Lo The Beautiful People!
<div class="IPBDescription">A home coming</div> Yes, It's me. I've missed this place sooooooo much <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Just wanna say hi to all those that remember me. Sorry I've been away so long, unavoidable situations totally out of my power to control.
Anyway, could someone please give me a run down. Just a little summary of all thats happened since this game was released (as I had to disappear about 2 weeks after it came out! All that waiting for just 2 weeks of play!).
I know the game has changed a bit but I will soon get back in to the action (will have my own computer soon rather than having to using work one).
Maybe cya all on IRC
PS. I forgot to say thanks to Coil and Fam for setting up my old acount for me
Just wanna say hi to all those that remember me. Sorry I've been away so long, unavoidable situations totally out of my power to control.
Anyway, could someone please give me a run down. Just a little summary of all thats happened since this game was released (as I had to disappear about 2 weeks after it came out! All that waiting for just 2 weeks of play!).
I know the game has changed a bit but I will soon get back in to the action (will have my own computer soon rather than having to using work one).
Maybe cya all on IRC
PS. I forgot to say thanks to Coil and Fam for setting up my old acount for me
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The maybe easiest summary of the changes to NS would be 'almost everything': The aliens recieved numerous complete overhauls (you'll be completely sirprised by what the Fade has developed into), hive-class restrictions are a thing of the past, lots of upgrades have been changed, pretty much every marine weapon was modified, the HA and JP have recieved numerous tweaks, the commander interface was streamlined, oh, and there's the completely new Combat insta-action mode <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
you got me curious <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Welcome back!
Shouldn't be long before Im wearing my old scaly skin again (you know, the one with the wings).
I've been searching round, shame there isn't an updated manual (or at least not that I could find). However what the hell happened to the poor fade? I enjoyed his blink, it was hard to use but hey, its a learning curve. I was getting quite good at it and figured that it could be the most powerful weapon in the aliens arsenal if used properly... oh well.
Yeah, it was about year and a half. Went from Internet Geek to Tramp sleeping in boxes <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->. Was great fun though don't really suggest others try it (cos then you'll get internet withdrawel symptoms.
Cya all around, I try and get on IRC every so often, hopefully wont be long till its everyday. Doing 11 1/2 hours today at work so will definitely be on irc later (so so tired).
<a href='http://www.natural-selection.org/manual_version_2/Natural_Selection_Manual_Framed.html' target='_blank'>3.0 manual (under construction)</a>
With the "new" blink, fade is extremely hard to hit, especially with celerity, which makes it probably the hardest alien lifeform to kill for marines.
Yeah, I don't mind being hard to kill (presuming its all balanced but I'm gonna assume it is and not even thinking of travelling that well worn path in case thousands follow me and its another "This thing is so good its bad blah blah etc" debate). Still, I loved the idea of teleporting, moving really fast just isn't the same.
Don't suppose you can 'move really fast' into the air like you could when teleporting can you? Was fun dropping on peoples heads or hiding up on ledges where the marines didn't look.
You certainly can. I've seen skilled players whizzing round and round in circles in the air with well-timed blinks <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
If you plan on playing as a fade I should inform you that the shotgun has been significantly buffed, and is now not a nice thing for a fade to take a point-blank blast in the face from.
Although, don't you think it's a bit hypocritical how <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=68572&st=0' target='_blank'>this</a> thread got locked down; it was almost indentical in form to this thread, but I guess when you're a well-known character then the rules can be bent a little <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Woo.
Glad to see you return. We've lost a lot of the old members of the forums. Ken20, Spydie and soon KFS will be gone too. D:
Great to see you again.
--Scythe--
I'm glad the lvl1 onos is weak, in my day the lvl1 onos didn't even exist! <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Saying that I never really enjoyed playing the onos anyway, one single thought just kept scrolling through my mind "Does my bum look big in this?". Still the new devour and stomp attacks look interesting. Can't wait to test them out.
How is the lerk flight system different from the original? It's nice to see the Lerk's have now taken on the more specific role of support but I really used to enjoy going on the offensive, it was difficult but if you got it right you could last for ages and really do some damage. My favourite trick used to be taking out those towers, I could fly so fast across a room they couldn't get me, hide in a position where I am safe but they are vulnerable and then take them out for my team mates. Doesn't look like you can hurt them at all now (unless you wanna bite them, strafing around them use to be possible but it was easier if you destroyed their TFac, guess you can't do that now either!).
Metabolise will be interesting for the fade, especially if combined with adrenaline. Does celerity combine with blink?
PS. I wouldn't call myself a 'well-known character' exactly.
It. is. AWESOME now-days.
Woo.
Glad to see you return. We've lost a lot of the old members of the forums. <b>Ken20</b>, Spydie and soon KFS will be gone too. D:
Great to see you again.
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O:
Yeah, Ken is lurking quietly away from time to time, most probably on Ravens expense...
/me waves to Kenny <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Hey. :)
The lerk's bite sounds like fun, guess I'll start dive bombing them again rather than just strafing past.