Some new proposed nicknames

Obibun · July 2002

<div class="IPBDescription">Includes actual roots..</div>Note: Learned the alien levels for ease. <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'>

These nicknames are just things I'm tossing out.
Level 3 and 4's seem to be the hardest.

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LEVEL 5-

belua -ae f. [a beast , large animal]; as a term of reproach, [monster, brute, beast]. - Latin

"Belle"

Also means 'beautiful' in French, which is kind of a play on words with the level 5 <b>beast</b>.

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LEVEL 4-

furtim adv. [by stealth , stealthily]. - Latin

"Fruity" or "Fruit"

occulto -are [to hide , conceal]. - Latin

"Octy" or "Occo"

verbergen Sie - [Conceal] - German

"Burger" or "Berg"

taceo -ere -ui -itum [to be silent , say nothing; to be still, quiet]; transit. [to be silent about, pass over in silence]. Hence partic. tacitus -a -um: pass. [passed over in silence, unmentioned; implied, tacit; secret, concealed]; act. [silent, mute, still, quiet]. Adv. tacite. - Latin

"Taco"

<b>Burger</b>, <b>Taco</b>, maybe we should call him food?

opacus -a -um [shaded , shady; dark, shadowy, obscure].
- Latin

"Opaque" or "Op" or "Opy"

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LEVEL 3-

volaticus -a -um [winged , flying; flighty, inconstant]. - Latin

"Volly" or "Molly"

perlabor -labi -lapsus dep. [to glide through , glide along]. - Latin

"Pearl."

scivolata - [Glide] - Italian

"Sciv" or "Scivvy"

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LEVEL 2-

Erbauer [Builder] - German

"Herb" or "Herbert" or "Herby"
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LEVEL 1-

klein [Small] - German

"Calvin" or "Cal"
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Obibun · July 2002

Any thoughts? Additions? I'll throw some more on.

Let's just replace Bob and Tiny FFS. <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'>

Snake13 · July 2002

I think we should make derogatory nicknames cause marines would be talking #### about the aliens (I'm thinking of "Space above and beyond" they call the aliens "chigs", okay maybe thats not reall derogatory but it kinda sounds like a slur to me)

SmokeMasta · July 2002

the official new names are already made but not yet released to the public.

Raptor091288 · July 2002

hmm... i might use some of those when the mod is released... i can just picture it
(TEAM)Raptor: Incoming Belle!
(TEAM)Raptor: Incoming Fruity!
(TEAM)Raptor: Incoming Octy!
(TEAM)Raptor: Incoming (yum) Burger!
(TEAM)Raptor: Incoming (food item) Taco!
(TEAM)Raptor: Incoming Opy!
(TEAM)Raptor: Incoming (vampire slayer.. oops) Molly!
(TEAM)Raptor: Incoming Pearl!
(TEAM)Raptor: Incoming Scivvy!
(TEAM)Raptor: Incoming Herbert! (add an s in front of that)
(TEAM)Raptor: Incoming Calvin!

guess what im gonna use as my in-game name... hehe anyways, some of those are funny, i should bind em.. like the Incoming Burger! that would confuse my teammates soooo much, would be funny to see (TEAM)<name>: WTF!!!
anyways, like SmokeMasta said, they already got their own names by the team

CMEast · July 2002

Shame, I quite like some of them

Flayra · July 2002

Nope, we haven't decided on the names yet, we're still discussing them endlessly.

Surge · July 2002

Why not call them "Small Guy", "Fatty", "Flyguy", "Big Guy", and "Really Big Guy"?

Cork2 · July 2002

hehehehehe nice nick names i got some <u>Army of Darkness</u> for all the aliens and <u>The Creature That Time Forgot</u> for the level 5[U]

Cork2 · July 2002

i can see it now me yelling over the voice com "watch out the creature that time forgot coming your way"

........hmmm maby its to long of a name

Hobbes · July 2002

Calvin, huh? I like that. =)

CMEast · July 2002

Gemma's a pretty name...
and Jennifer, yeah, lvl5=Jennifer

Cork2 · July 2002

...............

Vincent · July 2002

you ppls have way to much time on your hands! the names should be stuff like for the
lvl 1: run Your ### off
lvl 2: get him befor he makes stuff!
lvl 3: Watch your head
lvl 4: HES GONNA GET YOU
lvl 5: WERE ALL DEAD

FireWarrior · July 2002

gee aren't you a optimistic fella.

Qetu · July 2002

I like "Molly", but maybe "Polly"? as in "Polly wants a cracker"?!

Herb is also good <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>

Nicknames rlz

Cork2 · July 2002

yea polly=level 3 and cracker=bullets

so you see a level 3 pop out of the vents all of a sudden and you say" polly wanne cracker?" then you shoot the crap out of it. tons of bullets(the crackers) hitting the level 3(polly).

<img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

mark_nec · July 2002

i like any name other than the lvl names (ex lvl 5) i mean if you were a marine in the middle of a battle with something that you had never seen before in your life would you shout out "OH @#$^ A LVL 5!"

Freemantle · July 2002

I personally think that the level 5 will be referred to as "the ####" no matter what nickname you propose. It is double sided. As an alien, becoming a level 5 is the ####. As marines, if you hear <b>"Oh ####!"</b> over voice comm, I'm pretty sure you will know what is coming...

ICha0sI · July 2002

no old names are way easir to rember (fro me atleast)so they shoud stay

Cork2 · July 2002

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well i believe they will brief you befor they send you in. so they will proly tell you about the creatures you'll be fighting.

Tzarcon · July 2002

The nicknames shouldnt be some long technical #### that has some relation to latin, latin mythology or anything from science biology class, have any kind of scientific meaning or any of that stuff. The names should be short, to the point, and obvious to whatever class they represent. I agree most of the current nicknames are none of these (except flyer, that one is good). They should be 3 syllables MAX or else it would make more scence to just say "Incoming Level #". So I would recommend something similar

Level 1: ?
Level 2: Builder
Level 3: Flyer
Level 4: ?
Level 5: Mammoth

MCThornGristle · July 2002

I like your alien naming idea.

My suggestions:

Level 1 - Hatchling (Not so good, considering they aren't hatched..), Drone
Level 4 - Soldier, Walker, Humanoid (Soldier's what I'm leaning towards)

Kidzelda · July 2002

How about we stick to Bob, Pudgy, Flyer, Blinky, and Tiny?The whole world knows 'em, so no need for change, that way team communications are good.

MCThornGristle · July 2002

Those are fine for light-hearted forum conversation, but I have a feeling those "cutesy" names go against the grain of the in-game atmosphere they're trying to create. Someone, correct me if I'm wrong...

coil · July 2002

1) You're playing your first game of NS ever, as a marine on ns_Bast.
2) You're in your base, milling aimlessly, repeatedly asking your commander for a shotty.
3) You hear a blood-curdling scream on the other side of the wall.
4) You hear the airlock activate.
5) You see a huge wall of bone, horn, and muscle barrel *through* your resource tower, and - moments later - through you.
6) You go get a clean pair of shorts, and never call a level5 "Tiny" again. <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>

Cork2 · July 2002

oh i got some more names we could use for the creatures.

you can pick which ones go were.

these are the names from the entire team( ad them if i forgot one)which we could use to name the level 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 creatures. maby we can name the weapons and turrets too.

Flayra
Squeal Like A Pig
Josh McHugh
Mike Wislocki
Relic25
Merkaba
MonsieurEvil
Mojo
Def One
Jeff Paris
Andrew King
Adam Otcasek
smedic
Superfly
Moleculor
Spyder-Monkey
Greedo386
Yamazaki
rob6264
Crinity
TimberWolf
JayDog
Westward
Comprox

j/k

TheGunSlingerOmega · July 2002

Hey! My first post. Now are we not all excited to see me. Ive been following this mod for a while, downloaded the mapping tools and have been secretly working on a few maps for NTS I call *Roll of drums sound" "Darker than Doom Map set!" . You may simply call me....GunSlinger. Blah... The Names Patrick. Anyways From my studios study of the Alien species I have come up with a few nicknames.

Lvl One-PUG OR shotty fodder

Lvl three-Ok..stick with original..

lvl five stgc small-things-go-crunch

And on earth above and beyon Chig was a deragotory term for the aliens, sorta like...(alot like and not by accident) the term chink or charlie for the vietnamese during the vietnam war.

Blah..Im out.

Asraniel · July 2002

For me bob is bob, blinky is blinky, tiny is tiny, i will never change the names for me.

DruBo · July 2002

coil, knock it off with the commander spamming. I'm sure he has better things to do than listen to your constant "I wanna shotty! I wanna shotty!" over voice-com. <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>

ChromeAngel · July 2002

Maybe level 1's should be "rats" and level 4's "weasels".

Some new proposed nicknames

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