Quote from: affinity on May 16, 2009, 03:54:05 AM
they still are very annoying though. there should be a host option to not make them selectable.
There already was, if memory serves right.
Their whole purpose was to give the Aliens an added factor of unpredictability. any 'annoyance' factor is easily remedied by giving the game an option to 'fight' for supremecy against a facehugger and let it become a contest over which is the better at that particular miniature game.
The same as when Predators netted Marines: There was always the possibility for knifing your way out of them. Facehuggers, of course, could be thrown a short distance away, but have to be killed or would just make another attempt.
Some of the best games involved times when Alien players bothered to co-operate! We did the common sense thing and co-ordinated our attempts, so that adult Aliens distracted and herded the other targets into places where the facehugger players would lay still and wait to ambush. It worked wonders and made for a very authentic experience!
That's why I'd hope for a mode which doesn't reward individuals, but collectively, as teams. Only by implementing something like that, will co-ordination and strategies be properly encouraged. Otherwise, you always get random people being Aliens, charging into everywhere and getting instantly blown up, when you
should all be helping one another, because that's how they tend to function.
And when you refused to play that sort of game, act like an Alien should, putting the effort in to find a shadowy corner or motionlessly hang from the ceiling, you got called a 'cheater'. WTF? Just because you didn't want to mindlessly sacrifice yourself and give the Marine/Predator player an excuse to spray bullets around the room for a cheap laugh? Just because it forced
them to come to
you and take them out of their defended safety zone? Like a real Alien would?
Alien players shouldn't be there to provide a cheap giggle. They should be there to f**k up your day by silent co-ordination and
not doing the predictable thing.
The addition of facehuggers was a great thing - when they were used effectively. It put Marines and Predators completely off their game and made them pay the sort of dedicated attention to their surroundings they needed to.