i was playing Ns on The pfff calan server (its got e-frag infront of it though) and this amazing thing hapopened, that screwed the game up:

time : 7:00
No. of skulks: 9-10
No. of anything else: 0-1 (i was the damn gorge)(and later i was fade, but no one else was)
No. of heavies: 2
No: of jpers : 3-5 (wasn't counting)

And the aliens got there **** caned. The more co games i play in, the more i realise how many people go "super skulks" ie, skulks with all ups, minus the ones they hate, so that by 7 minutes you have a team of skulks, with very little health, versus a bunch of Jpers and heavies with level 3 hmgs and gls, which means you die in 3 shots as a skulk.
Has anyone else noticed this, and are there any things, other than experiance(because pro players also go fade before anything else, to get LOADS of exp)
to counter this.

Yes its amazing how you see 1 or 2 jps and 1 or 2 fades allthou all the best players allways have them....

At first I thought you were talking about classic and I looked and saw heavies and jetpacks at 7:00 and I was going to tell you that the lack of higher life forms isn't the reason you lost.

Anyway, they key to winning co as aliens is balance. You want a gorge with web, a lerk, a few fades, an onos, and the rest as xeno skulks. Then you can counter any threat that the marines pose with very few problems.

focus leaping skulks are handy for jetpcaks, also a good lerk. and a few onos just to take out the has and the jetpackers, since its insanely easy to gore and devour some jps on some co mapes.

I have noticed this. If I'm not near the top of the alien scoreboard (my position varies drastically from one game to the next) then I will tell the rest of my team that there are too many skulks (assuming it is the case), and that someone needs to go fade or onos. I always go lerk, then redemption, then onos, so I get out of being a skulk as soon as possible.