kastion wrote: ↑07 Nov 2018, 00:18
No its not, the aliens don't have to know marines are coming to know that the landing pad is used to bring new hosts to the colony. Once they have captured all the other hosts it makes perfectly reasonable sense that they would wait by the area that's gonna deliver more hosts to them.
It's for the xeno's good, really. After 30 minutes of evolving you have like only young T3's and mature/elder T2's. Full 4 squads of marines with full ammo, full health and full morale will fuck xenos up. It's made to keep xeno tears at bay. Try it yourself. Roll the Queen and build hive in north-east Nexus/Yard/Garage/Bar. I want to hear how marines are OP becouse they went trough your young xenos like hot knife trough butter, or how they metagamed your hive's location.
This restriction is made that bald Queens are OOC restricted from doing such stupid thing.
Crashed ship on Prison station is the most reasonable IC reason to go there. Prison sent distress signal and is not responding now? Jeez... I wonder if that crashed vessel sticking out of aft side have something to do with it... I guess not. Come on marines, scout that corporate "unidentified area", WY shady business is more important.
I've opened Prison station map: One squad to "Unidentified Area", then "Max Sec" and the end "North Max Sec". Further you have civilian residences.
One Squad to Engineering to restore power then joining with another and going to crushed ship becouse this is IC reason trough custody and "Med Sec". Further you have civilian residences.
One squad to Yard and VIP. What's left? Civilian residences.
Bad bugs are coming from west.
Nothing else to scout + IC reason to send more troops to Crashed ship =/= metarush.
Prison is literally the smallest map in rotation.