I had a idea for NS2 for a long time never had posted it. The idea was if a heavy got eaten by a onos he could have a 50% chance of busting his hand right though the onos side and ripping the hole open and crawling out. Just a idea for the heavy thought it would be cool and nice because it would even out games where its like 2 vs. 2 and the aliens both become onos and they dont just eat the marines real quick and destory their base. It would also make up for the heavies being slow and not being able to run form onos.

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Sorry, but no.

Onos is basically the only counter aliens have against heavies. If this was implemented, noone would bother devourouring heavies. Plus it'd be damn annoying.

Furthermore, you cannot have *chance* things in competitive gameplay, as it can make a victory/loss based on your luck, as opposed to skill.

Also, no welding out, knifing out, helping damage the Onos from inside to help your compatriots free you.

The best idea I've heard of is add a Tetris-esque mini game to help people pass the time.

But yeah, no randomly hadoken punching out of the Onos.

Haha thats my idea.

But, i have heard a better idea. When an onos eats a marine, the marine literally hangs in the Onos' mouth, while the Onos slowly swallows it. The marine dies once it is fully swallowed. The best part to this is, the marine will get a flailing view of the world as he is swallowed, getting to watch the action around him, report back to his teammates of intel and best of all, this all happens while a huge pair of jaws slowly close in over your FOV.

I'm also not fond of such an idea in favor of the game's universe. The Onos is not some gentle sack of flesh like a Gorge. The Onos has an extremely hard carapace, being the reason why it usually takes a strong team to hack away at the Onos's health. It would probably take the power of a genuine railgun to penetrate a full hole in an Onos.

Then for ideas like knifing or anything inside one, I don't think that would be believable either. It is probably an extremely tight fit inside the Onos's digestive track. There's probably no room to move ... until half the marine's body is melted off.

Then the last reason, you're not Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris would punch his way out of an Onos without even being swallowed.


The only idea I would accept, would need to be implemented with an alternate idea altogether. Grenade explosions after death. If grenades still exploded after you die once you pull the pin, then it would be possible for an Onos to consume a marine with an active grenade. That is a more believable damage-from-within method, but the player is still dead.