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Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: dormedas on August 06, 2006, 07:19:01 pm
I think there should be some sort of advanced dretch since there is an advanced almost everything in the game.

Ideas: (A compilation of all Ideas and suggestions)

Night Vision Dretch :dretch:
Darker Colored Dretch :dretch:
The two listed above could mix to become the Adv. Dretch. :dretch:
Dretch has 10 more HP
Runs a little slower

[Off Subject but relevant]Adv. Rifle Ideas???:
A little more damage :helmet:
Slightly larger magazine :helmet:
Faster ROF
Alternatively to an ADV. Rifle, a pack that aids your rifle, such as advanced clips upgrade for 100 Creds, that extends your clip, advanced ROF upgrade for 150 creds etc.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: vcxzet on August 06, 2006, 08:25:18 pm
adv dretch :: headcrab
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: SLAVE|Mietz on August 06, 2006, 08:38:36 pm
adv, dretch = poo
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: dormedas on August 06, 2006, 10:38:57 pm
Aren't we feeling mature today?
Any *better* ideas, or better *discussion*...?
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Juno on August 06, 2006, 10:49:03 pm
night vision dretch would be pointless as there are no pitch black map areas



the game is balanced
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: DarkRogue on August 07, 2006, 01:16:53 am
adv dretch has been brought up half a dozen times. It likely ain't happening.

In all truth, everything described thus far as 'adv dretch discussion' is summed up in the existing class: basilisk.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Rawr on August 08, 2006, 12:49:32 am
adv dretch = face hugger from alien. headshot = instadeath for both players.
dretch needs a really long tounge  :roll:
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: DEUK on August 08, 2006, 02:24:45 am
ADV. dretch same size as a balistik but abel to fly and shoot a acid ball out of its mouth but abel to bite harder take more damage away and is black whit red stripe on belly kinda like a black widow and has 75 hp :dretch:  :dretch:  :basilisk:  :basilisk: i think it was a good sum of every thing u guys have said.... :D
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Dustin on August 08, 2006, 02:49:36 am
Quote from: "DEUK"
ADV. dretch same size as a balistik but abel to fly and shoot a acid ball out of its mouth but abel to bite harder take more damage away and is black whit red stripe on belly kinda like a black widow and has 75 hp :dretch:  :dretch:  :basilisk:  :basilisk: i think it was a good sum of every thing u guys have said.... :D


Uhh, no.
And.. what is a balistik? Ballistic may be a cool word, but i've never heard of one in trem >_>.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Ranger on August 08, 2006, 03:37:18 am
Uh, no.

The lisk is the adv dretch.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: dormedas on August 08, 2006, 03:42:15 am
K, well if the Basilisk is the adv. Dretch then why is there an Adv. Adv. Dretch, eh?
And the Basilisk being the Adv. Dretch doesn't make sense since
Dretch
Basilisk <<Not same model
Adv. Basilisk <<Same model
Marauder'
Adv. Marauder <<Same Model Different Texture
Dragoon
Adv. Dragoon <<Same Model Different Texture
Tyrant
Granger
Adv. Granger <<Same Model(I think)
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: PIE on August 08, 2006, 11:32:08 am
Dretch is the advanced dretch...
If your looking to have an advanced everything.. just retexture it and give it a little more health. It doesn't need anything else.. its already a super killing machine.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Howitzer on August 08, 2006, 04:03:27 pm
Do you know how powerful a dretch is because you don't need to bite?
ONLY thing you worry about is movement, the game does the rest by biting automaticly.
You don't have to try to get the jump and (click to make the dretch) bite synchronous to get the max effect..
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Rippy on August 09, 2006, 01:29:24 am
Aliens: Advanced Dretch, available in s3, has 35 hp

Humans: Spawn with free light armour, cannot be sold, light armour removed from armoury buy list (obviously)

There we go, two small improvements to give late joiners more of a chance, without directly improving their attack power. So, all it's doing is giving them a chance to survive a liiiittle bit longer, to get that extra kill so they can evo.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: 0z on August 09, 2006, 10:12:55 am
Quote from: "Rippy"

Humans: Spawn with free light armour, cannot be sold, light armour removed from armoury buy list (obviously)


Tell me, how do humans get b-suits after this if they can't sell their light armour?
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: kozak6 on August 09, 2006, 10:31:38 am
What amuses me is how he thinks light armor is equal to 10 hitpoints.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: BALROG on August 09, 2006, 03:00:47 pm
lol adv. doesnt seem like too much of a good idea though
theres nothing wrong with the dretch now
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Rippy on August 09, 2006, 04:08:38 pm
Quote from: "kozak6"
What amuses me is how he thinks light armor is equal to 10 hitpoints.

Forgive me for not being able to accurately balance my idea, it's kind of hard when it's only in your head and isn't being playtested in the game. Besides, armour doesn't protect the head so you're still at 4hp if a dretch bites you there, which isn't too hard. Maybe 40 hp then? Any more than that and it's just a basi.

Anyway, the idea is to give the free units, excluding builders, a bit more defense/hp so they can survive a little longer. And Oz, good point, didn't think of that >_> Now I'm not too sure how a free armour system would work, since it'd be tough finding a plausible way to prevent other weapons being used with it. But armour seems like the best way to do it, since improving the rifle itself would cause bigger issues imo (I mean, it's already 2 or 3 bullet kill on dretches, 1 or 2 bullet would be pretty cheap)

Hmm... I mean, you could change light armour's name to "medium armour" and then in s3 change the Rifle to "Rifle + light armour" (weaker than current light armour), but these changes would make people stay rifle/dretch to earn creds instead of taking a risk and buying one of the cheaper weps/evos first. Only alternative I'd thought of was to have late joiners get a few free creds/EP when they join, but I'm guessing there would be easy ways to abuse that.

lol, I like how the entire direction of this post went from "how my idea should be tweaked" to "my idea would be hard to implement" to "my idea sucks" to "other ideas". o_O I do that sometimes.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Stof on August 09, 2006, 04:14:34 pm
Your way off. Rifle does 5pts of damage per bullet and thus needs 5 hits to kill a Dretch.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: reinie on August 09, 2006, 04:18:55 pm
adv dretch is not needed dretch is the basic alien just as rifle is basic
u can go adv everything in the game adv tyrants(they cant advance either)
oh but to fight the adv tyrant u need adv batllesuit and adv lucys
oh but they got adv lucys i need to build adv eggs so they dont blow up in one shot oh nooooo i must have adv everything

game is balanced like it is
the fact aliens mostly rock hummies ass is because of the players playing alien

 :roll:
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Stof on August 09, 2006, 04:31:20 pm
I think I've got the perfect idea for an Adv Dretch. After all, what is the most important thing for a dretch ? It's its fast speed that makes it hard to hit. Thinking about that, the solution is evident ! The Adv Dretch should be x1000 faster than a Dretch ! Think of all the implications ! This is the perfect solution.

( but please, make it optional, I prefet to keep my regular Dretch myself ;) )
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: kevlarman on August 09, 2006, 04:32:30 pm
Quote from: "Rippy"
improving the rifle itself would cause bigger issues imo
when i first saw this idea my first thought was dretches get 10 more hp, humans get 10 more ammo/clip in the rifle.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Rippy on August 09, 2006, 05:23:46 pm
Quote from: "kevlarman"
Quote from: "Rippy"
improving the rifle itself would cause bigger issues imo
when i first saw this idea my first thought was dretches get 10 more hp, humans get 10 more ammo/clip in the rifle.


hmm..... seems fair enough I guess.

And my bad, just checked up on the stats thread, it IS 5 damage per bullet.. But I could swear I usually go from 25 to 15 hp, I guess it's just easy for 2 bullets to hit in a row
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Nux on August 10, 2006, 03:38:40 am
Adv. Dretch?

Silly idea.

Adv. Tyrant = Beautiful

It would essential be a 2 tonne bomb that pretty much sits there until you press left mouse button.. killing everything, wiping the map clean, breaking your monitor and obliterating large portion of Canada.

Pros - fun to try out

Cons- Canada might not like it...

...

and yeah.. Adv. Dretch = Basilisk  :P
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Belier13 on August 10, 2006, 11:29:01 am
Adv. Dretch should have a mini rocket launcher on it's side, like Jame Bond's car.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: krom on August 10, 2006, 12:14:44 pm
Not that i want to interfere with others topics, but what about an
 advanced- flying-exploding-headbutting-dretch?
It would blow the head of human players when landing close to it.

Such adv.dretch could be nicknamed Zizou or.... not.

/me goes out.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: DIRKDIGGLER on August 10, 2006, 01:17:09 pm
(http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/196/imgmo0.jpg)

Can somebody explain this sig to me?  :eek:
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Rippy on August 10, 2006, 02:50:29 pm
Quote from: "Nux"
Adv. Dretch?

Silly idea.

Adv. Tyrant = Beautiful

It would essential be a 2 tonne bomb that pretty much sits there until you press left mouse button.. killing everything, wiping the map clean, breaking your monitor and obliterating large portion of Canada.

Pros - fun to try out

Cons- Canada might not like it...

...

and yeah.. Adv. Dretch = Basilisk  :P

Go ahead, try it. You'll realise that not only do we have explosive firepower that noone knew we had, but we also won't hesitate to use them.

*American uses adv Tyrant*
*Nukes get launched towards every major american city*
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Nux on August 10, 2006, 02:58:00 pm
Quote from: "Rippy"
Quote from: "Nux"
Adv. Dretch?

Silly idea.

Adv. Tyrant = Beautiful

It would essential be a 2 tonne bomb that pretty much sits there until you press left mouse button.. killing everything, wiping the map clean, breaking your monitor and obliterating large portion of Canada.

Pros - fun to try out

Cons- Canada might not like it...

...

and yeah.. Adv. Dretch = Basilisk  :P

Go ahead, try it. You'll realise that not only do we have explosive firepower that noone knew we had, but we also won't hesitate to use them.

*American uses adv Tyrant*
*Nukes get launched towards every major american city*


:O An American using MY designs?!?

Those American DASTARDS!!

(I'm from england babeh :wink: )

P.S. I Like Canada and the Canadians I know aren't half-bad (my own daddy for example)
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Rippy on August 10, 2006, 06:51:18 pm
Quote from: "Nux"
P.S. I Like Canada and the Canadians I know aren't half-bad (my own daddy for example)

We're basically a slightly less obese, rude, and warm U.S. :D And our politicians do nothing instead of doing the wrong things
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Nux on August 11, 2006, 04:04:18 am
Quote from: "Rippy"
Quote from: "Nux"
P.S. I Like Canada and the Canadians I know aren't half-bad (my own daddy for example)

We're basically a slightly less obese, rude, and warm U.S. :D And our politicians do nothing instead of doing the wrong things


=D

America would like to think that he's wearing Canada like some fancy hat. What he doesn't realise is that Canada is a rhino. A calm and friendly rhino that likes to sit on people's heads.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Zakky on August 11, 2006, 08:27:16 pm
Or a Whale! Whales are cool...
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Seffylight on August 12, 2006, 05:56:31 pm
Quote from: "Nux"
Quote from: "Rippy"
Quote from: "Nux"
A calm and friendly rhino that likes to sit on people's heads.


I lol'd.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: chompers on August 13, 2006, 12:43:38 am
The best idea to come out of any of these adv. dretch threads is the dretch that can spit trapper blobs.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Glunnator on August 13, 2006, 02:19:41 pm
Quote from: "chompers"
The best idea to come out of any of these adv. dretch threads is the dretch that can spit trapper blobs.

Oooh nice. lol.

That probably would work. not that i'd say YES to it. i'd rather have it all kept how it was. if anything, the adv. dretch should be just 10 more HP or something...  :P
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Terror of the East on August 13, 2006, 03:10:48 pm
adv. dretches need to shout fier, as well as having spider sense and spider web abilities, but we can't call them spider abilities because they are aliens and clearly not spiders. Instead we will call them SUPERFLUOUS EVASION and SUPER SEMEN STICKY GOO. The adv. dretch will also only have 1 hp but 1000 units of armor that way if you get an emp blast you can knock out all the armor but if you shoot it, it will be invincible. Also, the adv. dretch should have a subterranean burrowing capabilites to pop out like trap door spiders. And finally adv. dretches should have thermo nuclear devices attached on their backs, that way when they die it'll kill everyone on the map and end the game.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Nux on August 13, 2006, 03:51:05 pm
Quote from: "Nux"
Quote from: "Rippy"
Quote from: "Nux"
Adv. Dretch?

Silly idea.

Adv. Tyrant = Beautiful

It would essential be a 2 tonne bomb that pretty much sits there until you press left mouse button.. killing everything, wiping the map clean, breaking your monitor and obliterating large portion of Canada.

Pros - fun to try out

Cons- Canada might not like it...

...

and yeah.. Adv. Dretch = Basilisk  :P

Go ahead, try it. You'll realise that not only do we have explosive firepower that noone knew we had, but we also won't hesitate to use them.

*American uses adv Tyrant*
*Nukes get launched towards every major american city*


:O An American using MY designs?!?

Those American DASTARDS!!

(I'm from england babeh :wink: )

P.S. I Like Canada and the Canadians I know aren't half-bad (my own daddy for example)


Quote from: "Terror of the East"
And finally adv. dretches should have thermo nuclear devices attached on their backs, that way when they die it'll kill everyone on the map and end the game.


So YOU are the American who stole my Adv. Tyrants designs!  :evil:

...either that or I'm... =O Not original!  D:
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: vcxzet on November 26, 2006, 08:00:09 pm
Quote from: "chompers"
The best idea to come out of any of these adv. dretch threads is the dretch that can spit trapper blobs.

where are you :(
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: doomagent13 on November 26, 2006, 11:40:00 pm
What about an adv. dretch with 25 hp, same size, brighter color, cost 1 evo, a pounce like goons but not doing any special damage, and exploding at death like the om? :D

If there is an adv.dretch, it needs a special ability--adv. basi gets gas, adv. mara gets zap, adv. goon gets snipe, adv. granger gets attacks--in addition to possibly being made bigger and/or getting more hp.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: _Equilibrium_ on November 26, 2006, 11:43:52 pm
the balance mod gives bile dretch
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: gcb on November 27, 2006, 01:55:51 am
Quote from: "kozak6"
What amuses me is how he thinks light armor is equal to 10 hitpoints.


let me quote the manual:
"Light Armour grants the wearer improved defense to the torso and leg areas."

so unless he spent the last ten months playing or readed the numbers on the source, there's not much to amuse anyone here
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Dissapointed and Banned on November 27, 2006, 02:01:24 am
Quote from: "gcb"
Quote from: "kozak6"
What amuses me is how he thinks light armor is equal to 10 hitpoints.


let me quote the manual:
"Light Armour grants the wearer improved defense to the torso and leg areas."

so unless he spent the last ten months playing or readed the numbers on the source, there's not much to amuse anyone here


Yes, so headbites and swings make it reduntant therefore... I would consider it equal, if not slightly superior to +10hp on a dretch.

What a dretch really needs is some form of speed boost or armor penetration... in my opinion.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: gcb on November 27, 2006, 02:03:16 am
on the advanced dreatch thing. What about some lame thing, like the spit from the builder, that slows human?

It's not overpower, and can be used efectively for a nice strategic attack
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: cp blast on November 27, 2006, 03:26:39 am
Quote from: "gcb"
on the advanced dreatch thing. What about some lame thing, like the spit from the builder, that slows human?

It's not overpower, and can be used efectively for a nice strategic attack

yes, a granger that spits trapper acid.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Thrash on November 29, 2006, 01:06:13 am
Imo, a dretch that spits trapper acid would be an assload of over-powered if the target human wasnt wearing a bsuit/helmet. Talk about free kills. I think dretches are as good as its going to get for low-tier aliens.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Taiyo.uk on November 29, 2006, 01:32:04 am
Quote from: "chompers"
The best idea to come out of any of these adv. dretch threads is the dretch that can spit trapper blobs.

Right. Trapping dretchen = aliens win. Every game. Ever. EVAR!
I think this will be just too powerful.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: rasz_pl on November 29, 2006, 11:35:33 am
Quote from: "Nux"
America would like to think that he's wearing Canada like some fancy hat. What he doesn't realise is that Canada is a rhino. A calm and friendly rhino that likes to sit on people's heads.


sit or shit?
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Menace13 on November 29, 2006, 01:02:31 pm
LOL!!! :D I like the dretch that spits trapper blobs though!!! It wins!!!!! :wink:
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Predalienator on November 29, 2006, 01:56:13 pm
The adv dretch should be an alien that can wallclimb on humans,that way it can stick to a hummie with it noticing and go in the hummie base,bad thing is that it will only see the FOV of a alien sticking to a human back and it wont see what is behind it so a human at the back of the human who has a alien sticking on his back could shoot the adv dretch,and it should have 60 hp and you need to clikc the mouse to bite.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: techhead on November 29, 2006, 08:21:33 pm
Advance Granger should shoot the undamageing, sticky trapper stuff, not this lightly damaging spittle.
Would both make Advanced Granger more useful, as well as cutting down on attack grangers and encouraging teamwork.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: kozak6 on November 29, 2006, 11:29:21 pm
It would severely increase the number of attack grangers since the spit would actually do something.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Ardbug on November 30, 2006, 12:50:03 am
Yeah we dont need MORE battle grangers :)

I would like to see an advanced dretch with permanent poison bite on S3.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: jal on November 30, 2006, 01:38:45 am
I always thought in Balistik as Adv. Dretch. Tho I never use Balistik at all myself :P TBH, I always think that Adv. Ballistik should be standard Ballistik and Adv. Ballistik should fly. Standard Ballistik is pretty useless, imo.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: DIGI_Byte on November 30, 2006, 01:44:02 am
Quote from: "Juno"
night vision dretch would be pointless as there are no pitch black map areas



the game is balanced


not pitch black. if you read in other posts there isn't really any shadow in the game hence no light or dark its all fake, also night vision would be something that can increase gamma levels maybe with a filter and shader applied over all with advanced drtech and and rifle No its a base unti to get you started why evolve into a dretch at S3 when all you hafto do is wait and get some points awarded to you and evolve BUT i think ppl who start as a dretch at S3 should be aworded 1 point if they have 0 points and humans should get 200 credits at S3 if they haave no credits
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: DIGI_Byte on November 30, 2006, 01:46:34 am
Quote from: "techhead"
Advance Granger should shoot the undamageing, sticky trapper stuff, not this lightly damaging spittle.
Would both make Advanced Granger more useful, as well as cutting down on attack grangers and encouraging teamwork.


very good idea, and basalisk is pretty useless.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: b-_-d on November 30, 2006, 04:44:14 am
Quote from: "Juno"
night vision dretch would be pointless as there are no pitch black map areas



the game is balanced


game is not balanced goon if way over powered no human weapon can end a game like a goon can
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: jal on November 30, 2006, 10:09:07 am
Lucis can kill goons with a single shot.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Stof on November 30, 2006, 10:20:03 am
Quote from: "jal"
Lucis can kill goons with a single shot.

Cheater! Stage 1 humans cannot get a luci :o
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: techhead on December 01, 2006, 03:18:01 am
How many grangers would attack turrets for 1 minute per turret kill?
Also, attacking would actually prevent the humans from leaving the base, since they can't move, and thus encouraging camping and hindering the Alien's efforts to attack the human base.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Predalienator on December 01, 2006, 06:00:48 am
Why adv dretch we should make an alien that has a thing like a hive attached to its back so it can deploy it at hummies or make its back like a hovel for multiple dretches say 6 dretches so it can release the dretches or if the dretches want to come out bu itself without getting shot by a human except the carrier takes the damage not the dretche,s.It should have primamry attack releasing dretches and secondary attack is a mix of basi swipe+adv basi gas.Give it 250 hp available at s3.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Menace13 on December 01, 2006, 12:42:53 pm
Another good idea, but unlikely.  But I like it! :P  :wink:
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: techhead on December 01, 2006, 09:53:20 pm
A dretch spitting alien.
Shoots dretches across the room faster than turrets can track them.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Predalienator on December 02, 2006, 08:47:14 am
My idea beats the crap out of the other,s.My idea should be made into reality maybe in a mod or the next version of Trem.
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: Nirvana on December 02, 2006, 08:53:48 am
Quote from: "techhead"
A dretch spitting alien.
Shoots dretches across the room faster than turrets can track them.


We already got that, just put ff off and get a tyrant to swing at passive dretches...

I've named it Dretch Darts  :)
Title: Adv. Dretch The discussion
Post by: techhead on December 02, 2006, 07:20:32 pm
But the ability to carry ammo (i.e. dretches), and aim where to shoot, similar to dragoon barbs.
I actually got the idea from playing around with dretch-punt myself.