Gonna be hard to gauge balance until everyone stops picking gorge in pubs so actual matches can happen, but so far looks like babblers are a funny but useless party trick, and gorge tunnels are amazingly executed and will add to the metagame. Haven't had a game last long enough to try out the...
...and the biggest game changer for me is first person spectate
Gorgeous Changelog ? Natural Selection 2
Edit: Moving Skulks are so insanely easy to shoot now I feel depressed, no more dancing round rines.
Leap Slam does aoe damage in a limited area around where you land, it has higher damage on impact than ground slam but its dps is lower due to the casting time required. It's extremely useful for getting in and out of situations, and is also great for dealing some quick damage with the slam...
BM is always a keystone for my hardcore marauder builds, removes the need for mana and lets you focus purely on life, life regen, 2h maces, and stun threshold so you can just spam ground slam / leap slam and steamroll the entire game. I just run the game externally through steam, steam is just...
Been playing on and off for closed beta, once it went open beta I started grinding hardcore league, went ranger->templar-> and now I'm leveling up a blood magic marauder. If you play hardcore and want to party hit me up on steam.
I heard they picked up an additional game designer to help em out, hopefully we start seeing some interesting gameplay in the future, lately the game plays like slop because the pub environment just does not work well with any game where even one guy not pulling his weight can be a death...
A workaround for origin (or any similar programs) is to symbolically link folders between your ssd and hdd on a case by case basis. If you want BF3 to load faster you keep the game folder on your ssd, but if you install some game like Fifa and don't care about load times and want to conserve ssd...
I got excellent just by putting in the guild name and website of my old wow stuff and checking all the games I've played when I was younger. If I get in I'll hand out the key to someone at random.