Ns Has A Serious Problem

godzilla21godzilla21 Join Date: 2003-06-05 Member: 17022Members
In most NS servers around the world, people prefer marines to aliens. There are always readyroom campers waiting for a chance to join marines.
If they are forced to join randomly, they will F4 and refuse to play as alien. This is common in all NS community around the world.

There is no reason aliens must be human players any more. Even if all aliens are bots, that is enough for those people who stick to marines.
All they want to do is shoot HMG flying in the air against skulks that can not reach them.

NS is becoming like sven-coop.

What do yo think?

Is this really proved in 1.1?
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  • NecroNecro <insert non-birthday-related title here> Join Date: 2002-08-09 Member: 1118Members
    i for one, love being alien <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Sufficient to say that '"elite" marines' will have a uncomfortable awakening with 1.1.
  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--godzilla21+Jun 8 2003, 02:39 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (godzilla21 @ Jun 8 2003, 02:39 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> In most NS servers around the world, people prefer marines to aliens. There are always readyroom campers waiting for a chance to join marines.
    If they are forced to join randomly, they will F4 and refuse to play as alien. This is common in all NS community around the world.

    There is no reason aliens must be human players any more. Even if all aliens are bots, that is enough for those people who stick to marines.
    All they want to do is shoot HMG flying in the air against skulks that can not reach them.

    NS is becoming like sven-coop.

    What do yo think?

    Is this really proved in 1.1? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I think that IS because JPs are so overpowered. It's just like winningteamjoiners in CS. People just don't want to join aliens and get raped by a flying hmg'er they can't reach. Once the balance is about equal, we'll see much less teamstacking.
  • PaladinPaladin Join Date: 2002-10-06 Member: 1455Members, Constellation
    edited June 2003
    In my opinion : YES

    Theyre trying to balance 1.1 much more than 1.04 currently is.
    There will no longer be such "cheap" tactics like Jp rush or 2 hive lockdown.
    Ok those 2 things are still possible, but a jp-rush will take more time and even if the marines held two hives , the aliens can still go onos !
    I for myself love to play the aliens. I guess i play around 70%-80% of my whole time as alien.
    A thing you can do for now is to find another server where the people dont prefer one team over the other.

    *edit* omg 3 post while i wrote this one , i seriously need to learn 10-finger typing *edit*
  • Brad_RBrad_R pandas | brad Join Date: 2002-11-12 Member: 8273Members, Constellation
    Sounds like people's problem, not NS's. Winning alien in a pub isnt really that hard...winning alien in a match is a different story though.
  • xioutlawixxioutlawix Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7118Members, Constellation
    Agreed, when going alien on the pubs I at least know I'm guranteed an insta-pat on the back and a nice ego stroking o.O

    I personally like to play both sides, it gets boring playing the same team over and over again, if I went marines the previous round I'll usually go aliens the next, unless teamstacking forces me to do otherwise.
  • JesusCJesusC Join Date: 2003-03-28 Member: 14996Members
    edited June 2003
    Check the server forum, or one of the many "help I need a non-n00b server" threads. It seems to be more of a poor people/server problem than anything.

    I personally <3 <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> my fatty.

    Edit like here:
    <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=1&t=34132&hl=' target='_blank'>http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/in...f=1&t=34132&hl=</a>
  • AlignAlign Remain Calm Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5216Forum Moderators, Constellation
    edited June 2003
    Just a side note: try 'fun' maps, like nomblizkikko(my prefered choice), because there aliens win more often(because marines are so inflexible), and according to a regular I asked on a random server I joined, aliens ALWAYS won on that map.
    Cheerful, isn't it?
  • Mythr1lMythr1l Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12772Members
    being aliens on 1.04 is so boring at the moment.....

    1.1 aliens will be so much more enjoyable i think.

    By the way the reason people camp the ready room wanting to join marines is because *most* people find it fun to be them. When ns 1.03 was on, i loved being alien as it was new and exiting, now having my weak **** skulk shot to bits by a marine doesnt seem so much fun anymore, so i just join marines most of the game unless a lot of good players i know join aliens.
  • PulsePulse To create, to create and escape. Join Date: 2002-08-29 Member: 1248Members, Constellation
    edited June 2003
    The marine teamstackers have nothing to do with the JP/HMG rush, or even whether marines are actually better or not. This has been happening since 1.0, I'd be playing as an alien in a "Typical" 3v10 game and someone would join, and us aliens would say "oh crap, another marine" because we knew that the newly joined player would choose marines. Granted that marines always won in 1.0 because of the res bug and the teamstackers, when things were balanced out and autoteambalance was instated it improved things a lot, but then we started seeing the marine doorway stackers, all before anyone was even thinking of using the JP for anything at all. One reason might be the tooltips recommending new players to choose marines (funny how they read that one and ignore all the rest), another might be that people <i>think</i> that marines are just plain better, even without the JP/HMG rush or 2 hive lockdown, not because of any particular strategy, but rather because they have guns, we would get tons of people like this in IRC and these very forums back in the day, you may think that is really stupid, but keep in mind that most people are morons.
  • AsranielAsraniel Join Date: 2002-06-03 Member: 724Members, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Playtester, Retired Community Developer
    people that say that aliens always lose are just bad alien players.. excuse me, but its so, i lost a single game today, and when i entered the game the marines had already a 2 hive lockdown with JP/HMG... but we pushed them out of one hive and survived for 45 mins i think... after 3-4 HA attacks we lost.... but it was FUNNY... :-) *G*
    all other games today(5) were won by aliens...
  • MrMojoMrMojo Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9882Members, Constellation
    I love playing aliens. I dont know why building things and running around is more interesting then beeing sneaky or climbing walls.

    It's even more fun beeing alien when you get more hives, but unfortunately if marines jp/hmg or ha/hmg pretty early it's the most boring thing ever. It's like a common fact that if <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'><!--endemo--> can win, they just sit around getting tf's at every rt while the most aliens can do are <!--emo&::lerk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/lerk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='lerk.gif'><!--endemo-->

    However, playing aliens 10 times in a row does get boring, so I try to go marine but those idiots just sit there for hours until they get in.
  • HypergripHypergrip Suspect Germany Join Date: 2002-11-23 Member: 9689Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    There will alway be "poor" players that always try to join the winning team or just F4 if their team is not winning.

    just yesterday I had a match on a public server... 7vs7 on bast.
    I was playing as Alien and we managed to fight them back at Atmo and containing them in their base.
    Once our second hive was up, one of those whiners rejoined the game and joined our team.
    A few minutes later the game was over and that guy called the marines stupid noobs...

    I see such things almost every day, so I try to play on servers that have a good amount of Clan-Players on them.

    I hope with 1.1 more players will like playing as Alien as I do.

    -my2cent-

    Hyper
  • HypergripHypergrip Suspect Germany Join Date: 2002-11-23 Member: 9689Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    <!--QuoteBegin--SiLeNcEr-7+Jun 8 2003, 03:24 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SiLeNcEr-7 @ Jun 8 2003, 03:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> One reason might be the tooltips recommending new players to choose marines (funny how they read that one and ignore all the rest) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    LOL
    nah, it's not funny, it true <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    what? 7V2, yah thats a fun game! (note sarchasm)
    I was one of those people who didn't get to play as marines untill there was the auto team balance (simply b/c I can't stand unfair teams)

    It got to the point with me where I was exploiting the 'you can't mute me' factor and spaming them with insults (That was a low day for me)

    but yah 'they have guns' just about summs it up. I for one can't wait till 1.1 I wana see these 'rude awakenings' first hand <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Fear_NightFear_Night Join Date: 2003-06-08 Member: 17112Members
    Probably because they dont want to wait forever to evolve into a Fade. But once the aliens have Fades the match is over <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.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-->
  • PulsePulse To create, to create and escape. Join Date: 2002-08-29 Member: 1248Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Thansal+Jun 8 2003, 07:37 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Thansal @ Jun 8 2003, 07:37 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> what? 7V2, yah thats a fun game! (note sarchasm)
    I was one of those people who didn't get to play as marines untill there was the auto team balance (simply b/c I can't stand unfair teams)
    <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Hehe, join the club, in fact, I'm <i>still</i> like that, although I don't even have a choice this time around, I'm starting to get worse and worse at marines.
  • SpazmaticSpazmatic Join Date: 2003-05-10 Member: 16184Members
    I don't think it's generally marine stacking per se... It's newbie marine stacking. When I look into the marine doorway, there's always like 4 or 5 either new or just plain stupid players ramming into the door, whereas the players who I know are good tend to go aliens (not always true, but tends to be true when the marine doorway is being stacked).

    However, I cannot say I never join the marine doorway stackers. Right now, marines have a greater diversity of strategies (note that I didn't say VIABLE strategies), especially if you know the person in comm and they don't really give a rat's arse about winning or losing. On the alien team, unless I feel like gorging, and often being yelled at, I normally don't get to see anything but the DMS (however, on a pub, I'll drop movement, for fun!) That's no doubt part of the effect on pubs as well.

    There's also the aspect that, as it is, losing on a pub as marines is more fun than losing as aliens. Aliens tend to lose to either a jp rush or a heavy armor train on pubs (in my experience), and one of those is downright dull, and the other just plain frustrating. As marines, you either lose to fades, which is fun, or onos, which is more fun, or babblers, which are super fun!
  • WheeeeWheeee Join Date: 2003-02-18 Member: 13713Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    No idea what you're talking about... I love going alien, play about 75-80% of the time as alien, and have no problems whatsoever.
  • SUSPECTSUSPECT Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8781Members
    I haven't played on regular NS servers in a while, so I really haven't noticed this kind of phenomenon.

    I play pretty much all on voogru NSA servers. I noticed the team join camping happends for both aliens and marines.

    And could anyone explain to me why a 2 hive lock down is considered "cheap"? That was a pretty legit (and relatively hard to pull off) tactic pre 1.04.
  • CplHicksCplHicks Join Date: 2002-11-17 Member: 9141Members
    I think it is because (no priority)

    1) About every newbie guide suggests "play Marines first when starting to play"
    2) Learning curve from each other shooter is much lower when joining Marines.

    Well, starting as a Marine is like playing about every other FPS. You have a gun, run around and kill stuff (at the beginning, when you still learn!)
    As an Alien, you need to know a LOT more, you need to know which upgrades are best suited for each race, you need to know which race is suited best for each different type of attack (assault, distance, scout, combo).
    You need to know the maps better, a LOT better.
    Each race has different modes of attack to employ, each with weaknesses and strengths.
    What happens when I choose race A with upgrades C and D? What if upgrade B?
    HUH?!?!?

    As Marine... you got your gun.. sometimes a heavier one.. but the best thing is, you dont really have an option.. you are happy when all over a sudden a hail of HMG JP/HA rains down on you. It's "magic". Nothing you have a grip on.. cuz it's the COMM who issues ..
    YOU JUST DO YOUR PART. You don't have a lot of responsibility than staying alive and following orders.

    As Alien, as already stated, you have to make those decisions by yourself. And it takes a while to figure out what works and what not. You are your own master.
    I think a factor is many players are repelled by the high LAien learning curve. It's steep. But since they dont try, they don't know how much FUN it is to play an entirely different style, and more important, if you know how to play as Alien, you know how to play BETTER as Marine, and vice versa.
  • MavericMaveric Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1101Members
    When you can kill as many marines as I can, you know you've gone alien too much, and that the marines just don't know how a <i>true</i> alien player reacts.

    60% of my time is still spent on floors, however, 80% of that 60% is spent <i>getting somewhere</i>; 20% of the 60% is spent in combat. I climb on walls, can usually make it on a outside 90 degree angle. think of the letter L; .L the "." is me, and thats the outside corner i can usually get around <i>with ease</i>. Outside 90 degree angles are difficulut for anyone to traverse, but i can do it well enough to save myself.

    The other 40% is spent on walls/ceilings. Average alien players spent 80 to 90 percent of their time on the ground... some of them hardly strafe-jump.


    Learning curve is much less steep on marines, because you dont have to think in 3D so much; you're usually stuck to the floor. Aliens though, aliens have to <i>visualize</i> how they will attack, move, and ambush. Aliens is more "unconsious" thinking, where you do things on impulse rather than thought; sometimes i visualize a hallway im about to go down, how marines will act, etc <b>without even thinking about it.</b> Aliens must then think in far more 3D terms and when you think in 3D, probability, and nature of the enemy things become a whole lot harder.

    How will a JPer react to a wall of lame (WoL)? A forest of chambers? Chambers on the hive? How do i get onto the hive the quickest way? Can i get on the hive at all? Can someone help me get on it? When im a skulk, do i have to wall-walk to get on the hive? Once im on it, is there enough space for a chamber? Is it a waste of time? Will a marine ever get up there, anyways?

    but the REAL kicker is:
    Will someone help me figure out how to do what i want and need to do? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> -Learning curves kill.
  • ICha0sIICha0sI Join Date: 2002-06-13 Member: 763Members
    i like aliens when im playing a 5v5 or somethin and its even somone joins and i say "bet he join marine" and he does!!!111 h4x!
  • criogenicscriogenics Join Date: 2003-01-13 Member: 12248Members, Constellation
    For me personally it's more fun playing alien than marine in 1.1
  • FireStormFireStorm Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7390Members
    I really prefer aliens... It's one of the biggest originalities of this mod.
  • GrimmGrimm Join Date: 2003-04-13 Member: 15448Members
    I think it all depends on the servers you join and what has been going on recently with the server. Most games I join people are always trying to join aliens (me especially <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> ). But it also depends on the maps you play; People join aliens most often in one-sided maps like Ninjafall, while more serious maps like Eclipse seem to even out better. As for me, I play marines once in a while for variety, but in the end, the opportunity to kick arse with onos is too good to pass up <!--emo&::onos::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif'><!--endemo--> .
  • StoneburgStoneburg Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8174Members
    I agree with FireStorm, alien is much more original. The reason I started playing NS was the prospect of being an alien.

    Also, I don't see this problem at all, so I don't think it is a "NS" problem but a "server" problem. On a server with mostly newbies or a certain type (that we try to keep away from our servers) I guess Marines could be stakced, on my standard server usually 80-90% of people go random, which means randome doesn't actually equal alien.

    It's a people problem, not a game problem.
  • mojojojomojojojo Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2017Members
    I haven't played in a while, but aliens won most of the time in the pubs I played.

    I wondered sometimes, why people play NS. Completely new and novel FPS! Choose marines and pretend its Quake!
  • GreeGree Join Date: 2003-05-18 Member: 16454Members
    I haven't been playing that long, but I prefer aliens because of the variety. I grew tired of using guns in general from games like CS and Dod. I grew to like NS because it was original and at the same time two vastly different sides that are very well balanced. I usually go random on servers which, on the ones I play on, means Aliens. It does get old after a while always being aliens.
  • CplDavisCplDavis I hunt the arctic Snonos Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12097Members
    Frommy expiriences its the other way around, but then again it depends on if you play pubs or non pub servers. Either way . Like nem said. 24/7 marine players are gonna have a blast with 1.1 *wink wink <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
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