Your First.... Experiance ;)
Anbu
Join Date: 2005-01-06 Member: 33008Members
Join Date: 2005-01-06 Member: 33008Members
i searched for a thread like this but none could be found
so, me and an old friend (who has quit NS for steam-related reasons) were talking about gaming today and our conversations lead to good'ol NS 2.01. Among some of the things we talked about was our first times playing NS.
I remember my first game clearly; I spawned into the ready room on ns_Bast and joined the marine team as he had instructed me too(this guy introduced me to NS). This was my first PC FPS aside from DOOM, and i was completely blown away at MS and having actual people controling the marines walking around me. so, soon i head out of the base and no sooner did i go down that elevator did i see my first alien; the gorge. This being my first time playing with a mouse and keyboard, i couldn't hit the lil fatty to save my life, and got owned horribly! So, for like 3 min after spawning in i just sat at the top of MS stairing down the elevator shaft waiting for it to pop out, which it didn't, it was killed long ago. After being yelled at i leave base, get pwnt by ambushing skulk, and respawn. The comm drops me a welder, which i mistook as some new uber-gun. So i immediately rush back to the skulk, welder in hand, and die without phasing the skulk at all. for the rest of the game i baisically ran around aimlessly getting <b><u>TWO</u></b>[U] kills, i personally was proud of those 2 kills! =D
Since then i've been hooke on NS and haven't gone more than 3 days without playing aside from when i moved =D
so, me and an old friend (who has quit NS for steam-related reasons) were talking about gaming today and our conversations lead to good'ol NS 2.01. Among some of the things we talked about was our first times playing NS.
I remember my first game clearly; I spawned into the ready room on ns_Bast and joined the marine team as he had instructed me too(this guy introduced me to NS). This was my first PC FPS aside from DOOM, and i was completely blown away at MS and having actual people controling the marines walking around me. so, soon i head out of the base and no sooner did i go down that elevator did i see my first alien; the gorge. This being my first time playing with a mouse and keyboard, i couldn't hit the lil fatty to save my life, and got owned horribly! So, for like 3 min after spawning in i just sat at the top of MS stairing down the elevator shaft waiting for it to pop out, which it didn't, it was killed long ago. After being yelled at i leave base, get pwnt by ambushing skulk, and respawn. The comm drops me a welder, which i mistook as some new uber-gun. So i immediately rush back to the skulk, welder in hand, and die without phasing the skulk at all. for the rest of the game i baisically ran around aimlessly getting <b><u>TWO</u></b>[U] kills, i personally was proud of those 2 kills! =D
Since then i've been hooke on NS and haven't gone more than 3 days without playing aside from when i moved =D
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I don't remember my first game, but I remember studying the manual for like 2 hours before playing the game. One particularly memorable game was NS_Bast, on of my firsts, the commander had relocated us to Maintence after our base suffered too much damage. We held there for 3 straight hours, surviving on only one RT. Comm dropped armories for cover to duck behind from acid rockets, HAs were in charge of welding the base, and Light Armors had to organize "pushes" to destory chambers and retreating aliens.
It looked pretty spectacular, we huddled behind the armories until the signal sounded. At that time, me and my buddies rushed head first into an Onos and accompanying Fades. Half of us were killed immediately, the ones left alive managed to empty their guns into the Onos, bringing him down quite nicely. Moments after, we were shredded by a small group of Fades...Soon I got an HA and welder. My new job was to keep the armories and other HAs at top condition. Being able to stand the spores the lerks constantly shot out, all we had to do was make sure our cover wasn't destroyed.
We actually won, we got the most points some how and the server timer ran out.
Then I started playing and getting better about 3 months later.
~Egad
He dropped random buildings, and we built them. I then proceeded to go through the revolving door, only to face a terrified alien who walked around everywhere chomping everywhere (except on me)
I was also terrified and I was shooting everywhere except on the alien. I eventually died.
Random walking around and random encounters later, a huge cow was going up on the elevator and the whole marine base was freaked out. Then that huge cow complained it was stuck in the elevator.
After all that happened, we finished by losing <!--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 remember it being one of the first versions
and ofcourse the first map i ever played was ns_bast!
ahhhhh..the times when Fades had bilebomb and teleport,and untiresomely got stuck in the walls.
but it was enjoyable,then i sorta forgot about it,there werent that many servers,and noone played it :<
untill a friend reminded me about NS last year..
so back i was..
and in the meantime,so many changes were made,i had to learn the game all over again!
[/end of fairytale] xD
Most of the time i was just looking around,asking help from fellow players
and dying..
Well, it took SOME time untill i got enough res to go lerk and to find a way to evovle lerk..
and..after i got the lerk..i died to first marine i met, after that..i left the game.
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Well, it didnt take long from me to rejoin the game x)
But I can remember my most exhilarating one though...
ns_eclipse, turtled in MS, with WoL's everywhere, having been trapped there for ages, but not really hammered, we were more under siege than being attacked.
Me (the nub at the time) called for a GL to see if I could clear the lame from skylights. I got given it, and the rest of the squad was given a protect waypoint, on me. After giving the armoury some wub, and stocking up on the ever-so important grenades, we decided that a small lull in the proceedings was the ideal time to strike.
Me and 4 others ran stright towards skylights, and I spammed the room, clearing a lot of the lame within seconds, actually killing a gorge, and scrambling an egg.
A few moments later, we got rushed by 2 fades. The rest of the squad tore them apart with lvl3 shotguns. Med'd up, and restocked, we then pushed all the way to one of the hives, leaving a trail of dead aliens in our wake. One hive went down to my constant grenading, and I only got hit twice, thanks to the immense backup I had.
That was the most exhilarating experience I have ever had with NS, nothing has come close since, with the exception of a game on the Korps server, about a week ago. It's surprising how co-ordinated an attack you can muster when people actually listen to what you are saying. Needless to say, it was a total raping of 2 hives at the same time...
Version: 1.04
map: misselcommand
I knew exactly what to drop, where to drop, and in what order. I thought I was so leet. My marines kept asking me to get upgrades. I said I dropped the armslab an hour ago, you should be getting upgrades. Over and over again they yelled at me to get them. I just assumed the upgrades came automaticly once it was built. I had no idea I had to click on each one seperatly.
Ofcourse that wasn't as bad as the time I tried humping the protolab trying to get a jp.
i spawned, walked out one of the passages and got reamed by an onos
respawned and did it again
respawned and did it again
I also remember going around as marine with Verty in 1.04 on our old knife sessions, 1 pistol shot at the skulk only each, then knife, good times. <!--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-->
Since then i play aliens 98% of the time i play ns and always go onos when i can <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
After I died my team verbally abused me like nothing I've experienced before.
ANBUU!!!!!!!!!!
EDIT: Oh NS experience, whoops
Did I mention my rich love for this community? <3
Well. It was a fine community at one point.
My first time playing marine side I was looking forward the command chair more than anything and with some luck I was the first one to find it on ns_caged. It took me about a minute and a half to figure out that I had to drop an infantry portal first before I could drop anything else, and then the game went smoothly from there (I can't remember if we won or lost though.
When I got my new computer and got the same thing, I thought that this isn't possible, so I went to download drivers for my card (integrated)..After I got it to work I joined a server that was on co_kestrel. It was one of those big co_ 32 man servers. I got owned over and over again and kept hearing all the bullets and 'hive/lifeforms under attack' getting kills few and far between. I had no idea what I was doing but ever since then I've had the best time of my life since quitting CS
<3 NS
As the game progressed, the marines holed up in viaduct, and our gorges built OCs at the top of viaduct, trapping them in. This is where I learned what parasite actually did, as I parasited the marines below me in via. After seeing it did little damage, I decided to go full throttle again, and once again, I died almost instantly. Frustated again, I checked the scoreboards (while I was dead) to see if others were having the same killing problems I were... but that was not the case. There were many players with 10+ kills, and beside there name were different classes: I saw the highest player as "ONOS", two other players as "FADE", and most others as "SKUL", but when I got to my name, I saw "REIN", and suddenly I knew why I couldn't kill anything... this "REIN" class must suck ****. And, of course, thats when I asked in public chat:
"Why can i never be a SKUL or ONOS, why am I always a REIN!!??"
Luckily... I soon figured that one out <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
When I joined the marines, the com was setting up auto sieges in the corner of MS, because the hive was in engine room.
It was lots o fun.
One amusing game (which I want to apologise for now <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->), it was on tanith and I went gorge in sat comms, not quite knowing what the gorge did, and I only knew how to build offence chambers at the time. So I spent ages laming up sat comms (while the team had to have a second gorge to actually do useful stuff), in 1.0 this of course wasted all the res <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->.
We lost the game, and I eventually realised it had been my fault, so yeah to everyone in that game on the aliens side im very very very sorry.
20 mins later I had NS 2.01 on my computer. I watched the quick slideshow, and was blown away at the detail of the game. Before I knew it I was playing as marine on ns_bast.
Oh NS, your nosalgia will never end <3