Alien Hive Order

[Tickle Me Emo]

I have spent the last two hours with an alien comm who goes shade/cloak -> crag/regen every single game and the marines are completely helpless. Cloak activates so fast now, it's incredibly easy to dodge behind pretty much anything, cloak and walk away, then re-attack. And once you get regen, GG. My opinion of cloak has been drastically altered, it's no longer just an initiation move, it is perfectly viable to cloak multiple times in an engagement. It's even easier when you get leap. Also, it's hilarious.

[ZERO]

However if the marines have two tech points before you get cloak once you do the logical response is to lock down, defend and tech b/c with obs you can not go in for the kill. Then they tech up all the way and puch out. If they have you locked to 2 hives and hold out they should win if you went shade/creg. However their com has to be good.

But yes the faster cloak is a lot better now.

[Tickle Me Emo]

And the patch has hit. Doubled out-of-combat activation time for regen and cloak to 3 seconds. Ah well, was fun while it lasted.

[Chikun]

It's still OP as hell early game for easy map control and to make the marines extremely paranoid if a gang of skulks are about to pop out of camouflage and rape their face.

I had an excellent game yesterday on a UWE server going Shade>Shift>Crag

[ZERO]

Why u no play on our server

[Chikun]

It's always full.

[ZERO]

Reserved slot works now...

[Tickle Me Emo]

It's still OP as hell early game for easy map control and to make the marines extremely paranoid if a gang of skulks are about to pop out of camouflage and rape their face.

I had an excellent game yesterday on a UWE server going Shade>Shift>Crag

I would say it's still good, for the reasons you've stated, but not OP as hell. OP as hell is what it was before, allowing you to engage multiple marines as a skulk with virtually no risk. I feel like this patch made it an option for the commander, not a requirement, which is good.

[Chikun]

Word from the wise. Don't go shade hive first when half the team is green.