Is the best upgrade when you get your second hive up.

I've been practicing a lot with one hive fades so I can hit those damn marines who move just as fast on me without blink.

And I can tell you, adrenaline fade is much better than the celerity fade. The fact that you can also make them waste ammo by blinking around and up and down makes it even better.

I think the primary reason why people get celerity is because they aren't accustomed to blinking very short distances. Because the very reason why the fade is so good is because of blink, but people would rather try to run to the marine if it's say....3 meters or so, but you can just blink as well.

Stop being lazy, try fading with one hive, and then start using adrenaline.

yea i agree the adren fade is very powerful with blink i much prefer it then using cel

Last pcws I used Silence as upgrade... all abilitys have a good and a bad side. Personally I prefer Adren if I know that we can not hold our 2. hive for long, so that I cant use metabolize. It can be somtimes really annoying to watch your Adrenalin as fade the whole time

I use celerity fade, i almost never walk unless if there is only one marine.

i have no real problems with adrenaline and usually only run out when im far far away

i converted over from adrenaline fade because i found cel fades alot easier to run away with due to their speed...

you forgot the fact, that celerity is also boosting your speed during blinking! That´s why I use celerity as fade, cause im just faster. You need less energie to blink through long halways and you support the "hit & run" tactic with this.

Adrenaline is weak considering metabolise regains energy and health. I can fly around and make a hmger shot his 125 bullets even better with celerity/metabolise than adrenaline.

I use to love adrenaline, but with more experience with fading, celerity pwns.

I will never ever go back to adrenaline, even in combat where levels go over 10, I'll get every upgrades, then, adrenaline and cloaking.

If adrenaline was twice has good I miiight take it, but nah!

Celerity for teh(well 4 me) win

I didn't know using metabolise actually gave you back energy. Surreal.

Personally I use silence. Celerity screws me up when I'm on the ground hitting marines because I am moving faster than I expect. I also never have problems with not having enough adrenaline. Silence is just so good for surprising the marines, even if they have MT because you'll blink so fast it will be hard to track your blip, and most people are too accustomed to hearing the overly loud blink sound.

Early 2 hive fade with silence is always fun, marines either rush MT or its one of the last things they get if they have the resources, and being a silent assassin is always fun

It's just a style of preferance I think. I've seen some of the best fades (well, in Europe, that is) use celerity, and I've also seem them use adren.

I don't think there is a "best" mc upgrade, at least for fades, they're all good.

It's all about the style you play, and ALOT depending on the map.

i.e on ns_metal I would have chosen adrena and terrorised marine start(damn big area).
on ns_nothing, silence...why?, alot of vents and small sideway corridors +no one expects that a fade have silence.

My play style is often most hit and run, but sometimes i liek to play with my prey and blink around a bit(with celerity) meta before the final blink and swipe kill.

if i only have 1 hive i use celerity fade, 2 hives adren reason being that adren is good for the fades 3rd ability.

tbh though i dont usually need adren for a fade with just blink an swipe bcus i try to click my mouse at certain times rather than hold it down an watch my energy waste away an leave me running for dear life

Silence + focus.

Front line morale destroyer baby.

I just disagree going fade as one hive unless it is necessary, get up that hive!

A Hive takes 3 minutes to build - and for that time is extremely vulnerable. Basicly 4-6 minute marine tech can extremely easily squash, sodomize, destroy and rape a fadeless, building Hive.

A one hive fade is essential on every pub server i've been on... if he's good, and he'll need to be. A good 1 hive fade can prevent any attempt to take down a hive, especially in a good team where someone is already saving for hive.

Plus, if the fade is already evolved in time for the hive to go up, he can very VERY quickly switch to a more offensive role with his second chamber upgrade and abilities.

adren & cel help give fades great advantages in different ways i think it comes down to the "Style" of player you are some people tend to play a totally different game then others.. so which ever feels comfortable with you & works for you then go for it

i adren fade because i like to pancake the best i can with a fade, if thats good at all

i know a few people in the clan scene who use adren fade although most use celer

if i go cara fade ( to protect the hive area ) i do use celerity for hit and run

but in matches i play as a late regen fade and pick adren so i can stay in the combat area easier, also so while im blinking i have enough adren to meta once
its a personal choice and i think either upgrade is feasible

It depends on the map, really.

Big open maps go celerity, whereas small maps like ayumi where you get caught on every other courner you need a lot of blink power to make up for all the weird geometry of the level.

I use the same percentage energy blinking with adren as I do with celerity... With celerity if you tap it, you jump across every room instantly. Even if your bar is at zero, a celerity blink off of the "vapors" will get you farther than a fade with energy but no celerity. It's very easy to stay suspended in the air with celerity blink as long as you don't glue the button in the down position. Any blink I execute with celerity, by the time I need to swipe I have regained enough energy to do so even if I have started at zero. That's because I don't need to hold down the button at all.

Occasionally I will find myself lacking the ability to swipe because I've been running around in a group of marines for too long, but seriously, against a good marine that will never happen because you wouldn't have the luxury of swiping that many times, even if you had adren. Plus there's the fact that your back is a tempting target, a problem which adren does nothing to solve. Celerity speeds your retreat giving you that much more leeway.

This is a case made for celerity without even considering two hives - metabolize, which pretty much invalidates any advantages adren may have had. Switch to 2, attack briefly, switch to 3, attack once, switch to 1, attack as much as possible, switch to 3, attack once, switch to 2, blink away.

Anyway, I can't see ever using adren unless you're a lerk (umbra, gas) or a gorge (healspray), and even then you're risking your own life by doing it. A celerity pancaking lerk? good luck.

I used to like adrenaline a lot for pretty much every aliens, but now the only time i use it is for onos at 3 hives.

(e)Kent is right all the way

I go adrenalin, not that im knocking celerity either but I find it harder to start switching between 3 weapons to keep energy.

Saying that when I play combat my first movement upgrade is always celerity.

i always get adren.. i cant play without it.. it means u can hit jp'er INSTANTLY in air instead of a second delay...

I agree, It helps you get back your energy quickly really usefully for second attack.
I get Regeneration then Adrenaline

Two hive fades are best with celerity or silence, depending on preference.

If you are blinking right, you will not run out of energy. Holding down the button is the most common error. Throw in a meta here and there, and adren is completely redundant.

When fighting a heavy train with 3 hives, acid rocket can be really helpful. It's the only time a lerk can't do the same job, and usually do it better. Fades are better off taking hits for skulks and engaging in melee skirmishes. And if you're going to use rockets, you really need adrenaline.

just tried a celerity fade and it indeed pwns.

Well, it's a tradeoff. You can move quickly but more simply with celerity, or more sparatically yet around the speed of fat with adren. Personally, I prefer celerity.

This depends 100% on two things: Your role/playing style, and the architecture of the level. If you're the fade that has to dominate the other team by killing them because no one else can do it, then celerity is probably going to be for you. The main advantage of aliens is their incredible speed and damage, so celerity only adds more to their inherent advantage. Celerity fades are incredibly fast, and as long as the level allows for this (not conducive to hangups on doorways, walls, and the like), celerity would be the optimal choice. On the other hand, if you're simply a backup fade, or one that isn't doing most of the damage, adrenaline or even silence might be a great upgrade. You don't need to move in and out of battle quickly, and this will allow you to either stay in battle indefinitely (adrenaline), or do incredible hit and run attacks with silence. All of this depends on your style and what you can do in the game. The same would apply to lerk. The lerk has powerful support abilities that are only amplified by adrenaline, but it can become a main fighter in it's own with celerity. I'm sure many have seen the uber celerity lerk in action before, especially in large rooms. It's a trade-off between becoming versatile and specialized that each player has to determine for themselves.

I prefer adren fade because i use blink an awfull lot, seeing as a blink round the map looking for rambos, then sliceing em

Blinking alot is not a good reason to take adren. If you tap blink to get up to speed, let go of attack, and let your momentum carry you, you will barely use any energy. Aiming upward a bit or blink-hopping will get you even more travel for your energy.

Also, plan ahead so that you don't have 0 energy left when a marine comes by to try and defend his rt.

The only time I ever run out of energy is when I get stuck, and adren doesn't help then either.

I do tap blink, but i spam it a bit when fighting marines because it disoriants (sp?) them and i need the extra energy to attack and blink.

But i think Im going to try clerity fade now for a bit, see if i find it better.

i like adrenaline too but its really all up to preference...some people are really skilled with celerity and some are skilled with adrenaline. It really depends.

you dont need any energy at all to heal with your 3rd power you noobs: P (1 week player giving advice )

adren is nice for ACID GUN THINGY MUHAHA (4th power)

i have totally owned a map by just camping chokepoints and non stop shooting my 25 dmg acid splash cannot, 7 shots real fast do a good ammount of dmg to panicing groups of marines, if you can master it and be a **** with cover, they are shitless, blinking might help but i never needed to i wouldk ill the non heavies so fast muhaha... and just blink swipe heavies or shoot them and hope it still hurt...