my first experience was running around as a skulk trying to bite the heads of the rines for a 1 shot kill....i have since stopped playing cs for 8 months...w00t.
<!--QuoteBegin--Predmid+Nov 24 2003, 05:29 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Predmid @ Nov 24 2003, 05:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> my first experience was running around as a skulk trying to bite the heads of the rines for a 1 shot kill....i have since stopped playing cs for 8 months...w00t. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> WE HAVE CURED AND MADE ONE HOLY AGAIN!
First time I was played. I was a Marine. I was pretty good for a fresh new NS marine. Kicked some **** and I was cautious, but at the same time adored all the maps and the eye candy.
Ahhh, remember back in the days when it was when the Kharaa had a second hive or an Onos that it was instantly game over? Now an Onos doesn't mean squat, unless if it's a good player who is that beast.
My clanmates at the time had started playing this new mod...and they insisted I try it.
I downloaded 1.0 right on the tail end of 1.02, joined a server, went marines on ns_nancy...
...and promptly fell down the vent by the first res node outta base, and was stuck for about 20 mins with two other marines annoying the Comm by trying out all the neat radio commands <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
At the time, I was on a 26.4 modem, so I stuck to gorge <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
I was amazed by the giant maps, but always got owned by fades so I thought that without HAs it wasn't possible to get out of base. My first comming was on caged, I spent all my res on weapons and HAs all the time cause I didnt like comms who didnt drop anything. I guess my team liked my comming, although it took us more than 2 hours to win. But still it was a win <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
remiremedy [blu.knight]Join Date: 2003-11-18Member: 23112Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester
I think it was a mix of "damn these levels are big" "wow, thats a nice rine base... (turret farming and all, and then in another minute all the aliens go in and crush it.)" "GIMME A JETPACK! W00T! JETPACK! SHOTTY! ::kill kill kill kill::" (i came from CS, so had pretty good aim, so I made a relatively good rine, and with jp, i was killer <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->)
I'm not sure what version it was then - the dying days of 1.02 or the opening days of 1.03, but I might be completely wrong (late January). I decided that, as I had more of a strategic than all-out battle-oriented mindset right from the start, I would Gorge and build my idea of an inpenetrable base. I had a brief, somewhat vague description of NS from my brother as a starting point, but his method of explaining the chambers was a little off, and I thought one dropped the chambers with the upgrades selected by the Gorge, and that, once such chambers had been dropped, the whole alien team would benefit from the selected upgrade automatically. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> Needless to say, I annoyed quite a lot of people by spending a few minutes asking if they wanted me to drop Carapace, Regeneration or Redemption <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I gotta say the immediate visuals were awe inspiring. Nothing like watching the electic arcs in eclipse for 5 min straight. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
I searched for a friend on gametiger and saw he was playing a game called "Natural-Selection" I was like "wth is that" I downloaded it and joined his server. I joined the aliens first, it was on tanith and the aliens had a constant ress pool. I went around trying to figure out what all the weird blobs with spikes coming out of them were, and trying to figure out how to get res. The game ran like crap on my old computer in D3D, I got a new one later, ran it in Open Glide.
2 months later i try ns out again.. "holy ****!!1!1!!1!!111!1"
For a while i started saying "omg" "wth!!" every single time I died.
My first NS impression? Holy S*** Zeus is good. He was another Kharra and showing me the ropes. Basically, I was the marinebait gorge, and he would tear the marines apart as a skulk. He was scary - almost 30 kills in a ten minute period.
first time i played was back in 1.0, and it was like crazy. i joined marines and they always had 1000 res and i was like "what makes this game hard anyway?" cuz there used to be so many turret farms and stuff. Then i joined aliens and i experienced the good ole jp/hmg taking down a hive experience. And i was like omg how can we win this??
I can just remember the excellent feeling of playing as a cog in a marine unit - when we're talking this long ago, folks actually worked together. It was <i>amazing.</i> <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Makes me long for those days where NS was rambo-free <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
The way I found out about NS was from another forum I visit, they were talking about it, and I thought it sounded cool so I Installed and was hooked immediately. Because of reading through the short discussion of the game, watching the install slideshow, and reading some of the manuel, I had at least a decent idea of what I was doing. This was right after 2.0 was released btw. I think my first game, was tanith as a marine. I don't remember the outcome of the game, but I remember loving the whole teamwork thing. A little embarassing thing about my newbness, it took me about a week or so before I found that the aliens could switch weapons. I kept thinking, how come my attack doesn't look like that? ( <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> spit vs. bilebomb)
I loved the "Starship trooper" / "Starcraft" aspect of the game, joined as terran and looked around me. Then I got a waypoint and kept going there (trying to pass through a WOL and a hive isn't possible as a newbie) <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->)
Was funny ! I find 2.01 still unbalanced yet to get any fun of it. 1.04 was a HARD game and you had victory with hard work ... Very rewarding.
<!--QuoteBegin--Krytos+Nov 25 2003, 07:09 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Krytos @ Nov 25 2003, 07:09 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The way I found out about NS was from another forum I visit, they were talking about it, and I thought it sounded cool so I Installed and was hooked immediately. Because of reading through the short discussion of the game, watching the install slideshow, and reading some of the manuel, I had at least a decent idea of what I was doing. This was right after 2.0 was released btw. I think my first game, was tanith as a marine. I don't remember the outcome of the game, but I remember loving the whole teamwork thing. A little embarassing thing about my newbness, it took me about a week or so before I found that the aliens could switch weapons. I kept thinking, how come my attack doesn't look like that? ( <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> spit vs. bilebomb) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I'm glad I'm not the only one who assumed that the aliens didn't use the weapon select, I asked someone in the end, I felt so stupid afterwards <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
My first thought was: "oh, wait, im on the server? umm.. should i be able to like... see stuff? *gets shot to hell by a marine* oh, i guess that slightly less black spot was a muzzle flash... letsee, maybe as aliens im supposed to play by sound?" Yeah.... I thought it sucked big time for about a week, since i had to turn my flashlight on to be able to navigate well lit hallways... I had some gamma issues on my previous screen (vid card gamma, screen gamma and ingame gamma were all maxed <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->) , i had to open it up and play around with the stuff inside to get it bright enough to play... But for some reson NS was the first game that gave me any problems, well, the first game i simply could not play cause it was soo dark... Then it turned into a game that was unlike anything i had played before, i expected it to take more of Half-Lifes "feel" then it did, fortunatly. Man, good memories getting owned soooo hardcore <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--Crashuk+Nov 24 2003, 07:18 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Crashuk @ Nov 24 2003, 07:18 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> But it was bettter in v1.0 when u could get ha and jp and hmg and kick some **** <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> OMG, i though i was just hallucinating <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->
It was like, about the first days of my ns gaming, i got a ha + jp and then on the second it wasnt possible. So i thought i was just imaging thing, heh, it was pretty neat though. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
And oh, i still remember the first comment to my playing.. "**** EVOLVE TO SKULK!!! NOW" (i went gorge, <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> )
I dont really remember what my first game was like, but I had seen the screens on PHL, and had been waiting for NS 1.0 to come out.
At halloween me and my friends were at RPGCon, so we couldn't try it out. They tried it out in a LAN the following weekend, and I tried it out over the internet.. I think my first game was as kharaa, on eclipse. I have this memory fragment of starting in maintence, with all of these kharaa-blips all over my screen..
Comments
"how are there so many aliens in our base?"
*Back in 1.04 in Nancy*
ME"Commander sounds pretty cool"
TEAM"OMG EJECT NUB COMM H4X!!!111"
ME"UM...."
TEAM"BUILD IPS **** NOW!"
ME"UM.....
TEAM"OMG"
*Commander has been ejected*
<!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
WE HAVE CURED AND MADE ONE HOLY AGAIN!
First time I was played. I was a Marine.
I was pretty good for a fresh new NS marine. Kicked some **** and I was cautious, but at the same time adored all the maps and the eye candy.
Ahhh, remember back in the days when it was when the Kharaa had a second hive or an Onos that it was instantly game over?
Now an Onos doesn't mean squat, unless if it's a good player who is that beast.
I downloaded 1.0 right on the tail end of 1.02, joined a server, went marines on ns_nancy...
...and promptly fell down the vent by the first res node outta base, and was stuck for about 20 mins with two other marines annoying the Comm by trying out all the neat radio commands <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
At the time, I was on a 26.4 modem, so I stuck to gorge <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
My first comming was on caged, I spent all my res on weapons and HAs all the time cause I didnt like comms who didnt drop anything. I guess my team liked my comming, although it took us more than 2 hours to win. But still it was a win <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
. . . . This is SO COOL!
But it was bettter in v1.0 when u could get ha and jp and hmg and kick some ****
I was like "wth is that"
I downloaded it and joined his server.
I joined the aliens first, it was on tanith and the aliens had a constant ress pool.
I went around trying to figure out what all the weird blobs with spikes coming out of them were, and trying to figure out how to get res.
The game ran like crap on my old computer in D3D, I got a new one later, ran it in Open Glide.
2 months later i try ns out again.. "holy ****!!1!1!!1!!111!1"
For a while i started saying "omg" "wth!!" every single time I died.
i joined marines and they always had 1000 res and i was like "what makes this game hard anyway?" cuz there used to be so many turret farms and stuff. Then i joined aliens and i experienced the good ole jp/hmg taking down a hive experience. And i was like omg how can we win this??
Makes me long for those days where NS was rambo-free <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
2 months later I was hooked.
Was funny ! I find 2.01 still unbalanced yet to get any fun of it. 1.04 was a HARD game and you had victory with hard work ... Very rewarding.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who assumed that the aliens didn't use the weapon select, I asked someone in the end, I felt so stupid afterwards <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Yeah.... I thought it sucked big time for about a week, since i had to turn my flashlight on to be able to navigate well lit hallways...
I had some gamma issues on my previous screen (vid card gamma, screen gamma and ingame gamma were all maxed <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->) , i had to open it up and play around with the stuff inside to get it bright enough to play... But for some reson NS was the first game that gave me any problems, well, the first game i simply could not play cause it was soo dark...
Then it turned into a game that was unlike anything i had played before, i expected it to take more of Half-Lifes "feel" then it did, fortunatly.
Man, good memories getting owned soooo hardcore <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
OMG, i though i was just hallucinating <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->
It was like, about the first days of my ns gaming, i got a ha + jp and then on the second it wasnt possible. So i thought i was just imaging thing, heh, it was pretty neat though. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
And oh, i still remember the first comment to my playing.. "**** EVOLVE TO SKULK!!! NOW" (i went gorge, <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> )
At halloween me and my friends were at RPGCon, so we couldn't try it out. They tried it out in a LAN the following weekend, and I tried it out over the internet.. I think my first game was as kharaa, on eclipse. I have this memory fragment of starting in maintence, with all of these kharaa-blips all over my screen..
played alien after that until 1.03. then started playing marines/comm and it became my favorite team, and still is.