Favorite NS memory
Sub_zer0
Join Date: 2004-05-09 Member: 28569Members
Join Date: 2004-05-09 Member: 28569Members
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"Wow those graphics.. w.. .wowow... stop, stop, lemme look at you... wow"
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Regs nights on NS1. Steve Irwin Tribute in a custom version of a map.
Anything gorge related. Because the ns2 gorge doesnt come even close to ns1's awesome.
any movement inbetween different heighs with all the height differences, doors etc. I miss those so much.
Any long fight so balanced it took over 4 hours to finish.
Combat mod was the most fun I've ever had in any game. So many great custom maps and mods!
This is still pretty amazing to me :>
NSTR
During an ENSL match in ns_orbital, we had some fight over a growing 2nd hive at Generator going on, me commanding the marine team. Meanwhile on the complete other side of the map Toothy was healing up as a fade, preparing to teleport to the hive under attack. Little did he know we had planted a random minefield in the Generator hive's bridge to help our push.
The following happened in a some fractions of a second: Someone throws a random hand gren into the general hive room area. Toothy finishes healing up the fade on the safe hive and teleports to the hive under attack. His teleport brings him in random spawn point, right in the middle of all 4 mines and right in the immediate flying path of the hand gren. Somehow the hand gren explosion triggers all the mines, the fade vaporizes before anyone could even see it. From the comm viewpoint you could see a huge explosion and maybe catch a groan in the middle of it, but no way you could confirm there was a fade there. My initial thought was some poor gorge had been fried up in the minefield.
We had to check the game again afterwards to understand why the fade wasn't around later on in the hive defence and what happened to the mines. I don't even want to guess the odds of so many things coming together with such flawless timing.
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Also, this was lots of fun. At this point we were somewhere 2nd tier and the opponents were pretty much the top dogs in Europe. We had to pull off a few rabbit packs out of the hat to deal damage.
Needless to say we still lost the round, but seeing the confused skulks followed up by the explosion was hilarious to watch from the comm view.
Most memorable was the nightcup finals against knife, we were greatly outmatched but made them work for it tieing couple maps with alien games. In the end, we've had so many people come and go, and had great times with.
I can only hope, that the competitive scene in ns2 carries on for a long time to come, to create more memories.
ns_hera - holographic room
Walking along the upper paramount, waiting 30 seconds for that skulk that I knew was about to pop out. Then being swarmed by 2-3 seperate skulks running up the wall beneath me to scare the crap out of me.
First thought: OMG, this is so damn cool.
ns_nancy - Darkness / Atmospherics
That map was just dark, looked like an onos had gone through it smashing / breaking everything. Truely was such a fun map.
First time I saw an onos, thinking.......... OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
ns_bast - Refinary
The biggest room EVER. Holy moley, this room was just damn cool. Bast had the most complicated / insane vent system as well. Took me so long to learn the vents on that map.
ns_bast - Elevator from marine spawn
Dropping down elevator shaft into a team of skulks waiting to chomp your ass
ns_bast - Rotating door at marine spawn
Going through the door, taking 4-5 seconds to eventually rotate into marine heaven. 2 ONos + 1 fade waiting to eat me
Oh and all the cool maps, even though most servers rotated only Veil, Eclipse, Tanith, all day every day, bleh.......
@male_fatalities you saying ns_bast had more confusing vents than ns_nancy? you're weird! :P
I'd completely forgotten about the Steve Irwin tribute!
Regs night on YO rocked! Playing British Bulldogs in refinery hive on bast, hide and seek, knife olympics....oh the good old days!
I miss laz0r mines!
lol, the last stands in red room and the relocations. So much fun and many hilarious moments. Not much room for creativity left these days. Can't uwe make a version for the comp players and one for the pubs?