NS Vets longest game ever played.
alex1g
Join Date: 2003-04-14 Member: 15472Members
Join Date: 2003-04-14 Member: 15472Members
<div class="IPBDescription">What was the longest match you ever played?</div>I remember I played a match that lasted 6 hours on NS_Nothing map. Damn aliens kept making a comeback, wow a match. We ended up winning. I wanted to quit after around 4 hours but didn't want to let my team mates down. I can't remember what version it was but it was way before they had Conquest setup.
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Next day I fell asleep at my apprenticeship right under the eyes of my teacher, he was talking for hours on end already and took it as cue to close the lesson already.
It's not really like that with NS, though... It's far more tactical, and so immersive you don't notice you've just spent four hours fighting the same battle.
I don't remember any specific match lengths, but I remember being incredibly disappointed whenever a game lasted only half an hour or so. I'm sure I too part in a few five or six hour epics, fighitng over classics like Nothing and Bast. Tanith was always my favourite, though.
Ahh, nostalgia. long games of NS will always be some of my favourite gaming memories.
Given that 45 minute games rapidly became boring after about 15 minutes of running around in heavy armor and jetpacks trying to besiege hives, I would imagine that 2 hours plus would be torture.
Not like you may think, in 3.0 you know which team is going to win after the first 5 minutes, in older versions the game was not decided until the last minute. Saw one game where aliens lost all their hives but one gorge was able to get away to build a new one, kept it alive just love enough to finish building and the team came back to win the game.
NS really doesn't offer much combat at all in the later stages, it's only really in the early points that you see aliens and marines really fighting each other, once you get HMGs the skulk/lerk vs marine mechanics go out the window, and once you get fades all the basic guns become useless. The game basically stops being much fun at that point because it loses all structure, fights barely resemble fights because fades move so fast and onoses have so much HP, you either spend your time shooting at things flashing across the screen or flying away at full speed to avoid the onos, it's just chaos.
Basically it isn't really much fun compared to the early game which actually makes sense, you watch for aliens and shoot them when they show up, whereas aliens try to avoid being seen and get close without getting shot.
- If you played since the first version.. you'd know that 2 hr games were the norm back then.
And yeah Meh I remember that red room area. Man it's been forever since I've been in the red room.
Longest competitive match, I think was about 4 hours, CAL finals exi vs some team. i forget who we were playing against, probobly terror.. dn or pandas or something I can't remember for the life of me. Oh and this is both sides.
Such rounds became impossible after v3. Too much fragging, not enough strategy.
I remember a three hour round on bast.
ns_nancy, noname was the last alien battleground
Like that Ns much more then the current on, a mix of the two would be awesome... Oh wait NS2 :P
I think I had one 6 and a half hour game on Lunix. Sighappy.
great game, one of the best i have played.