Gorgeous was probably the worst, added new boring, non-competitive ideas and reduced performance.
Agree. I don't have a favorite update, but if there was a least favorite update, gorgeous would be it by a long, long shot.
Gorge tunnels weren't necessary for the game, still aren't, Descent is quite bleh IMO, and that build just demolished performance and introduced game-breaking bugs like 10-15 seconds of HDD grinding when entering tunnels and certain situations to the point where I had to stop playing until they patched the models to reduce memory usage.
If I had to pick a favorite, I would've said somewhere before 249. I really think things were running great at some point, before gorgeous.
While I generally agree, gorgeous was a game-retarding patch, descent is actually by far one of the better maps in my opinion.
When it first came out, I was kind of disappointed with the general aesthetic (feels stifled and samey, even if the areas themselves do have some variation to their theme).
But then summit is hardly a looker (something clicked the other day and I realised the comp lab textures all look horribly dated), and I feel the gameplay is easily on par with summit. Yes, I said it!
And tunnels, sure, they're not necessary, but they are fun, and they do work.
However I really do wish they would put the requirements back up to bio2 to stop these retard gorges burning all their res on a structure that's often essentially useless in the very early stages of the game (no res for hydras and in pubs you can't rely on skulks keeping you safe all the time)
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249 was luaJIT
250-251 were the balance patches
252 was Reinforced
252-257 was recovering NS2 to a playable state
When it first came out, I was kind of disappointed with the general aesthetic (feels stifled and samey, even if the areas themselves do have some variation to their theme).
But then summit is hardly a looker (something clicked the other day and I realised the comp lab textures all look horribly dated), and I feel the gameplay is easily on par with summit. Yes, I said it!
And tunnels, sure, they're not necessary, but they are fun, and they do work.
However I really do wish they would put the requirements back up to bio2 to stop these retard gorges burning all their res on a structure that's often essentially useless in the very early stages of the game (no res for hydras and in pubs you can't rely on skulks keeping you safe all the time)
Which one was gorgeous then?
Something 230ish, I think. Before my time. Shortly.
This needs to be an animated taunt
Definately, dammit that video got me watching my own videos... Selfprocrastenation sounds wrong :-\"