Aaaaaaaaaaaargh!
Nil_IQ
Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Post your most frustrating games of ns</div> This post is a rant. I need to get this out of my system because this game I just played MADE ME SO ANGRY AAAAAARRRRRGHHHH!!!!
I will not name the server, but it was one I go to fairly often, with a group of players who I consider to be pretty competent. There were possibly only 2 newbies. I was alien. It was on Eclipse and our hive was maintainance.
The game started as they all do, with someone saying 'Who gorge?' at that point I had just died, so I decided it might as well be me. So I went to south loop, got the rt. Went to CC, got the rt there. Then I headed back to Maint to put up some dcs. But someone was attacking south loop. So I said "Defend south loop". One person came and immediatly died. I waited some more. Someone else came. I decided that with my help we could take the guy down together.
Nope.
The skulk got mowed down, and I got chased down and lmged to death.
At this point I was mildly irritated.
So I go gorge again. I put up the dcs. I notice someone is attacking the Computer Core rt, so I say "All to CC pls". 2 people go. Too late, they have a pg and they mined it. The turret farm is already going up.
So I say, "Forget CC then, how's EC"
Someone says "Clear"
So I head to EC. A marine comes out of CC and kills me. I had 72 res at this point.
At this point I was very annoyed.
I decided not to go gorge again and said "Someone else go gorge". No-one does. So I say "Ok then, i'll go gorge again." As soon as I'm halfway through evolving, someone else decides to go gorge as well.
Arg.
This was not a newbie person, this is someone I know is at least moderatly skilled, and apparently did hear me say "Ok then, i'll go gorge again" OR see that i was GEST on the scoreboard.
So I head to EC. The 2nd gorge must have been there when he gorged, as there is already a WOL up outside EC which, as it turns out, now has a pg and tf as well, but not as many turrets as cc.
So I assist with the WOL building. I decide to lame up the other entrance to EC (the one through triad). As soon as I head there, there is a marine waiting and I am redeemed out (never go gorge without it).
So now I am in maint, and I head back to EC, only to notice I can't hear a pg or any turrets as I got past CC. So I risk a look. It's clear. At some point, CC had been cleared out, and no-one had said anything. That would explain the lack of skulks at EC.....
At this point I notice that, at some point, the other gorge must have put the CC hive up, but didn't put any defences up. So I put some ocs up and then head to EC, and I get to EC just as the skulks are taking down the phase-gate, and I help put up the rt.
Someone says "CC hive needs manual healing", so I start to head over. The other gorge stays at EC.
I'm literally JUST entering CC when the hive is taken down and the smart-a*** (who I know is actually a very good and usually tolerant player) says over the voicecomm:
"Oh great. Thats great. We just lost the hive because you couldn't be bothered to heal it. Thank you, thank you so much"
At this point I am VERY angry...
So I reply "F**k you, I came as fast as I could. I noticed that (other gorges name) didn't even leave EC to help"
And he replied "You should have been at cc anyway, it needs defending"
So I said "Its not MY job to defend the hive, I was helping get EC up"
He ignores this. The other gorge arrives at CC (EC was lamed up, but no hive there at this point). I said "I'll save for hive" and I save up the res. I put up the hive, and immediatly a JP/HMGer comes in and takes out the hive.
And I get blamed for not saving the hive.
And then I see that the same thing is happening at maint. Maint gets taken down, and we lose.
Some of the details are a bit scrambled, I know at some point I webbed up CC, so I have no idea how that JP/HMGer got in.
So what do you think I SHOULD have done? And what was YOUR most frustrating NS moment?
I will not name the server, but it was one I go to fairly often, with a group of players who I consider to be pretty competent. There were possibly only 2 newbies. I was alien. It was on Eclipse and our hive was maintainance.
The game started as they all do, with someone saying 'Who gorge?' at that point I had just died, so I decided it might as well be me. So I went to south loop, got the rt. Went to CC, got the rt there. Then I headed back to Maint to put up some dcs. But someone was attacking south loop. So I said "Defend south loop". One person came and immediatly died. I waited some more. Someone else came. I decided that with my help we could take the guy down together.
Nope.
The skulk got mowed down, and I got chased down and lmged to death.
At this point I was mildly irritated.
So I go gorge again. I put up the dcs. I notice someone is attacking the Computer Core rt, so I say "All to CC pls". 2 people go. Too late, they have a pg and they mined it. The turret farm is already going up.
So I say, "Forget CC then, how's EC"
Someone says "Clear"
So I head to EC. A marine comes out of CC and kills me. I had 72 res at this point.
At this point I was very annoyed.
I decided not to go gorge again and said "Someone else go gorge". No-one does. So I say "Ok then, i'll go gorge again." As soon as I'm halfway through evolving, someone else decides to go gorge as well.
Arg.
This was not a newbie person, this is someone I know is at least moderatly skilled, and apparently did hear me say "Ok then, i'll go gorge again" OR see that i was GEST on the scoreboard.
So I head to EC. The 2nd gorge must have been there when he gorged, as there is already a WOL up outside EC which, as it turns out, now has a pg and tf as well, but not as many turrets as cc.
So I assist with the WOL building. I decide to lame up the other entrance to EC (the one through triad). As soon as I head there, there is a marine waiting and I am redeemed out (never go gorge without it).
So now I am in maint, and I head back to EC, only to notice I can't hear a pg or any turrets as I got past CC. So I risk a look. It's clear. At some point, CC had been cleared out, and no-one had said anything. That would explain the lack of skulks at EC.....
At this point I notice that, at some point, the other gorge must have put the CC hive up, but didn't put any defences up. So I put some ocs up and then head to EC, and I get to EC just as the skulks are taking down the phase-gate, and I help put up the rt.
Someone says "CC hive needs manual healing", so I start to head over. The other gorge stays at EC.
I'm literally JUST entering CC when the hive is taken down and the smart-a*** (who I know is actually a very good and usually tolerant player) says over the voicecomm:
"Oh great. Thats great. We just lost the hive because you couldn't be bothered to heal it. Thank you, thank you so much"
At this point I am VERY angry...
So I reply "F**k you, I came as fast as I could. I noticed that (other gorges name) didn't even leave EC to help"
And he replied "You should have been at cc anyway, it needs defending"
So I said "Its not MY job to defend the hive, I was helping get EC up"
He ignores this. The other gorge arrives at CC (EC was lamed up, but no hive there at this point). I said "I'll save for hive" and I save up the res. I put up the hive, and immediatly a JP/HMGer comes in and takes out the hive.
And I get blamed for not saving the hive.
And then I see that the same thing is happening at maint. Maint gets taken down, and we lose.
Some of the details are a bit scrambled, I know at some point I webbed up CC, so I have no idea how that JP/HMGer got in.
So what do you think I SHOULD have done? And what was YOUR most frustrating NS moment?
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**** off i was.
I'm often commander, don't wanna pat my own shoulder or anything, but i'm pretty decent these days. So here I'm comamnding away, done getting a basic base up.
Here is me telling the others to go somewhere and telling them a zillion fking times to fking stick together. To no avial.
Seeing one of them getting lured away from the group into some corridor by a lone skulk and being eaten by two more because he couldn't keep his butt with the others.
Seeing how they all build at once when I have told them a million times that only one builds, all others cover (COME ON, you see some guy building, WHAT do you do? Cover, yes, that's it, good grunge, here, have a medpack.)
Looking from above at some three marines humping the armory to get all the ammo they can hold - when they usually get eaten before emtying their first clip - while a skulk comes sneaking in and merrily gnaws away at them.
Look, I'm commander, I do CARE for what's happening to you. Infact I'm trying my best to make sure you stay alive and well. So please follow my orders and heed my advice when I'm commanding you.
BTW: great idea, a venting thread. Get it out and keep spreading the luv ^^
that game made me so mad i had to bash them all
ps dont flame me for saying the paragraph is yer friend or something like that im too tired to type
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that game made me so mad i had to bash them all
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<span style='color:white'>My, look there! A shiny tempban waiting to happen!.
Last warning.</span>
Edit: I apologize for being off-topic.
I don't particularly have a "most frustrating game" experience, due to the fact that when I'm on a server that has a policy that frustrates me (no multiple gorges ever, for example, despite the fact that there are tactical advantages to it sometimes) or I'm on a server with no team playing, I log out and forget the experience. I only remember the good games.
As an afterthought I know many NS servers that are just joking around since release is so close, one of em even switched over to TS until 2.0
My message to kuperaye was not a frustating attack against him. I merely noted the lack of writing skill in a merely neutral way, without actually flaming him.
I also noted what I would have done if I was his English teacher; and finally also noted that he needs to improve his writing skills to be successful in this life.
There is no notion of frustration or flaming action. I do chose my words carefully.
Aelius
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Sure fooled me...
What really bother me about that situation (other then the personal insults) was that this player could have been a great asset to the team, as he was good at getting people to move, if only he would have been willing to follow someone else’s plan. Oh well.
My most frustrating game has to be.......... just about every time I'm on kharaa. I've been playng NS since hour one, and in that time I saw the game go from okay to great. Now it's so popular, there are tons of new players. I don't fault new players for being new. In fact, there are many NS players that gorge because they don't know any better. I just casually explain to them exactly what being a gorge entails, and why they shouldn't do it until they know the game, and especially not if there's another gorge (most likely me). The players I get mad at at the semi-n00bs, who THINK they know what they're doing. Take caged and last night for instance. I clearly stated multiple times throughout the round that I didn't want to see any other gorges, or even lerks, until the second hive had been started. We start in gen, I get auxgen res node, move on to shipping tunnel, block the door, but the DC happened to not go in the optimal position, so I see this other guy on the other side. I say "don't open the door, it's not fully blocked", and he says "okay" as he proceeds to open the door........ Then I'm dropping the node there in shipping tunnel, and he's like "SHEEZY, I FOUND A HIVE". "I know where all the hives are bro". "GET HERE SO YOU CAN PUT IT UP AND SAVE US". "I'll be there in just a minute, I know what I'm doing." Immediately he starts to gorge. Cool, huh? I casually explain why he shouldn't be on gorge, and that he's stealing res from me. After multiple threat from the server admin (who was having a bad game anyways), he finally gets off of gorge, but not before having dropped the max number of OCs directly underneath vent hive. So now not only do I have no res, I have no chambers to place. We ended up winning, but that was more due to the fact that we had way better players on the whole.
(I sacrificed multiple paragraphs to save vertical room)
Here's where it goes bad:
Just as he gets the hive down, I get ejected by a bunch of noobs who want a JP/HMG (yes, that guy I gave a jetpack and told to go help kill port was still sitting in base waiting for a HMG this entire time). The jetpacker dies because no one can give him ammo, and nobody goes comm for a good 15 minutes. Rather than locking down port and teching, they eject me and pretty much rambo til they lose.
I told him to make all the marines go to Cargo. He did. They all died on the way there. I told him to make an IP in base. He got out. He died.
Next game he went commander again. As soon as he gets in chair they eject him because they had all died last game. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo--> stupid people. I figure they must be nubs because the last game they got all mad and ejected comm because he researched HA before JP when we had enough res to sustain HA.
We ended up relocating 4 more times into various vents and the such and continued to siege the aliens from various locations. We should have been all killed but we extended the game for another half an hour or so.
We coined the phrase. b/c we cheated death 5 times. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
"Even if we lose, we win!"
ns_nancy, as alien.
2 Hive lockdown.
That's pretty much it, happens numerous times, is very painfully frustrating.
As for me, I was on tanith. Everyone there at this server knows me pretty well, and that I can command pretty well when my team listens. They make me good, And I make them listen <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> Anyway the point is one little fellow and his pre-pubescent friend decided that shotguns within 10 minutes should be gaurenteed and that I was a "nub" (What a cute insult for the kiddies to use eh?) They managed to vote eject me, all the other regulars on the server found out and laughed at the marines stupidity. This brings me to another semi-off topic statement. If you think the marines got "nerfed" as a whole for 2.0, I don't see thats true, the focus is the teamwork, that is their strongest weapon. I just hope NS dosen't please the kiddies that ejected me that game. Don't reward the rambos, reward the teamwork. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I say stuff like "Hello? Anyone there?" Dead silence. That really pisses me off cause I enjoy playing with my team not just rambo'ing off alone. So finally after too many boring games where the gorges wouldn't communicate, the skulks wouldn't work together, and just overall newb games, I decided to stop playing pubs and try to become a reg on a good server. So far so good, it's a lot better this way.
-wooty
I was commander on ns_vint004. Nice custom map if the creator would just make the map reset after playing. I was comming and we were securing all the res nodes we could and I was busy moving into the marine treefort. Took 3 minutes for ONE person to get there and build the CC and Ip's. At the same time I was turret farming up the unsecure res. One person was building that while the other 5 marines got a laugh out of knifing the door and taunt spamming.
Then: After the door was open, I was complained at for not having tech done. I told them it was becuase I was busy trying to get defenses going and nobody wanted to build stuff in base. I finally got the protolab going after I teched to lv 2 weps and armor (why give them toys for being lazy) and upgraded the armory. I gave out jp's and hmg's to the whole team except this one guy who wanted a shotty. Personally I dont mind shotty's too bad, but against an onos I told him it was kind of useless and that I gave him and HMG and told him it would stand a better chance. After 30 seconds later this wonderful comes up "Commander has been ejected". I was like "<insert many 3 letter profanic newbie words>". The guy started laughing say that he ejected me because he didnt get a shotty.
He then hops into the chair, spams all the shottys he can, recycles the base, dies, and leaves the game. We lost of couse, but it was just fustrating becuase next map I wanted to comm, and nobody wanted to except me. I wish the dev's would rework the eject votes and commchair ban time to only that particular match.
Finally the TF upgrades and the comm dropped 2 seige cannons. We built the seige cannons, but the comm did not SCAN! Arrrg! We had an observatory, so that was not the problem. I kept shouting at the comm to scan the hive but he did not. I tried running into the hive and looking at it, but alas, I kept getting killed. It took the aliens about 10 minutes to clear us out. Can you believe that? We had 2 seiges up (in the range of a built hive) for 10 minutes, but they were doing absolutley nothing because the comm wouldn't scan the hive. We lost the game when we could of won so easily.
1.) I joined marines, and go commander. Our team doesnt have any teamwork/coordination/brains what so ever, and they all run off and rambo. I give them waypoints, everything, I'm telling them where to go, but nothing. Lone and behold, their all 'half noobs' and dont have very good shots, and that one alien rush in the beginning of the game destroys our whole base. We're in the ready room and all the noobs are complaing about how I didnt give them any orders (which I did, my fingers still hurt from pressing down the keys so hard in my anger) and man, that ticks you off. But what even more ticks you off is what happens in the next round of ns_nothing.
I join marines (YAY STACKAGE!!!) with about the same team, and dont go comm. Some n00bie dude that was calling me a noob practally the whole last game gets in the chair, drops things in this order --
1- Two IPs
2- Armoury </span>
<span style='color:red'>3- TF on left side, with two turrets
4- TF on right side, with two turrets </span><span style='color:white'>
Thats</span> <span style='color:red'>two</span><span style='color:white'> TFs in our spawn. Wow. And this guys calling me a n00b? Gimmie a break.
2.) Ok, number two game. We relocate to cargo on ns_tanith. Their hive is fusion, and we get a TF up in base, and start upgrading it to siege. Some n00b is yelling "OMG OMGGOOMG NOOB COMM EJECT TF IN MAIN EJECT EJECT" and we're all like be quiet dude. So, the commander hops out to help defend the base (We're under terrible pressure,) and the noob gets in and recycles everything, repeating "OMG NOOB COMM GAME OVER FOR j00 NOOB COMM OMG OMG!!!!111" Thats...just...so...annoying. I seriously wanted to come to his house and ...I'm not even gonna go into it. Grr....</span> <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo-->
<span style='color:white'> Ooo....this white color is so s3xy...</span>
That has got to be one of the classics!
beginning of the game this guy askes to gorge, we all ask if hes experianced he says hes not the best in the world but hes good none-the-less, so we say ok go gorge.
after about 20 mins of rushing hives (it was a lockdown) we ask him hows those restowers coming and are you at a hive how much res you got?
he replies come to engine and see (our starting hive was engine) so everyone rushes to engine expecting him to be full of res and to WOL it up so the rines would be warded off, but no he builds a wall of lame out of, you guessed it sensory chambers!
so we spam and call him a n00b, after that he says sensorys are gmewinning and he though parasites killed rines INSTANTLY
anyway he got a permanent ban by vote from that server.
and also, it doesn't help when you don't have competent people on your team that haven't read the manual.
end of discussion.
Any time i am on CoFR, midway through a game in a critical moment where i'm needed in the frontlines or else the marines will prevail (or fail depending on what side i'm on)...only to be kicked by a reserve slot (or a random kick) and lose all my res :\