kill many skulks in its defence.
There are many others like it,
but this one is mine!
FoodStamps
I can't really go offense (Unless i have an HMG, HA and a long hallway with skulks on the other end) cuz of my 56k, but i can definitely build you a base in no time.
I'm also a kick **** gorge and i've been told that many times. (Clans keep asking me to join as their main gorge! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> )
<b>The engineer's moto : "Gimme a welder and i'll build you the DeathStar in 30 minutes or your pizza's free!"</b>
May you live in interesting times, Onos-san.
Fisherman:
Always travels in pairs but never takes point. Always trains his gun on the man ahead of him, waiting for a skulk to take the "bait". When your "bait" dies, run back to base to get some more.