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ErMejo
Join Date: 2013-01-06 Member: 177832Members
Join Date: 2013-01-06 Member: 177832Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Ideas for a better attachment to the game - and balance</div>Hello to everybody,
Let me introduce myself first of all, I am Simone, a young Italian who bought Natural Selection 2 primarily to contribute to the efforts of those who develop games that are "little jewels" and threw it as a gimmick entirely commercial.
Secondly, I must say that the game was recommended to me by a guy who saw me play Savage 2 Tortured Soul.
There are 3 main things that I would like to give advice to the developers to make the game much better from my point of view:
<b>1 - Press loyalty to player account (important to diversify the value of an account by playing one day, from what I played for one year, Steam for example, offers some Achievements)
2 - To make the gaming experience more similar between the faction of marines to that of the Aliens
3 - loadings of games far too long, the game engine to be optimized over time</b>
I go down now in the detail of these 3 points mentioned here:
1) Personally, I find satisfying whole play Natural Selection 2, but one day I'll give up the idea of maybe another game to play because it gives me a better gaming experience and better engagement. For example, I might be happy to show off maybe of my medals gained over the years while playing Natural Selection 2, showing it to my friend to whom I made ​​known to Natural Selection 2 for a short time (we could see them as medals, scores, or even of the votes obtained by members of the team for having relied on in that game and thank me, give me a good grade). Or, playing as Commander I was good at building in the right places and provide advice to the team on what to do.
This personally I found it very, very rewarding in Savage 2 Tortured Soul and kept my involvement in the game in the long term.
2) In many post (and also on your plans) I see a particular commitment on the balance between the two factions.
So, from my point of view, between two gaming experiences, different, you will never find a perfect balance of the game and there will ALWAYS be someone who has more than the other.
Now, my personal experience see my friends (7) to which I have made known Natural Selection 2, pleasure in play only if they play Marines because it is obviously more familiar to them (we have 25 years and 6 of them play Natural Selection 2 only if they are Marines, because the faction Aliens does not like).
For many it may not be feasible as I am about to say, but I wish we still ponder over:
The faction Aliens, as it was designed, not to everyone (and I'm pretty sure that people who like shooters much prefer the faction Marines)
I understand that maybe you wanted to take the Alien concept similar to that seen in the film Alien, Aliens vs. Predator, or in games (mine is just a guess, maybe I'm wrong) but you have to make these more familiar Aliens can play, similar to the Marines.
As an idea, maybe you could think of the movie Predator and Alien vs Predator game, which, however, they were also armed and had the special skills (and this may also provide an opportunity to introduce the friendly fire to get a little more realism in game)
3) On this point there is not much to say:
I have a Phenom II X4 965 at 3.80 Ghz, 8 gigabytes of RAM and a Radeon HD 5770 video card with 2 sata 2 Western Digital Black in RAID 0, but when I load a game of Natural Selection 2, expecting too much for my taste (I think a little more than 1 minute)
The quality of the graphics engine, I have nothing to say, it was done a really great job (I really hope in the future you can also play on OSX but especially on Linux).
I apologize for my English (I got help from Google) and now, waiting for your opinions thanking attention.
Let me introduce myself first of all, I am Simone, a young Italian who bought Natural Selection 2 primarily to contribute to the efforts of those who develop games that are "little jewels" and threw it as a gimmick entirely commercial.
Secondly, I must say that the game was recommended to me by a guy who saw me play Savage 2 Tortured Soul.
There are 3 main things that I would like to give advice to the developers to make the game much better from my point of view:
<b>1 - Press loyalty to player account (important to diversify the value of an account by playing one day, from what I played for one year, Steam for example, offers some Achievements)
2 - To make the gaming experience more similar between the faction of marines to that of the Aliens
3 - loadings of games far too long, the game engine to be optimized over time</b>
I go down now in the detail of these 3 points mentioned here:
1) Personally, I find satisfying whole play Natural Selection 2, but one day I'll give up the idea of maybe another game to play because it gives me a better gaming experience and better engagement. For example, I might be happy to show off maybe of my medals gained over the years while playing Natural Selection 2, showing it to my friend to whom I made ​​known to Natural Selection 2 for a short time (we could see them as medals, scores, or even of the votes obtained by members of the team for having relied on in that game and thank me, give me a good grade). Or, playing as Commander I was good at building in the right places and provide advice to the team on what to do.
This personally I found it very, very rewarding in Savage 2 Tortured Soul and kept my involvement in the game in the long term.
2) In many post (and also on your plans) I see a particular commitment on the balance between the two factions.
So, from my point of view, between two gaming experiences, different, you will never find a perfect balance of the game and there will ALWAYS be someone who has more than the other.
Now, my personal experience see my friends (7) to which I have made known Natural Selection 2, pleasure in play only if they play Marines because it is obviously more familiar to them (we have 25 years and 6 of them play Natural Selection 2 only if they are Marines, because the faction Aliens does not like).
For many it may not be feasible as I am about to say, but I wish we still ponder over:
The faction Aliens, as it was designed, not to everyone (and I'm pretty sure that people who like shooters much prefer the faction Marines)
I understand that maybe you wanted to take the Alien concept similar to that seen in the film Alien, Aliens vs. Predator, or in games (mine is just a guess, maybe I'm wrong) but you have to make these more familiar Aliens can play, similar to the Marines.
As an idea, maybe you could think of the movie Predator and Alien vs Predator game, which, however, they were also armed and had the special skills (and this may also provide an opportunity to introduce the friendly fire to get a little more realism in game)
3) On this point there is not much to say:
I have a Phenom II X4 965 at 3.80 Ghz, 8 gigabytes of RAM and a Radeon HD 5770 video card with 2 sata 2 Western Digital Black in RAID 0, but when I load a game of Natural Selection 2, expecting too much for my taste (I think a little more than 1 minute)
The quality of the graphics engine, I have nothing to say, it was done a really great job (I really hope in the future you can also play on OSX but especially on Linux).
I apologize for my English (I got help from Google) and now, waiting for your opinions thanking attention.
Comments
On the other and you have <a href="http://ns2stats.org/" target="_blank">http://ns2stats.org/</a> . There you can find player stats for all of your games. The only draw side of it is that not all servers use it.
About the alien-marine difference in play. It's because NS2 is just that kind of game. You probably didn't play the original NS1. Neither did I. But I managed to figure out that this game was made primarily for that community. Everyone else who joins and likes this game is a plus. Not to say that compromises haven't been made, by the devs, to the newcomers.
To answer your question about the vote for me is very simple to do: finish the match, part of the vote that can be taken by a vote from 1 to 5 and maybe even provide a comment in a string in the vote.
Could be done also as happens in DOTA 2, for example, can be given in addition to a general vote, also an appreciation particular towards a player for being friendly against it, or has given excellent recommendations guiding the team and so on.
In a nutshell: When is declared the winner, the results of a screen where the player can express their opinion of the match and maybe even save the replay of that game.
I realize that Natural Selection 1, being a mod, it will take time to implement all of these features, but I think should be done to keep alive the interest.
Regarding the second point:
It 's true, I have not played Natural Selection 1 and suppose the second born just to satisfy the user that he played, but in doing so, probably will be satisfied only that type of user whereas in this way, it could be offered to a wider catchment area.
At this point, I'd probably another thing: espanderei the type of Aliens (now there are 5 different types of Aliens, I would try to expand to 8 or 10, offering alternatives to the aliens who have no ranged weapons).
A better variety of Aliens, offers a better challenge for the Marines and for those who do not like me the pleasure of playing the Alien faction, at least to have more choices (specifically, I'd like that the alien was not the runner 'Alien only "free", because in critical situations, it is impossible to escape from the pressure of Marines who have a much more advanced equipment especially given their advantage to pull away, she will be only a massacre and a pain in the ass for players play the Aliens. my thought is that aliens, if they manage to advance before the Marines have any chance to win, but if they start bad and the Marines win the most points, to 70% of the game is already in their hands.)
I want to conclude by saying that the site: <a href="http://ns2stats.org/" target="_blank">http://ns2stats.org/</a> you've pointed out, is a good start, but it should not be a "mod", then separate the characteristics of the game itself, but should be a basic characteristic of the game should incorporate a scoring system / statistics account.
Also because, how do I identify which servers have the mod for statistics and which are not?
This feature I think is the first thing that you have to work (even before the balance) to keep up the interest of players to the game, because it is normal that everyone likes to show your score to friends and strangers.