Wow... Ns Is... Incredible!

IcyScythe · January 2005

<div class="IPBDescription">First month playing and I'm hooked!</div> I can safely say this is PROBABLY the most fun I've had with a computer game, ever, the only exception being Operation Flashpoint (classic FPS... I loved it and still do). That's ALOT to say considering I've played alot of games!

Heck, I even stopped playing HL2 (first time too!) mid-way thru the campaign to keep playing NS...

The gameplay is just PERFECT! There's an incredible thrill in succesfully sneaking up to a marine and biting his head off and then getting away with it before his friends know what happened! I love being a skulk or fade... it's just... 0wnage!

I've been playing almost entirely alien, marine's cool too, but alien is just... wow, unlike any other. I keep seeing flashbacks back to "Alien" except this time I'm the hunter <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />.

Simply incredible.

As soon as I get $25 I'm preordering NS2.

I do have a couple questions though maybe y'all experienced people can answer.

1) Does the preorder of $25 take away from the $55-60 price they're projecting?
2) Is there anyway I can buy actual stock in the "unknown worlds" company (just like say, buying Microsoft stock)? Is Unknown Worlds really a company or just a bunch of guys with talent?
3) Will NS2 be an actual seperate game or still a mod for something (i.e. will I need to buy something else other than NS)
4) I noticed the high projected sys reqs for NS2... are they planning on having it on the Unreal 3 engine? (would be sweet btw!)

Byeka · January 2005

You can't preorder yet, they're just talking about it, but to answer...

1) I think so
2) I'm pretty sure you can't buy stock, but I'm not certain.
3) NS2 is a seperate retail game. You don't have to buy anything else.
4) Those system requirements are just an educated guess let's call it. The engine they're using is unknown.

the_hole · January 2005

I felt the exact same way when I started playing..

Twas an excellent moment... ...

My saga all began on ns_caged... at the final week of 2.01... I spawned in a completely lamed up Generator Hive, and shed many tears, because I had yet to know that I could scale walls with my large toothed friend. Therefore, I was stuck in the hive until the end of the game, and when zapped to the ready room, I followed many marines to the pit of darkness that said in huge letters "Join Marines" (or something like that...)

From there on... I quit life.

Gecko_God_Of_Dooom · January 2005

would love to see stock options, Hahha, that would be awsome, id hella invest a lump of cash into UE

Zaggy · January 2005

As in my (crappy) sig, NS owns about every game there is.

Chez · January 2005

Year and sum months later im still enjoying NS, it's nice to hear theirs more people racking into the ns world <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd-fix.gif' />

Drummer · January 2005

theres a strange thing about this mod, it pulls you in and holds you for so long. NS has been my #1 game since the first 3.0 beta. i know that to the old folks around here, that isnt very long, but ive only had access to high speed internet since a few months before that. i think its the amazingly complex gameplay that makes each game different and gives NS a huge lifespan.

now that you have been "saved", you must preach your new faith and save the rest of the "unclean masses." you must liberate more people from those crappy games out there <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Invader_Scoot · January 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (IcyScythe @ Jan 18 2005, 03:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> As soon as I get $25 I'm preordering NS2.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Well right now you can't preorder, but what you <b><i>can</i></b> do is make a donation to NS. If you donate $20 you'll also be able to take part in the beta testing of v3.0 B6.

Gecko_God_Of_Dooom · January 2005

I just had a room mate move in, and I showed him ns. "Dude this is so much more fun than Counter-Strike"
and that was just playing Marine Side CO for one hour

NolSinkler · January 2005

I've converted a total of... I think 5 people to NS, actually. That's pretty much what they want to do half the time that they come over.

NS is the greatest game ever, and I'm donating asap. NS has sucked me in and kept me there for about a year and a half (I joined august 2003, I just came to the forums in february).

Atsaca · January 2005

If youre Lan or have teamspeak ... with friends its even more fun.
Tryng to make some tactics ... screaming like a little girl if youre chased as gorg through the map by evil marines.

More fun and action as any other shooter or mmorpg has given me <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />

Raza. · January 2005

Ah, I remember when back in version 1.0 I was stuck in a hole as lerk and didn't know how to fly. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

I have only played a few other games since then, mainly in LAN. NS is simply the best. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />

Travis_Dane · January 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (IcyScythe @ Jan 18 2005, 10:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
4) I noticed the high projected sys reqs for NS2...</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
* 2.0 GHz Processor
* 256MB RAM
* DirectX 7 capable graphics card (128mb)
* Windows 2000/XP/ME/98
* Mouse
* Keyboard
* 56k+ Internet Connection
</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

Uhm... High?

IcyScythe · January 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Travis Dane @ Jan 18 2005, 06:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (IcyScythe @ Jan 18 2005, 10:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
4) I noticed the high projected sys reqs for NS2...</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
* 2.0 GHz Processor
* 256MB RAM
* DirectX 7 capable graphics card (128mb)
* Windows 2000/XP/ME/98
* Mouse
* Keyboard
* 56k+ Internet Connection
</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

Uhm... High?  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
For minimum system requirements yes that is high. For reccommended no, for minimum, yes.

HL2 was like 1.0ghz minimum and 64mb v-card I think.

Naxo · January 2005

Keep in mind the game won't be out until some years. :)

Gecko_God_Of_Dooom · January 2005

3 years down the road that will be copairable to what 700mgz is right now, with a 32mg video card

Cj_the_Dj · January 2005

ns eclipse: i spent around 10 lives trying to kill an oc. when it died, i spammed YAY (because i thought it was a hard thing to kill) and everyone called me a nubcaek, i felt embarassed, and i wish to speak no more.

Twelve · January 2005

Strange, alot of people seem to have played ns_caged first. I did to, that was just over 2 years ago and I haven't stopped playing since....I'm hooked.

mr_drug_lord · January 2005

i can't remember the absolute first map i played on, but caged was definitely one of the first 3. I remember wow i'm building an ip hotdamn you can do that in HL

1.03.. i'm an oldie
have never had a decent comp, connection, and mind all together in a winning combo all the way up till now <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /> otherwise i'd play a lot more

dutchminator · January 2005

aye, i played since the first week of 2.0, ns_hera being the first map, GOD i loved it! never thought such stuff wud be possible in HL <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /> I still got the same crappy comp tho, 700mhz with 16mb card <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /> still owning with it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />

Mouse · January 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Twelve @ Jan 19 2005, 06:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Strange, alot of people seem to have played ns_caged first. I did to, that was just over 2 years ago and I haven't stopped playing since....I'm hooked.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
ns_caged was the first map on the maplist and in 1.0, most games took hours. Which is why most people played caged first.

Wow... Ns Is... Incredible!

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