Not to sound rude...

Trevelyan_006Trevelyan_006 Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 3876Banned
in NS General Discussion
<div class="IPBDescription">But wtf!@!</div>WTF guys... you say you playtested, but you obviously did a #### job. Did you test this game on varying machines using different modes of connecting to the internet... DID YOU EVEN TEST THE GAME ON THE INTERNET?<!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo-->

You lag even with 6 people in the server, you did test with more then 6 people right? you didnt even notice the lag? not once?

im sorry, but im just so ###### a great game like this had to be F***ed up the a$$ because of lack of testing/debugging. you guys are entering the competative markets of Free Mods, you cant be like the big game developing companies and just shove crap out the door, patching over the course of 5 years to get what the developers origonally wanted the game to be. YOU CANT DO THAT. people DL this game, play it for 4 minutes, and delete it from their hard drive, "ehh it sucks, to much lag" that is your casual gamer at work, they want a perfect finished product.

Im not mad at you guys, in fact, i cherish YOU ALL, Thank you for this Awsome mod (yes it is AWSOME with the lag, i would play this game more then CS at THIS VERSION&#33<!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo--> F*** the lag, this game is just to awsome to be put down.
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  • Sgt_XSgt_X Join Date: 2002-03-01 Member: 261Members
    It's an issue with server admin overestimating there server usualy. A rig that could normaly handle 12 players in other mods can only handle about 8 or so in this one cause it has a ton of extra ents to track (structers) and has to compute hive sight and marine commander LOS. And there is a mini patch to adress this and lock server variable that can mess up the resource economy soon.
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  • Silver_FoxSilver_Fox Spammer Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 34Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    No, sorry.

    We never tested NS.

    While we told everyone we were, we were actually just sitting in the Readyroom having Tea.

    Sorry to disappoint you.
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  • RamsesRamses Join Date: 2002-05-21 Member: 642Members
    Cool down, Trevelyan_006...
    As Silverfox showed in a sarcastic way, this mod was tested. It was tested extensive. But the developers doesn't get paid for this mod, so they can't afford dozens of test-servers. They must use the ones they get. So they cant test on EVERY machine and with EVERY conncection (I mean the Server-Machine and the Server-Connection.

    Just wait a few days, and enjoy the game ( there are some servers that doesn't lag, believe me...)
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  • HelioHelio Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1771Members
    Really whats important is we NEED the patch NOW. The website has said, patch coming soon, for two days now. Will it be three days until this crucial patch comes out, cause we need it asap. Alot of people are forming alot of opinions about ns, and getting them to try out the non-resource-screwed-ns will be very hard. If its such a simple patch, why isn't it out?
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  • realityisdeadrealityisdead Employed by Raven Software after making ns_nothing Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 94Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Trevelyan_006, yes the game was playtested. A lot. On a wide variety of machines, and on a full range of internet connections. The lag/CPU-hog issues were not present. The mod would not have been released as-is if they were.

    You are absolutely correct about the short attention span of a gamer. If he doesn't like it immediately, he won't give it much of a second chance. It's pretty harsh human nature. The team fully realizes that, and it's very unfortunate that this 'lag' issue decided to rear its ugly face. I'm not even going to begin to pretend like I know <i>why</i> it decided to visit us now, and not during playtests, but like mentioned above: It would not have been released if we knew about the issue. I can assure you that it was not pushed out the door with a 'deal with it' attitude. There was so much work put into this thing to get it -perfect- for you guys. I am really, really depressed about the whole situation.

    Posts like your's are not helping the situation though.

    Your last sentence proved to me that you are a respectful person, but the way the rest was written <i>really</i> hurts. Please try to keep that in mind next time you don't like a certain aspect of something. There are real people on the receiving end of those comments.
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  • BananBanan Join Date: 2002-02-22 Member: 235Members
    Hah Silver Fox!!!
    I knew it all along! it was about time you admitted it!
    bwahahaha, your secret is out of the dark! there never were any playtests!! Phew, good to get that out.

    Now that everything is straight, was the tea any good?  <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->
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  • Silver_FoxSilver_Fox Spammer Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 34Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Eh ..

    was a little bitter.
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