Early Screenshots Of Natural Selection?
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Join Date: 2005-02-25 Member: 42471NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
Join Date: 2005-02-25 Member: 42471NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
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hihi
Yea early levels and stuff is cool too
What version is that anyways
EDIT: Is that the tripmine from HL i see? lol and is that a flamethrower or a welder??
A nuke??? what did all that stuff do
Yea early levels and stuff is cool too
What version is that anyways
EDIT: Is that the tripmine from HL i see? lol and is that a flamethrower or a welder??
A nuke??? what did all that stuff do <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
tripmine turned into the regular mine we have now.
No flames
Nuke got takin out.
not much on this screen only the layout but whats the reinforcements 1?
<img src='http://www.planethalflife.com/images/screens/ns_eclipse0075.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<img src='http://www.planethalflife.com/images/screens/ns_bast0173.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<img src='http://www.planethalflife.com/images/screens/ns_eclipse0110.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<img src='http://www.planethalflife.com/images/screens/ns_eclipse0104.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
some months before release:
<img src='http://www.planethalflife.com/images/screens/phl_ns_caged0002.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
the old/not-so-old command chair:
<img src='http://www.planethalflife.com/images/screens/ns_070802_2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
ok these seem to be quite old:
<img src='http://www.planethalflife.com/images/screens/ns_040802_2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<img src='http://www.planethalflife.com/images/screens/ns_040802_3.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
(ok no more pics from planethalflife that are worth posting, drained that source <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> )
Eclipse was so fun back in those days. It still is, but you know, for nostalgic reasons. And Hera... Marine bases would always be different back with the raised commchair.
Lets have children Merkaba.
Can anyone explain the old interface icons in the 1st pic. the one with the nuke and "you just got points"
did the welder really look like that. i assume that 1.x gl was already determined, so did the hmg really look like that other thing?
what about medpaks? what about the icon between the ammo and the 1.x gl, WTH is that?
Posted on old ns site. 8/17/01 taken from article reporting on the very first play test of ns.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Well, the first playtest was last night! Aside from a really awful bug (that of course, never showed it's face prior to last night) where every time a game ends, most of the people get kicked off the server and the host has to create a new game before anyone can connect again (grrrr), everything went "according to plan". OK, it didn't really go according to plan, but everyone seemed to have a great time. It was four marines versus four aliens most of the night and the matches were a blast to watch. Nothing is funnier than waiting for more ammo or a new weapon and watching two huge ugly aliens come rampaging in the room. They groan and scream like evil hippopotami (!) and mow you down with their huge teeth. The most common reaction was to run away backwards, screaming at the top of your lungs. Needless to say, the office was quite noisy. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> Commonly heard were things like "I NEED AMMO OVER HERE!", "OH MY GOD, EVERYONE'S DEAD AND THERE'S SOME BIG FLIER AND ONE OF THOSE.... ". Meanwhile, the alien players communicated wordlessly through grunts and squeals and seemed to respawn endlessly in a circle around their hive. That is, until some marine discovered the siege weaponry...
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An ending far from being over i must say!
Also from the day that NS was first released.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->[ 10/31/02 ] :: Natural Selection Released! Forums up soon...
Alert to Frontiersmen. Alert to Frontiersmen.
After a journey of over a year, after many course adjustments and the judicious use of fuel, we approach station NatSel. Repeat: prepare to dock with NatSel.
The Kharaa presence has been confirmed onboard. Before we lost our readings, sensors showed multiple forms moving at incredible speed through the ventilation shafts and maintenance tubes. Expect immediate and intense conflict the moment you deploy.
Control the resources. Defend your base. Listen to your commander. Be prepared to face more and more powerful alien foes. Learn their many forms and abilities, and how to counter them. Find the heart of the Kharaa threat, and eradicate it. The battle begins now. Its outcome rests in your hands.
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Nostalgia ftw <!--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-->
I actually fell for this.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->| 4/1/02 | :: NS team "just plain sick of" aliens
In a somewhat surprising move, the Natural Selection team has announced today that they are removing the aliens from their upcoming "humans vs. aliens" mod, Natural Selection.
"We've decided to drop the aliens and focus more on the realistic, squad-based tactics of the marines. People want realism. No one wants aliens. Just look at how many people are playing Counter-strike. Now look at how many people are playing Aliens vs. Predator. Honestly, I don't know what we were thinking."
"This is a team decision, and everyone on the team feels like it's the right thing to do. They were really delaying the release date, and frankly, they're a huge pain in the ****. I think I speak for the community when I say, I never want to see another xenoform, slime-mound or hive-thingie ever again."
But what will fans think of this?
"I think they'll understand. Most people didn't want to play aliens anyways, they complained that the marines were going to be too powerful with their rifles and phase gates, so I don't think anyone will really mind. By the way, have you seen the recent numbers for Day of Defeat?"
News update: April Fool's! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<a href='http://files.redphive.org/NS-Trailer.zip' target='_blank'>NS Trailer</a>
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->| 8/1/02 | :: Home stretch
As we prepare for our summer release, the team is madly running around trying to finish stuff up. Given the recent outburst of forum posts about the game's progress, here's a quick summary of the work that's left to do.
Design and balance: 95% done
This will continue to evolve, but is essentially good enough as it is.
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<a href='http://web.archive.org/web/20030704200636/nsa.wideloader.com/topten.php' target='_blank'>Top Ten NS clans of 1.0</a>
I would really love to get my hands on the very first playable NS.... Just to see what it evolved from.. Is there a chance?
I still think the location position is better on that picture than where it is nowadays.
There's also a picture on (if I remember) a HL map? It was a commander view and marines had a blue circle around them.
Old Eclipse marine start was a cool setup. It worked with the game back then. I think. Did the doors provide balance back then? It's been too long for me to remember much either.
I heard about this game from nerd friends not too long after it had been released. At the most maybe the first week or two. There was this server. Ummm... Redphive. I don't know. That's where I went as a nub for NS. Then later I came to the website and started posting on the forum regularly.
And HERE I AM TODAY.
This will continue to evolve, but is essentially good enough as it is.
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*sigh*
...they were good days, those days. /strongbad voice