Start Referring Newbs To These Forums

Thanatos121Thanatos121 Join Date: 2002-12-17 Member: 10923Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Probably the best way to teach them.</div> I've been reading along in these forums (particularly in the Frontiersmen Strats) for about two months now, and have just started posting. It seems that most of the gripes about marine teams stem from the fact that many NS players don't quite know how to fight effectively, yet courteously (if you think about it, a 'courteous' marine has just about every desirable trait mentioned in these forums).

I don't know if you vets have been doing this before now, but I think it would be a good idea to tell any other players you play with or against about this forum (especially the Frontiersmen strats). A suprising number of NS players don't know about it, and everyone can benefit from a bit of reading.

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  • NarfwakNarfwak Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5258Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Gold, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow, Subnautica PT Lead, NS2 Community Developer
    I try, I try. You should see the reaction I get when I try to refer CS players to NS. "WHAT!?! THERE ARE OTHER MULTIPLAYER GAMES!?!? WTF!!11" is the usual reaction.
  • FlatlineUTDFlatlineUTD Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7695Members
    I got a lot of people playing NS at The CPL - one guy absolutely hates the game for the sole fact that 75% of his CS clan left to play NS. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • ShuflYShuflY Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8760Members
    I always refer clueless players to the forums, but most of them start telling me that they don't need it, they know what they are doing, and then they drop a sensory or 3 comm chairs.
  • TomCerulTomCerul Join Date: 2002-11-22 Member: 9614Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--ShuflY+Jan 6 2003, 10:45 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ShuflY @ Jan 6 2003, 10:45 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I always refer clueless players to the forums, but most of them start telling me that they don't need it, they know what they are doing, and then they drop a sensory or 3 comm chairs.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> haha

    I've been thinking about adding a bind to a key that says something like "Try reading the forums at www.natural-selection.org/forums."


    Tom
    "Why the *BLEEEEP* do we have 4 gorgs on a 5 man team?"
  • GargamelGargamel Join Date: 2003-01-04 Member: 11773Members
    Yes, its kinda sad that many dont know much.
    I mean, if a gorge doesnt know what to do when i say to him i need a healing... omg, he was just spitting me, ignoring me, and then i saw in his eyes he was thinking i would be a good spot to build an offensive chamber on...!

    I think <b>its the manuals fault!</b>
    It makes you feel like reading a science fiction novell and doesnt mention how to use blink or the other stuff.
    I had to play hours - no - days before i understood some and blink i understood after weeks...
    (if i am correct its used best when u can click on a spot thats elevated from your current position, or am i wrong <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo--> )
    We really need a compact small quick users manual, thats the solution!
  • Thanatos121Thanatos121 Join Date: 2002-12-17 Member: 10923Members
    Yeah, well...hopefully the uncooperative ones go back to playing CS.

    Now...wouldn't it be cool if a forum member had his own server, and posted the IP here, so all of us tactically-thinking types could go play all at once?

    That'd be just swell.
  • GargamelGargamel Join Date: 2003-01-04 Member: 11773Members
    I played CS like an idiot from beta4 and I got one thing to say:
    The CS Community S-U-X-X
    While the game is meant to be teamwork, whether in a clan or public, it always gave me the feeling
    most of those who play it have a psychological problem in which they must prove to the rest how good they are at scrolling their mouse on the pad!
    With NS, CS is HISTORY.
    And yes, we need to emphasise the teamoriented play!
    Cause its much more fun!
    Yeah! Gimme that IPs fellow Marines (or Alien brethren hehe)! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    I LOVE NS!!!!
  • NarfwakNarfwak Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5258Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Gold, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow, Subnautica PT Lead, NS2 Community Developer
    <!--QuoteBegin--Flatline[UTD]+Dec 31 2002, 04:44 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Flatline[UTD] @ Dec 31 2002, 04:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I got a lot of people playing NS at The CPL - one guy absolutely hates the game for the sole fact that 75% of his CS clan left to play NS. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Heh. That's pretty funny. Most of the people I know that play CS don't want to bother to try something new, think that it is just some lame rip-off (er, what?), or think it would be too confusing and not fun at all.

    Oh, and the manual doesn't explain things perfectly becuase it was written before the game was finished. There are plenty of errors in it that need correcting. This might happen if a big client-side patch comes out, or at least that's what I hope will happen. In any case, if you read the manual or at least try something before you ask about it, you can figure out the game just fine. It's a complicated game, and takes longer to learn than any other FPS.
  • InexorableInexorable Join Date: 2002-09-28 Member: 1360Members
    edited January 2003
    Good side: Many newbs might actually learn how to play the game instead of simply diving in and either quitting a great game due to lack of patience, or reverting to llama-ism in frustration.

    Bad side: Forum fills with newbs. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • NarfwakNarfwak Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5258Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Gold, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow, Subnautica PT Lead, NS2 Community Developer
    <!--QuoteBegin--Inexorable+Jan 8 2003, 09:01 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Inexorable @ Jan 8 2003, 09:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Bad side: Forum fills with newbs. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It's called the Suggestions and Ideas board. Ugh.
  • InexorableInexorable Join Date: 2002-09-28 Member: 1360Members
    Indeed. As a suggestion, I put forth that there should be a little face dedicated solely to biting sarcasm. As a slang term, we could call it "The Inex".
  • RueRue Join Date: 2002-10-21 Member: 1564Members
    edited January 2003
    <!--QuoteBegin--Gargamel+Jan 7 2003, 07:33 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Gargamel @ Jan 7 2003, 07:33 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Yes, its kinda sad that many dont know much.
    I mean, if a gorge doesnt know what to do when i say to him i need a healing... omg, he was just spitting me, ignoring me, and then i saw in his eyes he was thinking i would be a good spot to build an offensive chamber on...!
    <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    hehe , first time i played NS i managed to build a R tower on top of my self <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> , i never though of telling n00bs to come here but i always tell them to read the NS webby , but as most 12year olds would do they just say they know everything and then get po'ed when they cant kill somthing cause there trying to right click for a secondary fire or sitting in the Ip's at spawn and trying to buy weapons then get tele-fraged.
  • FlatlineUTDFlatlineUTD Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7695Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Narfwak+Jan 8 2003, 04:30 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Narfwak @ Jan 8 2003, 04:30 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--Inexorable+Jan 8 2003, 09:01 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Inexorable @ Jan 8 2003, 09:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Bad side: Forum fills with newbs.  <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It's called the Suggestions and Ideas board. Ugh.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Amen to that. I was poking around in there a minute and lost about 50 IQ points.

    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Pistol - Laser round upgrade

    "This would be good for the High requests of laser guns"


    ***If flame Thrower is used in later betas*** - Blue Flame

    "the blue flame would be much much hotter than the regular yellow and orange flame."<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    You can't make this stuff up, folks!
  • supadupaflysupadupafly Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8534Members
    i actually got the chanse to play some teamworked games of CS when i played it.. some years ago <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
    no, but atleast 2 years ago.

    it wasn't many, but they did exist... i still do'nt like CS, but anyway <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    NS rulez
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