the idea wass new races.... new looking.. its bit boring playing always with just 2 races... any way this new races.. should be a mix within melee and ranged... or other styles like psykik attacks... mind control... other robot race
or cyborgs... u know more cool stuff.. i think ns source diserves more than just be more of the same with better graphics ( like cs source and dod source )

we dont even know if skulks will be ns2. for all we know, the vanilla ns2 alien unit will be a fat, slow tank called Morvie.

So I was thinking about that post from a few days ago talking about psychic robots, and while it's a really bad idea, it did bring this to mind:

What if the CC could be upgraded into a vehicle? The commander could access some areas (obviously not vents) and move with the marines?

You could do all sorts of stuff from there. Upgrade a mounted weapon and have another player hop in to pilot it. Of course it would have to be balanced but that's simple once the idea is innovated.

EDIT: Specifically I like the idea of turning the CC into a strider/atst-type walker.

hummingbats with scythes, air support/suppresion bots

How about portable hives that eat marines to balance the game out?

How about portable hives that eat marines to balance the game out?

What about Onos traps, or traps in general. Take a while to set up and are costly, but can take the onos down in one hit!? A giant bear trap maybe? A bit conspicuous but you catch my drift.

What about Onos traps, or traps in general. Take a while to set up and are costly, but can take the onos down in one hit!? A giant bear trap maybe? A bit conspicuous but you catch my drift.

maybe u can tell how many resources/kills an alien has like a skulk with 1 kill maybe small and a skulk with 5 kills large then normal so you give variety to the and so on and so forth maybe a wider / faster ? and a gorge who likes to build maybe when he gets points he gets fatter?

By far the best.

I was thinking that if you had your hand granade out, when an onos eats you, you should be able to pull the pin drop it and let it explode. Killing yourself and hurting the Onos in the process.

Not sure exactly on the damage such a thing would do but still it would be nice =) It would teach those Onos to eat people tounge.gif

I was also thinking about the knife if you had it in your hand you could try to hack your way out of it. I dunno what the timer would be or, if healing from a D.chamber/Hive would do to help.

Sorry if this was suggested before and rejected. It would still be a cool idea biggrin-fix.gif

This thread is gold. PURE FREAKIN' GOLD.

Smart_Bomb is the legend.

His infamous post though seems to be missing. Any links I can find are dead. Oh well.

gorges getting fatter if they build much? sounds like a lot of map problems

Quick idea to counter a jumping Onos: spike pits.

Let the Marines set up small patches of long, narrow spikes (lets say a 10 foot square with spikes 8 feet tall and 3 feet apart) to impale an onos that unwittingly jumps on any marines that might be standing within the spike field. The spikes must be tall and narrow so Marines and lower lifeforms can maneuver within the field and fall down between the spikes without being injured themselves.

It would be somewhat analogous to webs, except it would be fatal for Onoses; other lifeforms would be unaffected. Perhaps they could even run through the base of the spikes to destroy them, allowing for safe passage of an Onos.

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It came to me in a dream.

It came to me in a dream.

reminds me of those big stone sentry thingys in the never ending story...