Let's Play
Lenard
Join Date: 2008-02-12 Member: 63636Members
<div class="IPBDescription">How does I play NS?</div>I realize the strength of the NS community is dwindling, but isn't there some way to still play vanilla NS semi-competitively and actually have fun? I used to play on JigglyPuff's all the time but now it is uniformly empty. There are like two other popular servers with semi-decent latency and they are always full of ######bags or are modded all to hell. I want to play this game the way it was meant to be played. How/where can I do that? Thanks.
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I'm not sure how the game was meant to be played, but the organized 6v6 sure does open a lot of new elements to it. At least the european competetive communtiy is still alive, although we've got only 5-10 active teams nowadays.
<a href="http://steamcommunity.com/groups/nspickup" target="_blank">http://steamcommunity.com/groups/nspickup</a>
ask an admin to invite you
1. get some friends
2. get some friends who want to play ns
3. get some friends who want to play semi-competitive ns
4. get some friends who want to play semi-competitive ns on an organised day, eg. a saturday afternoon.
5. either get access to a ventrilo server or make sure everyone's in-game voice works so that you aren't faffing around with typing.
6. (if you don't have IRC die in a hole) go to #ensl on quakenet (best bet) at a decent euro time (note Euro time is about East Coast + 6) or go to #nspickup on gamesurge at a decent US time (and pray).
7. whine for somewhere in the region of 10min-1hr 30min and you will get a game.
8. expect to spend an hour doing very little while people dust off their pcs and prance around like fairies irl
9. enjoy
HOWEVER, I recommend at least playing around a bit and engaging the old brain before trying this.