scrin

[Drandok]

Hello guys, i just wanted to point something out, scrin has a somewhat unfair advantage, when you look at the units you notice that scrin has the mothership, not only is it one more unit then all the rest in the support factors, it's: air, too powerful. it's so easy to win with an early rush, just rush to the signal transmitter and get the mothership, perfect for distracting your enemy then coming in from behind. it's just kinda messed up that they get a weapon that powerful, however it is weak to AA, but, if you can manage to get a single shot out your enemy's entire base is knocked out, which is kinda stupid.

[IIIIIIIIII]

yes scrin is a bit op

[Slumbo]

If you have enough SAM turrents it's nothing IMO

[Drandok]

with an early rush you're done for

[Shmojo]

a squad of fully upgraded slingshots makes easy work of any air unit.

[Drandok]

if you got the money, yeah

[Volture]

One single EMP charge = No more Mothership.
Firehawks/Slingshots/Buggies = No more Mothership.
Venom/Mantis/Stealth Tanks = No more Mothership.
Destroy the Signal transmitter = No more Mothership.

These units are there for a reason. Silly.
To me, the mothership is more of a 5000$ distraction unit, I use it only to distract my opponent which will focus on it (human opponent). You almost never land a single hit against human players. Use the mothership only when you're fine economically and with an escort.

There's only one thing to fear from the scrins, a massive attack from a bunch of Planetary assault carrier + devastator warships + (the mothership eventually). It even gives nightmares.
But if that ever happens, then you weren't fast enough to equal the firepower of your oponent or didn't bothered him enough. (Try a few coordinated tanks attack + capping engineers at the beginning, laught at the ennemy as he can't manage the assault because he rushed to the signal transmitter)

[Rusty Crowbar]

If your telling me that "Scrin is OP" or "Mothership OP" then you have no idea how to play the game.

[Drandok]

Originally posted by Mrwhitey998:

If your telling me that "Scrin is OP" or "Mothership OP" then you have no idea how to play the game.

i am not telling you anything, if you do not agree do not post.

[Rusty Crowbar]

Originally posted by Llamason:

Originally posted by Mrwhitey998:

If your telling me that "Scrin is OP" or "Mothership OP" then you have no idea how to play the game.

i am not telling you anything, if you do not agree do not post.

The Mothership is not OP,unbalanced or biased in any way shape or form. You CANT rush to a mothership and expect to win a game against anyone better than Droch.

[Drandok]

like i said before if you don't agree or don't think that it is correct you don't have to post, i've played this game [version] equally or longer then you so i think i know how to play scrin and play it right. {PS, i find 7 brutals teamed up against me with me on 95% handicap easy

[Drandok]

i kinda agree with DM, it is a distraction unit. unless your enemy is stupid enough to ignore it [which will result in an instant loss] it's perfect for using to lure an enemy away and then attack with assault carriers.

[Tiberiumware]

You can sell everything next to the mothership and the chain reaction won't spread. I played at least 5000 matches on my old computer (before I got steam) and the only way to do anything with the mothership was to do a very precise cheese with the mastermind which allows you to summon the mothership by placing the signal transmitter in your opponent's base, and then telling the mothership to kill the signal transmitter.

Still, when people do that, they just sell the buildings next to the mothership and shoot it down with a few APCs, venoms, etc. The cost that it takes to perform the cheese ($8000) isn't normally worth the effort, but it can throw your opponent off balance like you mentioned.

Also, teching straight to mothership would almost always end in getting run over by tier 1 units. Even if one were to get ahead enough and choose to win via mothership instead of conventional units, there are plenty of ways to deal with the mothership. A few of the most spectacular ones are:
EMP control center (instantly destroys mothership)
Reflecting 8 beam cannons off a venom (takes about 6 seconds to melt mothership)
Running into the mothership with a drone ship (old glitch, might have been patched)

There are plenty of things about Scrin that seem unfair, but the mothership isn't one of them. It's imbalanced and gimmicky, but not unfair.

[Drandok]

btw TIB you do have a point but here's the big flaw, if you sell everything next to the mothership, what if i placed my mothership over your ion and tech center? would you really sell BOTH of those? that is how it is effective.

[Rusty Crowbar]

Originally posted by Llamason:

btw TIB you do have a point but here's the big flaw, if you sell everything next to the mothership, what if i placed my mothership over your ion and tech center? would you really sell BOTH of those? that is how it is effective.

You are a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ noob. I started playing this game in 2008. :).
You are not going to win with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mothership in a 1v1 or 2v2 vs effective players. 3v3 and 4v4 is possible but only on campy maps. Such as tib gardens. Also, simply attack the enemy? lel,simply attack them before the MS can be made. You cant 1 base MS on a map like Rift, or any 1v1 map. Also, then attack with Assault Carries? Sigh, if the enemy knows how to scout, and see's them, mass firehawks and tungsten. GG.

[Drandok]

whatever, keep on posting hate comments white

not like you took on 7 max dif AIs and won in 30 min;)