Super exciting game that I have to share!!!!
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Long term camping in Kodiak Join Date: 2012-05-13 Member: 151995Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Shadow
Long term camping in Kodiak Join Date: 2012-05-13 Member: 151995Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Shadow
Map was mineshaft. I was alien comm. I chose crag hive first. We decided to take and keep central. Got a hive up in repair. Had lots or res towers. Went shift hive second. This went on for awhile. I got max biomass and placed about a dozen whips at both hives to hopefull echo somewhere. Marines kill cave hive. We build it back up really quick with two gorges. I get shade hive and get 3 veils. I am floating about 150 res at that time. I place 5 gorge eggs at each hive. A few lerk eggs too. I made back ups of our upgrades. We now have three onos. Unable to actually take a third hive. I am providing drifter support and there are gorges too. I am getting up to 180 res with nothing but eggs to spend it on as I am at supply limit. We still can't take anything and about 12 onos died by this time. Then the fun begins.
Marines try to get more organized and push. While they do this we take sorting and deposit with our two onos. They kill cave hive really quick. They then push repair. I placed deposit, sorting, and cave hives out of my 200 res. Repair goes down. We have no built hives and are running out of eggs. They kill cave hive and sorting hive. Someone went gorge on the deposit hive which already had a drifter. We barely got deposit up in time. Someone else got in hive and placed repair and cave again. Everyone starts spawning in all those gorge eggs I placed earlier as they were all that was left. We get the hives up really quick. The marine push had lost momentum by then and was less organized. They pushed but we defended them off with the help of the massive amount of whips at cave and repair.
Assessment was we still had all our upgrades. There were still lots of whips. We still had two hives like we did before this big push. We had emptied sorting and deposit. All our res towers were dead. We still had like 30 res left over though. I slowly built up all our res towers again. We had all but gap and operations res nodes which were marines. We were accumulating onos again and lots of res. Marines were demoralized and broke from their failed, although nearly successful, push. So they conceded. ~52 minute game.
All us aliens were talking excitedly in the ready room about what an improbable victory. The marine, @dvox, who carried the marines was complaining about his team standing around in base. I don't care what he had to complain about. They chewed through hives and onos like candy and somehow we won. It was super fun and exciting for us aliens. Now yes this was a pub game and organization was touch and go. We could not make a successful push, and they could not follow through with theirs big push.
I just wish I, or someone, had recorded this game. I still had to share even if just a story.
Marines try to get more organized and push. While they do this we take sorting and deposit with our two onos. They kill cave hive really quick. They then push repair. I placed deposit, sorting, and cave hives out of my 200 res. Repair goes down. We have no built hives and are running out of eggs. They kill cave hive and sorting hive. Someone went gorge on the deposit hive which already had a drifter. We barely got deposit up in time. Someone else got in hive and placed repair and cave again. Everyone starts spawning in all those gorge eggs I placed earlier as they were all that was left. We get the hives up really quick. The marine push had lost momentum by then and was less organized. They pushed but we defended them off with the help of the massive amount of whips at cave and repair.
Assessment was we still had all our upgrades. There were still lots of whips. We still had two hives like we did before this big push. We had emptied sorting and deposit. All our res towers were dead. We still had like 30 res left over though. I slowly built up all our res towers again. We had all but gap and operations res nodes which were marines. We were accumulating onos again and lots of res. Marines were demoralized and broke from their failed, although nearly successful, push. So they conceded. ~52 minute game.
All us aliens were talking excitedly in the ready room about what an improbable victory. The marine, @dvox, who carried the marines was complaining about his team standing around in base. I don't care what he had to complain about. They chewed through hives and onos like candy and somehow we won. It was super fun and exciting for us aliens. Now yes this was a pub game and organization was touch and go. We could not make a successful push, and they could not follow through with theirs big push.
I just wish I, or someone, had recorded this game. I still had to share even if just a story.
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It was on docking (not classic/old docking or what have you, but the one where caf didn't have the TP)
So we start Departures, and unfortunately we were grossly out-skilled by the marines, who of course immediately lock down courtyard and stability, and also get a base up right outside in departures, phase gates, armory, robo, etc. Everyone on the team is demoralized, but I was commanding and still had a trick up my sleeve. Only having one hive, I couldn't contaminate, but what I COULD do was constantly cyst into Terminal through courtyard. The first 20 times or so the chain would be cut... but oh that 21st time (or w/e it was) they didn't kill the cysts. I of course had a shift and about 10 whips ready in base. As soon as that infestation spread to the power node, I echoed them all in, and (this is before whips had to re-root after being echoed) within about 10 seconds or so, the power was down. As soon as I started echoing in the whips, I was also placing down other cysts in their base so my whips could move around freely. Before long, their base was destroyed, and even those who ran back to defend were killed by the whips and the pursuing skulks. Evidently the marines hadn't dropped locker or gen either. Victory was so so sweet!
The most frustrating thing in public NS2 is having every key to victory in your hands and knowing how to utilise them, but the rest of your team keeps dropping the ball in the most basic things. It's not that much better being on the other side either, knowing that you made a comeback not because of your own tactical prowess, but because the other team keeps picking their noses instead of doing what they ought to do.
If I was a marine I would not of been having fun. I would be upset my team wasn't pushing outside of their base. Trying to heard your team is like hearding cats sometimes. They may of been able to fend us off but they were not pushing out for a long time. Finally they got organized, I assume dvox's doing and I bet the game picked up for them before becoming sour.
The entire reason I had fun was not that we won, but how ridiculous the come back was. We had 7 hives die in under two minutes and came out on top. That is just pure rediculousness and was fun to be apart of.
Knowing how intense competitive can be, that does sound exhausting. Sounds like you were on the back foot like we were, but your marines were more organized and didn't let you capitalize on anything.
Map: Refinery
We were out played early, and was locked to Turbine (our starting hive). I eventually got biomass 3 and bile (I think 20 minutes in), the marines haven't made a successful push even though we were pinched in. Some how a gorge made it out (I think he built a tunnel early in base and died) only to re-gorge.
We got a tunnel under the stairs to around extraction with a shade. Our whole team rushed flow with 2-3 skulks defending (including me - was comm). We sacked flow and killed all the marines phasing back with their shiny toys. They had taken all other TP with cc and pg and armory (where all their res was sinked).
We made our way to Containment where they had ips (half our team), while I instructed the other half (about 4 skulks) to kill all their res. We did that (they had 1 RT after about 1 minute). I hopped back in hive and expanded out, eventually took most of the RTs on the map, and got Smelting hive up. The marines were too demoralised to fight and push out after that, and we eventually won (by a concede I think).
It was a 35 minute game, but was so so awesome.
You know how sometimes we see aliens failingly build a hive when their last hive is going down? Yeah, well, the marines were in danger of beating us at around 30 minutes and they had lots of stuff. They destroyed our last base but luckily we built another hive before last one gets destroyed. Using the power of the newly built shade hive, we turn the game around and completely destroy the marines.\
I love destroying the enemy when they have a huge advantage.
Pretty much. They were fully teched up and able to keep pressure on our hives and nodes, but we kept res pressure up and rushed their base occasionally. Also, until about 40 min, they didn't put any additional CCs down. So we only needed to clear out the phase gates to reclaim a tech point.
Remember that 72 hour long game on Tanith?
I may be in the minority, but personally I enjoy that a NS2 game is considered long if it's an hour...