I believe that this issue has been raised as a possible bug.
But yeah, I've found it nearly impossible to heal the hive and that would be a major problem in Combat mode as the hive's regeneration rate was lowered in anticipation for a gorge or two.
EpidemicDark Force GorgeJoin Date: 2003-06-29Member: 17781Members
You need to touch (which means not from the underside of it) at the side in order to heal it. Maybe it has something to do with the extremely low radius of healspray?
We flew our gorges atop the hive. Works for two purposes. They could web down quite a few jetpacks, as well as, heal the hive. But, this definately has got to be fixed, or reversed, sounds like quite the onos of a problem.
I think you don't have to touch the hive, but you must be higher than the lower part of it. Dunno why, though. Jump and heal works. Climbing on other aliens works. Using platforms works. Gestating on top of the hive works. The problem is on maps where the hive is too high for you to jump and doesn't have enough space for you to gestate on top of it.
I hate the gorges being back in anyway, a gorge with adren can completely heal the hive in no time at all, even faser than a single marine can weld the cc. The hive should go back to healing itself at the old rate or maybe a tad faster. But lose the gorges seriously it was so much better once they were taken out in the earlier betas.
<!--QuoteBegin-lochness+Feb 6 2004, 09:32 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lochness @ Feb 6 2004, 09:32 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> gorge healspray works like this now
so in order to heal a hive, you have to be horizontally level with it. and i think sitting on top might work to. but underneath does not <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> So let me get this straight - gorge now healsprays from his mouth AND that cute li'l rump of his?
Gorge healing a hive can keep it alive against a single concentrated marine equipped with lvl3 sg or hmg. If marine is equipped with gl, he still has to lob something like 32 grenades into the hive before it dies. But when multiple marines harass the hive, one gorge can barely keep it together with aid of team mates distracting marines. So healingspray "strength" is currently fine, but the height bug thingy must be fixed. It's annoying to jump all the time.
And healingspray itself has a good range that also affects vertically, not only horizontally. I have killed a jetpacker who was about 4 meters in front of me and 4 meters higher than me.
PS Mong0 isn't that a tad too big avatar for these forums?
In fact, the last changelog I bothered to look at (which was awhile ago) had increased the range of healspray specifically to make Hive healing easier. The rang on healspray is insane now---but I don't know how that interacts with the horizontal level thing. Perhaps the lower surface of the Hive just doesn't accept healing very well?
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I believe that this issue has been raised as a possible bug.
But yeah, I've found it nearly impossible to heal the hive and that would be a major problem in Combat mode as the hive's regeneration rate was lowered in anticipation for a gorge or two.
* being healed area
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so in order to heal a hive, you have to be horizontally level with it. and i think sitting on top might work to. but underneath does not
* being healed area
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so in order to heal a hive, you have to be horizontally level with it. and i think sitting on top might work to. but underneath does not <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
So let me get this straight - gorge now healsprays from his mouth AND that cute li'l rump of his?
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And healingspray itself has a good range that also affects vertically, not only horizontally. I have killed a jetpacker who was about 4 meters in front of me and 4 meters higher than me.
PS Mong0 isn't that a tad too big avatar for these forums?