I was around for 8-9 months before the game was officially released (1.0). My old account weirded out on me (some_tall_guy) so now I have this one incase your wondering.
i've been around since 1.0, played it the night it came out on bast and instantly fell in love. don't know really when i joined the forusm, rarely post, but i watch 'em onc ein a while. *shrugs* just... play when i get a chance now a days.
<----was the guy that gave up a rib to make women. Pretty old school....I know. <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::hive::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/hive5.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='hive5.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Omega_DeathSith apprentice to a box of CerealJoin Date: 2003-08-06Member: 19042Members
Started out playing ver 1.04, stumbled on the website while researching materials on Natural Selection for a school report (thanks google). But like most took me a while to get a forum account.
Hmm First version I remember must be 1.02 or 1.03, not sure. That long ago now <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> low poster but building it up slowly. Early 03 ftw!
Still remember the days when there were no mini maps and trying to find your way around any of the maps was a nightmare. That is the real reason games took so long. Noone knew where they were going. Plus you would only run across an alien everynow and again <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-Zunni+Feb 16 2005, 06:36 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zunni @ Feb 16 2005, 06:36 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Depends if you are looking for old forumers or players...
I look at all those with forum accounts ending in -03 as newbs <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> regardless of when you first played.... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> qft
I saw the gameplay movie of ns a long time ago (<a href='http://www.fileplanet.com/files/60000/64479.shtml' target='_blank'>fileplanet</a> says november 01), and 'played' the nstr just because the movie made me curious. Ironically I remember a lot of details from the nstr, but not even the first map I played in 1.0 <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> .
i remember that back in those days if there were more than 2 gorges you were drawn-and-quatered. and at the beginning of every round all of a sudden a majority of the alien team would f4 and come back so that the few gorges could get their res (exploit ftw!!).
<!--QuoteBegin-Vahn Paktu+Feb 15 2005, 08:01 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Vahn Paktu @ Feb 15 2005, 08:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I have been around since 1.0. I just don't post a lot yet I check the forums everyday. More then once I might add. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Same
<!--QuoteBegin-wey+Apr 19 2005, 10:23 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (wey @ Apr 19 2005, 10:23 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> [snip]I remember a lot of details from the nstr, but not even the first map I played in 1.0 <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> . <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> :o
1.0/1.04 (server side, I did not really notice), Ns_hera. English northerner was commanding. every 5 seconds there were calls of "Keep that damn door closed! They'll get in!" <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> A cinematic moment when it was opened and 4 skulks rip through the marine team, only to get torn appart by ludicrously over-sized tfarm. --
As others have already said, I only got a forum account after really getting into the game. Plus I went through 3 alias changes.
Good thread. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
3 years ago <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Well I havent been bothered to read this whole thread D: As im not much of a forumite...
However I have been around since just before 1.00.. and i remember hearing of NS a year before it was released back when i was playing Tactical Ops for UT.... A good times.
But anyway ye... I never got a vet icon!? lol, the quiet people always get ignored <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
EDIT: Lol, and i only just signed up for the forums too... since i couldnt get my old account working again
I've been a NSPlayer since the first release. I had been following the development for 1-2 months and I was a regular on the forums too. Then they installed new forums, and I dident bother registering agian (this was a couple of years ago). The only forum-regular I remember from back then is NemesisZero. Don't think he was an admin back then <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Can't remember my original forum nick <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I've been lurking in these forums since 28-January 02. Am I the king of all lurkers or what? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Well about 3 months before NS came out someone posted a link to the NS site on the DoD forums, I followed it here and checked every day for the release then joined the forums a couple of days after the release. Those early days of NS were awsome <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
The best memory I have of those days of 1.0 was when everyone would stack the marines because they were easiest, so you would end up with 12 marines 4 aliens <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->. Game in question was a 2 hive lockdown and was being dragged out while the comm turret farmed every res point. So me and another alien switched teams and voted the comm out then I jumped in and sold all his turrets and crap in the hives an spammed 20 PGs in marine start lol. Then we went back to the aliens and got a 2nd hive up.
*other classic memories
*sieges that fired at anything within their insane range automatically
*turrets that fired even with no turret factory
*unkillable walls of lame, due to the DCs healing everything in one huge gulp, not even 20 sieges could blast through a wall of 4 OCs with 4 DCs behind
*being able to siege the engine room hive on bast from marine start meaning if aliens started there it was GG inside a minute.
<!--QuoteBegin-Comprox+Apr 19 2005, 11:03 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Comprox @ Apr 19 2005, 11:03 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Wow, I just figured out Ill be coming up on 4 years soonish, I dont know whether to cry or be proud. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> I love how in the old SS thread where they were showing off exhibits of WAY beta versions of NS (with the totally crap artwork for all the sprites and what not) there is a screeny of you saying something <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Comprox is forum member #7 for a reason.
@motsew: that was version 2.01 IIRC. I had been playing the game for months before I joined the forums, and I have never played NS pre 2.01.
since 1.03 but mapping since 1.04 <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I want the old pre-co-mmunity back <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
GrendelAll that is fear...Join Date: 2002-07-19Member: 970Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, NS2 Playtester
edited April 2005
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->*unkillable walls of lame, due to the DCs healing everything in one huge gulp, not even 20 sieges could blast through a wall of 4 OCs with 4 DCs behind <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
DCs never healed fast enough to make WOLs unkillable. We proved that by filling refinery with them and trying it once (before the limit of 5 healing at once). 3 sieges could kill anything.
Since just after RC4, IIRC. After Comprox, KFS and Inf but before most others.
here since 1.03... and still not getting bored <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-Grendel+Apr 20 2005, 04:27 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Grendel @ Apr 20 2005, 04:27 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->*unkillable walls of lame, due to the DCs healing everything in one huge gulp, not even 20 sieges could blast through a wall of 4 OCs with 4 DCs behind <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
DCs never healed fast enough to make WOLs unkillable. We proved that by filling refinery with them and trying it once (before the limit of 5 healing at once). 3 sieges could kill anything.
Since just after RC4, IIRC. After Comprox, KFS and Inf but before most others. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> IIRC, it was a siege bug, not a WOL bug that mades some WOL invincible.
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i still have the original 1.0 installer which i got on opening day... i actually installed it a few weeks ago and dinked around on it... hella fun!!
Still remember the days when there were no mini maps and trying to find your way around any of the maps was a nightmare. That is the real reason games took so long. Noone knew where they were going. Plus you would only run across an alien everynow and again <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I look at all those with forum accounts ending in -03 as newbs <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> regardless of when you first played.... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
qft
Ironically I remember a lot of details from the nstr, but not even the first map I played in 1.0 <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> .
greatest game EVER!
Same
:o
1.0/1.04 (server side, I did not really notice), Ns_hera. English northerner was commanding. every 5 seconds there were calls of "Keep that damn door closed! They'll get in!" <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
A cinematic moment when it was opened and 4 skulks rip through the marine team, only to get torn appart by ludicrously over-sized tfarm.
--
As others have already said, I only got a forum account after really getting into the game. Plus I went through 3 alias changes.
Good thread. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
However I have been around since just before 1.00.. and i remember hearing of NS a year before it was released back when i was playing Tactical Ops for UT.... A good times.
But anyway ye... I never got a vet icon!? lol, the quiet people always get ignored <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
EDIT: Lol, and i only just signed up for the forums too... since i couldnt get my old account working again
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Can't remember my original forum nick <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<img src='http://blizzard.com/images/broodwar/popup/lurker.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' /> rawr!
Well about 3 months before NS came out someone posted a link to the NS site on the DoD forums, I followed it here and checked every day for the release then joined the forums a couple of days after the release. Those early days of NS were awsome <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
The best memory I have of those days of 1.0 was when everyone would stack the marines because they were easiest, so you would end up with 12 marines 4 aliens <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->. Game in question was a 2 hive lockdown and was being dragged out while the comm turret farmed every res point. So me and another alien switched teams and voted the comm out then I jumped in and sold all his turrets and crap in the hives an spammed 20 PGs in marine start lol. Then we went back to the aliens and got a 2nd hive up.
*other classic memories
*sieges that fired at anything within their insane range automatically
*turrets that fired even with no turret factory
*unkillable walls of lame, due to the DCs healing everything in one huge gulp, not even 20 sieges could blast through a wall of 4 OCs with 4 DCs behind
*being able to siege the engine room hive on bast from marine start meaning if aliens started there it was GG inside a minute.
*infinate scan on the obs tower
*genade launcher held 6 nades in a clip
*shotgun held 10 shots instead of 8
*readyroom bug <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
*stopcommandermode <==awsome you could turn from a skulk into a marine by typing that into the console rofl
*doing lastinv in the console while in the CC enabled you to get your gun out and shoot at things lol
*being able to build stuff from inside the CC lol
*getting stuck in walls and things using the old style blink
I love how in the old SS thread where they were showing off exhibits of WAY beta versions of NS (with the totally crap artwork for all the sprites and what not) there is a screeny of you saying something <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Comprox is forum member #7 for a reason.
@motsew: that was version 2.01 IIRC. I had been playing the game for months before I joined the forums, and I have never played NS pre 2.01.
but mapping since 1.04 <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I want the old pre-co-mmunity back <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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DCs never healed fast enough to make WOLs unkillable. We proved that by filling refinery with them and trying it once (before the limit of 5 healing at once). 3 sieges could kill anything.
Since just after RC4, IIRC. After Comprox, KFS and Inf but before most others.
game was really addicting for a bit loved the long hour games best ever
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DCs never healed fast enough to make WOLs unkillable. We proved that by filling refinery with them and trying it once (before the limit of 5 healing at once). 3 sieges could kill anything.
Since just after RC4, IIRC. After Comprox, KFS and Inf but before most others. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
IIRC, it was a siege bug, not a WOL bug that mades some WOL invincible.