You Know You're An Ns Veteran When...
Cowswin
Join Date: 2003-03-17 Member: 14623Banned, Constellation
Join Date: 2003-03-17 Member: 14623Banned, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">Back in the good ol' days...</div> - When you remember defense chambers healed EVERYTHING around you in huge gulps of health. Walls of lame were nearly unsiegable.
- JP/HMG rushes were non-existant. Marines filled neatly along and built bases at each room with a res node and PUSHED toward your hive.
- Cloaking actually was worth a damn. You could cloak...and the marines couldn't see you!
- There weren't enough people playing to attract the hax0rz. When someone was aiming at you, they weren't afk from the MOUSE1 button if you know what I mean.
- JP/HMG rushes were non-existant. Marines filled neatly along and built bases at each room with a res node and PUSHED toward your hive.
- Cloaking actually was worth a damn. You could cloak...and the marines couldn't see you!
- There weren't enough people playing to attract the hax0rz. When someone was aiming at you, they weren't afk from the MOUSE1 button if you know what I mean.
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I liked making the marines push, and people actually wanted you to build turrets in your base.
You remember walking on top of turrets the entire length of the map in any game marines would win.
You know the term "lag beast".
You remember a 1 v 9 game being a regular occurance, and the one person actually doing pretty well.
You remember a regenerating onos taking roughly 5 minutes to reach full health......
And my favorite, you remember marine llamas shooting their own IP's to death game after game.
... you can remember not getting 100 emails and PM's a day from people whining that such and such is bad, such and such is broken, such and such is an awesome (not) idea for immediate implementation into NS, or MonsE is a forum nazi (neverminding that he created the forums and administers them and helps pay for them).
... you remember starting Readyroom.org as a fansite. And then constantly battling with its original amazingly assinine hosting company over a period of a year, until finally pulling the plug and moving.
If you can't tell, it's been a lousy day.
edit: Thanks Nem
BTW, Mons, his name was 'Fluorescent Duck'. Sig: "Quack! I glow with power."
Oh wait, wrong game. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
~you know your a veteran when on that same night aliens were impossible to play because resource model was messed up
and finaly
~you know your a vet when you signed up before it's big halloween debue
thats pretty much all i have =D
don`t you all remember, marines nearly always won! i dunno why they were so damn organised just when it came out and then it screwed itself, now pub games are back to at least marines have a chance.
i remeber going aliens and we always said marines were so sad to us cos their was at least a 4 player diffrence from teams, us having less. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
the reason marines won was because learning aliens took a good week or two. after that the majority of wins were aliens until marines USED teamwork. (let it be also noted that the reason marines did not have teamwork, more like random blundering.) after this got into play (to current day) most games are decisivly won by an effecient marine/alien team.
EDIT: and dont forget how much the aliens 0wned the marines in 1.01 where all the vets had hardened up, and gotten bad-@ss skills at NS as an alien, and obliterated all but clans, because there were no longer HA and HMG 3 minutes into the game.
Har har Steve. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
The thing I mainly remember about 1.0 was the team-stacking. Dear jebus it was bad sometimes.
Hell, I've been here since May 2002, and I don't particularly consider myself a veteran.
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Ah, the Golden Days...
But, I thought you were! Well, there goes my role model.
Before I just couldn't be assed to sign up with my 10 foot long email address <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
And I felt so much like a noob back then while everyone seemed to know the game by heart when it wasn't even out <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
I remember when the sieges cost 15 and were no-need-to-scan long-range killers. That, and the fade having less life.
oh and I remember joining a game to say OMG AN ELEFANT!!! It was on nancy if I recall.
never had anything to say until 1.03 <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->..
but :
you remember when grenlauchers had 6 to a clip and fired at an unbelievable rate
you remember humping the armory while laucnhing grenade after grenade at the doorway
you remember counting down to holloween
you remember that everyone didnt ride flays balls as if he would hand them money for kissing hit cheeks
you remember making a turret factor making turrets removing tf(recle/killed) and turrets kept going. making farms of hundreds all the way to a hive
you remember the ONOS atually had a place in the game... other than when its utter rape
you remember the fear when the CS players turned there dark glares apon the purity of Natural Selection
#1 THING EVAR!
<b> You remember QUOTING youself as to saying " holy crap, i wonder if its the same team that made GLOOM.. " </b>
planetquake/gloom...
Ego
[FACT] - i loved gloom with all my heart.. /ponder /cry.. <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> + Pudje = <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-nuuuuuuuuub. Since you obviously have no clue what you are talking about, go play counter-strike. Guess wut, you cant see a damned thing with the new cloak unless you are seriously looking hard for them
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n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-nuuuuuuuuub. Since you obviously have no clue what you are talking about, go play counter-strike. Guess wut, you cant see a damned thing with the new cloak unless you are seriously looking hard for them <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Eh, not really true... A fade is semi hard and an onos is very easy to spot. gorge and skulk are the only ones that are truly very hard to see.
On a side note ~ You know you are a vet when 1.1 comes out and you cant kill a damn skulk cuz ur too used to firing above its body because of the screwy hitboxes.
I remember the first game well, sod marines, I thought, I was a hardcore alien in AvP nothing I can't handle. Ns_nothing, starting in cargo bay. Learned that by going through the corridor with the broken steam pipe I could get to the marine base, and the raping it over and over again. I was accustomed to jump spamming and bite spamming as well as ambushes and wall crawling. Two mins later a guy named [NS]Mercior joined, "Can I be in your clan?" I asked. Mercior took a look at my beastly score and agreed. We won our first clan match three days after that. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Must have been v1.02 I imagine, do sometimes miss the invincable fades of v1.03
Good times...
I didn't yell elephant however, more like "OMG!!! WTH IS THAT!!! A V V SOME! OH S***!!!! MEDPACGHGHGHG............"
(pre 1.04 your voice comms would stop when you died)
.. wait that mighta just been my lag...
And when people saw so much as an OC they had to siege it, and turret it.