NS2 Promotional Match Featuring TotalBiscuit & Angry Joe
Obraxis
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Subnautica Animator & Generalist, NS2 Person Join Date: 2004-07-24 Member: 30071Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Silver, WC 2013 - Supporter, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
Hi server ops!
Sometime early next week, you may notice a large influx of new and returning players to NS2. This is due to the Polaris Youtube Network's 'Civil War' series, where lots of big-name Youtubers play indie games. Next week, NS2:TotalBiscuit Vs Angry Joe will air on it's channel. Most youtuber participants will also put up their own perspectives on their channels, potentially having hundreds of thousands if not millions of views. The matches have already taken place on the latest build 276, so we're in a great position of having them played the best version of NS2 possible.
We believe this will cause a lot of people to try, or have another go at NS2. This of course means a chance there will be a LOT of green newbies around! We NEED to try and keep hold of these greens to re-invigorate the community. As the CDT, we've implemented the tutorial as a requirement before being able to play on servers & introduced the new fast-load system which was one of the key issues people had when first loading the game. We would ask Server Ops to encourage their communities to help and keep these new players with kindness and server moderation.
As you can tell, this is potentially a great boon for NS2. It's your communities that have kept NS2 going as much as us continuing to develop NS2. Together we can take NS2 to new heights.
Thanks for running your NS2 servers, and best of luck for next week!
-Obraxis
Sometime early next week, you may notice a large influx of new and returning players to NS2. This is due to the Polaris Youtube Network's 'Civil War' series, where lots of big-name Youtubers play indie games. Next week, NS2:TotalBiscuit Vs Angry Joe will air on it's channel. Most youtuber participants will also put up their own perspectives on their channels, potentially having hundreds of thousands if not millions of views. The matches have already taken place on the latest build 276, so we're in a great position of having them played the best version of NS2 possible.
We believe this will cause a lot of people to try, or have another go at NS2. This of course means a chance there will be a LOT of green newbies around! We NEED to try and keep hold of these greens to re-invigorate the community. As the CDT, we've implemented the tutorial as a requirement before being able to play on servers & introduced the new fast-load system which was one of the key issues people had when first loading the game. We would ask Server Ops to encourage their communities to help and keep these new players with kindness and server moderation.
As you can tell, this is potentially a great boon for NS2. It's your communities that have kept NS2 going as much as us continuing to develop NS2. Together we can take NS2 to new heights.
Thanks for running your NS2 servers, and best of luck for next week!
-Obraxis
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A massive responsibility to the better players not to rookie stomp, and even switch sides during games if your side takes the early advantage.
Lets retain these mofos!
Remember to all the veterans out there, be patient with rookies, don't succumb to anger, we were all rookies too once, rookies of today are tomorrows vets.
If we scare away the population there will be no one left to teach and have fun with.
According to Steam Charts, Chivalry improved their playerbase by +29.33%. Awesomenauts by +2.22%. I suspect ours will be somewhere closer to Chivalry, so I think we should be OK in terms of servers. I hope.
2:22 NS2 footage
We're getting an influx of people who we KNOW watch other people play games, so the best way to show them what the game offers after some time commitment is for them to watch us play. I'll stream more during this time for sure.
This works well because typically during Rookie Influx, more experienced players will gravitate back to gathers and pugs and more minimum hour servers, including the ones who still prefer the 24 player styles. Often there will even be enough for 2 whole gathers during this time
We expected the matches to go LIVE on Youtube this week as we were informed, but they did not. We contacted Polaris for clarification and they said they are now scheduled for Wednesday 4th of November.
Once again, we ask that you inform your communities and welcome the possible horde of new greens we may receive! This could be HUGE for NS2.
Thanks for running your NS2 servers!
-Obraxis