What are Your Most Memorable and Fun NS Experiences?

RadixRadix Join Date: 2005-01-10 Member: 34654Members, Constellation
This topic differs from Sarisel's in that it's seeking firsthand accounts of fun events and types of events you enjoy in NS.

Mine would include the following:

Aliens

- Tricking/Faking as fade
- Baiting as gorge
- Mind######ing as lerk, maybe chuckling to mask footsteps
- Chewing nodes early and later watching the effects of a comm who's suddenly realized a total choke of res
- Realizing that after many hours of play that I am getting noticeably better (aim/fade/etc.)
- Wrapping around and flanking an entrenched group of marines after Fairy died as lerk
- Bdropping Asmodee
- Bdropping Chopstick

Marines

- Using airspeed, ducking, and strafe jumping to kite skulks & fades
- Baiting skulks out of ambush points
- Ninja phase gate shotgun rushing
- Finding a new relocate (Aux Gen FTW)
- Using "follow me" binds to get groups of marines working together
- Dynamically switching my role from tank to healer by spam welding the team without shooting at threats
- Crouch-jumping to surprise skulks w/no noise attacks
- Bhopping/climbing into ninja spots on Caged
- Soloing lifeforms
- Relocating to my friend's starting hive with him as onos and dropping cc's in his way to bar him from getting back and then electrifying his hive down

There are more, but that's a start. x5 had some good ones if he wants to repost them.
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  • corpsmancorpsman Join Date: 2004-04-17 Member: 27979Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Last second one time kills. Today in fact it happened, and it was while totally random, badass! Rines rushed our hive at begining of game, both sides suffered casualties so that I was the last alien and there was one marine left. I had just dropped two OCs and an MC behind them in the hive area, so as to defend against the (hive rush). He ran in and suffered from my OCs, then as the commander spent his last res to drop hella ammo and health packs for him to kill me (I was last alien), I just spit everywhere in his direction like crazy. I was aiming at him, but it was more of a "screw you/get out" kind of thing, I did not expect to get any kills. Well, right before he reached the med packs and ammo, I spit him in the head, killnig him! hahaha

    The packs were waisted, as well as the unbuilt PG the comm dropped by the hive opening. Funny thing is they didnt build any IPs and we had only two MCs, so I dropped another MC while my team was all respawning, and we rushed the rine base raping it. >D I guess you had to be there, but it was cool being the last two guys (and one of us being a gorge!) and getting the game winning kill using spit of all things. haha Good times.
  • EmanonEmanon Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16254Members, Constellation
    edited April 2008
    playing against and with some of the best players NS has had.


    Pissing off Mak and Arc, always enjoyable
  • haymohaymo Join Date: 2005-01-09 Member: 34040Members, NS1 Playtester
    Climbing up the clan ranks, until eventually top.

    Knocking off the top in an undefeated tournament to be ranked the new best ns team.

    Playing with and against some of the best NS players NS has ever witnessed.

    Teamwork.

    Carrying.

    Winning rounds against terror/exigent on american servers and listening to them whine haha. :-)

    All other things covered in first post i guess.

    Playing with Solus, J, and Richie for about a year, best gaming experience ever.
  • PsympleJesterPsympleJester Join Date: 2008-04-06 Member: 64024Members
    edited April 2008
    Being possibly the most inventive Commander and still winning games.

    "Phase Gate Art!"
    <a href="http://img104.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nssiege005006c600078sz.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/6254/nssiege005006c600078sz.th.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a>

    I "think" I was the 1st person ever to try this in a live game.

    Doing this 'never' jeperdised the out come of the game for the marines because the base Phase Gate still linked DIRECTLY to the front Phase gate. However sometimes people got abit rowdy and refused to listen to orders from a "crack pot" commander and we came close to losing.

    <a href="http://img224.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nssiege00700355wb.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/3781/nssiege00700355wb.th.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a>
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  • locallyunscenelocallyunscene Feeder of Trolls Join Date: 2002-12-25 Member: 11528Members, Constellation
    edited April 2008
    Playing on friendly well admined servers: d.dozen, TSAO, I-AM, necrophix
    Epic turnaround games as comm.
    Knifing a paper onos as a vanilla almost solo on mineshaft.
  • La ChupacabraLa Chupacabra Join Date: 2008-02-25 Member: 63729Members
    1. Knifing 5 skulks in a row in ~20 seconds with a JP
    2. The first time playing as a comm winning
    3. Killing a fresh-from-the-base shotgun-HA marine as a skulk.
    3. Biting marines to death after long time of ambushing / sneaking up on them.
  • SariselSarisel .::&#39; ( O ) &#39;;:-. .-.:;&#39; ( O ) &#39;::. Join Date: 2003-07-30 Member: 18557Members, Constellation
    edited April 2008
    Bringing entire pub servers to their knees - getting banned, unbanned, banned, unbanned, changing the mindset of many admins - then showing some pub players the huge difference a few settings in NS can make.

    Frustrating "elite" veteran players that were on their quests to dominate pub servers. Going against stacks of veterans and carrying my team to victory under a smurf name. Being spectated by veteran players.

    Enjoying a few rare moments of competitive NS where I was part of a team that could work together and overcome adversity without attacking one another.

    Enjoying pubbing with some former team-mates and having fun playing roles that completely skewed pub games (ex. teaming up as gorges and winning the game via OC forts and spit-kills instead of fading, or relocating as marines outside alien hives and winning the game with regular pubmarines without upgrades, or cloak-lerking and making it seem overpowered to pubbers).

    Near the end, when the competitive scene in NA was dead and before quitting NS, it was fun to discover aspects of the game that nobody else was aware of and then exploiting them in pubs.

    Oh, and I completely forgot, being part of the process that eventually led to the elimination of the last server-slot hitbox bug (PSHB) - after a year of gathering evidence and spurring discussion, seeing the bug get consistently reproduced in a server.
  • exoityexoity Join Date: 2003-03-17 Member: 14620Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Six hour game on 1.04 Bast, including me going one hive onos for an hour.

    Commanding a four hour game a few weeks ago on the BAD server.
  • enigmaenigma Join Date: 2004-09-11 Member: 31623Members
    edited April 2008
    <!--quoteo(post=1676117:date=Apr 17 2008, 01:39 PM:name=Sarisel)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sarisel @ Apr 17 2008, 01:39 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1676117"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Frustrating "elite" veteran players that were on their quests to dominate pub servers. Going against stacks of veterans and carrying my team to victory under a smurf name.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    you can't stop us professional domineers okay


    the highlight of my NS career was destroying the <BAD> server
  • SariselSarisel .::&#39; ( O ) &#39;;:-. .-.:;&#39; ( O ) &#39;::. Join Date: 2003-07-30 Member: 18557Members, Constellation
    You're right - at a certain point the rift between public and competitive players became too great and trying to carry against the stack became stupid.
  • PsympleJesterPsympleJester Join Date: 2008-04-06 Member: 64024Members
    Holding the siege room on Csiege as commander after losing my base and all my RTs.

    We held it in a 16v16 game for 55 misn after siege room opened. Our total sum of equipment was 3 elec TF's 6 siege cannons that had killed 2 of thier hives, and about 4 turrets.

    On my team we had lvl 3 wepons + armour and only 3 marines had equipment.

    [wdfg]tehgee and [wdfg]Bal :O had JP and HMG of which they kept for the whole 55 mins and i cant remembr the other guy but he had HA and GL of which he kept being saved from onos eating him by tehgee and Bal.

    We survived an 8 person onos rush... I think tehgee and Bal killed 3 each and rest of my team killed the other 2.

    And finaly died to the whole team as onos....

    An amazing "last stand".
  • BacillusBacillus Join Date: 2006-11-02 Member: 58241Members
    Comming a victorious 35 min proto vs 2-hive pcw for the first time.
    Finding out weird rt push moves for 6v6.
    Snap reflexing skulks at most ridiculous places with sg.
    Skulking and fading when everything just seems to go the way you want.
    Catpacks.
    Teamwork.
    Ventrilo.
  • HarimauHarimau Join Date: 2007-12-24 Member: 63250Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1676090:date=Apr 17 2008, 09:26 PM:name=PsympleJester)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(PsympleJester @ Apr 17 2008, 09:26 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1676090"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Being possibly the most inventive Commander and still winning games.

    "Phase Gate Art!"
    <a href="http://img104.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nssiege005006c600078sz.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/6254/nssiege005006c600078sz.th.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a>

    I "think" I was the 1st person ever to try this in a live game.

    Doing this 'never' jeperdised the out come of the game for the marines because the base Phase Gate still linked DIRECTLY to the front Phase gate. However sometimes people got abit rowdy and refused to listen to orders from a "crack pot" commander and we came close to losing.

    <a href="http://img224.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nssiege00700355wb.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/3781/nssiege00700355wb.th.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a>
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    ahaahahahah, psymplejester that's excellent.


    I don't know if I've had any particularly memorable experiences; but what I find most fun about NS is its fast frenetic gameplay that isn't UT-style spray and pray.

    Well... playing LAN with friends was always memorable. Being able to taunt someone to their face is excellent.
    "Scream for me, b-tch."
    Doing it online just makes you seem like a ######head though.
  • GrizzlyGrizzly Join Date: 2003-10-27 Member: 22025Members
    I remember spiking down a Turretfactory guarding Data on Hera allowing us acces to a second hive and turning the game around, eventualy winning it

    The ~2h games of well balanced fun on random maps and servers are allways lovely to, the games where it's hard to tell who's gona win untill the last moment...

    Oh, and reading Nz_nexus threads on the mapping forum ^^
  • Lt_HendricksonLt_Hendrickson Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14761Members
    Anything involving 1.4 and pure crazy and cluelessness and epic games.

    Anything involving the words homeless and piggies together

    And most of all, during a competitive cal match I shotgun soloed a fade flawlessly and then when my commander realized I won he said "hold on I'll drop you a res node" and by the time he did I had disappeared . I had celerbrated my unlikly super amazing victory by causually dancing on rails while waiting for the node, fell off and landed in acid. Trying to explain to the commander what happened wasn't fun.
  • GaussWaffleGaussWaffle Join Date: 2008-02-22 Member: 63708Members
    My first experience against a gorge rush. (5 marines blindly shooting a wall of health spraying mass)

    learning to bind +movement to my mouse (try fading w/o that, lol, took me 2 years)

    Actually teaching two awe-struck gamers how NS worked and alot of the nuancies involved (took 2 hours)

    learning to use the alien flashlight

    Playing without aid of bhopping, ever (that was more of me being unable to do it, though) and still keepin up with the good players

    Epic redemp onos holdoff against 10 HAs, i believe we eventually won
  • SariselSarisel .::&#39; ( O ) &#39;;:-. .-.:;&#39; ( O ) &#39;::. Join Date: 2003-07-30 Member: 18557Members, Constellation
    Speaking of which, you just reminded me of the most awesome pub game I ever played. It was on [I-AM] gorge's hideout, where the alien team were pushed back from 2 hives back to 1 by an entire stack of HAs. The alien team proceeded to construct the most evil thing ever imagined in NS: a gorge tower (7-10 gorges standing on top of one another). All the HAs (15 of them) entering the hive were spat to death and the aliens proceeded to recover both hives and win the game.
  • MoONinjaMoONinja Join Date: 2003-06-08 Member: 17124Members, Constellation
    Any game on hamburg, a good scrim, and smurfing back when i was in STD, getting banned from servers than getting in trouble when our guild leadership found out we were smurfing when someone found out who they banned and tried to apologize. good times
  • aNytiMeaNytiMe Join Date: 2008-03-31 Member: 64007Members, Constellation
    - SOLO balling the BAD server a countless amount of times and clearing it
    - Balling the BAD server with malicious code and clearing it (on opposing teams, we'd make elaborate plans over vent and never attack each other <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> good times)
    - Knifing dante
    - Knifing dreaming fairy's lerk inside of the subsector hive on veil (elite ninja), in a pub, just 1 minute after minstrel knifed it at system.
    - Killing 5 pub walker skulks in a row and then utilizing every marine movement trick in the game to put distance between me and the 54387593485794357893 other walker skulks heading towards me. Oh yea BAD server, keep 'em coming. Epic.
    - Getting chuck to hack
    - Playing cracka in star craft and winning with the most cheesiest strategies (ZvP, hi ninja hatchery in your main lol)
    - 5 rt onos rush on a team I joined, and then we (under my command) 5 rt onos rushed some other team. Huge wins.
    - Avalanche
    etc..
  • DOGFISHHEADDOGFISHHEAD Join Date: 2008-05-01 Member: 64194Members
    Getting my commander to create a base and seige in red room.

    Being commander and hiding a beacon in the walls so when the 2nd base was dead I could try one last push.

    Building a gigantic wall of lame and staying there till the whole marine team had armor and nade launchers to get me out.

    Getting everyone to use the movement chamber when the hive was under attack.

    and many others.
  • DOGFISHHEADDOGFISHHEAD Join Date: 2008-05-01 Member: 64194Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1676085:date=Apr 17 2008, 08:16 AM:name=Emanon)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Emanon @ Apr 17 2008, 08:16 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1676085"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->playing against and with some of the best players NS has had.
    Pissing off Mak and Arc, always enjoyable<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


    Emanon, I remember that name, did you play at TG?
  • UnderwhelmedUnderwhelmed DemoDetective #?&#33; Join Date: 2006-09-19 Member: 58026Members, Constellation
    This one time, I joined in a game after it had been going on for some time - Aliens had just gotten three hives up with the entire map under their control, and it seemed like it was all over. But anyways, I move out of base and manage to ninja my way to the Sewer hive, and manage to get a phase gate up. Comm beacons and everybody rushes it, but I'm already gone by the time it goes down, because I jumped into the vent towards the Ventilation hive, and manage to set up a phase gate in there as well. Comm beacons again, and it's rushed down. With aliens down to one hive and Marine team morale high, we go on to crush the last hive.

    Another time aliens had the entire map and two active hives, with a third one going up. Comm gave me a JP/SG, and I soloed the Cargo hive. We still lost that game, though.

    Once I was comming, and we were sieging the Eclipse hive. Somebody else was near Cargo, so I dropped a PG. Once the sieges got up, I beaconed and had them rush Cargo, which went down quick. Then they phased back and finished off Eclipse.
  • HatlabuFarkasHatlabuFarkas Join Date: 2005-03-09 Member: 44496Members
    This is a Question:
    What are Your Most Memorable and Fun NS Experiences?

    This is an ansver:
    What ? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" /> the Most great NS experience ? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" /> The <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ns+lan" target="_blank">Natural Selection LAN - PARTIES</a> what we get together <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

    Running the NS 3.2 in LAN PARTY mode without installed steam, and Internet connection. T0tally off-line LAN parties <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

    i hope u will come next time.

    of course the FUN MAPS from the <a href="http://www.brywright.co.uk/downloads/files/index.php?dir=natural-selection/maps/" target="_blank">BRY'S NS FTP</a> is really requied. to play siege maps, and plays more fun . : D
  • TheGivingTreeTheGivingTree Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12070Members
    edited May 2008
    Hastezone - Sleepless

    Playing with all the my good friends. As someone else said before anything 1.4 related. Sneak sieges, solo hmg/jp hive destroying, a 3+ hour stalemate at Nancy, doing everything we could to survive and working together to repair, fight them off and come up with a plan to knock out a hive (1.4 of course.) At least the epic feel the old versions would create / the fear of when aliens would get a onos, and players screaming out Onos!!!!!
  • F4tManMGS2F4tManMGS2 Join Date: 2004-04-10 Member: 27842Members
    Going 80-0 in a pub 4 years ago and having friends from back then remind me about it 4 years later...
    Have a buddy from the same four-year-ago period remind me of the time I inflamed my coccyx (or as he put it, broke my ass)
    Long games where it doesn't come down to a carry-player or just simply more skilled, but rather who has better teamwork.
    45-minute scrim round where at 45 minutes the game ends due to a setting, and knifing the hive down with 5 seconds left to go.
    Coming back from no-hive and winning a game.
    Organizing and coordinating strange rushes; command chair rush, lerk rush, gorge rush, etc.
    Playing with weird strategies...
    ...not raging when things don't go my way...
    and lately: having pub players come up to me and tell me they'd be interested in scrimming.
  • GaussWaffleGaussWaffle Join Date: 2008-02-22 Member: 63708Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1678339:date=May 10 2008, 09:56 PM:name=F4tManMGS2)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(F4tManMGS2 @ May 10 2008, 09:56 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1678339"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->...not raging when things don't go my way...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    ah, if only this was the case more often

    until the the fat lady sings, i say!
  • EmanonEmanon Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16254Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1677385:date=May 1 2008, 09:45 PM:name=DOGFISHHEAD)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DOGFISHHEAD @ May 1 2008, 09:45 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1677385"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Emanon, I remember that name, did you play at TG?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    A long long time ago
  • FirewaterFirewater Balance Expert Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10690Members, Constellation
    My favorite experiences where in the competitive realm. I remember playing matches against the worlds best and competing well. I especially enjoyed playing against european teams, as they had a slightly different methodology from what I was used to, definitely provided a challenge.

    My favorite public experience was on the Fr31ns server, when I was commanding against 3 hive team. The difference was they only had 3 nodes while we some how managed to secure the rest on the map (Tanith). I had JPers patroling for life forms, and I was able to organize a heavy attack against the hive. While attacking the hive, a few onos killed some JPers so I had to beacon. I beacon, get the onos down, but now I lost the forward phase gate and some nodes. We tried to recap and secure, but was unable to do so, and we eventually lost.

    This was my favorite experience because the game challenged me in unfamiliar territory (3 hives vs full tech & nodes). Normally 3 hives is game over, but we were able to hold out and almost make a comeback.

    This was great because the game became more about tactics/strategy, than simply out teching the opponent. Our tech was effectively equal, all upgrades were researched and everything else.

    I was excited after this game because I really had an oppurtunity to experience something completely different at the late stage of the game. I tried my best to improvise, and the marines did a fantastic job, but we just got out played. I was very happy, and everyone at the end of the game had a huge congratulations.

    When I saw how NS2 maybe slightly different it excited me very much, because I am thinking that the game that I experienced could be reproduced over and over again. This is definitely an exciting thing.
  • aNytiMeaNytiMe Join Date: 2008-03-31 Member: 64007Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1678462:date=May 12 2008, 04:16 PM:name=Firewater)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Firewater @ May 12 2008, 04:16 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1678462"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->This was great because the game became more about tactics/strategy, than simply out teching the opponent.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    This game isn't about outteching the opponent. This game is about well placed medpacks and good aim on the part of your marines. It all boils down to what kills you get and where you get them.
  • laggerlagger Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1805Members
    The best time I had in NS was in 1.04. I was lerk rushing in a vent with a bugged hitbox. TAKE THAT COMMIES!
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