Gasp! New Alien Lame Rush!

MrKNifey · August 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">GORGIE RUSH!</div> I just played 4 games on ns_mineshaft which were undoubtedly the most boring in the history of NS 2.0.

It's not a marine shotty rush this time.....it's <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'> GORGE RUSH!

It's REALLY lame and unstoppable.

All the aliens do is go gorge, build movement chambers and upgrade adrenaline, then madly spam heal spray for all eternity inside marine base while skulks chew up all the structures. It can only be stopped by shotgun rushing the hive, but both rushes are really lame and boring.

You MUST fix the gorge for future versions of 2.x. It is far too powerful for a builder unit.

Jojoshua · August 2003

Ahhh....the infamous gorge rush, this is not new. Drop some mines and shottys and hope for the best.

MrKNifey · August 2003

I just realized that it wasn't new, but with 2.0s stronger gorges, it's much more effective and lame. Whenever it is performed in a server, it becomes unplayable for 5 hours at LEAST.

othell · August 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mr.KNifey @ Aug 25 2003, 01:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I just realized that it wasn't new, but with 2.0s stronger gorges, it's much more effective and lame. Whenever it is performed in a server, it becomes unplayable for 5 hours at LEAST.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Its no where near unstoppable. Just like a shotgun rush is no where near unstoppable.

Try harder.

Skillzilla1 · August 2003

Gorge rush is about 10 times more effective than a shotgun rush, though.

Monkeybonk · August 2003

Gorge rushes are great. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

KaMiKaZe1 · August 2003

Some shotties and some medpacks should clean them out pretty easily.

Monkeybonk · August 2003

A good diet plan?

bongfarmer · August 2003

I was in that server at that time(Team fun all right)

It is pretty much unstopppable
Picture of the game
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Jmmsbnd007 · August 2003

Welcome to last year.
EDIT: Does healspray hurt structures? The answer to a gorge rush is a shotgun or higher.

Redmonkey · August 2003

Have the comm spam med packs in piles all over the place, drop a couple shotties, some mines, and just unload on the gorges. Like everyone says, TRY HARDER.

Blackout · August 2003

Counter gorge rushes by building tactical command sandwich kiosks around marine spawn. Their nutritious, delicious bounty will provide salvation.

coil · August 2003

People have said it, but I'll say it again: shotguns will take care of this. The problem you had was that no one scouted ahead to *find* the gorges. Gorge rushes are the textbook definition of a rush: an all-out gamble. If it's stopped, the aliens are set back and will have to play defensively to avoid getting pasted.

Trust me, it's definitely stoppable. If you as a marine see a gorge gang, let your commander know immediately. If you get caught with your pants down, medpacks and shotguns.

Insane · August 2003

Mines are pretty useful for dealing with gorges, too. Usually when a gorge is heal-spraying a marine (or several) he's too busy dodging incoming fire to be looking where he's standing, so mines come in pretty handy for such an event.

xeNixx · August 2003

In terms of how unstoppable it is, the number of gorges. Ex: Noone expects a Gorge rush, so its not like your going to drop 5-10 shotguns immediately. 10v10 (20 PP) 9 of them had gone gorge with motion. We had taken waste hive with 5 marines currently defending in which the battle there had taken 5 Marines and 1 Gorge. With OCs being dropped, the TF and few turrets could not handle it, nor could marines phase in quick enough. So they immediately take the reserved res and drop the hive. Bile Bomb.

The skill of the Gorge. Ex: A gorge takes more than a clip to kill provided it moves. Thus targetting one Gorge by several marines is very effective however, the other Gorges are free to drop OCs and they surely did. You cannot imagine how fast 7 Gorges' can build an OC. Within seconds, a squad of lvl 2 gunners had been overrun and no shotgun rush would've helped considering we had been squatted out of res in waste leading to our ultimate demise.

And believe me, noone is prepared for a 10 player Gorge rush moreover difficult to stop without warning that you surely COULD NOT get.

coil · August 2003

...except that shotguns own chambers, too. /: DROP SHOTGUNS!

KingKupo · August 2003

i really hate the day that one event happened that spawned the atricious gorge rush idea happened(for those who don't know, it was the final round of a Clanmatch).
about 5 dayslater everyone was saying, all go gorge and rush 'em(it was funny the first time,wasn't it? NO ,it was never funny and it will never be). and before we all go complaining and whining to back make the gorge's fighting skill the equivalent of a little bit above that of a egg, let's all put our heads together an think of counters to this rush and if that fails, go suggest stupid stuff like a rifle that kills gorges or a robot that looks like a female gorge, so the marine can tech up in peace while all the gorges are humping the female gorge robot, or a big mousetrap with res in it.

Insane · August 2003

I wouldn't attribute the origins of gorge rushing to any one game.

There are accounts of gorge rushes from some of the early playtests, for example.

Necrosis · August 2003

You *need* to drop shotties now because if its not a gorge rush, its a celerity skulk rush. While easier, in theory, to kill, they're hard to hit with LMG.

As I see it -

If they rush, you have shotties. Stops rush.
They don't rush, you have shotties. 3-5 minutes of relative quiet while aliens scramble to build DC.

Or the countergamble - you shotty rush them, and nail the hive. LMGs take years to kill hives.

Monkeybonk · August 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Insane @ Aug 25 2003, 04:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I wouldn't attribute the origins of gorge rushing to any one game.

There are accounts of gorge rushes from some of the early playtests, for example.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Anyone have the Benny Hill gorge rush?

Gasp! New Alien Lame Rush!

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