Alien not being able to melee for literally 5 seconds after uncloaking

[burningblaise]

I can not explain how mnay deaths i have from standing next to a merc while he is looting or reviving and im spamming left click. visible. standing. waiting. literally 5 seconds later i can start swinging and by that time the flashlight has been turned on

[NathanDingy]

Originally posted by burningblaise:

I can not explain how mnay deaths i have from standing next to a merc while he is looting or reviving and im spamming left click. visible. standing. waiting. literally 5 seconds later i can start swinging and by that time the flashlight has been turned on

u can spit while cloaked use ur abilities more

[Chris]

Same with doing a scream lol, once you scream it feels like two seconds before you can even attack. Kinda pointless if you can't get a jab in before one of their teamates wises up and flashes lights at you. EMP so far is more viable then the scream.

[burningblaise]

Originally posted by NathanDingy:

Originally posted by burningblaise:

I can not explain how mnay deaths i have from standing next to a merc while he is looting or reviving and im spamming left click. visible. standing. waiting. literally 5 seconds later i can start swinging and by that time the flashlight has been turned on

u can spit while cloaked use ur abilities more

invis, spit, use trap, poison cloud yes yes. easy. do it every fight. Im specifically talking about being UNCLOAKED and not being able to melee for a very long time for some weird glitch reasson. Its annoying.

[burningblaise]

Originally posted by Chris:

Same with doing a scream lol, once you scream it feels like two seconds before you can even attack. Kinda pointless if you can't get a jab in before one of their teamates wises up and flashes lights at you. EMP so far is more viable then the scream.

its more than 2 seconds for for that as well. Quite a lot. Never use scream because of that

[Baby2Chill]

You do one ability and you don't have any energy to do a second ability, am I meant to EMP a room, run into a vent, eat 3 eggs, run back then Q the guy?????

[Marksman Max]

Originally posted by Baby2Chill:

You do one ability and you don't have any energy to do a second ability, am I meant to EMP a room, run into a vent, eat 3 eggs, run back then Q the guy?????

Pro tip: Downed power cables actually recharge your energy super fast; you can heal while standing in one and your energy bar won't go down at all during the process.

[Moon ☾]

Dude i swear people just see balance mechanics as a headache or a poor design choice just cause of skill issue.

[Syn]

Originally posted by Moon ☾:

Dude i swear people just see balance mechanics as a headache or a poor design choice just cause of skill issue.

reason the game will die. no show of skill, say its an alien skill issue.

over 1/2 the new players trying the game say its bad. its bad.

unless you DONT want new players joining the game. killing the game.

get good on how to keep a game alive. :)

[alan0n]

So... Let make sure Im understanding you here; you are advocating for the developers to break the balance of the game for good merc players versus good alien players... because bad players exist?

How about no. Lets not do that.

[master uff]

This games remembers me on this f2p-game. Forgot the name, but they called it a dbd killer. Monster vs Teens. Monster played similar to this alien. Always pressing through skills and wait for cooldown for miniscule damage. 1 or 2 months after early access release, it died. Becaue nobody wanted to play the monster. The teenside was very popular, because it was fun. Was also the stronger side, with weapons, you know. Like the mercs.

[alan0n]

Originally posted by master uff:

This games remembers me on this f2p-game. Forgot the name, but they called it a dbd killer. Monster vs Teens. Monster played similar to this alien. Always pressing through skills and wait for cooldown for miniscule damage. 1 or 2 months after early access release, it died. Becaue nobody wanted to play the monster. The teenside was very popular, because it was fun. Was also the stronger side, with weapons, you know. Like the mercs.

I actually kind of agree with you, in a situation where a good team is against good aliens the aliens are actually weak and could use a bit of a buff. Not much, the aliens should need mercs to fumble to win IMO, but definitely a little bit of help would not hurt them.

[Syn]

Originally posted by NathanDingy:

Originally posted by burningblaise:

I can not explain how mnay deaths i have from standing next to a merc while he is looting or reviving and im spamming left click. visible. standing. waiting. literally 5 seconds later i can start swinging and by that time the flashlight has been turned on

u can spit while cloaked use ur abilities more

ooo wow. i can do 10 damage to 1 of 3 players. whats the most damage an alien has done in a match?

ive seen ~945

[David Fifield]

Originally posted by burningblaise:

Originally posted by NathanDingy:

u can spit while cloaked use ur abilities more

invis, spit, use trap, poison cloud yes yes. easy. do it every fight. Im specifically talking about being UNCLOAKED and not being able to melee for a very long time for some weird glitch reasson. Its annoying.

this is good balance. You shouldn't be able to attack out of stealth. Every game that let's you do this ends up having massive invis balance problems.

[David Fifield]

Originally posted by alan0n:

Originally posted by master uff:

This games remembers me on this f2p-game. Forgot the name, but they called it a dbd killer. Monster vs Teens. Monster played similar to this alien. Always pressing through skills and wait for cooldown for miniscule damage. 1 or 2 months after early access release, it died. Becaue nobody wanted to play the monster. The teenside was very popular, because it was fun. Was also the stronger side, with weapons, you know. Like the mercs.

I actually kind of agree with you, in a situation where a good team is against good aliens the aliens are actually weak and could use a bit of a buff. Not much, the aliens should need mercs to fumble to win IMO, but definitely a little bit of help would not hurt them.

I think Aliens shouldn't respawn but also not insta die to flares and have their abilities do more damage. Right now they're kind of a joke unless the player doesn't know how to player at all.

[TrippyTreeToad]

Bruh, I was playing alien and caught a solo lacking (He was looking at his map). I ran up on him and gave him 5 to the face before he could react. When he did react he pulled out a flare. I was able to smack him once more and died. I left the match after that and will not be returning to this game until the alien gets some buffs. WTF was that... Can't call that a skill issue. The game balance is broken. Even two good aliens aren't enough for three half decent players.