Game Times

Bogglesteinsky · July 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">did flayra succeed?</div> i remember flayra wanted to get game times down to about 10 minutes, yet still have all the action of a normal 30 min game, so, i ask you, the vets and pts, did he succeed? are the games very action packed with hardly ever a dull moment, and do you still get the epic 2 hr games?

Byeka · July 2003

Comprox told me on IRC recently that game's are still long. That was a few betas ago.

Forlorn · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Freak83 @ Jul 24 2003, 02:21 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Comprox told me on IRC recently that game's are still long. That was a few betas ago.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Let me reprashe you for funny's sake:

"Comprox told me very recently a few beta's ago...."

Rofl

rennex · July 2003

Still long. But much more intense.

taboofires · July 2003

Beta versions. With releases every couple days, a couple versions worth of time isn't much.

Mr_Radical_Ed · July 2003

As of now the game has the potential to end earlier than 1.04 games, but since marines and aliens tech fairly rapidly the games get drawn out for one reason or another. Either aliens don't become organized and finish the marines off when they have the chance, or marines don't take the initiative and pull together some plan to take out the remaining hive. Now a couple builds ago.. maybe around mid testing almost every game last an average of 5 minutes.. sometimes 12 minute games.

Iced_Eagle · July 2003

Personally, I like the long epic battles that gets your adren pumping. But also short games are fun also <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'> I'm glad we still have the longer games AND shorter games

sTrYkEr · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Rennex @ Jul 24 2003, 02:25 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Still long. But much more intense.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
i agree wth rennex <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'>

Haze · July 2003

I like the long drawn out games that are between two good teams using stragity. I played one on Tanith, where we had waste locked down, and every res node (Including RR) between it and the marine spawn. Aliens had the rest, while the middle was a constant battle between cara/adrenline fades vs level 3 heavies. Man, those games are the best. Then, we got under attack at waste, I sent three heavies (to my knowledge, it was a month ago I believe) there to defend it, then sent more in reinforcements, and waste colapsed. We stood to the final death, where it took almost half their team of onos's to rush at once to finally finish us. Great game.

Apos · July 2003

Personally, I like longer games. 5 minutes sounds, well... just awful. 20minutes sounds ideal. Constant battle action is not why I got hooked on the game at all. This is not TFC. Creepy, slower moving teamwork action is what really makes things shine.

It's because a single game feels like a sequence of EVENTS: you take up a position, defend it, try to take a hive, fail, fall back, lose your position but reloc to another hive, build up again, move out, gain new tech, stop a 2nd hive from going up, lock things down, etc. It's the lockdown stalemates that are bad, but NOT the length of games themselves. 5 minutes is just way too short a game to have any sort of epic triumphs.

marksman_not_newbie · July 2003

Yeah, I always loved the longer games. Still to this day my favourite game was over an hour long. Dont ask me how it took that long, it just did lol. We (aliens) had to switch hives about 3 or 4 times before we got to the point of being strong enough to take a second, and then we lost that one lol. It still went on for a while. But we lost <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

BUT It was very very fun.

I just hope there is still just a small chance that they can last that long. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Chazums · July 2003

i enjoy longer games too. I especially like those strange lulls that happen and you just know that the other team are upgrading and an attack is coming, i hope the game doesn't lose that tension.

Only a few more day til we find out <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

HAMBone · July 2003

the games seem longer than 1.04 games but they are generally much more intense and action-packed.

Kenichi · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (marksman not newbie @ Jul 24 2003, 05:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Yeah, I always loved the longer games. Still to this day my favourite game was over an hour long. Dont ask me how it took that long, it just did lol. We (aliens) had to switch hives about 3 or 4 times before we got to the point of being strong enough to take a second, and then we lost that one lol. It still went on for a while. But we lost <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

BUT It was very very fun.

I just hope there is still just a small chance that they can last that long. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
best game ever was my 8 hour 1.0 game. bugs + everyone is nubs in the first week of the game = 8 hours of battle filled bliss that i will never again be able to repeat.

Forlorn · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (taboofires @ Jul 24 2003, 04:36 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Beta versions. With releases every couple days, a couple versions worth of time isn't much.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
My point was that gameplay changes very quickly between beta's

Elderwyrm · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Kenichi @ Jul 24 2003, 06:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (marksman not newbie @ Jul 24 2003, 05:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Yeah, I always loved the longer games. Still to this day my favourite game was over an hour long. Dont ask me how it took that long, it just did lol. We (aliens) had to switch hives about 3 or 4 times before we got to the point of being strong enough to take a second, and then we lost that one lol. It still went on for a while. But we lost <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

BUT It was very very fun.

I just hope there is still just a small chance that they can last that long. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
best game ever was my 8 hour 1.0 game. bugs + everyone is nubs in the first week of the game = 8 hours of battle filled bliss that i will never again be able to repeat.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Ahhahaha. Damn that was fun. People would stop to eat, then come back like 2 hours later and say "Is this the same game?!"

CplDavis · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mr Radical Ed @ Jul 24 2003, 03:42 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Now a couple builds ago.. maybe around mid testing almost every game last an average of 5 minutes.. sometimes 12 minute games.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
By judging from this thread topic (and countless others) it seems that the majority of us are going to miss those long games.

5 min. ick thats like cs.

That just seems like a giant tech rush= thus leading to single tactic use again.

People will want to find the fastest "way" to win and then use it all the time.

i hope its not like this in the final 2.0 that will be released.

rennex · July 2003

It's not. Most games I've played lasted way beyond 15 mins.

Autosalesman · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Kenichi @ Jul 24 2003, 06:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (marksman not newbie @ Jul 24 2003, 05:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Yeah, I always loved the longer games. Still to this day my favourite game was over an hour long. Dont ask me how it took that long, it just did lol. We (aliens) had to switch hives about 3 or 4 times before we got to the point of being strong enough to take a second, and then we lost that one lol. It still went on for a while. But we lost <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

BUT It was very very fun.

I just hope there is still just a small chance that they can last that long. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
best game ever was my 8 hour 1.0 game. bugs + everyone is nubs in the first week of the game = 8 hours of battle filled bliss that i will never again be able to repeat.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
wow, I wish I coulda played that game. that sounds nuts.

Arcadius · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Autosalesman @ Jul 25 2003, 12:45 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Kenichi @ Jul 24 2003, 06:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (marksman not newbie @ Jul 24 2003, 05:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Yeah, I always loved the longer games. Still to this day my favourite game was over an hour long. Dont ask me how it took that long, it just did lol. We (aliens) had to switch hives about 3 or 4 times before we got to the point of being strong enough to take a second, and then we lost that one lol. It still went on for a while. But we lost <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

BUT It was very very fun.

I just hope there is still just a small chance that they can last that long. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
best game ever was my 8 hour 1.0 game. bugs + everyone is nubs in the first week of the game = 8 hours of battle filled bliss that i will never again be able to repeat. </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
wow, I wish I coulda played that game. that sounds nuts. </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Dang, 8 hours. I wish I could have been there. The best I've ever been apart of was a 4 hour war on ns_nothing. That was with 1.04 and no one f4'ed, which was crazy. The game ended by a brilliant alien feint that enabled them to get around the marines and wipe out their base. Best game I ever played in. Everyone sat in the ready room and talked about the game for about 5 minutes before we started the next round. No one whined, everyone was happy. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Apos · July 2003

I don't mind the variability in games: when marines screw up and their relocated base is overrun, they deserve to go down. Glad to hear that things can last longer. The sort of epic "back and forth" element of NS is something that I love that's unique to NS as far as I've played, and I hope 2.0 brings more of that rather than less.

Ape · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Apos @ Jul 25 2003, 12:59 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I don't mind the variability in games: when marines screw up and their relocated base is overrun, they deserve to go down. Glad to hear that things can last longer. The sort of epic "back and forth" element of NS is something that I love that's unique to NS as far as I've played, and I hope 2.0 brings more of that rather than less.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Exactly what I'm thinking, epic is the way to go, none of this 2 minute rush crap (although that can be fun, <b>sometimes</b> - not every bloody game).
My best was 3 hours worth of epic goodness (HA vs fades for 2 and a half hours worth).
Best game of NS evar~!

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