Goodbye Ns
LazerMane
Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2135Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2135Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">I'm leaving till the next patch</div> NS has been fun, you all, but unfortunately after a hard night's battle in AvP2, I have come back to NS and found the Kharra less than useful.
It isn't the game on a whole, its just the little things that irritate me... Gorges not being able to eat their own structures, Skulks falling off walls at EVERY outcropping, and Lerks not being able to turn whatsoever on a corner.
I know you all have coped with it, but after my expirience with a game as polished as AvP2, i've decided to stop playing until a patch has been introduced to fix these navigation problems.
"It ain't that Skulks fall off at every corner, its just that the mappers had to be mean enough to put so MANY of them in." Yantarei, friend of LazerMane
LM
It isn't the game on a whole, its just the little things that irritate me... Gorges not being able to eat their own structures, Skulks falling off walls at EVERY outcropping, and Lerks not being able to turn whatsoever on a corner.
I know you all have coped with it, but after my expirience with a game as polished as AvP2, i've decided to stop playing until a patch has been introduced to fix these navigation problems.
"It ain't that Skulks fall off at every corner, its just that the mappers had to be mean enough to put so MANY of them in." Yantarei, friend of LazerMane
LM
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AvP2 = Paid workers
NS = Unpaid for your enjoyment
Now guys, if any flames start here, this thread will glady be locked!
AvP and AvP2 are working with a different engine that was licensed. Money money money MONEY. They had a whole team to go in and edit it the way they saw fit, thus adding better "clinging" to the walls and whatever other features you so desperately require. Natural Selection is working off a game engine that's almost 5 years old that wasn't meant to do most of this stuff in the first place. Comprox summed it up nicely.
Get over yourself, Lazer.
-does this count as a flame?
soon this game will be like pacman... overtaken by technology n cra.p.. =''' [
i hope valve cums up with another engine n promotes mod making....
or farewell rather, as i doubt any of the things you mentioned will be changed
(and as far as i know, not liking NS is not a crime...)
I personally put down Heros of Might and Magic about 5 minutes after I started it, but I didn't bother to register on their message boards to tell them about it. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
Aliens are more than useful, if they play right they can easily womp marines......... or vice versa.
every unit has advantages and disavanges,
As for skulks sticking to walls learn to control it beter and this wont be an issue!
This is a FREE mod, you come in here (on thier property) and complain about a free game?! WoW!
soon this game will be like pacman... overtaken by technology n cra.p.. =''' [
i hope valve cums up with another engine n promotes mod making....<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
jeez jeez -_- dont worry half life 2 wil be coming i fink with cs 2 and tfc 2 but thats it coz they are the 3 strongest thingies i tink probaly why its gona be like that but i dunno
The more support this mod has, the more likely a publisher will take note, and the guys will get some funding.
However, if after that funding, it turns out anything like Gunman Chronicles...
Flayra, I will find your house and shoot you m8. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Wow, someone complains about a free mod developed solely for the enjoyment of the people who play it? I have more then a few niggles with NS, but the game is just so awesome as a whole, those things couldn't make me quit heh.
If you really can't get around as a skulk or a lerk, the fault is on your end, not the dev team's.
I don't mind a great mod going retail, and if that's the quality level you have to reach to be released, NS should already be filling the shelves <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
It was the fact I've played beta 1.0's better than that pile of tripe.
(Just picture that said in the Magjin Buu voice <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> )
NS however I'd gladly pay for. Plus, IMHO, NS is a LOT more fun and deep than avp/avp2 will ever be. Avp suffers from the boring repetition of being a deathmatch game, plus the netcode on the game was horrible last time I played, no matter your connection or server, there'd always be times you'd just randomly start warping around as you walked.
Guess you can afford to make crap games when they're based on a franchise <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
In short -the problem is between the chair and the keyboard (That mean's you <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> )
For every 1 person who dislikes NS, there are 100 people who love it. It shouldn't effect him much if one person doesn't like his art. [Yes, art. NS is a work of art.]
Since it's being brought up so many times, I wouldn't actually pay for NS in it's current state. NS is good, and better than a lot of 'finished' products, but itself isn't finished. There are still some considerable bugs in the code, and I hate paying for a defective product.
That is of course entirely due to the fact it's a free time mod, done by people who had to other things to do (like work to pay bills). I'm sure that if you took this same development team, payed them to make the mod so they didn't have a bunch of other real life stuff to deal with NS <i>would</i> be something I would buy.
Take Warcraft 3 for example, and yet.. I'd play Front Mission or Soldat over it (purely personal preference). If the NS team needed money, I'd be more than happy to contribute, even ten bucks (which I probably don't have at the moment). After all, they've provided me with plenty of enjoyment and time burning to the horror of this quarter's grades.
Well, if you don't like the mod, there's nothing to be done about it.
I didn't think the post would get this many people coming to say farewell/flame at me.
It's a free mod, and i respect that.
I was not trying to be arrogant or mean about saying those things.
Just that i've gotta put it down for a while.
(Been fired already for playing NS too much <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> )
LM
I take it you don't use a Microsoft OS?
In english, every word is important. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
I still consider the NS team extremely talented, moreso than many professional development teams, but that doesn't change the end product. The gameplay and design of NS is great, but a really good buggy game is still a buggy game. Of course, most of the bugs I've seen either have been fixed already, or are being fixed as we speak. I figure within the next few patches (quite possibly the first client patch) every issue I've got with the technical performance will have been resolved and NS will be something I consider 'sale worthy'.
And can ANYONE name a game recenlty that got released retail without a few (dozen, if you're Blizzard) patches being released in short order?
I think software houses have got seriously SLACK these days. It seems the plan is, save on testing cash, by just getting the public to do it for you!
Maybe dev could take a listing of all the "known" players now for when/if it does become retail? (Hey, I could add it to my list of stuff I've done things like that with, I am official new stuff kinda guy)