Seige Mode
meatmachine
South England Join Date: 2013-01-06 Member: 177858Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Supporter
South England Join Date: 2013-01-06 Member: 177858Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Supporter
It's rockin' right now guys.
Frequently updated, new stuff being introduced at a steady rate (so far there's acid rocket, focus, fully customisable exosuits (flamethrower/ welders available and in various combinations), HMG, giant macs that never do what they're told (so basically, giant macs), etc etc.).
I dont know the forum name of whoever runs it, but whoever you are hats off to you, there are still obvious issues with server crashes but other than that it runs great- when I first played it a couple of months ago I was getting absurd mouselag but that's fine now due to reduced hydra spam
Servers crash pretty frequently at the moment (every 2-3 maps?) but frankly I don't even care, seige mode re-creates epic turtles every game, with lots of fun toys to play with. Sadly only american servers available to me running this; seige mod needs to be more popular!
Edit- Emboldened the word "rockin'" for emphasis.
Frequently updated, new stuff being introduced at a steady rate (so far there's acid rocket, focus, fully customisable exosuits (flamethrower/ welders available and in various combinations), HMG, giant macs that never do what they're told (so basically, giant macs), etc etc.).
I dont know the forum name of whoever runs it, but whoever you are hats off to you, there are still obvious issues with server crashes but other than that it runs great- when I first played it a couple of months ago I was getting absurd mouselag but that's fine now due to reduced hydra spam
Servers crash pretty frequently at the moment (every 2-3 maps?) but frankly I don't even care, seige mode re-creates epic turtles every game, with lots of fun toys to play with. Sadly only american servers available to me running this; seige mod needs to be more popular!
Edit- Emboldened the word "rockin'" for emphasis.
Comments
Occasionally the server will be unable to connect to the workshop and that causes a lot of "mod not found" and similar errors. This applies to most servers and is actually a pretty big problem (I feel) that eventually will need to be worked out. It's one most server operators are familiar with.
If this happens when you're playing any of the siege servers you should contact one of the admins for it, it's an easy fix! But that's the life of a custom mod
To me it seems like taking one of the worst aspects of NS2 (turtles) and making a game mode around it.
Would be awesome to see regular NS2 get some of those features though. Customized Exosuits... Focus... HMG... Acid rocket... there's no reason it can't all be added to vanilla. Or at the very least someone should put together a "NS2+" type mod with all of it.
I personally think there is too much pres for players and generally not enough RTs in the mid-map. In ns1, Aliens had to try and make a break past the marine frontline into the rest of the map where they could build outposts, kill significant RTs and draw JPers away from the defenses. Your bread and butter classes were lerk and fade vs JP chasing each other around.
In ns2 everyone has enough res to go onos and double exo right from the start so there is no cost/benefit strategy in having to save res for your higher tech, so a lot of games have marines being crushed by all onos/gorge as soon as the doors open.
it's still that way in seige- good luck getting an onos past an entire team of exos/HMGs. With a fade or lerk- much less of a problem.
But yeah a lot of the problems with seige at the moment revolve around it being best played with larger playercounts, AKA, the servers are often full of rookies. Dont let that deter you though- wait long enough and decent players will amass
Fixed.
Turtles are unarguably an easy state to achieve in NS2.
They are a low-energy state, one that often requires large amounts of energy (shouting) to get out of.
So, you could say it is a preferred state for the NS2 gameplay system, as a whole.
Seige is good because it works. Even with rookies.
There is a clearly-defined gameflow - vanilla NS2 lacks this (often resulting in, derp, turtles).
Did I mention the HMGs, exosuits with welder/flamers etc? Dont be such an old sourpuss. It's by no means the razor-sharp competitive multiplayer experience that vanilla is, but it's damn fun as a pub mode.
It's turtle-vs-turtle, may the best tortoise win.
@AmbivalentAmbiguity still lots of crashes as of yesterday, but I'll take your word for it
https://trello.com/c/47TPhd0N/666-steam-resiliance-keep-running-if-steam-is-down
http://ns2servers.devicenull.org/servers/1553931/91.121.64.194:27024
Also, who's idea was it to put heavy rain on that one siege map?
I see them like playing money maps. Both teams have basically unlimited resources and it becomes a huge end-game tech kill fest, with an objective.
Kinda like Combat, but with much bigger maps.
edit again: Alot of siegemod is actually alot of remix from other mods: ns2c, enforced exo, ns2+, compmod, extraentities(mod)
p.s - hashtagawesome.org
The new NS2+ Update is working fine and the setParentiy Errors are gone now (I tested it on several Servers). If the code brings your server to crash, then you have to do something against this, because the setParentiy error will be implemented into the new build 271 (Ns2 Trello)
... LOTS OF FUN!!!111!!11!!!1111!!1!one
Word on the grapevine is that it's all working now
I'm busy tonight but hoping we can get some games going this coming week (3 days off work woooooo)