What are Your Most Memorable and Fun NS Experiences?
Radix
Join Date: 2005-01-10 Member: 34654Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2005-01-10 Member: 34654Members, Constellation
This topic differs from Sarisel's in that it's seeking firsthand accounts of fun events and types of events you enjoy in NS.
Mine would include the following:
Aliens
- Tricking/Faking as fade
- Baiting as gorge
- Mind######ing as lerk, maybe chuckling to mask footsteps
- Chewing nodes early and later watching the effects of a comm who's suddenly realized a total choke of res
- Realizing that after many hours of play that I am getting noticeably better (aim/fade/etc.)
- Wrapping around and flanking an entrenched group of marines after Fairy died as lerk
- Bdropping Asmodee
- Bdropping Chopstick
Marines
- Using airspeed, ducking, and strafe jumping to kite skulks & fades
- Baiting skulks out of ambush points
- Ninja phase gate shotgun rushing
- Finding a new relocate (Aux Gen FTW)
- Using "follow me" binds to get groups of marines working together
- Dynamically switching my role from tank to healer by spam welding the team without shooting at threats
- Crouch-jumping to surprise skulks w/no noise attacks
- Bhopping/climbing into ninja spots on Caged
- Soloing lifeforms
- Relocating to my friend's starting hive with him as onos and dropping cc's in his way to bar him from getting back and then electrifying his hive down
There are more, but that's a start. x5 had some good ones if he wants to repost them.
Mine would include the following:
Aliens
- Tricking/Faking as fade
- Baiting as gorge
- Mind######ing as lerk, maybe chuckling to mask footsteps
- Chewing nodes early and later watching the effects of a comm who's suddenly realized a total choke of res
- Realizing that after many hours of play that I am getting noticeably better (aim/fade/etc.)
- Wrapping around and flanking an entrenched group of marines after Fairy died as lerk
- Bdropping Asmodee
- Bdropping Chopstick
Marines
- Using airspeed, ducking, and strafe jumping to kite skulks & fades
- Baiting skulks out of ambush points
- Ninja phase gate shotgun rushing
- Finding a new relocate (Aux Gen FTW)
- Using "follow me" binds to get groups of marines working together
- Dynamically switching my role from tank to healer by spam welding the team without shooting at threats
- Crouch-jumping to surprise skulks w/no noise attacks
- Bhopping/climbing into ninja spots on Caged
- Soloing lifeforms
- Relocating to my friend's starting hive with him as onos and dropping cc's in his way to bar him from getting back and then electrifying his hive down
There are more, but that's a start. x5 had some good ones if he wants to repost them.
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The packs were waisted, as well as the unbuilt PG the comm dropped by the hive opening. Funny thing is they didnt build any IPs and we had only two MCs, so I dropped another MC while my team was all respawning, and we rushed the rine base raping it. >D I guess you had to be there, but it was cool being the last two guys (and one of us being a gorge!) and getting the game winning kill using spit of all things. haha Good times.
Pissing off Mak and Arc, always enjoyable
Knocking off the top in an undefeated tournament to be ranked the new best ns team.
Playing with and against some of the best NS players NS has ever witnessed.
Teamwork.
Carrying.
Winning rounds against terror/exigent on american servers and listening to them whine haha. :-)
All other things covered in first post i guess.
Playing with Solus, J, and Richie for about a year, best gaming experience ever.
"Phase Gate Art!"
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I "think" I was the 1st person ever to try this in a live game.
Doing this 'never' jeperdised the out come of the game for the marines because the base Phase Gate still linked DIRECTLY to the front Phase gate. However sometimes people got abit rowdy and refused to listen to orders from a "crack pot" commander and we came close to losing.
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Epic turnaround games as comm.
Knifing a paper onos as a vanilla almost solo on mineshaft.
2. The first time playing as a comm winning
3. Killing a fresh-from-the-base shotgun-HA marine as a skulk.
3. Biting marines to death after long time of ambushing / sneaking up on them.
Frustrating "elite" veteran players that were on their quests to dominate pub servers. Going against stacks of veterans and carrying my team to victory under a smurf name. Being spectated by veteran players.
Enjoying a few rare moments of competitive NS where I was part of a team that could work together and overcome adversity without attacking one another.
Enjoying pubbing with some former team-mates and having fun playing roles that completely skewed pub games (ex. teaming up as gorges and winning the game via OC forts and spit-kills instead of fading, or relocating as marines outside alien hives and winning the game with regular pubmarines without upgrades, or cloak-lerking and making it seem overpowered to pubbers).
Near the end, when the competitive scene in NA was dead and before quitting NS, it was fun to discover aspects of the game that nobody else was aware of and then exploiting them in pubs.
Oh, and I completely forgot, being part of the process that eventually led to the elimination of the last server-slot hitbox bug (PSHB) - after a year of gathering evidence and spurring discussion, seeing the bug get consistently reproduced in a server.
Commanding a four hour game a few weeks ago on the BAD server.
you can't stop us professional domineers okay
the highlight of my NS career was destroying the <BAD> server
We held it in a 16v16 game for 55 misn after siege room opened. Our total sum of equipment was 3 elec TF's 6 siege cannons that had killed 2 of thier hives, and about 4 turrets.
On my team we had lvl 3 wepons + armour and only 3 marines had equipment.
[wdfg]tehgee and [wdfg]Bal :O had JP and HMG of which they kept for the whole 55 mins and i cant remembr the other guy but he had HA and GL of which he kept being saved from onos eating him by tehgee and Bal.
We survived an 8 person onos rush... I think tehgee and Bal killed 3 each and rest of my team killed the other 2.
And finaly died to the whole team as onos....
An amazing "last stand".
Finding out weird rt push moves for 6v6.
Snap reflexing skulks at most ridiculous places with sg.
Skulking and fading when everything just seems to go the way you want.
Catpacks.
Teamwork.
Ventrilo.
"Phase Gate Art!"
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I "think" I was the 1st person ever to try this in a live game.
Doing this 'never' jeperdised the out come of the game for the marines because the base Phase Gate still linked DIRECTLY to the front Phase gate. However sometimes people got abit rowdy and refused to listen to orders from a "crack pot" commander and we came close to losing.
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ahaahahahah, psymplejester that's excellent.
I don't know if I've had any particularly memorable experiences; but what I find most fun about NS is its fast frenetic gameplay that isn't UT-style spray and pray.
Well... playing LAN with friends was always memorable. Being able to taunt someone to their face is excellent.
"Scream for me, b-tch."
Doing it online just makes you seem like a ######head though.
The ~2h games of well balanced fun on random maps and servers are allways lovely to, the games where it's hard to tell who's gona win untill the last moment...
Oh, and reading Nz_nexus threads on the mapping forum ^^
Anything involving the words homeless and piggies together
And most of all, during a competitive cal match I shotgun soloed a fade flawlessly and then when my commander realized I won he said "hold on I'll drop you a res node" and by the time he did I had disappeared . I had celerbrated my unlikly super amazing victory by causually dancing on rails while waiting for the node, fell off and landed in acid. Trying to explain to the commander what happened wasn't fun.
learning to bind +movement to my mouse (try fading w/o that, lol, took me 2 years)
Actually teaching two awe-struck gamers how NS worked and alot of the nuancies involved (took 2 hours)
learning to use the alien flashlight
Playing without aid of bhopping, ever (that was more of me being unable to do it, though) and still keepin up with the good players
Epic redemp onos holdoff against 10 HAs, i believe we eventually won
- Balling the BAD server with malicious code and clearing it (on opposing teams, we'd make elaborate plans over vent and never attack each other <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> good times)
- Knifing dante
- Knifing dreaming fairy's lerk inside of the subsector hive on veil (elite ninja), in a pub, just 1 minute after minstrel knifed it at system.
- Killing 5 pub walker skulks in a row and then utilizing every marine movement trick in the game to put distance between me and the 54387593485794357893 other walker skulks heading towards me. Oh yea BAD server, keep 'em coming. Epic.
- Getting chuck to hack
- Playing cracka in star craft and winning with the most cheesiest strategies (ZvP, hi ninja hatchery in your main lol)
- 5 rt onos rush on a team I joined, and then we (under my command) 5 rt onos rushed some other team. Huge wins.
- Avalanche
etc..
Being commander and hiding a beacon in the walls so when the 2nd base was dead I could try one last push.
Building a gigantic wall of lame and staying there till the whole marine team had armor and nade launchers to get me out.
Getting everyone to use the movement chamber when the hive was under attack.
and many others.
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Emanon, I remember that name, did you play at TG?
Another time aliens had the entire map and two active hives, with a third one going up. Comm gave me a JP/SG, and I soloed the Cargo hive. We still lost that game, though.
Once I was comming, and we were sieging the Eclipse hive. Somebody else was near Cargo, so I dropped a PG. Once the sieges got up, I beaconed and had them rush Cargo, which went down quick. Then they phased back and finished off Eclipse.
What are Your Most Memorable and Fun NS Experiences?
This is an ansver:
What ? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" /> the Most great NS experience ? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" /> The <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ns+lan" target="_blank">Natural Selection LAN - PARTIES</a> what we get together <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
Running the NS 3.2 in LAN PARTY mode without installed steam, and Internet connection. T0tally off-line LAN parties <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
i hope u will come next time.
of course the FUN MAPS from the <a href="http://www.brywright.co.uk/downloads/files/index.php?dir=natural-selection/maps/" target="_blank">BRY'S NS FTP</a> is really requied. to play siege maps, and plays more fun . : D
Playing with all the my good friends. As someone else said before anything 1.4 related. Sneak sieges, solo hmg/jp hive destroying, a 3+ hour stalemate at Nancy, doing everything we could to survive and working together to repair, fight them off and come up with a plan to knock out a hive (1.4 of course.) At least the epic feel the old versions would create / the fear of when aliens would get a onos, and players screaming out Onos!!!!!
Have a buddy from the same four-year-ago period remind me of the time I inflamed my coccyx (or as he put it, broke my ass)
Long games where it doesn't come down to a carry-player or just simply more skilled, but rather who has better teamwork.
45-minute scrim round where at 45 minutes the game ends due to a setting, and knifing the hive down with 5 seconds left to go.
Coming back from no-hive and winning a game.
Organizing and coordinating strange rushes; command chair rush, lerk rush, gorge rush, etc.
Playing with weird strategies...
...not raging when things don't go my way...
and lately: having pub players come up to me and tell me they'd be interested in scrimming.
ah, if only this was the case more often
until the the fat lady sings, i say!
A long long time ago
My favorite public experience was on the Fr31ns server, when I was commanding against 3 hive team. The difference was they only had 3 nodes while we some how managed to secure the rest on the map (Tanith). I had JPers patroling for life forms, and I was able to organize a heavy attack against the hive. While attacking the hive, a few onos killed some JPers so I had to beacon. I beacon, get the onos down, but now I lost the forward phase gate and some nodes. We tried to recap and secure, but was unable to do so, and we eventually lost.
This was my favorite experience because the game challenged me in unfamiliar territory (3 hives vs full tech & nodes). Normally 3 hives is game over, but we were able to hold out and almost make a comeback.
This was great because the game became more about tactics/strategy, than simply out teching the opponent. Our tech was effectively equal, all upgrades were researched and everything else.
I was excited after this game because I really had an oppurtunity to experience something completely different at the late stage of the game. I tried my best to improvise, and the marines did a fantastic job, but we just got out played. I was very happy, and everyone at the end of the game had a huge congratulations.
When I saw how NS2 maybe slightly different it excited me very much, because I am thinking that the game that I experienced could be reproduced over and over again. This is definitely an exciting thing.
This game isn't about outteching the opponent. This game is about well placed medpacks and good aim on the part of your marines. It all boils down to what kills you get and where you get them.