Originally Posted by Eternaly_Lost

It would be overpowering.
The parasite is quick and easy to use right from the start.
The aliens if they could see the parasited marines on the minimap would have a complete location on them at all times. Watch the minimap, there a marine walking to cargo. The marines have pg's in these locations, vent, double, ms, sat mon. all from just watching the minimap of 1 parasited marine using a pg. The marines can not move quicky and so they don't get marked completely. You can see that par marine jumping around but you can not tell were. If you could see exactly were they were parsite would have to be moved up, to at least hive 2 weapon, maybe on the lerk. It is cheap, and is not to be the alien's mt.

Lets look at this from another view in hypothecial. In case you can't see what i mean.
The lmg has a second fire mode, called tag.
The tag can be shot 3 in a shot time, but the marine lose some rof of his lmg to do so, after a short time he can fire one again, or after a little long pause 3 at once. These are hit scan weapons with a shot speed of inf.
This tag make it so the hit alien takes 10 damage, always shows up on the screen as the MT circles, and shows up on the minimap.

The marines would have something that is a free, almost as good as (and sometimes better then) MT.

Is that not overpowering?

Maybe if the marines could remove the parasite by the armory (or something like that) it might work....

Erm... parasite is the aproximate early alien equivalent to MT. They get SoF later because in theory later in the game parasite is going to be used much less (less skulks, more powerful marines).

MT is good because it tells you about aliens no marines have encountered yet. You can see aliens coming fresh from the hive, and where they are headed on the minimap.

The 10 damage is irrelevent to the example when giving the ability to marines. Damage works different for the two sides.

Aliens CAN determine where pgs are based on parasited marines movement. I've done this before. I don't know if it comes up here alot, but i've been on servers where parasited marines are reminded not to use the pgs or take part in secret rushes.

It takes me two seconds to look at the minimap, and look at the sprite on my screen and figure out where marines are. This two seconds may be significant in game time, maybe the minimap should update at slower intervals, much like MT does on the hud.

If you see people on SoF across the map, you know they are near a sensory chamber. It's not streching it too far to say the aliens should know which sensory chamber the information is being relayed from, and it's not that hard to figure out anyway.

The largest difference I see this taking, is removing the "skill" from determining where marines are based on sof and para (it will be more convenient, more players will be able to do it), and allowing players who might otherwise not have the time to look around to do it. (running through a hallway while responding to one thing, and watching parasited marines elsewhere.

If you want I can effectively sit out a game. I will hide somewhere and just relay the information to all the aliens about where parasited marines are. It's something anyone should be able to do, and only really matters when you have people dedicated to parasiting.

Keep in mind also, the closer you get, the more accurate your reading of para on the hud will be. You might not be able to tell a marine is hiding in the corner of a room from across the map, but you will know before you enter the room. Getting the information sooner doesn't matter because the marine is also likely to move by then.

One more note on your marine tag analogy, hiding is much more vital to aliens than it is to marines. Once marines initiate combat in an area (rt, hive) you know they are there, and hiding isn't usually an option for them. There is a reason why motion tracking only works on moving aliens, and parasite/sof works on stationary marines also.