aliens who sneak up behind you and die.
I read that with proper grammatical sense and laughed. It's true though.
The dodge creates what is essentially the same effect, by the aliens' perception, as knockback and its effects. Should you dodge in a certain way, you set yourself up for even just a decent player to get in easy hits on you because you lose control. Yet if you dodge the right way for the occasion, they end up requiring detrimental amounts of time in order to reengage. You can see the same thing kinda if you fuck up when you hit someone with pounce and they don't go where you expect.
The trick (which you already know) is to maintain your cool, plan for the worst, and hope for the best. If you pounce some naked and he
doesn't die then assess the situation rapidly. You have absolutely no time to fuck up and needlessly soak bullets.
Also I've found that when dretching, dodge can actually be ineffective, because the 'piece-by-piece' frag system that aliens have makes it possible for you to bite-and-hide without feeding innumerable roaches.
Honestly aliens are pretty well adapted to crushing tons of human ass, but only through a
largely conservative play-style.
Teamwork is even more effective on the alien team then the human team, despite how it may appear at times.
Aliens that consciously and actively work together for the feast will be happily rewarded. Whilst dumb asses -- who want to show off their dancing skills -- will rush the humans head-on, and decorate Tremulous with their
gristle.
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