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Join Date: 2002-10-18 Member: 1542Members
Join Date: 2002-10-18 Member: 1542Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Your First impressions of Ns...</div> I remember months and months ago waiting the release of 1.0. I had an idea of how NS would work.
I imagined that skulks would be rat like creatures, that gorges would be the size of an onos and would quiver and slither, I imagined an Onos to be some gargantuan... Thing... That... Would... kill lots of marines...
I imagined maps to split off into three sections (kind of like canyons) and that hives would be interconnected by vents. I imagined marines would fight to secure rooms. I imagined the siege cannon to be an Uber turret, not the anti building defense it is today. I remember thinking fades would be able to blink through walls, hack and slash the marine base and blink out, I thought that the lerk would be able to swoop down pick up a marine and drop him to his ultimate demise.
But perhaps oddest of all, I imagined the hive to be like a queens chamber from starcraft. It would occupy almost the entire hive room, aliens would spawn inside it and would come out of many tendril like tunnels leading away from it. I imagined this hive to pulsate constantly...
So anyway, what did you imagine NS to be like before you actually played the game?
I imagined that skulks would be rat like creatures, that gorges would be the size of an onos and would quiver and slither, I imagined an Onos to be some gargantuan... Thing... That... Would... kill lots of marines...
I imagined maps to split off into three sections (kind of like canyons) and that hives would be interconnected by vents. I imagined marines would fight to secure rooms. I imagined the siege cannon to be an Uber turret, not the anti building defense it is today. I remember thinking fades would be able to blink through walls, hack and slash the marine base and blink out, I thought that the lerk would be able to swoop down pick up a marine and drop him to his ultimate demise.
But perhaps oddest of all, I imagined the hive to be like a queens chamber from starcraft. It would occupy almost the entire hive room, aliens would spawn inside it and would come out of many tendril like tunnels leading away from it. I imagined this hive to pulsate constantly...
So anyway, what did you imagine NS to be like before you actually played the game?
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I joined as a marine. I looked around and found that I was in a small red room surrounded by other marines and little stationary turrents. Alien things were coming in through vent openings and blowing us up. (Xenocide)
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The first game I ever played was ns_tanith. About all I could remember were the keys I had bound for "request order" and "acknowledge order." So the first thing I did was go marine and ask for an order. My comm set a waypoint for me, and I struggled to figure out how to get there (it was in chemical, I was in marine start.) I'd go one way and the waypoint would get further away. Go another, and it'd get closer but there wasn't any way to get through the wall blocking me from the ultra critical task I had been assigned. Took me a while to learn the map, and even then I only learned how to get to and from chemical without bumping into something. I did manage to help build a resource tower, but I'm sure it fell soon after.
Aliens had me for lunch repeatedly. When spawning, I would walk up to every structure and try to use it, thinking that was how I could get a better weapon or upgrade. I figured the arms lab must be where you can "purchase" weapons, since there were pictures of guns on it and stuff. Quickly learned the "cylinder thing" was the only structure that gave me any goodies, so I flocked to it. It took me a week before understanding how everything worked. Another week before understanding how to upgrade something as a commander. First time I went gorge I immediately built a sensory chamber, not knowing that I couldn't build any others until the second hive. Everyone laughed at the n00b gorge and explained why I shouldn't build a sensory on the first hive. First time as comm I failed miserably and my team was decimated. Ahh, those were the days!
I was very impressed by the magnitude of it all.
Of course, I didn't realize the importancy of capping resource nodes.
--edit-- dang typos
4 games later, I figured out, oh, it's <i>supposed</i> to happen.
The earliest marine game I remember was me commanding on tanith, I played alot of starcraft and other rts games so I figured it would be about the same. We ended up winning but to be honest I dont know why <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->. by the end we had 400 res, and I still didn't know where the last hive was.
my brother described the game for me as being like starcraft, so I pictured zerglings and marines running around in a rat maze, with the commander standing on a very tall pedestal looking down at the maze telling marines where to go.
Pwndidage.
He showed it me and I was impressed, the sounds, the graphics, the player/gun models and the deep atmosphere we're brilliant and still are.
Now it's one of the best games I've ever played alongside Final Fantasy 7, MGS, and Broken Sword 1 & 2! <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
I imagined it being like Starcraft and AVP, but upon playing the game, it felt like so many other different genre of games all gelled together nicely.
Heh, I remember that all I would do is play as Marines no matter what...Now I prefer to play as Aliens <!--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 my first game. I joined marines, and was immediately killed by 3 onos. The next game was the same thing. And the next. Then the server crashed.....
LMAO, I was doing the same thing the first time I played. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
God it was great.
I can almost remember exactly what happened too. After finishing the download, I actually searched out Hera first, since I heard it was the most beautiful and cool map (which it is....just not too good for gameplay). I would soon meet the lag beast, but I was too engrossed in the sheer ambience of the game to care.
Our hive was Databank, and I started off in wonder. I played around with the skulk, having fun with the wall-walking. I was a little disappointed it wasn't like AvP2, but I didn't mind too much. I walked around the corner into Processing, to find the resource tower guzzling resources. Nearby, a marine walking around the corner and got mauled by an offense tower a teammate had set up. I was like "Oh, cool!" And the game recommended, since our gorge was dead, that someone go ahead and evolve. So I did. Then I toyed around, and built a defense tower (since I thought defense was what the tower I saw was). Then I realized that the tower healed me, which wasn't so bad, but I wanted an offense tower to kill some stuff. I built one, and sure enough, a marine walked aroudn the corner and got destroyed, and all the damage he did to my OT was healed by the DT. My first wall of lame =).
I messed around a little more, getting some resources for the team in Holoroom (which I thought had some of the coolest architecture EVAR!). Then I met a group of marines, and actually killed one with spit (leading me to the false idea that it was a good weapon). Turns out, he didn't have too much health and that was the reason he died, and I was quickly instructed by the other two guys why gorges aren't meant for battling.
Then I discovered the vent into the marine base, and spent the remainder of the game using that to harass the marines. Unfortunately, I usually died due to the 30 turrets or so littered around the base. But I didn't really care. I actually think, because it was early on and the whole keep-the-aliens-from-getting-a-hive thing hadn't set in yet, that we had all three hives and I had plenty of fun xenociding the marines.
How'd the game end you ask? Server crashed due to turret overload. Would we have it any other way back int he days of 1.0?