"go Through Phase Gate Now!"
Fantasmo
Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7369Members
Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7369Members
<div class="IPBDescription">You hear it, what does it mean...</div> Apparently some people have gaps in their understanding of the english language. So I'm here to translate a phrase that gets used a lot in NS but nobody can seem to grasp the meaning.
<b>"Go through Phase Gate NOW!"</b>
When your commander or a fellow marine says, <b>"Go through Phase Gate NOW!"</b> you go <b><i>directly</i></b> to the pretty round, green machine with what looks like glowing fairy dust floating up from the center. Go up to this "Phase Gate" and press <USE>. Don't be afraid now, the fairy dust won't hurt you it's good fairy dust not the evil kind.
Now, there seems to be people who understand this concept but for whatever reason they didn't hear or don't understand the meaning of '<b>NOW</b>'.
'<b>NOW</b>' is really the <i>vital</i> part of the phrase.
If the commander wanted you to, "Get 250 rounds of LMG ammo, 30 rounds pistol ammo, chat with your buddies, call your mom, make yourself some toast, and then go through Phase Gate." he probably wouldn't have used the word '<b>NOW</b>'.
If they did use '<b>NOW</b>' they basically means, "As <i>quickly</i> as possible." <b>Quick</b>, being the imperative word.
I know what some of you are thinking, "Fantasmo, what if I just spawned I only have 100 rounds of LMG ammo and 20 rounds of pistol ammo?" Well my friend, here is how I see it.
Phase Gates are used for important areas of the map. Most of the time the places where the phase leads can make or break a game. If, for whatever reason, your commander want you to <b>"Go thought Phase Gate NOW!."</b> there is probably a danger of losing this very important place. <b>These places are <i>so important</i> even if you had nothing but a ball of string and a broken pencil you should go in fighting with all your might to try stop those nasty aliens.</b> Let me assure you, 2 clips of LMG and Pistol rounds is more than enough when the speaker chooses to use the word, '<b>NOW</b>'.
Remember that neat little trick I told you where you press <USE> on the Fairy Dust Machine and then all of a sudden you appeared where your commander wanted you? You can press <USE> on it and you'll go back to where the ammo is so you can get more ammo whenever you want!
I know this might be a lot to take in at once, it's okay. But next time you hear, <b>"Go through Phase Gate NOW!"</b> you'll now know what to do. Follow those instruction and you be contributing to the most important weapon in NS, <b>Team Coorindation</b>.
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EDiT: Couple of typos.
<b>"Go through Phase Gate NOW!"</b>
When your commander or a fellow marine says, <b>"Go through Phase Gate NOW!"</b> you go <b><i>directly</i></b> to the pretty round, green machine with what looks like glowing fairy dust floating up from the center. Go up to this "Phase Gate" and press <USE>. Don't be afraid now, the fairy dust won't hurt you it's good fairy dust not the evil kind.
Now, there seems to be people who understand this concept but for whatever reason they didn't hear or don't understand the meaning of '<b>NOW</b>'.
'<b>NOW</b>' is really the <i>vital</i> part of the phrase.
If the commander wanted you to, "Get 250 rounds of LMG ammo, 30 rounds pistol ammo, chat with your buddies, call your mom, make yourself some toast, and then go through Phase Gate." he probably wouldn't have used the word '<b>NOW</b>'.
If they did use '<b>NOW</b>' they basically means, "As <i>quickly</i> as possible." <b>Quick</b>, being the imperative word.
I know what some of you are thinking, "Fantasmo, what if I just spawned I only have 100 rounds of LMG ammo and 20 rounds of pistol ammo?" Well my friend, here is how I see it.
Phase Gates are used for important areas of the map. Most of the time the places where the phase leads can make or break a game. If, for whatever reason, your commander want you to <b>"Go thought Phase Gate NOW!."</b> there is probably a danger of losing this very important place. <b>These places are <i>so important</i> even if you had nothing but a ball of string and a broken pencil you should go in fighting with all your might to try stop those nasty aliens.</b> Let me assure you, 2 clips of LMG and Pistol rounds is more than enough when the speaker chooses to use the word, '<b>NOW</b>'.
Remember that neat little trick I told you where you press <USE> on the Fairy Dust Machine and then all of a sudden you appeared where your commander wanted you? You can press <USE> on it and you'll go back to where the ammo is so you can get more ammo whenever you want!
I know this might be a lot to take in at once, it's okay. But next time you hear, <b>"Go through Phase Gate NOW!"</b> you'll now know what to do. Follow those instruction and you be contributing to the most important weapon in NS, <b>Team Coorindation</b>.
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EDiT: Couple of typos.
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"our base is under ATTACK...get here NOW"
"BASE IS UNDER ATTACK! THREE FADES! GET HERE NOW"
"FFS TEAM! CANT YOU READ! GET YOUR **** OVER HERE!"
"ARRRRGHH"
notice, the word NOW is also used...
HA HA! The bit about a ball of string and pencil was comedy GOLD! <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
But seriously your post is very true. Standing there humping the armory whilst your commander is telling u to go phase is a sure sign that you area n00bie, <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
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When the commander uses the word "NOW" that does not mean: "... after you **** me about getting a HA and a HMG or perhaps a little jetpack, followed by the phrase "you suck as comm!" after waiting for your equipment for ten minutes and the phase s down, when the marines only have 22 res points and no prototype lab"
great topic btw.
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<b>*LoL*</b>
OMG I almost choked on my chocolate milk after reading this post! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Thx Error, you made my day! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
or something like that
a thing that i have found pretty good sometimes is if you are at a pg and you are alone and some aliens come's to kill you an destroy everything and offcourse you have to reload is to go throu the pg, reload and go back.. offcourse the aliens will get some time to shew on the pg, but if you don't get the time to reload you will probably get killed.. if now the aliens isn't stupid.. and if you get killed it will only take you more time to get back...
but this is if you are alone.. if there is more then one marine there you should be able to stay
but what's unfortunate is that the exorbitant violators of your "NOW" statements... don't read the forums. Yes, it's true. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
Since we have people who aren't in nC, yet we depend on them with the same amount as we do our fellow guild members, sometimes we lose our phase gates, because we have our nC boys all over the map, trying to secure locations, resources, and all that fun stuff. In groups of two, of course <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
So then, we have a phase gate under attack at say...Cargo. So, theres 3 fellows in the spawn, me, U|3er/\/\0NkeY, and IKillN00bs. Bigpoppasmurf says the phase gate is under attack at cargo, so I jump through without getting amo, and die after taking out 2 of the 3 assulties. I expected the other 2 to pour through the phase gate any second, guns blazing, and I tried to avoid the skulk and reload my LMG. Of course, I died, but I never saw the other two guys in cargo, and I heard the phase gate get destroyed.
So I spawn back in, and one of them is knifing the other while he loads up all the ammo possible, and then he walks down to the phase gate, and I hear the distinct *beep* of he/she trying to activate it. OF course then, to make the situation more frustrating, we get the message, "WTF, I can't get through the phase gate, whoever was supposed to save the phase gate didn't do a good job". <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
Honest mistake...
Unless the comm spams the PG in advance with medpacks. A simple tactic which I don't see often and can save an outpost/PG. Jumping as soon as you appear helps as well.
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but in that, you were like a god, and had a hand and could pick stuff up and put it.
maybe the com can have a hand of god and pick rines up and put em in the phazegates!
also com should have a killswitch for the rines <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> i think that would be fun to take care of the rambo's!
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(idiotic ideas)
You have to specifiy please go through the phase gate right in front of you now. or else the marine might think you meant the other phase gate and that would probably be a long walk and he might get lost along the way.
Unfortunately, there'll still be a lot of n00b's with all of a few whole games of experience who'll think "Haha, the commander is ordering everyone else through the phasegate!! I'll just stock up on ammo, phase through in about 20 seconds, and save the day ..... uhh commander, why isn't the phasegate glowing anymore? Oh... can I have HMG/HA now?".
I'm a hopeless commander, so fortunately I'm never in a position of trying to herd the clueless n00bs into the slaughtering field. As soon as anyone makes even a small comment of "incoming at <i>location</i>", or "<i>somewhere</i> under attack", me and a half dozen good marines cram ourselves into a phasegate and get there.
Luckily, I almost always play Kharaa. Those clueless n00bs make my game a whole lot easier. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
but in that, you were like a god, and had a hand and could pick stuff up and put it.
maybe the com can have a hand of god and pick rines up and put em in the phazegates!<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I just want to be able to rub their tummies when they're good.
(I picture the little old guy on a cloud floating by the comm screen saying "You need an infantry portal!")
But i've seen marines ordered to a place with a phase gate, then come back after staying there 4-5 seconds asking for a gun. jeez..
The best way to defend a place, is to put up a command chair and a few inf portals.
And they kept spawning and jumping in the phase gate until I was done eating the TF and one of the IPs. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Hmmm..I think I can do something with this team. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
Often phase gates seem to skip locations and whilst the first marine ends up in refinery the second ends in atmospheric and the third in engine room. The marines who was in refinery jumps in and telefrags the one in atmospheric and the two in engine room phase back to base. Only the fourth marine see's the fades raping atmospheric and gets killed before he can say a word. All the marines know they have phased and found nothing so the comm must have been panicing over nothing. This little dance is repeated a few times before the comm switches off his monitor and bangs his head on the keyboard until his ears bleed.
So when I hear "Get through the phase - NOW" I normally ask "Where to?". I've yet to hear a response...
Perhaps adding "3 fades in atmospheric" might help. Of course you are then left with six marines who phase to base and claim Fades cant be killed with lmg's and they all need grenade launchers and one who gets repeatedly killed on his own in atmospheric... that would be me then <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
Also, people, please dont go comm/gorge if you don't have a mic. o_o It slows everyone down cuz they have to wait for you to type orders and if you're a gorge under attack you don't exactly have time to type out HELP AT SUBSPACE!! before you get shot.