This Is An Rts At Heart
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Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7141Members
Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7141Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Learn to play it like one...</div> I see a lot of people asking for some kind of miracle weapon to take down the powerful classes on both sides when things get tough. I see aliens complaining about how hard it is to counter HA/HMGs with skulks and maybe a fade or two, and I see marines complaining that fades are too powerful for mere LMGs to take down.
Well I'm sure most of you have played RTSs in the past, and that's a reason why you play NS. People sometimes don't realize that this game plays like an RTS. I play a lot of Warcraft III and in that game, expansion is everything. You build up your base then go grab another gold mine and expand there, and keep collecting gold and expanding more until you take over the map. Often people don't expand enough, don't know how to command their units, or turtle up in their base, while the other players expand and upgrade and build massive armies. They send their armies to obliterate the guy who didn't expand and didn't upgrade. It's his grunts and level 1 hero against everything the other guy's got. They don't complain and ask for some type of "miracle counter weapon" to somehow save themselves from getting crushed, no, they either be stubborn and run to another base and try to expand and build up some more resistance, or they accept defeat and live with it.
*** NS plays a lot like an RTS in that respect. Players need to learn to suck it up when it comes to getting slammed and learn to expand and build more resources faster than the other guy. The key to winning this game is expanding faster and upgrading better and faster than the other guy. That's how RTSs were designed. The reward for the most expansion and the best upgrades is getting to tear through your opponent's lack of defense. ***
If you weren't smart enough or quick enough to expand fast enough to build a decent resistance, that's your own fault, and complaining about miracle weapons to save yourself when you're weak and getting slammed by powerful opponents will get you nowhere. This is 90% RTS and 10% FPS, quit trying to play it like an FPS and learn to play it like an RTS.
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Well I'm sure most of you have played RTSs in the past, and that's a reason why you play NS. People sometimes don't realize that this game plays like an RTS. I play a lot of Warcraft III and in that game, expansion is everything. You build up your base then go grab another gold mine and expand there, and keep collecting gold and expanding more until you take over the map. Often people don't expand enough, don't know how to command their units, or turtle up in their base, while the other players expand and upgrade and build massive armies. They send their armies to obliterate the guy who didn't expand and didn't upgrade. It's his grunts and level 1 hero against everything the other guy's got. They don't complain and ask for some type of "miracle counter weapon" to somehow save themselves from getting crushed, no, they either be stubborn and run to another base and try to expand and build up some more resistance, or they accept defeat and live with it.
*** NS plays a lot like an RTS in that respect. Players need to learn to suck it up when it comes to getting slammed and learn to expand and build more resources faster than the other guy. The key to winning this game is expanding faster and upgrading better and faster than the other guy. That's how RTSs were designed. The reward for the most expansion and the best upgrades is getting to tear through your opponent's lack of defense. ***
If you weren't smart enough or quick enough to expand fast enough to build a decent resistance, that's your own fault, and complaining about miracle weapons to save yourself when you're weak and getting slammed by powerful opponents will get you nowhere. This is 90% RTS and 10% FPS, quit trying to play it like an FPS and learn to play it like an RTS.
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Nice job dude, I wanted to say it, but you did it b4 <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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This is fun, but I don't recommend it. Play the game like it was meant to be played and you'll go far.