Hmm...how Did You Start Play Ns?
JackPoT_OwNeR
Join Date: 2002-11-18 Member: 9207Members
Join Date: 2002-11-18 Member: 9207Members
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I head about it from a friend. downloaded it as soon as it came out. got to play it about a week after as I was busy that week and nearly every server ( not that there were that many ) was jampacked all the time.
Played aliens from the start and though didn't have much of a clue at the start, as manual was rather hard going and so I skipped it, I enjoyed it immensly.
There was no indication of when it would be released, so I didn't really think on it much after that.
Then, about week before its release, Penny-Arcade stated that it would be released in, well, a week.
So there I was, Nov. 3rd, at MPCON XI (a giant 150 person LAN, basically) when I remembered that it should have been released by then. So I downloaded it lickity-split (MPCON is held at the University of Michigan - Dearborn, and as such has university-speed connections) and got on (It was about 1:00 or 2:00 am so most of the LAN based gameplay had died down, so I wasn't missing out on much by playing a game online while at a giant LAN).
It was really cool, that first night, but the pings were AWFUL. >500 across the board on every server I tried.
THANK GOODNESS FOR PATCH 1.01!!!!!!!!
This was a CS server, and 2 days after release...
And yes, i liked it the first try..
more then i liked CS the first time <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> Me too.
Also, with there being precious few NS public servers in the UK for the first fortnight, I mostly played on bookable servers with the clan, which was very handy as we could all learn the game together.
and installed it that night. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> I've been playing most every night since. Sometimes till 3 or 4 am. I think it's a fabulous game.
I live in the sticks and the best I can get is a 28.8 modem connection and it doesn't work too bad. There are times when the lag gets real bad but what the hey!
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Manah was telling me about this mod and showing me screenshots, but I must confess, at the time I just didn't "get" it. I've never been a big fan of Real Time Strategy (RTS) games. I haven't played Starcraft (which everyone is comparing this mod to), but I had played Command and Conquer (another comparison), and they just seemed ho-hum to me. Point here, the little computer guys move here, point there, the little computer guys go there. Big deal. I was also disappointed at the "aliens" in this mod. I guess I was expecting Giger and instead I see a dog with spines for legs, another dog standing on two legs, a pudgy badger and something that looks like a cross between an elephant and a triceratops....
However, as the mod progressed I began to take more interest. The screenshots were looking VERY interesting. Incredible detail for the old HL engine. And then the trailer came out and I was like "Oh, wow!" I had to get this mod and try it out.
I was very impressed with my first experience. I was very pleased that the mod emphasized team play and penalized lone rangers (wander off alone and get eaten). I was disappointed at the number of jerks that thought this would be a romp in the park like CS and wouldn't work as a team. But I guess that was to be expected, because nothing like this has been seen before. ...
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And on the front page was Natural Selection is finally out(or something like that), me not knowing what that was thought *I may as well give it a go, Im bored of CS and DoD at the mo...*
Now who knows how long later here i am on a mods forum typing things about the game,
Im glad i downloaded it, its the best game i have played all year(Mods AND Proper games).
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