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spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Does the quick connect feature work at all? It seems to sit there way too long.

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spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Sometimes you just gotta drop in out of nowhere and bite somebody to death. That's how it works.

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Bone spikes kick rear end. I hope more alien commanders start using them as people become more accustomed to commanding.

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
So far, marines win 48.8% of matches.

http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/news/2012/11/post_launch_post_mortem

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
It's a successful synthesis of shooting, strategy, and total clusterfuck. It might be even better than TF2.

spiritual bypass fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Nov 1, 2012

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Gorging can go two ways

1. Chill out and heal folks and build some structures
2. Insane onos rush healing support

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Gorge with carapace can take a ton of damage. And since he's a bigger, slower target, marines will waste their bullets shooting a gorge while they get eaten by skulks.

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

Wildtortilla posted:

I'm really tempted to buy NS2 this weekend. Do marines have a sprint or run? Or do they move at a flat speed like in NS1?

There's sprinting and it's very important. Also, marines still move backwards really slowly.

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
No, not at all. Some people are having problems and your framerate will drop substantially during heavy combat, but it's awesome.

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
In other words, the type of person who plays video games.

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
All those hidden buttons assigned to different structures that you have to seek on the map make commanding a real pain in the rear end. The command interface definitely doesn't feel as polished as being a normal player.

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
You know what's great? Switching to gorge in a vent and bile bombing a marine base every time they turn their back.

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
There's nothing better than being an alien! Dropping in from the ceiling to flank some helpless marines, dropping bile bombs to disrupt structures and obscure vision, and dropping gas clouds into otherwise safe areas are so great. It's like the whole team is based on organized griefing.

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
The commander interface is the worst enemy you'll face in the game

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
In the server browser, click the star to the left of the server's name.

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Lerk spores does plenty of damage, but marines are usually pretty quick to get out of the way. Like everything else in this game, it works way better when combined with the chaos of some teammates doing more direct attacks.

The lerk also has another type of gas called umbra which cuts bullet damage in half for aliens inside the cloud.

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer

ShadowHawk posted:

My suggestions for loadtip topics:

  • Whips will fling back grenades launched at them


That changes everything!

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
To be effective, you really need to flank them. Use the vents, use the ceiling, and jump around so they can't hit you.

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Of course, this isn't the first time Gamespot has hosed up their reviews

http://kotaku.com/5893785/yes-a-games-writer-was-fired-over-review-scores

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
What a stupid sack of poo poo. Poor form on the part of the administrators for not banning him immediately.

spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
I'm a space marine. Growing a ponytail seems like a good idea

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spiritual bypass
Feb 19, 2008

Grimey Drawer
Yeah, you can download the content on Steam now. The binary isn't available yet, though.

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