This thread is about the various options marines and aliens have tech-wise.
I feel currently marines have a very large choice to counter aliens of all sorts, whereas aliens got almost none.
For every alien strategy or life form there seems to be at least one hard counter on the marine side and aliens always have to use the same strategy (hint: bile).
When you are marine:
Are aliens harassing your RT's? - You can put down sentries or just place some mines, maybe a MAC to repair.
Are you out of ammo mid fight and could the skulk take advantage of this? - Just whip out your pistol or let the comm spam healthpacks.
Do you want to slowly push a base? - You can lob some grenades, or you could use GLs, or you could set up ARCs or even Exo's. And of course PG's
Do you want to defend? - You can use GL's, you can put down sentries, you can put down mines, you can keep one Exo permanently welded with either a MAC or a player.
Now when you are alien.
Marines in a large room? - don't even bother
Marines with shotguns? - don't even bother
Marines with GLs and JP? - be a fade or don't even bother
Wanna take a base? - bile and skulks
Wanna kill an exo? - bile and skulks
Wanna defend? - bile and skulks
Turrets holding down a hallway? - bile
Mines all over a base? - bile (or lerk)
Did marines rush ARC's before you could muster the 80 res to get bile? - lol gg
This might not be the best way to put it, but I feel that marines go so many options and hard counters (turrets vs skulks, mines vs skulks) and various ways to take a base (aggresive with exo or JP, or slow with ARCs). On the other side, aliens always have to resort to bile and some lifeforms ... and bile. Without bile barely can win a game, but without mines for example, you can still put down turrets to defend. There are just so little options for aliens to play around with. It seems every weapon for marines has a different function and every lifeform for aliens is just a bigger killing machine than the previous one.
Do you agree?
I feel currently marines have a very large choice to counter aliens of all sorts, whereas aliens got almost none.
For every alien strategy or life form there seems to be at least one hard counter on the marine side and aliens always have to use the same strategy (hint: bile).
When you are marine:
Are aliens harassing your RT's? - You can put down sentries or just place some mines, maybe a MAC to repair.
Are you out of ammo mid fight and could the skulk take advantage of this? - Just whip out your pistol or let the comm spam healthpacks.
Do you want to slowly push a base? - You can lob some grenades, or you could use GLs, or you could set up ARCs or even Exo's. And of course PG's
Do you want to defend? - You can use GL's, you can put down sentries, you can put down mines, you can keep one Exo permanently welded with either a MAC or a player.
Now when you are alien.
Marines in a large room? - don't even bother
Marines with shotguns? - don't even bother
Marines with GLs and JP? - be a fade or don't even bother
Wanna take a base? - bile and skulks
Wanna kill an exo? - bile and skulks
Wanna defend? - bile and skulks
Turrets holding down a hallway? - bile
Mines all over a base? - bile (or lerk)
Did marines rush ARC's before you could muster the 80 res to get bile? - lol gg
This might not be the best way to put it, but I feel that marines go so many options and hard counters (turrets vs skulks, mines vs skulks) and various ways to take a base (aggresive with exo or JP, or slow with ARCs). On the other side, aliens always have to resort to bile and some lifeforms ... and bile. Without bile barely can win a game, but without mines for example, you can still put down turrets to defend. There are just so little options for aliens to play around with. It seems every weapon for marines has a different function and every lifeform for aliens is just a bigger killing machine than the previous one.
Do you agree?