ultranewb

I usually play lerk and I still like the change, but the length of the cinematic is way too long. It adds a ton of visual clutter.

in The Lerk Change: Smoke Trails on Spikes Comment by ultranewb March 2013

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It was concluded years ago with NS1. The one thing you cannot "balance" is how the game looks on different setups. This is why no gamma settings is also just as nonsensical.

My suggestion for changing cloak would be to …

in Camo and Silence suck now? Comment by ultranewb March 2013

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I'm seeing higher FPS as well and the dips aren't as drastic.

in Gorgeous Changelog - Natural Selection 2 Comment by ultranewb March 2013

I use the Adaptive Vsync on with fullscreen window with no issue. So, using adaptive should be a decent workaround for now.

in Vsync in full screen window mode Comment by ultranewb March 2013

By my count:
7 Alien Buffs
3 Alien Nerfs
4 Marine Buffs

in Gorgeous Changelog - Natural Selection 2 Comment by ultranewb March 2013

No, it's completely false. Parasite used to be based on a huge enclosing hitbox. Note that in NS2, you can shoot between the legs and miss. This is why if the animation shown is different than what the server is thinking (see previous reported bugs)…

in Alien Minimap Comment by ultranewb February 2013

Very nice to see another colorful map. Brown and Grey is so last decade.

in Gorgeous Trailer Released - Natural Selection 2 Comment by ultranewb February 2013

It's something that would work on very, very few configurations. There's a reason almost no games do it.

With the current NS2 performance, the amount of systems that could work with it would be remotely small.

in Idea: Dual screen support Comment by ultranewb February 2013

Of course continued development is designed as a selling point. Also, this just in, water is wet. See the full story at 11.

in What you can expect from the Gorgeous Patch Comment by ultranewb February 2013

Armor and Weapon upgrades, as far as aliens are concerned, these are magic numbers. In other games, you will - at least - see the armor change. In reverse, the same goes for Carapace.

in NS2 Launch Postmortem on Gamasutra Comment by ultranewb February 2013

Yes. You do what Valve did with TF2. You take one system at a time and make it a thread. Sounds easy, right? Unfortunately, parallel programming has progressed the least in the last 30 years than most everything else. There are no tools or languages…

in AMD Bulldozer Quad core 3.6 Ghz FOR NS2? Comment by ultranewb February 2013

Two Words: Adaptive Vsync

It gives you the best of both worlds.

in Very long loading times + fps drop around infestation no matter what options/res Comment by ultranewb February 2013

Losing? As soon as the minimap pops up, you see the aliens have the entire map except for 2 tech points. Aliens did exactly the right thing to counter a "take cargo and win" Marine Viel strat. If you keep them locked in base and eat their nodes, the…

in Losing to winning in 8 seconds. Comment by ultranewb February 2013

http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/comment/2048730/#Comment_2048730

See my comment in the above thread. I've the next gen of…

in AMD Bulldozer Quad core 3.6 Ghz FOR NS2? Comment by ultranewb February 2013

SetTitleMatchMode 3
#IfWinActive Natural Selection 2
{
	WheelDown::1
	WheelUp::2
}
return

Use AutoHotkey. The above script will change the mouse…

in Advanced Keybindings Comment by ultranewb February 2013

Quick Notes:

Up&Down - Humans track vertical movement very poorly compared to horizontal. You can tack that up to millions of years of evolution. There's a simple and famous street magic illusion where you get close to someone and bo…

in [Video] Lerking About - Tips and Tricks Comment by ultranewb February 2013

In the NS2 engine, when FPS drops below 50 FPS, it loses smoothness and really hinders tracking fast moving targets. If you watch any first person streams of clan players, you'll never find top players that average less than 60 FPS for a reason. Unl…

in At which framerates do you guys feel your ability to aim/track starts to deteriorate? Comment by ultranewb February 2013

To paraphrase Valve, "Getting killed by things you can't see is no fun." (Don't reply with boomers, that game is designed so that it requires a cascade of errors to kill you.)

Yes, the color scheme is so desaturated that it makes the gam…

in 120 Hz Monitors, Alien Vision, And Scans Comment by ultranewb February 2013

For testing, I had both Cara and Cel available but I only took one upgrade when evolving to lerk. When spore was researched later, it worked as expected.

For test 2, I evolved Cara first, then Cel later. When spore was researched later, …

in [239] Spore Missing Comment by ultranewb February 2013

I'm guessing the "fix" for the double-upgrades exploit broke this.

I'd call this a game breaker, since a Fade or a Lerk that already has 2 upgrades can't use spore/blink until either they die or a third upgrade is available.

in [239] Spore Missing Comment by ultranewb February 2013