Marines have main character plot armor and kid gloves

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In game today. Marines camping behind cades with high population and all 4 specs waiting for stims at 50 minutes. Queen gets tired of this and tries to backline, dies. Marines charge into caves. Yeet 100%, blowing selves up, running with hedgehog spikes in. Hedgehog runs into melee and shields, marines shoot through. Marines in melee have no issues, hedgehog has to run because low health, marines with spikes chasing. Upon examination, one has ib from this.

One marine throws OT nade, lights half the marine force on fire, another puts it out and marines continue pushing forward. Sadar shoots a HE at the bzerker rav, misses, hits near marines, blows marines to side, stuns zerker rav, zerker rav dies, side marines get up and are fine.

Another marine uses BRUTE to blow up hive defenses, defending xenos can’t do much. Lurker pounces the first marine to charge, marine next to him, in about .5 of a second, drops his long range rifle, switches to shotgun, point blank shoots lurker, switches back to rifle in another quarter of a second and shoots the stunned/low health lurker as it jumps and tries to move (while slowed)

Like, at some point, are yall gonna punish dumb gameplay? It seems like now, marine viable strat is to just hold w and throw/shoot everything possible.

Cadehug until momentum buildable. Xenos have 0 room for error or its a game loss (or even if they just have a bad queen). What’s the point in playing if even good gameplay and good kills and good strategy still results in an overwhelming loss?

Edit: Exact next round watched some medic shoot a dead guy with 60u of kelo and then toss some dyvo and inapp and kelo/bicar and dude got up from dead, with a MASSIVE OD, and continued to walk around until he was full health. Cmon

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If anything queen was equally dumb and lowkey threw too. CONTEXT FOR FORUMITES

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Queen died on the circle to like 5 very injuried bravoids who heard her. While she had like 5 alive t3s including 3 competent ravs and 10 other xenos, she did this with 3 drones, a hivelord, and a lurker, going off what i just checked from what I fultoned.

???

EDIT: Why is ARES editing my post and fucking it up

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Queen was escorted by 2 drones and a hivelord. Like the entire flank on the river was dumb and weird, as it was Charlie that ultimately chased her down and killed her and the escort.

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Xope same as marines cope when chi hive cave hug waiting for bursts.

Edit: before the “rp reason" marines are offensive, etc. This is a tdm game and even rp wise, which country military doctrine states that 1st order of operating in an unknown territory is pushing the shit out of it.

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So you mean to tell me the ambush backline role didn’t work on the frontline, against an unstunned fully alert enemy at point blank range with a close quarters weapon? Ah shit, game unbalanced, please fix, someone make sure shotguns take five years to kill anything at close range.

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this sounds really unfun :c

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Actually it’s M3 Light Armor and Marine Combat Gloves

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there’s usually a reason most games add a delay when swapping to another long weapon, it makes shotguns and SMGs too strong and lets a single person be too versatile

without a delay (or a lesser one) sidearms become more viable because in the time it would have taken to swap to a shotgun you’re dead

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Marine cadedhug is present because nobody wants to be the guy to risk actual hours of their life to start doing literally anything else about the op.

Because you’ve already spent time gearing up and if you go perma or get capped that’s your round right there and you have to wait for up to 2 hours and for regular people that’s like half their workday evening gone.

Nobody wants to start a push from out of the cadeline because everybody know that they will be the first person to eat five billion stuns and get round removed. Same reason why nobody wants to help recover marines. Not even marine sided cope tbh, cadehug is boring for everyone.

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I think UA military doctrine is shit and they should lose to UPP.

If a colony is confirmed of extraterrestrial horrors with acid blood, why the fuck are the marines still there shooting instead of retreat to Almayer and commit orbital bombardment. Or better yet, form a blockage, signal the fleet and do a full orbital purge of the planet.

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Colony is a company asset and USCM being WY lapdog has to act to minimise the damage. Xeno force doesn’t feel overwhelming at first to mandate immediate evacuation. Seems reasonable IC for me.

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