Is Ns Better Than Cs?

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  • tlengtleng Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9503Members
    Is NS better than CS comrade? What was that? Was that a "Nyet"? I hear the weather in those Siberian Gulag camps are very pleasant.

    BTW does anyone play DOD? Actually I'll start a separate post about DOD.
  • HBNayrHBNayr Join Date: 2002-07-13 Member: 930Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--SoulSkorpion+Nov 25 2002, 08:09 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SoulSkorpion @ Nov 25 2002, 08:09 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Anything is better than Counterstrike. It's boring, unoriginal, requires no skill, is full of lamers and cheaters.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    OK, I'll have to disagree wtih you a bit. It can GET boring, much quicker, for myself, than any other mod I've played, as it seems to become, for me, either a rush for a choke point, camp, or just get killed in seconds (I'm so bad, it seems, that it would be easier for me to just type kill into the console at spawn). Then wait for one team to win, and repeat. Over and over. NS offers me something new so much, I can't imagine getting bored often. I can lose myself so much that I play for 12 hours at a time, until I see dawn crack though my windows, and I don't even realize how much time has actually passed. I can play 20 matches, and every single one plays out differently.

    Unoriginal? It certainly seems that way now, but people aren't calling the imitators team deathmatch clones, they are calling them Counterstrike clones. Team deathmatch had been done before, surely, but Counterstrike isn't unoriginal. For its time, it was innovative, and definitely offered something new.

    It does require skill, otherwise I wouldn't end up with such horrid scores. Unless I have less skill than someone skill-less. Perhaps I was born with anti-skill.

    As far as the lamers and cheaters part goes, that, tragically, is mostly correct. But, with a bit of searching, you can usually find a server that is admined very well.

    To be honest, I tried Counterstrike a bit before it went retail, as it was highly advised by some friends of mine. I tried it out, but for me, the pinnacle of online play had come with Gloom, with long, involved, complicated matches. Counterstrike, in my opinion, was very simplistic in comparison. Granted, there were fun matches, but it wasn't able to hold my attention very long. I returned to my Gloom. After that, I moved onto Jailbreak, TFC, Science & Industry, and most recently, of course, NS, which I have been anticipating for quite some time.

    So I prefer NS more, but one game is designed for quick, easy play, in which signing onto a server for 15 minutes and leaving is quite alright. The other is designed to captivate you for hours at a time, requiring a time dedication many can't give. So the question is, which type of gameplay would you prefer right now?

    -Ryan!


    If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
    -- Henry J. Tillman
  • StoneburgStoneburg Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8174Members
    I actually think CS is "better" then NS.

    I've played CS for over 2 years, NS for less then a month. CS is pretty much *always* fun, while NS can be frustrating and sometimes even boring. Obviously the games are miles apart, so they are hard to compare, but from a pure enjoyment factor I will have to put CS a bit infront of NS at the moment. NS is still a great game though.

    Oh, and I haven't seen a cheater in... umm... can't even remember the last time. And usually when I say "Follow Me" 90% of the people on my team follows. Bomb gets planted and defended, alternatively guarded or defused. Hostages gets rescued, VIP's are protected... then again, I only play on CoFR servers <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Texas_RangerTexas_Ranger Join Date: 2002-11-24 Member: 9755Members
    edited November 2002
    There will never be anything better then CS... It is on its own plateau and you can't touch it.. Number one game in the world like 3 years running? how can you beat that...

    OK ok NS Rox0r but better then CS? only time will tell
    It is however the best mod of this year or maybe even the last 2 years(Day of Defeat probably best last year), though specialist is a close 2nd.

    Texas Ranger
  • Alien_BobAlien_Bob Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8185Members
    I quite like CS, but NS plays the way CS *should* play - teamwork. The only "teamwork" you usually see in CS is each team staying in a big group as they sprint towards each for a 30 second deathmatch in the middle of the map. Everyone dead, next round, repeat. It's very rare to see the counterterrorists slowly moving towards their objective, securing areas and peeking round corners while covering each other, and few terrorists bother defening the hostages or trying plant the bomb. Most of the time it turns into a team deathmatch and nothing more. Still, it can be fun and I do play it from time to time (but like so many others here, I've played little but NS since Halloween).

    NS (obviously) forces you to work as a team or you're going to lose. Playing it CS-style is going to get you respawned very quickly. About the only CS-type tactic you see is the initial skulk-rush which can often end the game in the first minute. Nothing wrong with that, except it makes for very boring games. If the skulks hold back for a minute or two the game will often last for at least an hour and be much more fun for everyone.

    CS and NS are just different games and appeal to different players. It's just a matter of personal preference.
  • Harry_S_TrumanHarry_S_Truman Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9568Members
    What kind of stupid topic is this?

    What is better gasoline or milk?

    Depends on if you are going someplace in your car or want a bowl of cereal.
  • SupernornSupernorn Best. Picture. Ever. Made. Ever. Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7608Members, Constellation
    edited February 2005
    <!--QuoteBegin--Harry S. Truman+Nov 28 2002, 03:45 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (-Harry S. Truman @ Nov 28 2002, 03:45 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->What kind of stupid topic is this?

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    its got to its fifth page so far.
    if its a stupid question, dont encourage it to continue.

    <span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'><i>No really. What kind of stupid topic is this? This post has been edited to protect the innocent and to stop insane haunting me with posts from the past!</i></span>
  • Markeo900Markeo900 Join Date: 2002-11-17 Member: 9041Members
    Natural Seletion requires brains and teamwork, Counter-Strike requires reactions, luck, a foul mouth, a good connection, and the overwhelming ability to think everyone is cheating and sucks.

    NS is better than CS, but won't be more popular, because it require more than 5 brain cells in your head.

    Nuff said.
  • 123123 Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9890Members
    yes it is better i mean me myself is in a cs clan but i think NS OWNS CS all over ns forever
  • EzekielEzekiel Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3006Members
    both are **obscenity** sick games, but you cant compare em
  • ThalamusThalamus Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9499Members
    CS requires ALOT more practice than ns.
    Cs has been out for about 3-4 years now and alot of plaers have been playing that long too
    ALL people trying cs for the first time get rapped so hard its amazing anyone starts playing, but if you give it about 3 months and you soon start killing and getting alot better. At least with ns it is still new and everyone sucks atm
    dispite what they think. Teamwork just doesnt happen in public games i,m affraid but then cs was never designed as a public game and still isnt.
    NS is no different, designed to be played between two teams who work together like a clan but stick it on publics and like what was mentioned in a different topic the marines just suck because they rely on team work more than the aliens do.
  • Dauntl3ssDauntl3ss Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7737Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Thalamus+Nov 26 2002, 05:15 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Thalamus @ Nov 26 2002, 05:15 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Although I will condem that sentance ns = team work and cs = 1337 speak kiddies<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    you know what? i hate that 3 in my nick, if it havent been for someone on battle.net using Dauntless allready i would have used that, i feel like a little kid with that 3, but i got no choice <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • 2Fatal2Fatal Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4153Members
    From an overall game product:
    CS is better than NS. CS has better animations so you know when you've scored a hit on someone or something, likewise you know when you've been hit as well. The CS servers can host up to 32 players on high computers and connections, I've seen NS servers that barely can play 24 (simply a comparison of server performance). The balance in CS is better than NS. Issues of team balance in CS can be easily solved.

    So answering the question, "Is Ns better than Cs?" given the present builds of each game the answer is "No."

    As far as which game has more potential, NS is king. NS is a much more dynamic game, and could easily be the next great game concept for the next gen online games. Great work NS team, you guys got my full support!
  • Umbraed_MonkeyUmbraed_Monkey Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9922Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--[2]Fatal+Nov 28 2002, 03:55 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ([2]Fatal @ Nov 28 2002, 03:55 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->From an overall game product:
    CS is better than NS. CS has better animations so you know when you've scored a hit on someone or something, likewise you know when you've been hit as well. The CS servers can host up to 32 players on high computers and connections, I've seen NS servers that barely can play 24 (simply a comparison of server performance). The balance in CS is better than NS. Issues of team balance in CS can be easily solved.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    From an overall game product:
    Pong is better than CS. Its got better animation...you can see everything that happens without changing the view. When you hit something you know it, theres even a sound indicator. Performance-wise, a CS server can host a game of up to 32 people. On my computer (1.2Ghz Athlon), i can have over 100 simutaneous game of Pong going at once. As well, i have yet to witness any cheating, or 1337talking in Pong. Finally the balance in Pong is better than CS, simply because the balance in Pong is <i>perfect</i>. every team is equal in every way. In CS the teams have different hardware, have different starting points, and different objectives.

    <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • JRockJRock Join Date: 2002-11-26 Member: 10032Members
    Well let's put it this way - I stopped playing CS (and uninstalled HalfLife) over two years ago when v1.0 of CS came out and it sorta sucked and the community first began to get overloaded with cheaters, whiners, and elitists.

    Natural Selection has caused me to REINSTALL HalfLife - something I never expected to do again and become addicted enough that it's the only game I play when I have time (not as often as I'd like), and I even went so far as to purchase a t-shirt. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • HarpoonHarpoon Join Date: 2002-10-06 Member: 1448Members
    Well, ironically, there's ALOT of cheaters in NS. By that I mean basically wallhackers, who can use the open GL hacks to see thru walls, add extra crosshairs and make the models bright and easy to see. There's no VAC in NS. Ever since HL guard wallhack block came out, and valve incorperated its own into VAC... well, you can't cheat in CS anymore, except for aimbots which are supar-obvious.

    In NS there's no VAC, and nothing stopping anyone from getting their own special "hive sight"
  • 2Fatal2Fatal Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4153Members
    edited November 2002
    Well, that's why I said NS is a good game concept. It would be REALLY hard to detect a cheater in NS, whereas in CS it is much easier. That's an inherent problem if this game ever becomes really popular and competitive. Cheats may not seem to make much of a difference at first, but when you get nit-picky, it does a make a noticable difference. That's also why CS is a better product than NS is now. But I still play NS more <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • JRockJRock Join Date: 2002-11-26 Member: 10032Members
    And clearly the Marines would benefit the most being able to track and shoot attackers, especially skulks, extremely easily with their near-hitscan bullets.
  • KaMiKaZe1KaMiKaZe1 Join Date: 2002-11-18 Member: 9196Members
    Alright, I must say this game is 100x better then CS. I have not fired up CS once since I downloaded NS, and I doubt I ever will. When/If they add the new play modes like Marine vs Marine and Alien vs Alien, I am sure it will become 100x more played then CS. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • SupernornSupernorn Best. Picture. Ever. Made. Ever. Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7608Members, Constellation
    edited February 2005
    ok, i think ive got the answer here...

    <span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'><i>Sure I did... Suuure...This post has been edited to protect the innocent and to stop insane haunting me with posts from the past!</i></span>
  • BixenBixen Join Date: 2002-11-30 Member: 10282Members
    Cstrike is better no offense it takes more skill trust me on this one. You're gonna like the way you look I guaranteed it! <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • SupernornSupernorn Best. Picture. Ever. Made. Ever. Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7608Members, Constellation
    edited February 2005
    <span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'><i>This post has been edited to protect the innocent and to stop insane haunting me with posts from the past!</i></span>
  • BrutusBrutus Join Date: 2002-10-20 Member: 1555Members
    I don't think NS is better then CS. I think they are different games. I enjoy CS more, mainly because most of the people I know play CS more then NS.

    Super, you can't judge comments made about CS here. Go to CS forums and ask, and you will hear CS, go to TFC forum and it will be be TFC.
  • MethodMethod Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8848Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--supernorn2000+Nov 30 2002, 04:07 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (supernorn2000 @ Nov 30 2002, 04:07 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->
    Just wait until all them PC mags put this on their cover disks.
    the community will grow...more people will play...and NS will become widely known throughout.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    As much as I would like to see that happen, I don't believe NS will outgrow its niche (like DoD). Simply because of the old engine, above-average learning curve, and the fact that you can win money at CS and many other games. I'm sure NS will recieve an honorable mention in several magazines, but not close to the attention that CS recieved.

    NS lacks flexability that CS does to reduce the # of cheaters. This makes it hard for the average gamer to increase performance or even change things they like better (for example weapon models).

    As far as cheats go. It is a LOT harder to detect cheats in NS. Simply because of hive site and motion tracking. In addition, there is no anti-cheat software out yet.
  • SupernornSupernorn Best. Picture. Ever. Made. Ever. Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7608Members, Constellation
    edited February 2005
    ok, let the post be...it was just an opinion poll...and yes i should be nicer to people Flayra, <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> but im under the impression that there are more insane people in the world than i previously suspected.....

    <span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'><i>Look in the Mirror lately? This post has been edited to protect the innocent and to stop insane haunting me with posts from the past!</i></span>
  • WaffleHouseNinjaWaffleHouseNinja Join Date: 2002-11-27 Member: 10077Members
    If it wasnt for all the cheaters in CS, it would be a great game. But now since bout every server runs into bout 10 cheaters a day it gets kind of **obscenity**. CS takes alot of skill and with cheats it just ruins it for the rest of the people. Right now I perfer CS more then NS only b/c I know alot more people in CS but I am slowly bringing them in to the NS world.
  • AnachronismAnachronism Bontãgo Programmer Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10701Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Arasmus+Nov 26 2002, 03:02 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Arasmus @ Nov 26 2002, 03:02 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--Daxx22+Nov 26 2002, 12:02 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Daxx22 @ Nov 26 2002, 12:02 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I imagine the next year will see many "NS concept Clones", both in HL modding, and commercial games.  A merging of FPS games and RTS games had to come, and Natural Section beat all the bad@ss commercial companies to the punch.
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    Um.....Battlezone. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    or Uprising, or the soon-to-be done Savage.

    -Anachronism
  • tekwormtekworm Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10685Members
    CS is so good because it is so precise....it really meausures skill/reaction times...stuff like that, whereas NS is based more on stategy and teamplay/organization..

    apples and oranges if you ask me <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • ShingyBoyShingyBoy Join Date: 2002-11-17 Member: 9086Members
    Actually it really depends on the whatever u r looking for...
    U mite like a different game or MOD other than these 2 saying they are better but there is not better or worse really its only 1 persons opinion in their eyes that can say this is **obscenity** and this is good..
  • SaltySalty Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 6970Members
    depends really playing CS competivly like in cal or a pug is so much more fun then NS compiticion imo. There are more tactics then in an NS match.

    pubs in NS arent to bad. hellah better then pubs in cs. I dont get called a haxor noob camper when i hear a couple guys runing to flank us and kill em. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> But after a while of NS you cant really learn anything new and gets dull. Theres no recoil so you cant practice with lmg or hmg. Grenades are pretty easy. Flying is fun to practice but u dont get to be a lerk all the time.

    And if for some reason threw the divine intervention of god ns gets the same fanbase as cs dont think that the same kids u hate in cs arent gonna play.
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