Game 24762: Jez, SteveSmith, petermock, Hokunda in 'Alien Colony*'
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- First time I have played this mission. I really like it and happy to play again. Only thing, is the lack of cover for the aliens a deliberate aspect if the game? Seemed too easy to set up long range sniping.
Posted by
petermock 9 years ago [Login to reply]
- Now we have more cover then we used to have. Long range sniping does not work perfecty with pistols. The humans have a little advantage when they have maximum number of clones. In the beginning aliens have enough cover. This time Jez was the victim who have suffered the early rush. This is the usual screenplay here. One human has hard times, the other performs the cleaning.
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Hokunda 9 years ago [Login to reply]
- I should have been more adventurous earlier in the game. It's just the map has very long grid formed alleys with deadly open spaces. An occasional single block or grid deformation might be helpful. Point taken about pistol accuracy.
Posted by
petermock 9 years ago [Login to reply]
- I wasn't really hurt by the early rush, Steve had it hard because there wasn't much cover for him. What did me in, ironically, was running out of resources - then I needed the extra cover! Yeah, with the increases in the scenery I think this mission is fine now, the aliens still need to attack early but that will be the case whatever changes are made to the map, I think. Alien players who get a piece of vertical wall for cover, like Steve did, are still going to have a hard time of it though...
Posted by
Jez 9 years ago [Login to reply]
- Re the scenery, I think the big buildings help aliens more (bearing in mind that you don't have to go through doors in this mission, anyone can dismantle a wall), they are much harder for the humans to clear quickly, if you had attacked early, Peter, it would have been hard for Hokunda to create open spaces, whereas it was easy for me as the only nearby building Steve could use for cover was small with thin walls, one grenade made it pretty useless for him.
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Jez 9 years ago [Login to reply]
- Steve, in the android playback, the size of the dots do not reflect the function of a unit. Tue engineers are represented by a smalldot, while clones are represented by large dots. On the alien side the dot sizes seem to be random.
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Hokunda 9 years ago [Login to reply]
- The large dots for the aliens should be the queen.
- It should be, but actually it is not.
Posted by
Hokunda 9 years ago [Login to reply]
- Unfortunately the situation is confused because the alien queen changes (if the current alien queen is killed), but the playback doesn't keep track of which is the current the alien queen. If an alien was ever the alien queen, they will be shown as the queen.
Actually, thinking about it, if an alien side is wiped out, all aliens will be the alien queen at some point...
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