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[Bdthemag]

KG, the lag is REALLY bad today. You really need to talk to your ISP.

[Glloyd]

Alright! I'll try to give it a try!

[Darvi]

I think I accurately replicated the John Hurt scene in surgery there.

Then I was a larva, took over Atmosia, and as the new Queen defeated the captain and took of her helmet just before the server got restarted.

Fun times.

[Antur]

Well my first round as with real job turned out pretty good. I cloned few people got myself tourrete syndrome without any powers and (was that me or someone else in the srugery room ?) lasered chestbursting alien larva. But yeah mainly : laaaaaaaaag.

[Fayrik]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Aliens is a terrible "game mode".
I actually thought we were going to make some kind of progress this round considering I wasn't completely useless and we actually got some robots and guns.

Of course however, two/three robots and a gun nut captain isn't enough to stop aliens.

I cloned few people got myself tourrete syndrome without any powers

Oh so you who called me (the captain) a cocksucker.
You did well, I congratulate you on your services to the ship.

[Isdar]

They need to increase the amount of time before a chestburster bursts out, because both of my patients blew up before I even got the drapes on.

[Darvi]

Well, the aliens did almost die off.

Haha no. I had Atmosia filled with facehuggers, just waiting to embrace the captain's innards.

They need to increase the amount of time a chestburster bursts out, because both of my patients blew up before I even got the drapes on.

This.

[Bdthemag]

See, I really hate alien rounds. Not because they're overplayed (which they are), but because most people end up metagaming in one way or another. I don't really blame them, most people don't really want to pretend they have no idea what's going on, because it'll usually result in the aliens winning due to the crew not knowing what to do.

Aliens is similar to the blob gamemode in the sense that EVERYONE ends up metagaming so the game doesn't run short, and that's why they're both shitty gamemodes.

[kg333]

KG, the lag is REALLY bad today. You really need to talk to your ISP.

No kidding.  I hate Insight.

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[Bdthemag]

KG, the lag is REALLY bad today. You really need to talk to your ISP.

No kidding.  I hate Insight.

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WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT.

But seriously, can you call them up and threaten them? Preferably threaten to kill them, at least once.

I think that weakening the aliens would go a long way to making them better.

Once people realised they didn't have to be metagaming to win, RP may well follow.

You can totally win against aliens without metagaming. There just has to be a process of trial and error, followed by eventual victory if the heads of staff are smart and can lead the crew well enough. Except there are rarely ever times where the heads of staff all work together, and the crew usually just runs off and do their own things.

[rabidgam3r]

What is this leadership thing you speak of? Perhaps I will try it on my slav-AHEM demented manchildr-AHEM scientists. Also, perhaps we could put in a rule against metagaming? It makes me hate everything and everyone when people do it. It may be too strict for this type of server, but still.

[Twiggie]

I try not to metagame, but I think I still do.

For example following a guy with a hugger on his face into surgery and shooting the shit out of it with the HoS when it burst

[Fayrik]

Well, the aliens did almost die off.

Haha no. I had Atmosia filled with facehuggers, just waiting to embrace the captain's innards.

I called it out in character TWICE, but no one bothered noticing.

[Bdthemag]

I try not to metagame, but I think I still do.

For example following a guy with a hugger on his face into surgery and shooting the shit out of it with the HoS when it burst

Now that's not entirely metagaming, if some forlorn creature bursts out of a man's chest then its safe to say you can shoot it. What I mean is people yelling out over the radio at the beginning of the round, "HOLY SHIT I SAW THE ALIUM QUEEN, XENO'S ARE ON STATION!" as opposed to "What the fuck was that? I just saw some weird black thing running around maintenance!". Or seeing a man get attacked by a facehugger and saying "HOLY FUCK GET IT OUT OF HIM, HE'S GOING TO BURST OUT A LARVA!"

[kg333]

KG, the lag is REALLY bad today. You really need to talk to your ISP.

No kidding.  I hate Insight.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT.

But seriously, can you call them up and threaten them? Preferably threaten to kill them, at least once.

I'm amassing a body of evidence so that I can get escalated and threaten someone who can actually do something about it, rather than one of Insight's hapless phone lackeys.

KG