Oct 31 pub stomp
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Join Date: 2010-01-28 Member: 70347Members
Join Date: 2010-01-28 Member: 70347Members
Anyone else kinda looking forward to running around and obliterating everyone post 1.0 when all beta testers will be the the equivalent of a pro competitive player in a pub game now.
Maybe I'm just bitter that I got old and slow, I remember a time in 2003-2005 when I was number 1 in every game I played. I miss the good old days when I would hear something behind me and I would turn and shoot at an empty patch of ground where the sound came from and a dead skulk would uncloak .... Followed by "hacks!! I was cloaked"
Here's to the old anomalous server, it's owner kidOA and my unofficial nemesis psionicOA.
Maybe I'm just bitter that I got old and slow, I remember a time in 2003-2005 when I was number 1 in every game I played. I miss the good old days when I would hear something behind me and I would turn and shoot at an empty patch of ground where the sound came from and a dead skulk would uncloak .... Followed by "hacks!! I was cloaked"
Here's to the old anomalous server, it's owner kidOA and my unofficial nemesis psionicOA.
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It's like you automatically assume no one's played videogames before. I started early september. :|
It's not that they haven't played fps's before it's just that they have been spoon fed skilless games
Try teaching and giving tips and suggestions. Help the new players! Dont scare them away. Dont stack teams... <!--coloro:#FF8C00--><span style="color:#FF8C00"><!--/coloro--><i><b>Make their first games FUN.</b></i><!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
Try teaching and giving tips and suggestions. Help the new players! Dont scare them away. Dont stack teams... <!--coloro:#FF8C00--><span style="color:#FF8C00"><!--/coloro--><i><b>Make their first games FUN.</b></i><!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So all Beta experienced players should only go alien then.
Sadly I think UWE has had a greater influence on this than we will, aliens being unfun to play is not something these new players will overlook.
With the current state of the game, this will unfortunately be the case. =/
If new players are greeted by a friendly and helpful community they will then, hopefully, turn around and help out new players in the same manner. Fostering a friendly environment is key to the growth of NS2's playerbase, and it is good for everyone to have a large playerbase and plenty of full servers.
--Cory
Besides that I think many know this isn't a typical fps and hopefully thats why they want to play :)
Besides that I think many know this isn't a typical fps and hopefully thats why they want to play :)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah hopefully, however it would really help if modded servers weren't double filtered by default every time you run the game...
The things I worry about the most are:
1) From reading on here, it sounds as though aliens are not going to be fun to play. At all.
Having just picked up NS1 again, I am reminded that while anyone else is fade, I stand no chance at all against them, even when in a pack of 6 marines with shotties/HMGs.
While I am fade, I get killed before I can even land a hit on a marine against lmg only marines.
Skulk = dogmeat
Gorge = okay to play if the rest of your team is decent and wants to work together, otherwise it's a hiding to nothing
Onos = lol how did you get that many res? And if you did go Onos, how long do you REALLY expect to live? Really?
2) The long drawn out slow death when you know your team has lost, but they just cannot be finished off in any reasonable time. All you want to do is play the next game because it's clear that this one is well and truly over, but no, you have to wait about 20 minutes dying constantly... And people don't like it when you F4 apparently ;)
3) Never having the opportunity to command. I communicate with my team, I follow orders as a grunt and I issue orders and tell people what I want when I command. But I don't know all the hot keys, I can't remember the maps, and that makes me slow to respond. That's the fastest way to get dumped out of the comm chair in NS1, and I worry that I will never get a reasonable chance to learn commanding in NS2 for much the same reason.
4) The skill gap. I used to play in the #1 UK Kingpin clan back when KP was at its height. I was a very very good player, and am now only an average-moderate player. Part of it is that I now have a family and spend a LOT of time commuting for my job, so I only really play one or two nights a week. I CANNOT spend the length of time playing games that I used to, so things like odd wall movement that I read about and see in youtube videos (skulk wall hopping that makes no LOGICAL sense, marine movement in mid air - WHAT? how on earth should that work?) are things that I will likely not have time to spend learning. As a more casual gamer now, not playing in any clans any more, I want to be able to dip in and out maybe playing a couple of nights a week, and not getting utterly trounced as a result of not being able to spend time learning things that are not logical or obvious.
I used to run an NS1 server in the UK, I have played games at pretty high level for getting on for 15 years (and longer at a much lower level...!). However, from what I've seen so far, I get the feeling I will join a server on 31st of October and be shouted at for running the wrong way, not get a chance to shoot aliens whizzing about at the speed of light (when I can only mooch about like a slug when alien), get frustrated that I cannot kill higher life forms but if I ever get the chance to play as one I will be as weak as paper... you get the idea.
If the server requirements become moderately reasonable, I will be considering putting up a server in due course. I definitely value good gaming communities with proper teamplay, and a newbie-friendly atmosphere (preferably alongside a high-pub skill level).
Fingers crossed the game is what I'm hoping for, rather than what I'm dreading!
Roo
If new players are greeted by a friendly and helpful community they will then, hopefully, turn around and help out new players in the same manner. Fostering a friendly environment is key to the growth of NS2's playerbase, and it is good for everyone to have a large playerbase and plenty of full servers.
--Cory<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Thank you Cory, One of the things that will be important for a thriving community is to have an educated player base. Though is fun- "Pubstomping" will not get you any closer to the great Pub games we all strive for.
I hope that all of you veteran players... or really anyone that has been in the beta, Will be as helpful as you can. There will be a number of systems in which you may assist new player, so I suggest everyone of you to try and do your part to help the Ns2 community !!
-Daniel
So please don't stack teams with other beta testers, it only makes games boring for both teams.
Right now we have:
"Pro" players join a server, go marine and win nearly every marinegame.
Its so frustrating to go alien on pub atm.
We dont need to wait till 31.10. We have the pub stomb right now.
Im tired of all these fake-nickers, really.
Maybe bans for the usual suspects should be an solution.
Im tired of all these <b>fake-nickers, really.
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what is it your saying? what's a "fake-nicker", and why should they be banned?
I'm not being sarcastic, whether or not this is common knowledge please let me know what it means and why it deserves banning?
Not that I think it makes a difference. I don't want to play with people who are going to quit after getting stomped anyway, just not a fan of stomping noobs.
- Let them know you're an experienced player, and they can ask you questions
- Forget about dominating them, and let them use you as target practice
- If you want to let them feel they're in "real" danger, get one bite in or parasite them, but that's it
I've brought over mates from tribes that have 15 hours of gametime and are better than 99% of the NS2 playerbase.
Bring on Haloween!
Turn it on in the options if you wish to be helpful to new players. Your name shows in "Blue"
The rookie tag code is already there. A few small changes to it and there you go.
I have had the idea of making a server and building a wall of armories around the marine IP among various other odd things.
I could... but... nah I just wont.