WTF!
Know pain
Join Date: 2012-09-04 Member: 157674Members
Join Date: 2012-09-04 Member: 157674Members
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And trust me, there were gorges. There was pretty much everything. Multiple times, over and over. After crashing, I went lerk three times, dying and having enough res to replace the lerks every time, and then had enough for fade. By the end, you can see the p.res on the screenshot. Just not much teamwork from either team or just really bad timing or something.
Halfway through the game I crashed (was com) and started playing.
... I don't even want to talk about this round anymore, just thinking about it makes my brain hurt.
Nice way to send off 223... let it be gone.
At the end we got so used to seeing massive arcs trains that if we saw another it was just "oh look an arc train, meh".
But yes at the 85 min mark most of us were "oh god just let it end".
However I was only keeping the game going by constantly spamming ink to block scans, so I imagine aliens lost immediately to ARCs as I left.
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Sigh, it was definitely a weird game. I had all upgrades relatively early when you only had 2 hives and no fades (we had pressured your nodes pretty early)... plus something like 120 team res... and res was flowing with 5 res nodes...and we marines just couldn't finish. I'm not sure what people were shooting at in the hive room, because 5 people with Weps 3/Arm 3 should have taken down a hive fast.
nxzl.Villain pointed it out in voice at some point around the 50 min mark. "Look at the scoreboard," he said. He was at a 4:1 K:D ratio, and everyone else was at 1:3 K:D (average). I assure you, we were not trying to turtle at all.
I too just wanted it to end. I had work in a couple of hours and needed sleep. Eventually, I just had to bail at the 90 minute mark to get sleep. Lol.
In NS1, epic games would last roughly 2 hours, and it would happen every now and then (way more frequently than in NS2). I have to agree with Know Pain that it wasn't fun... but in NS1, it was fun. It felt like in NS1, in those long epic games, it would feel more dynamic. There were opportunities to make that game-changing play -- almost strategy mixed with a little bit of luck and element of surprise. But in NS2, it seems like it's primarily a strategy of who can push for more territory (either RTs and/or hive rooms)...and in the late game, this type of play is extremely slow moving. I'm probably not describing this very well, what with my 3 hours of sleep here at work, but I'm hoping some of you know what I mean. I think it has to do a little with mobility as well (e.g. hive rush, cc placements, etc.). Power nodes and slow moving, non-beacon-able/telaportable exos don't help.
In NS1 we had dynamic res-flow, now in NS2, when both teams have their territory, they just have too many resources. In long games in NS1 I had to earn my lifeform, now I just have to survive long enough and block the marines from killing RTs. And when they managed to kill a RT in NS1, I still had the feeling that I can do something by killing them.
I think 'dynamics' is one of the keywords, I'm still for RFK.
Most of the longer games were really fun for me in NS1. In NS2 they are like siege maps. Without a siege room.