NS2 beta ideas and feedback

mobetta

<div class="IPBDescription">My view on ns2 beta</div>Ok so i never played ns1 so i have no knowledge of that game. I have limited knowledge on how ns2 will work when it goes gold but i would like to give some feedback on what i believe would be cool to do.

Gamemodes.

Ok from what ive seen the the beta is there is one game mode that is aliens v humans. U can build up and the objective is to take out the other teams commander station and spawns.

Cool game mode but i think it would be a little bit better if the maps where larger and when u spawned in ur main base would already be made. So when u start the game u dont start with nothing u have guns and shields and ammo and all that in the main base.

I think it would be cool to have a lagometer much like cod. The game as it is very laggy. I get bad connection and i cant really tell when im getting lag other then when people stop moving. Also i wish i got more fps. I got a $2000 pc and can hold 100 fps in crysis. Ns2 i get 40-70 on a good day. I view ns2 as a competitive game and u cant play a competitive game with fps under 125.

Another cool aspect would be to add a ingame irc chat client. If anyone here has played osu! before its a free pc game. It has a ingame irc chat and its pretty nice. Would be really cool in ns2 if u can just pull it up and get a scrim or match while in game and get the ip and never have to alt tab.

Shilorius

<!--quoteo(post=1838617:date=Mar 24 2011, 03:14 AM:name=mobetta)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mobetta @ Mar 24 2011, 03:14 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1838617"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Ok from what ive seen the the beta is there is one game mode that is aliens v humans. U can build up and the objective is to take out the other teams commander station and spawns.

Cool game mode but i think it would be a little bit better if the maps where larger and when u spawned in ur main base would already be made. So when u start the game u dont start with nothing u have guns and shields and ammo and all that in the main base.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The only oficiall map is tram. and tram is supposed to be one of the smaller maps. So there will be much bigger maps in the game. (Rockdown is just some sort of testmap)
BTW
I'm sure there will be a Mod that you start with a complete base at the game beginning.


<!--quoteo(post=1838617:date=Mar 24 2011, 03:14 AM:name=mobetta)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mobetta @ Mar 24 2011, 03:14 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1838617"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I think it would be cool to have a lagometer much like cod. The game as it is very laggy. I get bad connection and i cant really tell when im getting lag other then when people stop moving. Also i wish i got more fps. I got a $2000 pc and can hold 100 fps in crysis. Ns2 i get 40-70 on a good day. I view ns2 as a competitive game and u cant play a competitive game with fps under 125.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

there is no "LAG-o-Meter" but you can type net_stats in the console and see your ping and the server tickrate (which causes the most lag if it drops under 10)
Also r_stats to see your FPS (or just install the trial of fraps to see it)

<!--quoteo(post=1838617:date=Mar 24 2011, 03:14 AM:name=mobetta)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mobetta @ Mar 24 2011, 03:14 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1838617"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Another cool aspect would be to add a ingame irc chat client. If anyone here has played osu! before its a free pc game. It has a ingame irc chat and its pretty nice. Would be really cool in ns2 if u can just pull it up and get a scrim or match while in game and get the ip and never have to alt tab.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

You can use the Steam-group-chat for that, which can be shown in the steam overlay.
But I am not a chatter so I can't exactly say if a ingame IRC is necessary.
(Personally if I chat, i prefer the readyroom after a game)

mobetta

I just thought of something that might be impossible to do now. But maybe might be something that could be done later. The levels in ns2 right now are inside only maps. Idk if this is the case for all the levels but if so. It think it would be cool of there where randomly generated maps. The way ns2 is with the levels i think it could work. It would need some tweaking so its not a map that make it unbalanced but it would be a cool concept. U would need some kinda weird algorithm but that would be very cool if u had a game mode where it randomly generates a level for everyone. I think this is possible and would be cool because when people play they dont know the layout. They have to in fact search for the aliens and the humans.

I know this would be very hard to do but its something i think could work great for ns2. Would be cool if u could do something like this later on.