Hey... First time poster, long time reader. I'm a big fan of Gloom for Q2 and I'm really looking foward to this mod. I have been visiting this site ever since it opened.
Anyhow maybe some of you remeber me from Gloom. I made a soundpak for it which got me some attention for a while. It's a shame that it's fading away cept for the hardcore players. I'll look foward to adding my own sounds in this mod, though I highly doubt that I would have the desire to, based on the quality of sound editing/developing I have heard and read about here. <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
Hi guys, I´ve been following the progress of NS for quite a while now and it´s very exciting to see how far you´ve come now. I just can´t wait to get my grubby little hands on this mod...
Not from the RPG/RTS scene myself, NS seems to offer a new experience for FPS players like myself. Getting to play with a human doing with me what I did with the fremen in Dune II (hey, it´s the last RTS I played, ok?) is just...amazing.
Anyway, Naughty Brembo is actually my biker name ("Brembo" being an Italian brakes manufacturer), my real name is Erik...I´m from Sweden and I´m currently on my last year of med school. Apart from playing a number of HL mods (and recently some AvP) I enjoy riding my bike way too fast into corners and feel that rear tyre spin...
just thought it wasnt worth it to make a new topic and it might help new people. I tryed to look for this in the FAQ and older posts but didnt find it. What should I type in the box where the red circle is to be able to join the #naturalselection channel? (I feel like a noob)
There should be a network that is gamesnet, then connect on irc.gamesnet.net
However try this <a href="irc://irc.gamesnet.net/naturalselection/" target="_blank">direct link</a> which more modern mirc should actually be able to cope with.
The AA intro sounded nice enough to break the ice...Oh well.
I'm RNCNM,... I'm From a weird place called Ohio. I've always loved games since I was a little kid, just never had the income to invest in them,...which led to many years of feeling behind in my lonely childhood years.
<crowd sniffles>
BUT! I recently acquired a job at a very huge retail electronics store, and was propelled faster than a donut to a cop's mouth, into the gaming world (with the help of a recently obtained UBER-ADSL Modem)
<OOoooOoo>
So I am here, and I have played. I have gotten over my 3d motion-sickness (thanks from the help of Quake 3), and I am READY to R0x0r J00 @LL !!!! MUAHAHAHAHA!!!
Eerrmm...
I learned about NS from a link posted in another community which some of you might have heard of,. Infantry. The game (in my opinion which was not great because of the gfx [which sucked compared to H-L], but because of the community). If you do not know of infantry's plight, and what led me here,. I shall tell you.
In a nutshell, infantry was owned by Harmless Games way back when (before I even played it). Then, when HG ran out of dough to support the game (which was free), Sony Online Entertainment, stepped in and bought it, thus 'saving' the game and its great community from the depths of the abyss of the forgotten (sorry, writer's flair comin' up). Anywho,...SOE polished dup the game, allowed the head guy known as Yankee, along with some of his remaining crew to stay on with the game. I joined in around the beginning of the summer of '01 and was amazed not only at the community, but the sheer size (over 2000 players on at peak times, which rose when the Chaos on EOL zone came out. EOL alone held 500-1100 players at peak times). There were the mod wars and of course the board wars as well with trolls and such (neither of which I was fully aware of because I wasn't and still am not elite).
Then, out of nowhere (well we all know how it goes in big business, everything is set in stone before the public knows), but nonetheless,...FIVE, count them, FIVE days before the game that I adored and spent a lot of time on trying to become one with the L33tn3ss was to go Pay-toPlay,.. they announce it. The community as a whole was ripped asunder by butt hole-licking sn00bs who were going to vie for mod spots in the ensuing era, and complete n00bs who flamed with very little brainpower (E.g.>SONIE IZ G@Y,...OMG OMG OMG P2P SUX!!<!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->.
I was stunned,...crushed and angry. Threads began to fly all over the boards, people mostly spamming their new-found hate for SOE, calling for a boycott of Sony products or whatnot, and the brown-noses flaming them away with their 'good, p2p will wipe out you losers' posts.
May 1st rolls around and Infantry dies. I look at the zones in despair (none have broken 350 people on simultaneously yet). So to the boards I went,.. combating the brownnosers and stomping their digital faces in with my very p!ss3d off intelligent n00bie foot. Until I came across a threat that contained alternative games to flee to now that There was no hope, and poof! Suddenly I was dropped at the Doorstep of the NS site, and beckoned inside further by the radio chatter of the little flash movie.
Hoards and hoards of info came smacking into my synapses before they cou7ld even process it. I realized in a week or so that I had found my new home, and it wasn’t even finished yet.
So here I am,. never having played half-life a day of my life, but having heard great things about it, and finding out that this plays right into my field (if you hadn't noticed,. I like being on alien teams). I was and still am inspired to play H/L and patiently await the coming of NS.
It is rumored that I have a human designation (Jon)that is quite common amongst the cattle upon which my superior species feeds,...but perhaps the translation was wrong. Also in these human rumoring-type things,.. it is said that someone with my designation will be starting a web comic with his very n00bish drawing and software skills (any recommendation on software that can help design logos would be greatly appreciated). He also strums an instrument of some sort that is called a guitar. (more to come on these strange rumors in the future).
In closing (I know you're bored with me already), I request humbly, that I be guided and corrected by the powers and vets that be in my quest to become t3h r0x0r of j00 @ll. Any tips or suggestions (like a good place to get a web page and doing my sig file n stuff, so I can look a little more stream-lined) would be deeply, and truly appreciated.
Now, ONWARD to find a CD-RoM drive because the one that I had has currently and permanently expired...and there are games UNPLAYED!!!!!
Thanks for reading this if you made it this far.
RipNChewNMaim (Just call me Rip).
"In a matter of moments, all you'll be is a satisfying lump in my belly..." --cool saying before a duel. "RAAARRR!!!"
I'm f3rret, I followed NS for a while, forgot about it, then found it again. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> Now I'm here for good. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
I'm getting so ancy for a new game, today I'm going out to buy Soldier of Fortune 2. I hope it doesn't suck.
Hey RipNChewNMaim. I'm glad you have a new home, I think you'll like it here. What a great way to enter our community. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
I'm about to give you a "...from the ashes" title (but thene everyone would be screaming for one). Welcome.
Welcome aboard f3rret. RipNChemNMaim... not much left to say except welcome... very nice intro. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
Heyyy!!! Thanks folks! I'm Very pleased that I was officially welcomed. I held back on posting in other topics because I didn't just want to "appear" from nowhere.
I must say I'm very impressed with the coming of NS,..it's sure making quite a buz with all these people. Oh yes! I have a webbie now. <a href="http://snow.prohosting.com/ejttkgtt" target="_blank">T3h |)3|\/</a>
Be kind. Like I said in my first post, I'm an Uber N00bie on the everlasting path to |_33ty|\/3ss. I do believe Dramwaver will help me out, as well as a few *coughsuggestionscough* from you you nice people.
Well...Wish I could stay longer, but there is more to learn, more to see and stuff to DOOOOO!!!!
<Rips (pun intended) a hole in the ventilation shaft and scurries back to the hive.>
Rip
"Attention everyone %killed was tricked into paying to be 0wned by a guest. As the old saying goes, "There's a sucker born every minute." ---my favorite saying as a P2P Assassin.
"Mass NME rape squad comin',... Move your exoskeletons and bring the BBQ sauce, its gonna get messy!"
<!--QuoteBegin--Spyder Monkey+April 28 2002,10:31--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Spyder Monkey @ April 28 2002,10:31)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Who are you?
Where are you from?
How did you learn about Natural Selection?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> I am -|SUF|-Unknown. I am the 2nd Defence captain for my TFC clan (Soviets Under Fire). I learned of NS through one of my websurfing friends. I have been following this mod for 2 (TWO!) days now and so far it looks like a sweet mod. Hopefully I might beable to join the NS team because I am a programmer just like Flayra but no were near as good. (Which I know this will highly be unlikly) I've only been at C++ for a year now with a freashman college book (I'm in highschool going on to 11th grade) and I'm taking an AP C++ course next school year.
FamDiaper-Wearing Dog On A BallJoin Date: 2002-02-17Member: 222Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
Welcome Unknown. Have fun, make sure you read all the Forum and other assorted FAQ's if you havnt already. Have a nice stay, I'm sure you wont be disappointed. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
Oh yea I forgot www.clansuf.com is our website. http://suf.whateverchannels.com is our forums and www.clansuf.com/Sagestat.exe is were you can get a sample of my most complex C++ program so far.
Hey. I learned about Natural Selection through Planet Half-Life. Pretty excited to play the MOD.
I'm a Starcraft fan myself, so I'm quite interested in seeing the RTS mode of NS. <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
Hello. I've been watching NS for quite awhile now but I've just started posting here. I've read the FAQ's so don't worry about that. NS seems to have a really great community here, and I think it would be nice to be a part of it. So, hello all!
I was wondering if anyone else here is going to be running an NS server when it's released? I will, so I was just curious as to who else would be. Later!
<b>Who are you?</b> I'm Pete, and I'm a game-a-holic. Most people just call me Day, or Dave (long story).
<b>Where are you from?</b> Norway, home of polar goats and ballistic bovines.
<b>How did you learn about Natural Selection?</b> Probably some Half-Life modding site. Every now and then I look around for new, interesting mods. I spotted this one a while back and got all hyped about it. Now, for no particular reason, I figured it was time to snoop around in the community <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> Not sure how active I'll be, seeing as how I'm a "Usenet Guy". Forums scare me. Especially when they have an alien roaming around. Even moreso when said alien is commonly known as 'Bob'.
*shudders*
Anyway, Natural Selection looks extremely promising, to say the least. Good luck to the team: May your eventual release be painless and the reviews spectacular!
*spots something moving in the shadows and runs off* <!--emo&:bob:--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/bob.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':bob:'><!--endemo-->
I be a lonely Half-Life player, mostly DoD and a little CS.
From Seattle, Washington.
Found out about NS about 3 months ago, but the game really didn't catch my attention at the time. Came back a few days ago to the site, realized how darn cool it was lookin' and decided to take an active interest.
I love how the game looks so far, and would like to take an active role in helping the mod, but I don't have any skillz of the mod-makage category, so I'll just give moral support.
Comments
Anyhow maybe some of you remeber me from Gloom. I made a soundpak for it which got me some attention for a while. It's a shame that it's fading away cept for the hardcore players. I'll look foward to adding my own sounds in this mod, though I highly doubt that I would have the desire to, based on the quality of sound editing/developing I have heard and read about here.
<!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
I´ve been following the progress of NS for quite a while now and it´s very exciting to see how far you´ve come now. I just can´t wait to get my grubby little hands on this mod...
Not from the RPG/RTS scene myself, NS seems to offer a new experience for FPS players like myself. Getting to play with a human doing with me what I did with the fremen in Dune II (hey, it´s the last RTS I played, ok?) is just...amazing.
Anyway, Naughty Brembo is actually my biker name ("Brembo" being an Italian brakes manufacturer), my real name is Erik...I´m from Sweden and I´m currently on my last year of med school. Apart from playing a number of HL mods (and recently some AvP) I enjoy riding my bike way too fast into corners and feel that rear tyre spin...
Good job, team!
However try this <a href="irc://irc.gamesnet.net/naturalselection/" target="_blank">direct link</a> which more modern mirc should actually be able to cope with.
I'm Rip,..and I am an Ultra N00b
<"Hi Rip!">
The AA intro sounded nice enough to break the ice...Oh well.
I'm RNCNM,... I'm From a weird place called Ohio.
I've always loved games since I was a little kid, just never had the income to invest in them,...which led to many years of feeling behind in my lonely childhood years.
<crowd sniffles>
BUT! I recently acquired a job at a very huge retail electronics store, and was propelled faster than a donut to a cop's mouth, into the gaming world (with the help of a recently obtained UBER-ADSL Modem)
<OOoooOoo>
So I am here, and I have played. I have gotten over my 3d motion-sickness (thanks from the help of Quake 3), and I am READY to R0x0r J00 @LL !!!! MUAHAHAHAHA!!!
Eerrmm...
I learned about NS from a link posted in another community which some of you might have heard of,. Infantry. The game (in my opinion which was not great because of the gfx [which sucked compared to H-L], but because of the community). If you do not know of infantry's plight, and what led me here,. I shall tell you.
In a nutshell, infantry was owned by Harmless Games way back when (before I even played it). Then, when HG ran out of dough to support the game (which was free), Sony Online Entertainment, stepped in and bought it, thus 'saving' the game and its great community from the depths of the abyss of the forgotten (sorry, writer's flair comin' up). Anywho,...SOE polished dup the game, allowed the head guy known as Yankee, along with some of his remaining crew to stay on with the game. I joined in around the beginning of the summer of '01 and was amazed not only at the community, but the sheer size (over 2000 players on at peak times, which rose when the Chaos on EOL zone came out. EOL alone held 500-1100 players at peak times). There were the mod wars and of course the board wars as well with trolls and such (neither of which I was fully aware of because I wasn't and still am not elite).
Then, out of nowhere (well we all know how it goes in big business, everything is set in stone before the public knows), but nonetheless,...FIVE, count them, FIVE days before the game that I adored and spent a lot of time on trying to become one with the L33tn3ss was to go Pay-toPlay,.. they announce it. The community as a whole was ripped asunder by butt hole-licking sn00bs who were going to vie for mod spots in the ensuing era, and complete n00bs who flamed with very little brainpower (E.g.>SONIE IZ G@Y,...OMG OMG OMG P2P SUX!!<!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->.
I was stunned,...crushed and angry. Threads began to fly all over the boards, people mostly spamming their new-found hate for SOE, calling for a boycott of Sony products or whatnot, and the brown-noses flaming them away with their 'good, p2p will wipe out you losers' posts.
May 1st rolls around and Infantry dies. I look at the zones in despair (none have broken 350 people on simultaneously yet). So to the boards I went,.. combating the brownnosers and stomping their digital faces in with my very p!ss3d off intelligent n00bie foot. Until I came across a threat that contained alternative games to flee to now that There was no hope, and poof! Suddenly I was dropped at the Doorstep of the NS site, and beckoned inside further by the radio chatter of the little flash movie.
Hoards and hoards of info came smacking into my synapses before they cou7ld even process it. I realized in a week or so that I had found my new home, and it wasn’t even finished yet.
So here I am,. never having played half-life a day of my life, but having heard great things about it, and finding out that this plays right into my field (if you hadn't noticed,. I like being on alien teams). I was and still am inspired to play H/L and patiently await the coming of NS.
It is rumored that I have a human designation (Jon)that is quite common amongst the cattle upon which my superior species feeds,...but perhaps the translation was wrong. Also in these human rumoring-type things,.. it is said that someone with my designation will be starting a web comic with his very n00bish drawing and software skills (any recommendation on software that can help design logos would be greatly appreciated). He also strums an instrument of some sort that is called a guitar. (more to come on these strange rumors in the future).
In closing (I know you're bored with me already), I request humbly, that I be guided and corrected by the powers and vets that be in my quest to become t3h r0x0r of j00 @ll. Any tips or suggestions (like a good place to get a web page and doing my sig file n stuff, so I can look a little more stream-lined) would be deeply, and truly appreciated.
Now, ONWARD to find a CD-RoM drive because the one that I had has currently and permanently expired...and there are games UNPLAYED!!!!!
Thanks for reading this if you made it this far.
RipNChewNMaim (Just call me Rip).
"In a matter of moments, all you'll be is a satisfying lump in my belly..."
--cool saying before a duel.
"RAAARRR!!!"
I'm f3rret, I followed NS for a while, forgot about it, then found it again. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> Now I'm here for good. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
I'm getting so ancy for a new game, today I'm going out to buy Soldier of Fortune 2. I hope it doesn't suck.
--F3rret
I'm about to give you a "...from the ashes" title (but thene everyone would be screaming for one). Welcome.
I must say I'm very impressed with the coming of NS,..it's sure making quite a buz with all these people. Oh yes! I have a webbie now. <a href="http://snow.prohosting.com/ejttkgtt" target="_blank">T3h |)3|\/</a>
Be kind. Like I said in my first post, I'm an Uber N00bie on the everlasting path to |_33ty|\/3ss. I do believe Dramwaver will help me out, as well as a few *coughsuggestionscough* from you you nice people.
Well...Wish I could stay longer, but there is more to learn, more to see and stuff to DOOOOO!!!!
<Rips (pun intended) a hole in the ventilation shaft and scurries back to the hive.>
Rip
"Attention everyone %killed was tricked into paying to be 0wned by a guest. As the old saying goes, "There's a sucker born every minute."
---my favorite saying as a P2P Assassin.
"Mass NME rape squad comin',... Move your exoskeletons and bring the BBQ sauce, its gonna get messy!"
(lewl.)
Where are you from?
How did you learn about Natural Selection?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I am -|SUF|-Unknown. I am the 2nd Defence captain for my TFC clan (Soviets Under Fire). I learned of NS through one of my websurfing friends. I have been following this mod for 2 (TWO!) days now and so far it looks like a sweet mod. Hopefully I might beable to join the NS team because I am a programmer just like Flayra but no were near as good. (Which I know this will highly be unlikly) I've only been at C++ for a year now with a freashman college book (I'm in highschool going on to 11th grade) and I'm taking an AP C++ course next school year.
Well, cya at the forums.
(Its a 85KB program)
I'm a Starcraft fan myself, so I'm quite interested in seeing the RTS mode of NS. <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
I was wondering if anyone else here is going to be running an NS server when it's released? I will, so I was just curious as to who else would be. Later!
Bob around? No? Okay, let's get this over with.
<b>Who are you?</b>
I'm Pete, and I'm a game-a-holic. Most people just call me Day, or Dave (long story).
<b>Where are you from?</b>
Norway, home of polar goats and ballistic bovines.
<b>How did you learn about Natural Selection?</b>
Probably some Half-Life modding site. Every now and then I look around for new, interesting mods. I spotted this one a while back and got all hyped about it. Now, for no particular reason, I figured it was time to snoop around in the community <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> Not sure how active I'll be, seeing as how I'm a "Usenet Guy". Forums scare me. Especially when they have an alien roaming around. Even moreso when said alien is commonly known as 'Bob'.
*shudders*
Anyway, Natural Selection looks extremely promising, to say the least. Good luck to the team: May your eventual release be painless and the reviews spectacular!
*spots something moving in the shadows and runs off*
<!--emo&:bob:--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/bob.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':bob:'><!--endemo-->
Eep!
/me begins backin away slowly, but Daywanderer whirls around
Uh.. Daywanderer, buddy! Pal! I remember you from the Ghostrecon Forums! You had a stick-waving Fetish, ya know...
/me waves a pointy stick at Daywanderer
Like that, see?
Seriously though, glad to see you've noticed NS. Hope this place fulfills your desires for moose-tipping and stick-waving good ole fashioned fun.
BoZ: Mind if I bring my front instead? I prefer to make a good first impression and my rear, well, let's just say it's not up for the task.
From Seattle, Washington.
Found out about NS about 3 months ago, but the game really didn't catch my attention at the time. Came back a few days ago to the site, realized how darn cool it was lookin' and decided to take an active interest.
I love how the game looks so far, and would like to take an active role in helping the mod, but I don't have any skillz of the mod-makage category, so I'll just give moral support.
Go NS team!
make sure u read ALL the faq's to avoid posts that we have already discussed