I've played NS2 for about 150 hours and I decided I need help commanding in both aliens and marines. My gameplay experience is limited to pubs but I've watched almost every competitve game to date as far as tournaments go.
As a Marine commander I feel pressured to go early phase in Pubs, not sure why, and I know its probably really silly, but I do feel slightly pressured to do so, if only because no one in pubs ever objects or requests otherwise. So, my first request is if someone can help me with different openings. I've seen different posts on this before but none taking in the newest builds. Technically I suppose any build is viable, they just all have drawbacks. So maybe what I'm asking is for someone to help me learn each opening and the benefits vs drawbacks in each opening. I went into Explore mode and tried for early upgrades, one thing I noticed immediately was that I lacked enough res to drop a 3rd RT early on unlike when I was going for early phase. Thats just one example of things that make me hesitaint when wanting to try a different build.
For Aliens I feel the question is much the same as it was for the marines, I've done both cara and shift openings. I've gone for early 2-3 rts as well. I've never done a real fast 2nd hive drop mostly because I'm unsure of how it plays out. Take Veil for example. Say we start in Sub, is it possible to grab nano and drop a really fast hive in cargo? How many gorges would that require if it could and would doing something like that just give marines free_reign over most of the map due to some aliens tied up defending?
I don't want a whole team to not have fun simply because I'm experimenting blindly with a build. Basically want I want is a basic frame to work with, a general idea of each build and what mindset I should have going in with it. I'd feel bad If I did the example above and found out that even though we held nano, I didn't have the res for both RT's and the hive if thats what I was going for.
Thanks for reading thus far and hearing me out, if you can help me, please by all means do so ^_^ This was also my first post so here's to hoping I haven't done something stupid lol.
As a Marine commander I feel pressured to go early phase in Pubs, not sure why, and I know its probably really silly, but I do feel slightly pressured to do so, if only because no one in pubs ever objects or requests otherwise. So, my first request is if someone can help me with different openings. I've seen different posts on this before but none taking in the newest builds. Technically I suppose any build is viable, they just all have drawbacks. So maybe what I'm asking is for someone to help me learn each opening and the benefits vs drawbacks in each opening. I went into Explore mode and tried for early upgrades, one thing I noticed immediately was that I lacked enough res to drop a 3rd RT early on unlike when I was going for early phase. Thats just one example of things that make me hesitaint when wanting to try a different build.
For Aliens I feel the question is much the same as it was for the marines, I've done both cara and shift openings. I've gone for early 2-3 rts as well. I've never done a real fast 2nd hive drop mostly because I'm unsure of how it plays out. Take Veil for example. Say we start in Sub, is it possible to grab nano and drop a really fast hive in cargo? How many gorges would that require if it could and would doing something like that just give marines free_reign over most of the map due to some aliens tied up defending?
I don't want a whole team to not have fun simply because I'm experimenting blindly with a build. Basically want I want is a basic frame to work with, a general idea of each build and what mindset I should have going in with it. I'd feel bad If I did the example above and found out that even though we held nano, I didn't have the res for both RT's and the hive if thats what I was going for.
Thanks for reading thus far and hearing me out, if you can help me, please by all means do so ^_^ This was also my first post so here's to hoping I haven't done something stupid lol.