No Interest In Playing Ns1.04 Anymore..
sushibug
Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12788Members
Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12788Members
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/me waves
I've already ended the life of one of my servers (one of two very popular uk based servers). The other one is probably going to be killed soon. Basically its been over-run with the sorts of people who don't deserve to be allowed in teamgames. I could ban them all but that only leaves an empty server. All the regulars who were teamplayers have left in despair with the situation which is completely untenable from an admin point of view (getting good admins and subjecting them to the job of maintaining the game-play is impossible with the current crop of players).
This combined with random server crashes and extreme performance requirements have taken their toll on my willingness to support this mod in its current stage of release.
Hopefully 1.1 will give us admins a little more help in controlling the game play and limiting exploits - its had a lot of development time so I hope its a more mature product in terms of compatibility (gcc libraries and admin-mod), performance requirements and being more secure in terms of exploits. I've read some encouraging things in the beta forms but I reserve judgement until I see it run myself. I can but hope ...
Until then I think 1.04 is best forgotten about - at least on my servers.
Got tired of the same old same old and with 1.1 sounding as good as it does i just have zero interest in playing ns in its current form.
I hope the community comes back full force when 1.1 comes out.
And for those who are complaining that 1.1 will kill the popularity of ns, what about its dying popularity now?
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as far as this post and playing 1.04.. i still do. exploits of the mod are taking their toll on my gaming, but as i mentioned in my first line, its the team play i enjoy..
Frankly it's no worse than pub CS or DoD.
you Can see were not getting the 1.1 patch for atleast another 1 1/2 months. Flayras just testing new things still SO you KNOW that patch aint anywere near done.
ns is a great mod i love it to death, but at this point i just cant bring my self to play a game.
And while we sit here twidling our thumbs the "better people" of ns get to play the patch and have fun while we play the same broken game over and over. Sigh.... i shall miss yyou my love NS.
Last call for 1.04 guys, enjoy a great version while it lasts!
Several playtesters have said approximately two weeks. It will likely be longer than that, but two months is pushing it.
At this rate, there'll be no-one to play 1.1 when its released. I looked at the server stats earlier today, approximately 2 people to each server...thats pretty messed up. Used to be loads of people playing before...oh how things change.
For all you know it could be ready to go and the only reason we don't know anything about the 4th fade ability is that Flayra's ordered everyone to keep it secret.
However, that said I'm not expecting 1.1 for around another four weeks or so.
As for me, 1.02 started getting really boring, but now I play on a server that offers mostly balanced gameplay. 1.04 is fine, 1.1 will be fun, 1.11 will be better (:
As for waiting for 1.1 to come out, you can do it, just think about how many years you spend not being allowed to drive a car; some things you have to wait for, plain and simple.
After reading all this garbage, I REALLY feel like spending many more months working for free. Really.
the first 1-2 peopel still love you
the next months people start to rage.
look at the diablo 2 forums on battle.net and youll see what i mean. Your case isnt speacial your going through what every other game goes through. And as for not wanting to continue!?!?!?!?!?! omg thats silly. you have so much money to make out of this. And your makeing a COMPUTER GAME. your having yoru cake and eating it to!
You seriously need to realize that there will always be critics as Orson Wells once canned the phrase "Everyones a critic" and to that end, yes; everyone on these forums is a critic, positively or negative -- and you will not always get positive criticism and floor shining about Natural-Selection. If you want that kind of stuff, you need to build an empire like Bill Gates where people are just spineless "YES men"
I look forward to the release of 1.1 and hope it's as good as the 1.04 release was when it was originally sent out to people. Keep up the good work, have fun and take care.
- abtm
LOL
What money? The only way he could possibly make money off of a FREE mod would be to SELL it i.e. retail CS or DoD. Which hopefully will never happen.
What the hey.
I think most people are smart enough to understand the game is still being worked on and wouldnt freak out and leave if there were bugs. It dont gota be perfect. Sorry to be blunt but its just plain stupid to have the same old game being played until everyone is bored of it while there is another playable version being kept hidden away.