Player movement speed

Rico1

<div class="IPBDescription">How would you describe it?</div>Well, after playing SI for a couple of hours, ive decided to post a topic about this sort of thing.

Im sure most of the people who have played either this mod or TFC or any other arcade kind of mod have seen that the players in it move INCREDIBLY fast, the kind of fast you can only get when youre running away from a 3 headed lion/dog/insert scary animal here. So what im asking is, how fast would an average player move, or better yet, how would you describe the "general" gameplay speed? is it fast paced or is it somewhat tactical, kind of like CS or dod.

I really think movement speed makes or breaks a mod, specially those interested in teamplay because when youre playing as a team in a fast mod, all hell breaks loose when a couple of guys start running around you at 100 MPH and your whole team just starts bouncing up and down shooting at anything that looks weird. I just dont think that it helps teamwork at all, it just encourages deathmatching.

I know that speed depends on what you carry and the amount of things you carry, but im just asking for the general "feel" of the game.

humbaba

The general feel is very tactical for the marines. They are reasonably slow (not too slow). The aliens have some pretty high speeds. Level 1 with speed upgrades is a little dynamo. It really depends. NS is so varied that there is probobly a creature or weapons outfitting out there that fills every niche. I recall many playtests where we had to fiddle with the speeds to make em just right. Where we stand right now, each alien and tha marines are basically balanced for their firepower and other factors, and it all works out just peachy.

If I had to give a final verdict on speed though, I'd have to say tacical.



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Rico1

Heh, thanks, thats all i wanted to know. I just really hate watching people bounce around a room and jumping like madmen shooting at walls. Makes me feel like im playing with frenzied monkeys  <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->