Nostalgia

OPIE

<div class="IPBDescription">In Spirit of the New Year</div>It's been forever since I've posted on the forums but I do still play every now and then :)

I thought I would make a fun little topic about what players might miss from the early builds of the BETA that were just fun and random but we knew would eventually be fixed, balanced or removed for the sake of the games integrity.

I miss being able to capture every single alien Hive within 5 minutes of game start.

I miss Not having Fades and getting into stale mates on RockDown.

I miss Rock Down...(Seriously no one ever plays it anymore.)

I miss the flame thrower being an instant death certificate of anything not human that dare stepped in front of it.

I miss the old lerk flight model when you pressed space you shot up in the air a good few feet.

Thats just a start. Anything you guys miss from the beginning days of the build?

Koruyo

I miss the old shotgun. (but only if i play marine :P)

Heroman117

I miss it when grenade launchers did 500 damage, exploded on impact, and did no self damage... Or at least I miss them when I was the one using them. It was basically the same game as now, except the aliens were the ones trying to prevent the marines from getting a 2nd base, and failure to do so would much more swiftly and quickly... and brutally end the game; oh yeah and was also way laggier

saltybp53

I miss the the marine expansion room in Tram, when it was empty and had no props in it. Now there's a globe, stupid globe.

I miss Turret stack glitch.

I miss the 30 round clip and only 1 melee animation that was never in sync with actual melee.

I miss Fall 2009.

I miss when you could climb ladders in Tram, sneak up on lerks and axe them.

I miss the marine building vs. MAC building 90 page threads.

I miss people spamming drifter flares so the effect would glitch and be permanent on everyone.

Most of all, I miss junction with 16 players rapefest/lagfest.

scotty

I miss sentry spam....oh wait. :P

elodea

I miss beacon spam!!!

IeptBarakat

I miss gorge webs and the heavy machine gun.

Edit: Woops, I didn't read.

noa

I miss lerk snipe and ranged spores!

I miss marine tech points!

Koruyo

@ iept
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:)

Floodinator

I miss to good old Sniper the lerk had, and the ranged spores that were almost instant killing clouds.

Never will forget hive 1 leap <3 and the infest spam as com to prevent marines building on rockdown marinestart.

And the skulk bitespam bug (CC down in 4s)

kingmob

BTW this thread is cracking me up.

I miss buying shotguns all the time and the rifle disappearing from gameplay.

Obraxis

I miss spawning inside other marines.

endar

I miss the server.exe process being so unstable that whenever I manually killed it, no one thought to blame me.

IeptBarakat

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Sorry about that. Must've been an odd hour.

On topic: I do miss the humorous movement animation glitches where the marines were running circles on the floor sideways. And the bhop gorge.

naevorc

I miss watching videos and reading about the early builds while not having a rig capable of running NS2/most newer games. Wait- no I don't miss it :D

Heroman117

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Oh man this brings oh so happ- ...hmm lets just say amusing memories

SiniStarR

I miss MACS, Arcs, and drifters falling into the void.

swalk

I miss beacon reviving marines, it should cost res though.

Laosh'Ra

i sometimes miss drifters being insanely fast

Skware

Stacking buildings to make artificial stairs.


oh, and when the damage from spores stacked, grabbing 2 friends and making an instagib cloud outside of marine spawn, where the only way to escape was through the luck of server instability. xD

saltybp53

I miss Build 150, the first Official alpha version of ns2. If you remember playing this, share your moments!

I can take it even farther, I miss the Engine Test version of ns2. Wait, no not really :P

Edit:Too nostalgic, forgot the 2011 timeframe...

subshadow

You want real nostalgia?
'stopcommandermode'

Peabush

Babblers <3

Kalabalana

I miss the entire tech and damage system that existed nicely before 188.

Motig

Hmm from a gameplay perspective I probably miss the old Lerk Snipe and Spore abilities the most.

Kouji_San

My Fade used to blink way back in 2003, talk about nostalgia when seeing the Fade being back in business in 2011

Skipjack

I miss the NS1 feeling :(

Syknik

heh stopcommandermode, ahh that was always fun. Made me chuckle all the time. :) nostalgia moments for NS2.. hmm.. just spending countless hours finding bugs and submitting to the devs, all the crazy fun ones. :)

konata

I miss the dummies on Rockdown v1.