Pugs: Ns At It's Best :-)
Jane
Seriously!? Join Date: 2003-07-01 Member: 17835Members, Constellation
Seriously!? Join Date: 2003-07-01 Member: 17835Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">I just had to share this with people</div> Ok, if you know anything about me you know that I play NS way too much, but what can I say, I am so hopelessly addicted. NS is so much fun, and it seems with every new aspect of it, the enjoyment increases. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> I just had to share my new found love for NS, go ahead and call me a nub for just now finding out about PUGs, but I've been pubbing for a year, and just found this. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Ok obviously not everyone is going to agree with me, but still, my new thing for NS is playing PUGs, and it rocks! A PUG is a pick up game, and they are run just like scrims would be for clans, but normally you just have a group of 6 random people who want to play, versus another random group of 6 people who want to play. Friday night we put together a team of 6 and found a clan to play, and in less then an hour jumped into our first PUG as ??pug:name.?? ?? It was awesome, after a few minutes preparation we had a strat figured out, and roles were given. We??ve been playing non stop since that first game, and our 6 person team has become much more then that. We??ve played vet clans, lots of other different levels of CAL clans, a LAN party of friends who really didn??t have their act together (or so says my friend who was their ringer), and even another PUG team. It??s great fun, win or loose, the people are nice, and the games are good. It??s also a neat way to get a feel for what different clans are like, you can tell a little about their attitude from playing them which is cool since I??m still kind of looking for a clan to join. Now that I??ve been playing PUG games though, I don??t know if it would even be worth it to join a clan, these guys I play with are far more skilled and dedicated then any clan I could get into, and I get to play in every match that I want to basically, which wouldn??t be the case if I was in a clan. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
All in all, I guess I can??t say this is the best part of NS because I obviously haven??t experienced everything about NS, but I have experienced many different aspects of NS, and in my humble opinion playing PUGs is better then it all. I think it is more fun then being an admin, having reserved seats on a lot of awesome servers so you can play there whenever you want to, being in a ??fun?? clan, being in a ??I practice a lot clan?? (I got a feel for what this was like, but wasn??t a full member), or pubbing regardless of whether or not it??s a server of really good friends, really talented players, or anyone.
<u><b>SUMMARY:</b></u>
1. For experienced clan players who want to play in pugs (we expect you to be good with ff on and all that jazz, we play top clans, so new players are not quite as welcome here normally, sorry) then join -> #pugx
2. If you are a clan of any skill level or a pug team of any skill level and are looking for a team to play then then goto -> #pugx
3. For anyone who played in our pug team inquire within #wage if you would like to "try out" for the clan we made, we're registered for CAL, and we hope to be ready to play for this coming Saturday. A few more of our guys need to register but we have 6-7.
(http://www.caleague.com/?page=teaminfo&div=natsl&id=542)
4. We had a channel for people who wanted to get into pug/ clan play that might not be very experienced with ff on etc., but when we got enough to scrim it was basically pub v. pub with tourney mode on, so we're giving that up, sorry.
5. For information about how to get into clan play, or for information about Panda training sessions which will help for clan or pug play then goto -> #findnsclan
Ok obviously not everyone is going to agree with me, but still, my new thing for NS is playing PUGs, and it rocks! A PUG is a pick up game, and they are run just like scrims would be for clans, but normally you just have a group of 6 random people who want to play, versus another random group of 6 people who want to play. Friday night we put together a team of 6 and found a clan to play, and in less then an hour jumped into our first PUG as ??pug:name.?? ?? It was awesome, after a few minutes preparation we had a strat figured out, and roles were given. We??ve been playing non stop since that first game, and our 6 person team has become much more then that. We??ve played vet clans, lots of other different levels of CAL clans, a LAN party of friends who really didn??t have their act together (or so says my friend who was their ringer), and even another PUG team. It??s great fun, win or loose, the people are nice, and the games are good. It??s also a neat way to get a feel for what different clans are like, you can tell a little about their attitude from playing them which is cool since I??m still kind of looking for a clan to join. Now that I??ve been playing PUG games though, I don??t know if it would even be worth it to join a clan, these guys I play with are far more skilled and dedicated then any clan I could get into, and I get to play in every match that I want to basically, which wouldn??t be the case if I was in a clan. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
All in all, I guess I can??t say this is the best part of NS because I obviously haven??t experienced everything about NS, but I have experienced many different aspects of NS, and in my humble opinion playing PUGs is better then it all. I think it is more fun then being an admin, having reserved seats on a lot of awesome servers so you can play there whenever you want to, being in a ??fun?? clan, being in a ??I practice a lot clan?? (I got a feel for what this was like, but wasn??t a full member), or pubbing regardless of whether or not it??s a server of really good friends, really talented players, or anyone.
<u><b>SUMMARY:</b></u>
1. For experienced clan players who want to play in pugs (we expect you to be good with ff on and all that jazz, we play top clans, so new players are not quite as welcome here normally, sorry) then join -> #pugx
2. If you are a clan of any skill level or a pug team of any skill level and are looking for a team to play then then goto -> #pugx
3. For anyone who played in our pug team inquire within #wage if you would like to "try out" for the clan we made, we're registered for CAL, and we hope to be ready to play for this coming Saturday. A few more of our guys need to register but we have 6-7.
(http://www.caleague.com/?page=teaminfo&div=natsl&id=542)
4. We had a channel for people who wanted to get into pug/ clan play that might not be very experienced with ff on etc., but when we got enough to scrim it was basically pub v. pub with tourney mode on, so we're giving that up, sorry.
5. For information about how to get into clan play, or for information about Panda training sessions which will help for clan or pug play then goto -> #findnsclan
Comments
You have to invite me to a PUG sometime. I live in LM, but I'd love to have an actual cohesive team once in a while.
So, my question: what is the best way to find enthusiastic less-than-virtuous but serious minded NS teams to play with? Public servers are ok for me (I pick the one with the least ping usually), but I miss a stonger feeling of connection with a team...
The best way to find some people to play with is to get to know the peeps in #findnsclan #findnsscrim or #findnspug. join a clan or something. Anyways it's f-ing amazing how you guys have managed to beat (as in 2-0) some pretty decent clans and tie some the better ones. Good choice of players <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->.
See my main problem with NS was my frustration in the lack of teamwork (all I did was play on pubs). I mean yeah, when you're on a public server and you command a bunch of noobies to victory, by brutal force, dumbluck, or whatever, it's an awesome feeling, but how often does that happen? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> I love the fact that anytime of day I enter the channel and say hey who's here, do we have 6 that want to game? We somehow almost always have 5-7 people on and ready to play, so we'll either pick up a ringer, have just enough, or have one spectate for half a match (either aliens or marines). If you do irc you can idle at #findnsringer, or #findnspug to try to get into a game. My suggestion to you would be try to be more familiar with ff being on before you play a PUG. Our awesome pug team played a pug team that was put togther on the find a ringer channel, and um yeah they had a lot of team kills. <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo--> Try playing on the Covertoral server ( 24.242.213.105:27015), they'll turn on tourney mode (with ff on) whenever people want it on, or when there are a lot of [CO] people on, or you can play on the FFT server (66.98.136.44:27015), they have ff/ tourney mode on all the time.
P.S. Thanks Nasty, but they were just scrims after all.
That's pretty much what Animosity scrims are like <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->.
Really helps alot of new players into the clanworld without wasting months in many of the newbieclans...
so thats their/our record so far
There is, NO such thing.
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>I like how you say "our" record blunt</span>
P.S. (kupe) I just saw your player name, sorry blunt.
I figured clan life was for me because I longed for teamwork, this works too, and it's less political. Working as a team to accomplish a goal, whether it be playing your best, trying for a win, or hoping for a tie, it makes NS about a million times more fun. So yeah Kenichi, I was very happy to have discorved this, and I wanted to share this with other people so that they might see the beauty that is teamwork on a more frequent basis. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
OMG, JANE CONSIDERS ME A FRIEND <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> . Seriously, their pug is awesome. It seems whenever I'm on and wanting to play, they have their 6 though. Damn you school/work schedule, DAMN YOU
The problem is I was picked up by 3 ns clans and 2 died and 1 went casual pubbing. I wanna get into a top clan but i need to learn a bit more in the way of tactics and real teamplay i think perhaps this would be the way to go about it.
Now all i need to do is cure my current broadband drought and i'll be cool.
- RD
<!--QuoteBegin--Jane+Oct 6 2003, 04:34 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Jane @ Oct 6 2003, 04:34 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->P.S. Thanks Nasty, but they were just scrims after all.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
We know scrims are just scrims. . . and we don't really brag about wins because if you think about it "hey isn't it neat that we beat exigent," I mean what a victory you would think, but we had like two exigent players on our team, and two dn' players on our team, and two other really awesome players that normally play on our pug team (I sadly wasn't there because of clan pratice and a scrim with a clan I was looking into), but I mean we can pull severe ammounts of tallent for different levels of clans we are playing, if the time is right and we so desire. We stopped keeping track of our "record" because we do realize they are just scrims. I mean we don't use our best guys everytime we normally just use any six that are on, and sometimes we try wierd strats too, so we know that scrims are scrims. So if you see us excited over a match or a victory it's normally the short lived, Yay we won stuff.
*BOUNCE*
anyways, I got to play w/ the pug team for the first time today. I don't know if they always have such great games, but damn did I ever have fun. First game marines did a JP rush while holding 4 or so rts, rushed, and won the game. Second game, on marines we did practically the same thing but aliens were more prepared for it. The game went back and forth for an entire 45 minutes, hives went up and down, rts got destroyed and then put back up, but eventually the marines w/ their leet jetpacking skills managed to completely destroy the alien economy, actually WINNING the war of attrition (through jetpacks of course). Eventually we took down furnace hive and then ventilation hive just as the game was ending at the 45 minute mark.
GG.