What's your opinion of the game curerently?

[Evan Stelf]

Hey everyone, I am curious about what you other players think about the game in it's current state. Recently I have started to enjoy playing less and less, but that's just my personal opinion.

What do you think about the game? I don't really care about what updates or removals are making you angry, I'm just curious about your overall opinion of Colonial Marines.

Me? I'm kind of meh at this point. I can't seem to have fun as much as I used to anymore, but maybe if I get a good round I might be able to.

Post below, I really want to hear what your guys' opinions of this game are.

Thanks for posting below and reading!

Also a note, please don't be super mean and jerky to the staff of this server, they try really hard to make it better!

[Youbar]

The game has been steadily improving since its infancy stages. I cannot honestly say that I enjoyed playing on the Nostromo version of Colonial Marines over the current version, even if I dislike the map used. Gameplay-wise, everything is so much better. I often disappeared for months at a time, and when I come back every now and then to check up on it, the game feels more unique and interesting every time. For me, that's a good sign.
You might not be having as much fun as you used to, but that's the consequence of overplaying any game. Take a break, and you'll like it once you come back to a host of new features.

[Sadokist]

10/10 O_o wait.. *removed SMG's from belts* 0/10 WORST GAME EVER, KYS - IGN

[Warnipple]

I get triggered too easily, still.

[KingKire]

My opinion of Colonial Marines is that currently, its been on a track of constant improvement.

some deeper thoughts:
- The UI display for CM is definitely in need of some hard polish and would go a long way to giving CM its own feel.

- The staff have been very diligent at making sure the system is running at a good pace, squashing bugs, and making sure technical glitches are at a minimum, bar the wonderful creature that is ZAS rearing its head.

- The player base is at a healthy state, Unknown if its growing, but it does look stable, cementing CM as a mainline SS13 server.

-Gameplay wise, I think CM has a pretty good 3 part story structure* going on, which gives a nice satisfying feeling to each round. Somedays the beginning of a round and the ending of a round can get flat and drawn out, but there always has been a consistent action packed middle. Im hoping the staff can focus more on getting a tighter endgame focus going on, but a majority of the time endgames are usually okay to good.
*( Beginning: Deploy from the sulaco, recon, etc. Middle: Full blown combat; Aliens Vs. Marines. End: Marines are assaulting the hive, Aliens are Assaulting the sulaco)

-I do wish staff could fluff out the midgame for non-combat roles aboard the Sulaco, giving more satisfying gameplay to what can be done, but from what i hear, there is work being done/brainstorming on ideas for that.

-Combat wise, i am not a super big fan of Huggerbased combat, but i feel like theres been hints of a very slow move to a more diverse combat system. I think that currently its a little too prevalent and its handicapping aliens too much and tends to reduce combat instead of promote it, but i dont know what huggers could be replaced by... (more aliens?)

- I feel like Aliens could use a little more love in gameplay depth/ feel. Now, i dont play much aliens, but when i do, and i let go the salt of dying, i tend to have a decent fun time! It feels good to be the bad guy and i feel the Alien faction in CM's is one of the top strengths that makes CM so unique in the SS13 universe.

- I personally have slowly started to become tired of CM, but thats due in large part to game fatigue. Theres a limit to how many times you can play a game before you have to give it a break, but CM has definitly made that limit pretty far out from your standard games. I think CM tends to have a little more replayability then your standard SS13 server also due to the 3-part story structure gameplay its made for itself.

Of course, this is my opinion, so dont put too much weight behind it<D

[RadiantFlash]

I tend to enjoy myself playing still. It's fun to see really old faces again, and watch as newer people get well known.

As for actual gameplay... It's certainly changed from the start hasn't it? I'd say it's gone for the better, far more polish and such in the game then there was at the start. However, I have noticed, CM's lost it's bit of silly-relaxed gameplay/features that it originally had which made it fun, in replacement of seriousness and harder military rp, which is also still fun, but a differant slice of pie. I'm just curious to see what'll change next.

[Renomaki]

Sometimes I wish there were some more quality of life features to make being a commander and squad leader a tad easier, and that xenos held back a bit more to allow marines to roleplay "being clueless" for a little longer before going REEEE and giving the marines reason to hunt down the hive, because when the aliens aggro right on the start, it makes it hard to control the marines and keep them from metarushing the river (or underground if the ice map is used).

But for the most part, despite what some people might thing, I am generally happy with how the server rolls along. I still haven't played all the jobs yet though, let alone experienced all the xeno castes, so I'd have to get on that. I also been thinking of taking a break from the game as well lately, since I been playing it an unhealthy amount lately. It is like a bad habit at this point, and it would be a good idea to take a break at some point for my own well being.. At least for a little bit.

[SecretStamos (Joshuu)]

10/10 O_o wait.. *removed SMG's from belts* 0/10 WORST GAME EVER, KYS - IGN

They can be attached to the belt with a special holster rig from cargo.

[TopHatPenguin]

I'm still amazed as to what Cm has turned into and can't wait to see future updates, however I'm rather biased on the topic of Pre-Alpha [PA] because from all of my experiences I had the most fun on PA with the clunky combat and the hilarious features at the time, I think one of the reasons PA remains as my favorite is just due to the replayability it had for me.

One of my main reasons for loving PA is just due to the custom events, which were sometimes just sprite changes or a mission against an unknown threat instead of xenos aka, necromorphs, hostage rescue, cannibals etc.
I mean at times we even had cult rounds and the Repears show up with all the marines in N7 armor ready for anything, it was a whacky time for events and that's probably one of the reasons I loved it.I still advocate that admins should get their Icon power back so they can run small custom events with some sprite changes but hey-ho custom events imo can't be run properly like they used to as the Icon power verb was moved from the GA's perms list and as such minor sprite changes can't occur.
Oh, there is also a fear of creating a bad custom event which is understandable as well and could also probably be linked to the 'incident' with the last custom event which got custom events banned for a while.
Either way I think Cm has come far and done great things and will only get better as time passes on.

[TheSpoonyCroy]

Honestly I feel the server has just been improving over time, of course there are some speed bumps but that are things the players will just adjust for however I don't think you are enjoying the game less and less because of any changes but I feel you are just burnt out, I have felt this and currently feeling this for ss13 and various other games. It sucks you lose interest in something you once loved but just happens.

[Fritigern]

I feel there are still massive and easy to fix issues with the gameplay of the server, and to a lesser extent its art, but I've come to accept that these issues will never really be fixed. So I just enjoy CM for what it is and I don't really expect it to become much better or worse. Still the best thing to come out of SS13.

[Bigchilly]

SADAR sprite is ugly af, not to mention nothing like the lore wise SADAR.

[Rob606]

I really, really dislike how MOTHER is being used nowadays. It's meme-y and annoying.

[Eenkogneeto]

I really, really dislike how MOTHER is being used nowadays. It's meme-y and annoying.

Now that you mention it i kinda agree. When I joined she would rarely send a sarcastic message and you would know you dun fucked up
Now its nearly every round and it takes the specialness out of it

[Desolane900]

I don't hate it but it lost a charm when we drifted from features to trying to force an ever changing balance to be one sided. It's like the team is trying to sail a boat in a storm of glass or something. After the xeno update, yeah winrates were high but now they've started ducking back down to the 50/50 range and all it did was cause salt. Personally I think we should should stop trying to make a better ratio and start trying to make a better game.

[Kavlo]

I don't hate it but it lost a charm when we drifted from features to trying to force an ever changing balance to be one sided. It's like the team is trying to sail a boat in a storm of glass or something. After the xeno update, yeah winrates were high but now they've started ducking back down to the 50/50 range and all it did was cause salt. Personally I think we should should stop trying to make a better ratio and start trying to make a better game.

I kinda agree with Deso, CM has also kinda lost it's charm with me because it has become too repetitiveness and predictable. Most round now it just goes like this, marines wake up-get geared and briefed, go planetside and find the colony was destroyed, find the xenos and realize they're hostile, either kill the xenos and win or get pushed back to the Sulaco, maybe marines try to regain planet side and kill the xenos or lose, xenos go up to the Sulaco and either kill all the marines or die to marines. Your probably thinking "Yes in a game called Colonial Marines you do go and kill some xenomorphs." and yes that is true but I don't really wanna play a round that plays identical to the one before it, and the one before that, and the one before that. I'm not saying CM needs more events or new game mode or new maps (which all of the above would be nice anyway) to spice it up and get it out of the cycle it's in but it needs some game changer at the moment, a couple of days ago there was a thread in suggestions about giving the marines different objectives to complete planetside (no not command given objectives) such as things like :Bring the corgis back to the Sulaco :Bring back the nuke auth disk :Blow up a computer in Internal affairs dome, I personally feel like set rng objectives could spice out the rounds a bit but what do I know i'm just a marine.

Ps. I do appreciate all the work the Staff does for the server don't take this the wrong way.

[Mech__Warrior]

I often play on low-pop and about the only thing I can say is that the rounds are usually one-sided; both sides have limited numbers, if xenos don't immediately start building their nest and evolving crucial castes they will lose, and if the marines have any sort of interruption on the Sully or their medbay is not populated or command isn't populated or they lose two of their specs at the beginning of landing. I understand that it is indeed lowpop and these things happen, but it's pretty one-sided.

[notasyndie]

Im fine with it expect all the ff..........

[Eenkogneeto]

Update to previous post.
I feel that Hunters (Elite and Ancient) Are very far out of the norm in terms of single alien power compared to any other, Including ravagers who are supposed to be a straight upgrade. You have to get elite ravager to be on par with an elite hunter and even at ancient an ancient hunter will be better and can be obtained significantly faster.
I also feel that carriers, particularly in low pop, are annoying, but I have no idea how to fix it because their entire reason for existence is the problem. Basically, a mature carrier leaves the hive and can (Almost) guarantee she breaks 9 helmets. 10 for elite. And that's not including skull fractures due to hugger removal if they don't equip a new helmet. There's only...What, 120 helmets in the venders and maybe 80 in the prep areas? It is not an infinite supply and if marines can't even be assed to pick up AP mags how can you expect them to pick up helmets, which can't be backpacked or anything? My hatred stems from seeing not one but two carriers in a low pop game and we had NO RO. That said, I find it incredibly fun to PLAY a carrier because the ground quickly becomes littered with broken helmets even in high pop.
Now, other than that I also feel marines are (Currently) significantly over nerfed because of outlier robust people performing incredibly well with some items. Boris may kill tons of aliens with quickfire, but what's rarely mentioned is the marines he unloads into and the rate at which his ammo runs out. (I myself usually take 8 magazines of AP when running Quickfire build and frequently return to sulaco for restocking.) And besides that, I feel that some actual tangible punishment should be given to consistently shitty play as a Alien, Young runners going off and dying has become a meme, But it gets old fast seeing your larva stock dwindle with no possibility to stop it.

PS: Research is so fucking useless please add content to it, And no I don't mean useless resin paste, Chitin armor that doesn't protect your head, and antiacid spray that's only useful for cockblocking the aliens by anti-aciding the escape pods. Everything good they get is nerfed, Look at how much resources they lost (50 glass and 50 metal) for no reason other than to render them reliant on convincing cargo to give them materials if they want to build anything but grenades. Which, speaking of, are about the only damn thing besides cloners that are even worth making. (Mesons are too but someone claimed they were being nerfed soon, And supercells are very situationally useful too.)

[Yacobpo157]

The combat is balanced more to the Aliens' side, as a hugger puts you down immediately. I'm pretty sure the server is trying to have its own adjusted lore, but until they actually do that us Aliens fans are constantly annoyed at the prevalent idiocies you can find. Whether the M41A not using LAPHE rounds and not delimbing xenomorphs, or humans not being completely fucked over by multiple normal pulse rounds. USCMC responses have gone from "There can be no evidence of this event, or general panic would ensure. We cannot issue escape pods to the crew, we're sorry but you need to die." Or WY denying the CL's pleads for help to "RIP you, maybe be competent next time?" Mother also went from being helpful and RP-y to commic relief to dchat and "memey" as other people have said. And for a medium RP server, roleplay for Marines and Xenomorphs is painfully lacking.

Add in reason to RP, either balance it to 50/50 win rate or just say you want the xenomorphs to win more even though the lore says otherwise and keep the combat system how it is to achieve this. Give better IC reasons for admins doing something. Like instead of MOTHER saying "Bombing Northern cave system for kill remaining xenomorphs planetside" when the Sulaco has been boarded to kill the few marines left in the caves holding out who aren't infected, even though the Sulaco's guns can't penetrate the cave system for the marines, say there is like a cave collapse. Now apply that to other scenarios. Finally, either add in your own adjusted lore or actually use the lore given. Whether it is the SS13 original board in atmos talking about a department not apart of the lore, or the lack of a USCMC RT.

Just my grain of salt, hope this helped.

[Casany]

You know the win rates recently have been 60-40 in favor of the marines?

[Jroinc1]

You know the win rates recently have been 60-40 in favor of the marines?

No, because staff hoard that info?

[Casany]

No, because staff hoard that info?

no one ever asks

[Jroinc1]

no one ever asks

I've asked. Haven't been told.

[Casany]

I've asked. Haven't been told.

well now you know