When playing either marines or xenos, what would you say you do really well, and what are some areas you think you can improve upon?
For me, I’m fairly good with corpsman, I’m able to get marines back up quickly, and I’m good at prioritizing who has to be revived. I feel most at home with a stack of dead marines around me. In a similar vein, I’m good at risk analysis. I have a pretty good feel for when I think the front is about to fall, if a marine that is slightly behind enemy lines is safe to recover, if a retreating xeno is worth chasing, that sort of thing.
A couple weaknesses I have though, is I get incredibly tunnel visioned. I don’t know what it is, but no matter how many highlights I make, or how large I make the chat, I just can’t multitask looking at what’s being said in chat, and paying attention to things happening on screen. It’s caused me to be in some unfortunate scenarios that I wouldn’t otherwise have been in if I was paying attention. Also, I’m not terrible at combat, but I’m not great. I’m the scout you sigh at because they got capped far in the backlines by a couple of drones. I’ve gotten better though! That used to just be against one drone.
I gotta get better at PFC- I’ve been playing quite a shitload of it on an alt but while I do fine with maining a shotgun or Mk2, I struggle with quickly switching between guns to follow-up. E.g. when attacked by lurkers, I’ll PB but struggle to follow up with Mk2 burstfire fast enough to crit and kill, same with pyro after flaming, etc.
I do pretty good when I’m just focusing on using one gun, but really- marines are most effective when using both in tandem, and I’d like to reach that level someday.
I’d consider myself a pretty competent medic, SG and SL.
As xeno, the lag makes playing combat castes genuinely unbearable sometimes, so I’ve mostly played hivey and boiler when I do. Hivey is pretty easy and braindead, but I’d really like to get good at frontline castes someday. My ping (and my struggle with CVGBN switching) begs to differ though.
For marine I have trouble ever securing kills
I try to conserve my ammo and only try to shoot when I think I can guarantee a kill, but that means a lot of the time I hold back my firing because i might hit marines or whatnot, and xenos can more freely murderize.
For xeno I do well switching between abilities, but not as fast as some insane cracked players. I struggle the most with just spriteclicking, missing abilities and slashes
I’d like to think my mechanical competency is pretty fucking great, all considered, especially slating myself against some folks I’ve seen that worry me enough to make me play their role next round. On the other hand, I absolutely cannot resist doing stupid shit. All the mechanical competency in the world does not save me from correctly evaluating a poor situation to engage in as a Scout or a Lurker, and then walking directly into the thing I Should Not Walk Into.
I’ll see a flamer and go “I should pick a new target” then the lizardbrain draws a pounce lunge line and my mouse follows it because BECAUSE I’M ABOUT TO- I’M ABOUT TO HIT THEM, I GOT THIS-
Once I was a drone and I stared in awe at your luscious abs as you charged past me shirtless with your roller bed, causing me to stand still in shock and die immediately to HPR Hero PFC McChungus
I’m the exact same. I just haven’t quite got the order of keybinds down to quickly and successfully follow up my stuns. Fire my MK one handed, panic click buttons and holster it, just silly things like that.
the good: i play a lot of support roles and i would say im very good at it (as marine), know a bit of every role, great taste in music (walkman)
the bad: as marine im too focused on doing fun shit and not getting kills (drip is the priority not being efficient) i use blatantly bad stuff (play GL spec for example) dont get kills but try my hardest
as xeno i also often get greedy and just insta die when i get T3 or some more direct roles
both sides i often get a stroke and kinda die
Good: id say im mechanically competent, and i do good diving to recover. I have good situational awareness too.
Bad: im not usually very aggressive at all; im stubborn in that i dont ever feel comfortable learning too much new stuff (specs are out f my realm and i cryo if i dont get a specific one because im afraid of fucking up massively as dem, gl, and scout). im very very slow with keybinds and etc. as well and am never going to get faster pls be patient with me
also im just trash at combat xenos
If i find ur corpse and strip ur body and u dont have red tape or rising sun tape…
Strength: I have a lot of squad leader experience from CM14 (300+ or 400+ hours I think ), so I tend to play like a squad leader at whatever role I play. If I’m playing comtech or spec, I’ll callout queen flanks or give intel on the whereabouts of any big xeno. I always bring binoculars as a marine, always, and I use binoculars whenever I can. As a result, I’m very reliable if you need someone to give intelligence on the whereabouts of xenos as a marine. And I make for a very good aSL incase I’m playing spec or comtech.
As for when I play crusher, my squad leader instincts also kick in. Sadar is like a queen to a marine, so I’ll always callout sadar’s location as well to help out other tier 3s. I also tend to place markers down a lot. Given how I am ancient crusher, I get hive leader pretty frequently, and I try to make good use of it. When hunting survivors I also try to do stuff like place markers, give the whereabouts of the survivors, or mention where a breach is. I even try my best to teach newer xenomorphs of mechanics they don’t know about (like younger drones not knowing they should be emitting pheromones 24/7). I’ve also recently learned that crusher is best played like an initiator, so I’m trying to coordinate with attacks more.
In short, I play like a squad leader whenever I can.
Weaknesses: It’s pretty simple. Combat. I’m still not great at combat. As marine, I’ll get greedy and try to chase down a weakening tier 2 only to get reversed on and either rot or get capped because of it. I’ve died as GL spec quite a bit due to my greed.
As for crusher, there are rounds where I do get greedy, overextend and die. I’m still learning when to engage and when to pullback. I sometimes get tunnel visioned, forget I’m pretty far from others, and then marines attack me and I die. I also only learned how directional assist works recently, but I’m getting the hang of it. The hardest part about crusher and marine for me is knowing when to push and knowing when your push is an overextension and your death sentence.
Here are some other weaknesses I have.
I get trapped in boiler gas from time to time.
When I’d play SO, I’d be very trigger happy about OBs because I love them and then it’d lead to bad, rushed OBs…
Thanks! I really relate. The few times I’ve picked spec (and gotten it), I’ve either failed utterly, or had minimal impact. I know the only way to get better is to keep trying over and over, but I also just… really enjoy support roles.
Alas, slowly but surely we grow in skill and confidence.
pls be patient with me
), so I tend to play like a squad leader at whatever role I play. If I’m playing comtech or spec, I’ll callout queen flanks or give intel on the whereabouts of any big xeno. I always bring binoculars as a marine, always, and I use binoculars whenever I can. As a result, I’m very reliable if you need someone to give intelligence on the whereabouts of xenos as a marine. And I make for a very good aSL incase I’m playing spec or comtech.