solo marine charging into the dark void before being capped
Many such cases.
MrMoon pointed out that there is a rough 18% chance you can be two tapped. Plus the fact there were facehuggers waiting is just the cherry on the top.
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As the member of the Evil Backliner Cabal, I think I should say a couple words…
First, lurker solocapping. I tried it a couple times, main problem is that the tackles are completely unreliable and usually people can hear tackles from a screen away and charge at me. When it works, then yes, marine’s gone completely from the round. I personally found it distasteful and only cap lonely medics when hive is not doing good on numbers.
Second, lurker instakill stun. If you meet lurker alone, and is not pounced already - move wildly, make them miss a pounce, then light them up! If you have a shotgun its even better. You will likely still die if the lurker is ANY good at the game.
There’s guaranteed counter to the lurker permastun though - having a marine shake you up after you get pounced, removing the stun fully and leaving the lurker seething with rage.
TL;DR: When you see a lurker alone - feign madness. If you get pounced - tell your buddy to shake you up. If you are alone and pounced - prepare the prayers, you are a goner.
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Peak marine, charging alone then complains they got capped
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Personally thinking we should make lurker pounce stun end a second after they move or some shit like that, it’s kind of dumb that they can pounce you and have a fucking year to drag you away to whatever other xeno await’s.
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you don’t need a 2 tap tackle to do that. the second you get pounced you have enough time to get facehugged before getting up
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If a lurker drags you after pouncing, it means they lose out on a slash. You can just get up and insta PB them if they do it.
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local guy charges alone into four players
complains on the forums as they got owned despite the fact that they had a window of opportunity to shotgun the lurker and stun it, avoiding a second tackle, if they had one
as one guy put it, “You are not him.”
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tbh that warrior could have solocapped you alone easily. Huge overextension…
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35% chance qualifies as fabled now? But yeah, you went onto weeds+darkness completely alone with no motion detector hoping to get the warrior kill - you getting capped was a very likely outcome.
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Two tackles insta devour on lurker was pretty cheap, yeah you needed an alone marine but still felt off, runners feel way better.
Just wish lurkers had an actual reliable way of capping marines solo like runners do, the slow slash speed just fucks you so bad even against a semi decent player its mad to try.
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