I Like The Update!

Lion_King

A big thanks for the NS creators for releasing this patch! After playing it quite a lot, im grateful for the improved gameplay!
The new grenades are actually useful now!
Combat is cool now and onoses with regeneration, carapace and redemption kick butt (and are not that overpowered, anymore as they gotta evolve again when they die, and they are still killable)
the changes made to gameplay are all too numerous but most are beneficial!

If thats not too bad id really really strongly advise you guys to get some ideas from the NS plugins out there, such as the waypoint fix, that helps commanders a lot!

Anyways, keep on improving the game, and maybe why not take it further than just finishing it when you got your goals? CS is the most popular online game ever and its never been (or will be in a long time) finished!

Well done guys!

XCan

Grenades are more useful than before but still a bit too weak to be effective when it comes to clearing OCs.

Lion_King

I agree.. but they are already a lot better for clearing out skulks.. and a LOT more rewarding when i bounces along some walls and indirectly kills them <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

keep_it_Gangsta

combat is alot more balanced now, I agree.

Some stuff I wanted fixed got left out, and they **** up ns_bast, but apart from thats its good.

Flayra

Thanks for the kind words. We definitely plan on fixing the waypoint issue in the future. We also fully intend on updating NS for many years to come. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Sky

I've gotten as many handnade kills in just two days of playing as I got in all of the last beta..... <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

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Lion_King

wow, cool and to top it off they even reply to our posts!!
Must be hard for you guys to please us all as everyone has a grudge against their different things, and if you change something, some love it (and normally dont post) and others hate it (normally minority that **** about flaming).
Im not sure if this is on the checklist but:
-Please add a simple feature to CO games that late joiners get half the level of the average of their team so that joining in the middle of a game can be a fun experience still!
-Also Please improve catalyst packs a fair bit... they are humiliation tools and in CO almost no one ever gets them, while every single other improvement for marines get their fair share of use (some mroe that others but surely they do exist) Maybe a way to tweak that would be making the experience system have more iterations, eg make it you can have up to 100 xp points to spend and things like shotguns would cost 15 while a welder could cost 8 or something... (the values put there are purely made up on the spot, not any suggestion)


Yes As you can see i play CO games quite a lot now that it plays so nicely (with the recent betas)! i get to use all the cool guns/evolutions without worrying about dying too much! NS games are lots of fun but they get decided too soon = many leavers plus people generally complain too much and are negative overall
The game is quite amazing as it is, however, i think you guys should put in full effort in making the game harder to decide on earlier rounds (NOT true for combat, mostly true for NS). It surely is hard to do, and if done extensive changes will be required, which will **** a lot of people off, so it will be a huge gamble if done all in one go! Be subtle and NEVER ask the community what they think, just hear their voices on the forums and chats...
If you pull this off NS will be in my private top 5 hall of fame of games (i played about 1200 of them and currently own some 350 CDs). This might sound stupid but for a game to get there it needs to be FREAKING GOOD! Its almost there! good luck guys, rock on!


Oh and as a last thing.. lol who made the marine hand model when weve got a knife out? thats the weirdest thumb ive ever seen!

G_I_Godless

Im downloading it right now.
Reading the replys and the nice changelog makes me think this will really balance things out for a change.

And yes Regular Ns (still my favorite) should really be played vs friends/clan/startegic people.

Just like on a pub once when I was comming.....nobody listened and I was kicked out of the CC for not giving; you sayed it: a Shotgun on the first minute.