When Did You Start Playing Ns?

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  • James_H4xwellJames_H4xwell Join Date: 2002-12-25 Member: 11518Members
    My very first game was 1.03. The first thing i did when I joined was go gorge (naturally <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> ) and proceeded to build a Offence chamber. The marines had a siege though, so it blew up in my face and killed me. I must have repeated this about 10 times before i screamed in frustrations ARGH HOW DO I BUILD? THEY KEEP BLOWING UP IN MY FACE!!! ARAORUAURAUR!!!! I then proceeded to go back to skulk.
    ~1.03 Autotrack siege - the n00b eliminator.
  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
    NSTR 2

    Yes I downloaded it to look at all the pretty stuff

    No I don't map
  • PegePege Join Date: 2002-11-27 Member: 10088Members
    edited June 2003
    I started with 1.00 and it was a pretty "weird" version alright! Sentry farms EVERYWHERE, marine team always had like 12 players versus 4 aliens. It was a total marine ownage game. Was fun though, because just about everyone was a newbie and didn't know the map nor anything else so all strategies were used. Natural Selection has truly amazing graphics too! I'm all used to it now, but then it was amazing.

    Last addition: I don't remember alien resource bug. Maybe I was too stupid to notice it, but I only heard people whining about it on servers once or twice...
  • BreakfastSausagesBreakfastSausages Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11148Members
    I started playing at the end of november, it was 1.03


    phase gates were uber and everyone said aliens were too powerful

    I thought gorges were like engineers in tfc, and the alien upgrade system made no sense to me whatsoever.
  • Paranoia2MBParanoia2MB Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7832Members
    The day it came out for the public.
  • ANeMANeM Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16267Members, Constellation
    I started playing TWICE. Ya.. I left for a while. First time was either 1.0 or 1.01, Not quite sure, It was about 4 days to a week after the release.. I think 1.01 came out pretty quickly after 1.0.. I can't remember. Anyways, I played, alot. For weeks on end. Then I stopped. Just ended.

    Played Science and Industy and some other lesser known mods here and there inbetween..
    Then I returned for 1.04; I had to rebuild.
    Skills had gone to 0. It was fun, I was like a n00b who knew all the levels. Except Hera... Never played that untill 1.04, since most servers didn't have the giant level on their regular rotation back then.. I think
  • Lt_HendricksonLt_Hendrickson Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14761Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Frogg2+Jun 3 2003, 08:23 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Frogg2 @ Jun 3 2003, 08:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Halloween ^^ <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    same.
  • DiablusDiablus Join Date: 2003-03-31 Member: 15080Members
    back in the day! WHEN US MARINES HAD TO WALK 15 MIELS TO GET TO A DAMN HIVE!! now you have it all easy with your phase gates n all think your so tough
  • NarfNarf Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2609Members
    Halloween first day, on a crappy computer that ran it at 5 fps <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> But i perservered and eventually got a comp that rocked so all was well.
  • taboofirestaboofires Join Date: 2002-11-24 Member: 9853Members
    About two weeks before 1.01 was released. The only thing that I miss from the way early versions is the optional damage indicator that floats up when you hit something... but that's back in 1.1! Yay!

    I think this would be better as a poll then anything else. Good luck getting someone to make it for you tho.
  • V_MANV_MAN V-MAN Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6217Members, Constellation
    The day it came out on public release v1.0 wooty then 5 minutes after being smushed to bits as a skulk by turrets and marines in heavy armour that out numbered the aliens 1000000000 to 1 i got a little bored.

    Then I found out that the aliens could fight back by 2 of them switching to the marines team voting the comm out jumping in the CC and recycling their turret farms and their base then building loads of CCs <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> theh switch back to aliens whack 2 hives up and pwn
  • HaiHai Join Date: 2003-06-04 Member: 17007Members
    Hello you all!! I'm new around here and this is my first post..
    I started to play in december (i think it was 1.03) and have played since then almost every day <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • FacTorFacTor Wyoming, MI Join Date: 2002-12-17 Member: 10916Members
    Soon as 1.0 came out...
  • CrouchingHamsterCrouchingHamster Join Date: 2002-08-17 Member: 1181Members
    edited June 2003
    I had the NSTR2, just to look at the cool things ( I do a bit of mapping though, and I was curious..)

    Started downloading on Halloween, 9 hours later ( yes, 9 hours, 56k you see..) had my first game. 1.0 was great, but damn did it need the "balance teams" patch..Like Maus, I was playing almost exclusively with old DoD/CS players I knew, and it was really good fun working through a very weird new game..

    "WTH! I have a wallhack?"
    "yeah, it's ok, we're allowed one.."

    "hax! he just turned invisible!"

    "er....they have a gun that shoots through walls?"

    "what do I do?"
    "run towards the yellow blobs and bite them!!"

    "wheeee I can fly!"

    "/insert random "Aliens" quote"

    And I don't think I'll forget my first encounter with a cloaked onos... <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Ah, nostalgia..
  • NSCypherNSCypher Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12758Members
    I first downloaded NS right before v1.03 came out...

    Spent hours downloading 1.02 (56Ker and proud of it), then 1.03 came out and I spent ages downloading that.


    It was about 2/3 done when I realised it was a server side patch and I didn't need it... D'oh!
  • Cetra3Cetra3 Join Date: 2002-12-21 Member: 11319Members
    So there we were. Bored. I was searching for a CS server. One close to where i live (Adelaide, South Australia). So anyways I look, and I know that most of our ISP's have a list of servers. I went to a particular one which had a "HL" section. Im like ok, so lets see what Mods they have up? Oh DoD CS TFC the usual. WTHH???!??!!?? NS??? is that like a modded version of CS like Nuke Strike or something?? Well I had to go check it out. I did just that. So they had a link to the main website.

    My jaw dropped.

    I realised that it was a big download, i fainted. Not really but you know.

    So I go over my friend's house with cable, im a 56ker, and he's like this big Alien's fan, he goes "i just bought the whole box sset on DVD" So i'm like "well, HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU!!!"

    At that moment in time i snatched the keyboard from his hands and opened it up to the natural-selection home page, i think it had an intro once, or something i can't remember but his jaw dropped too and for the next 5 minutes or so we both sat there in silence waiting for it to download. I had my machine over too so i was ready to install it on my machine. As soon as it was done we decided it was a good idea to play on LAN for a little bit to get the hang of it. That didnt work out so I joined old school Optus-Net. I think i've been playing ever since last christmas, or even more
  • Cereal_KillRCereal_KillR Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1837Members
    edited June 2003
    halloween <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->


    edit: god you people didn't have halloween free? and I thought it was a holiday in the US
  • Pr0phecyPr0phecy Join Date: 2002-04-04 Member: 381Members
    1.00...I think 7 minutes after it was released <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • coilcoil Amateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance. Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    NSIPT8 - July, 2002. (:
  • CowswinCowswin Join Date: 2003-03-17 Member: 14623Banned, Constellation
    edited June 2003
    Halloween 2002 <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Damn those nade launchers hehehe.

    How did I manage to get past the crashing servers and such? I have a subscription to fileplanet personal servers <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> While you were all donwloading at 1.1K a second or crashing I was already playing because I downloaded at about 300kbps <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • ForlornForlorn Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2634Banned
    2-3 days after NS was released.


    I remember all the exploits of each version very well, here they are(but not limited too):

    1.00 - Marines have exponetial res! <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> Ouch! First game I played the marine base was EVERYWHERE, down the hallways, around every node, and then all of the sudden we won... I was very confused, but amazed also. Also lag!

    1.01 - Was really unbalenced in favor for the marines.

    1.02 - Severe spectator issues... People who spectated would seriously llamize over the game. Also, the aliens were super tough; a carapace that never died... <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    1.03 - The seige cannon of death! Yipes!

    1.04 - Marine ownage just like every other version, but my favorite overall.



    Ahh, the good ole days... <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    I am amazed at how far NS has gone since v1.0, and I can't wait for more!
  • R_A_CR_A_C Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16273Members
    edited June 2003
    November... I think... 1.03 I believe because I remember quiting for a while, 1-2 months and then haveing to download a patch for 1.04. My first game was as marine, as it suggests to do in the manual, on ns_nothing I had no clue WTH was going on. I think we won though. I loved it from the start.
  • UnknownUnknown Join Date: 2002-06-12 Member: 759Members
    About 5 hours after the release of NS was when I first played. I spent over 4 hours trying EVERY SINGLE mirror on n-s.org. Finally, I just gave up and went to FilePlanet. The traffic was so high, FP crashed! Luckly, I noticed it crashed and pressed F5 (refresh) and got a 5 min wait in line compared to my previous 100+min. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • WindelkronWindelkron Join Date: 2002-04-11 Member: 419Members
    a few days after halloween. since halloween was a schoolday, I couldn't play for a few days, although I had it installed and ready to go. man was I giddy <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Opt1musOpt1mus Join Date: 2003-06-02 Member: 16929Members
    edited June 2003
    played a bit before new years....started playing heavily just a bit before 1.04 came out

    edit-->around about the same time bf 1942 got boring <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • GlissGliss Join Date: 2003-03-23 Member: 14800Members, Constellation, NS2 Map Tester
    <!--QuoteBegin--Opt1mus+Jun 5 2003, 07:29 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Opt1mus @ Jun 5 2003, 07:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> edit-->around about the same time bf 1942 got boring <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Traitor! Battlefield never gets boring. Geez, HINDs, Migs, Apaches, Blackhawks, F16's, C-130... so much to choose from.
  • robkerobke Join Date: 2003-05-06 Member: 16102Members
    i played 1.0 first. i was a big noob, and i really don't remember much, just that i downloaded it right after it was released.
  • IcarusIcarus Join Date: 2003-04-21 Member: 15706Members
    January This year. I forgot the exact date.
    But it was at a lan and me any my friend pwned the riense as fades <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
    it was
    <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::sentry::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/turret.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='turret.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif'><!--endemo-->
    <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::sentry::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/turret.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='turret.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif'><!--endemo-->
    <!--emo&::sentry::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/turret.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='turret.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Ben128Ben128 Join Date: 2002-06-21 Member: 808Members, Constellation
    31st Oct, at 6:45pm I think. I drooled the entire time.
  • BugBrainBugBrain Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16279Members
    Got it from a LAN party about a month ago. First game was 2 v 2. Me and a buddy were aliens against two rines. We were all newbs, but the rine comm had at least read The Manual before the LAN started, so he knew enough to get HA on the one active rine. Me and my friend had no clue what we were doing, so of course we were owned. It was still fun wall crawling and biting, so I started playing online, and the rest is history. So my fav version is 1.04.
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