RC7 in-game craziness

MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
in NS General Discussion
<div class="IPBDescription">Final round of pics</div>The playtesters were kind enough to come up with some cool ingame shots over the past few weeks of RC7. I am posting some here as sort of a 'last hurrah' - there will not be any more pics posted in the forums at this point, as we are too close to release. Yes, you heard me. TOO CLOSE!

BTW, RC8 comes out tonight. We hope it's the last RC...

On to the pics!
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Death from below. Heavy Armor marines get ready to take Reception on NS_Hera.



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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Welding a damaged circuit on NS_Tanith results in a nice new door to the Satelite Control Station hive
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    A Fade defends his hive on NS_Nothing. The growth on the right side is his acid rocket launcher, fully deployed.



    <!--EDIT|MonsieurEvil|Oct. 03 2002,12:11-->
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Another sneaky Fade waits cloaked in the NS_Nothing Docking Wing. Oh, those back-slashing Canadians!
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    AIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!! The Marine Spawn on NS_Bast falls to a swarm of 3-hive upgraded aliens.
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Pretty particles float off a Marine Phase Gate.



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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    A patrol of Marines wearing Heavy Armor heads towards the Holoroom and its double-node on NS_Hera.
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Die you foul thing DIE!!! Marines throw everything they've got against the Ventilation hive on NS_Hera.
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    A Fade sticks on defense in the Power Silo hive on NS_Nothing. With all those turrets and defense chambers, he will be very hard to bring down...
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    A Marine in Heavy Armor repairs a damaged Armory with his welder, as a Fade comes in for the kill while he's distracted.
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Two Skulks pounce onto a slow-moving Heavy Armor Marine, as a jetpack wearing teammate takes aim at the incoming Fade.

    And that's it! Comment away, folks...
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  • JopsJops Join Date: 2002-09-13 Member: 1312Members
    Oh god I was crying while I looked at those! Thankyou monse- I love those fade arms thankyou thankyou!
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  • SkriftSkrift Join Date: 2002-09-25 Member: 1329Members
    Looks sweeter and cooler than ever! I can´t stop staring at those screenies! I´m just so damn happy right now!  <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->
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  • JopsJops Join Date: 2002-09-13 Member: 1312Members
    You know what this means- the next round of pics will be from announcing clan-matches and such- wow, monse you just made my lowsy day- thankyou mainly because next period I gotta go to a boring American Studies class!
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  • outerfroggy1outerfroggy1 Join Date: 2002-10-01 Member: 1401Members
    OH... MY... GOD...



    <!--EDIT|Flayra|Oct. 03 2002,15:38-->
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  • SuperMunchkinSuperMunchkin Join Date: 2002-09-28 Member: 1364Members
    I feel all tingly... there are some really nice pics there.  Though I think one ore two are a bit dark to make out well.  But who am I to whine such?

    Thanks Monse!  And Playtesters!
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  • GeENiEGeENiE Join Date: 2002-06-09 Member: 740Members, Constellation
    <!--emo&:0--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'><!--endemo-->  love it
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    very sweet
    however
    ok, I gota say it, the way marines hold the SGun looks kinda, screwy
    the entire one handed thing

    oh well

    sencond thing:
    in the 2nd and sixth pics, the marines have a small icon that looks like some sorta upgraded pistol (looks like Robocops gun) whats is it?
    and for that matter what are all of the small blue pics on the right side of the marines HUD?
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  • doctopepadoctopepa Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 99Members
    Is there any shots anywhere of marines flying with those things?
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  • NecroNecro &lt;insert non-birthday-related title here&gt; Join Date: 2002-08-09 Member: 1118Members
    wow.
    just wow.

    2 things tho

    1. in the first life pic with heavies it looks like their holding pistols cause its 1 armed, same with the other HMG pics it looks like their holding it 1 handed!

    2. the death messages looked big so they mixed into one another making it hard 2 understand
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  • InsaneInsane Anomaly Join Date: 2002-05-13 Member: 605Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts, Future Perfect Developer
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->ok, I gota say it, the way marines hold the SGun looks kinda, screwy
    the entire one handed thing
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    That, I belive, is only the case for hHeavy-armoured marines, who are basically tanks.

    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->and for that matter what are all of the small blue pics on the right side of the marines HUD?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Those are upgrade icons.

    Looking fanastic guys, I love you all.  And I am extremely pleased to hear that RC8 might be the last build.  Good luck with everything from here.  I am <b>so</b> glad I found out about NS, I really am.  Thank you so much.
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  • FamFam Diaper-Wearing Dog On A Ball Join Date: 2002-02-17 Member: 222Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Wheres the picture of me insulting Comprox?!
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  • CMEastCMEast Join Date: 2002-05-19 Member: 632Members
    Wow, stunning stuff. I actually had goosebumps!

    Now for some questions, I presume that the white tube with the red cross was a dropped medpack (I guess the commander was trying to give the marines an incentive to kill the fade <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->) but what was the yellow box shape with the nuclear symbol on?(the last pic, near the phase gate).
    Also, in picture 4 where the cloaked fade is watching the marines, there are many different coloured hive sight hud markers but why do they have different colours? Is it distance from you? Life left? Being attacked? Evolution Level?

    Anyway, great stuff and thanks.
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  • BattousaixBattousaix Join Date: 2002-06-25 Member: 822Members
    Total sweetnes..... I love you ns...... I love you <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->
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  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
    Oh My God, I really can't wait now........
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  • Silver_FoxSilver_Fox Spammer Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 34Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    I'm <i>pretty</i> sure the HA armor is going to be changed.  It just used the one handed animation as a place holder.

    At least I <b>hope to god</b> it will change ....
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  • FamFam Diaper-Wearing Dog On A Ball Join Date: 2002-02-17 Member: 222Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    <!--QuoteBegin--CMEast+Oct. 03 2002,18:16--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (CMEast @ Oct. 03 2002,18:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->what was the yellow box shape with the nuclear symbol on?(the last pic, near the phase gate)..<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Its part of the phase gate model. Hazard a guess at a power-source? <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
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  • RamsesRamses Join Date: 2002-05-21 Member: 642Members
    As always when MonsE is posting pics, i can only say GREAT!
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  • GwahirGwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation
    I'm pretty sure the hive icons are new to this build.  And they seem gray when unbuilt, filling with color while being built (solving the problem of an alien player giving up thinking a hive will never come when it is almost online) and they change color, either for damage level or for being attacked, or both.  But the realy thing that interests me is the icon just to the right of each hive, is it noting a nearby building that is helping the hive, or what?
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  • MCThornGristleMCThornGristle Join Date: 2002-06-06 Member: 733Members
    Does the Heavy Armor soldier have a different pair of view model hands?  Considering they're not wearing fingerless gloves anymore and all.
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