People kinda overestimate how effective shipside xeno is considering that marines will instantly weld all the important locations off, barricade the comms area, weld medical shut, everyone arms with shotguns etc. Like the memorable moments where some lone xeno decaps the entire CiC are memorable because the other 90 shipside bursts end with some drone getting PB’d in a passing glance.
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You say that but i also seen the whole ship damn near get wiped out by a lone runner.
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In response to what some people were saying above, I do believe meta-wise xenos can do pretty much anything but kill cryo marines, as licon said. However this lead to some things like OB ammo just being mechanically restricted from destruction.
I do feel like immediately welding vents and metacading all the areas you know aren’t mechanically restricted, like the comms, isn’t really fair game. Like why not cade the OB room as well, unless you’re using ooc metaknowledge to know a drone can’t physically melt the ammo?
Personally I don’t think marines should start tearing out essential ventilation unless someone sees and reports that vents are being used for movement.
it’s actually so sad bro, I tried to engineer it last night by getting a billion marines hugged and hoping one would burst shipside. One finally did, and then admins spawned a marshall ert or something and 5 dead ghosts that were spectating the drone got it and immediately metatargetted them, ran to their exact location and ended it with 0 RP. Went back to their station and just started flaying monkeys, literally just a NRP admin spawn put in to fuck over the rare shipside xeno event
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I think tearing out vents should be like illegal probably maybe i think because I hate doing it and I hate even more putting it all back (because I’m HRP)
I’d be chill with OB stuff being destroyed beyond just the loader. Though often shipside xenos happen so well after OBs are used. It’d be great if solid fuel blocks could still be exploded or something even if we don’t have atmos. I dunno. I wish shipside xeno created more tasks for me that weren’t just HUNT XENO (aside from gens fixing because that sux and also is irrelevant that late but i must because I’m HRP); and more tasks for xenos that weren’t just DECAP MARINES. More objectives…maybe a minesweeper mini game to fix ARES…hmmmm yes…
Xeno launches OB strike from infiltrated CIC….yes…..
I weld OR vents early though to prevent myself the tedium of all the other crap that follows; I’m trying to do job sim, talk to new players or stare at tacmap, not fight xenos
I like Koba’s idea for a DS alarm versus shipside though. Less time to prep there isn’t so bad, I enjoy rushing the DS trying to stack chairs in the exits. Heaven forbid DP has to say words.
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You heavily overstate how fun shipside xeno is, it is hardly fun to be shipside xeno unless you cheese the shit out of burrower or some other bullshit and it is not fun to deal with shipside xeno as marine either, killed plenty of shipside xenos and it is rather frustrating rather then anything else, you do not join as shipside crew when you want to be dealing with xenos
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Nah its a blast. But mind you this is coming from a runner player, picking off prey one by one is my bread and butter.
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Why is there shipside at all? Why is there not like in whiskey outpost where cic is groundside. Why does cic have to be xeno proof but where queen is are green light for hive divers,? scout c4 queen? I can flip this around and say. You heavily overstate how fun hivedive is for xenos. Is it hardly fun unless you cheese the shit out of it and be scout and C4 her and destroy core or some other bullshit and call a OB right after and loose all the caps. And its not fun to deal with it as Queen and xenos eighter. I have killed endless of scouts and hivedivers, and its rather frustrating than anything else because I am needed there and not in front. Its honestly babysitting hive. I don’t want to join as xeno to deal with those things when i want to fight marines.
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You would have been legend.
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Because there has always been shipside and it would require a lot of coding and mapping to put Almayer next to each and every map. Recent Aliens games already have a big plot point of their ship being forced to the ground and one of the objectives is fixing to start flying again, so we got that covered. But I see nothing against it other than coding.
Queen is also not as defenceless as CO, or any other shipside crew. Scout won’t C4 any queen that isn’t straight up AFK/disconnected. To get to the queen you either have to follow path of doors opened by other xenos, or audibly break every single one of them on your path, which is super obvious and fairly loud. Then you also get a big warning message in chat that you are getting C4ed, all it takes is to simply click your screech macro, then unnest and cap the scout.
And there is only one scout, unlike dozen runners, lurkers and almost guaraunteed burrower.
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