Was It A Dream?

Lucid · July 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">ns goes whack</div> I was pubbin on some random server yesterday. I was in the middle of the impossible task of taking down the hive in refinery with a jp/hmg (sarcasm ^_^). I got the hive down and started to go after the fades/skulks left over. But the fade I was shooting at turned into an egg! it was walking around shoting acid rockets at me! then it turned into a marine.... stilll shooting acid rockets at me... then a skulk. I couldn't see death messages or anyones typing. My crosshairs kept changing. My HUD kept disappearing and reappearing. what the fudge!?

criogenics · July 2003

Don't smoke weed?

Beast · July 2003

Probably some weird lag bubble.
Or you are high on something.

P-Khan · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Future @ Jul 26 2003, 07:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Don't smoke weed?</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Said everything <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>
Or you could have just been sleepy <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Supernorn · July 2003

i've had eggs attack me in-game before <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>
they wouldnt DIE!

eggmac · July 2003

egg's lethal, they keep telling me

Evil_Sonic_Death_Monkey · July 2003

Warning: Smoking weed/being high/sleepy/drugged while playing Natural-Selection may cause extremely wierd and absurd experiences.

MrMoFo · July 2003

it was lag happened to me a little bit not as much as u talked about though

fo_sheezy_my_neezy · July 2003

heynow, I have seen this firsthand. I accidentally blocked the door from main aft junction to water treatment as a gorge. It pretty much broke the server. It hurt the door, which kept trying to close, getting louder and louder and louder until no one could go into that area of the map without loosing hearing. all the sudden, everyones sprites are messed up or missing. My res never went up from 65, yet I built hives and stuff. I died and the went fade, and the marines were like "WHAT THE....... THERE'S A GORGE SHOOTING ACID ROCKETS AT ME!" I saw gordon freeman models running around with HMGs, and half-size marines running as fast as skulks (they WERE marines still). Gorges looked like whatever they had been previous to the semi-crash. Kills took 45 seconds to show up, and sometimes you could hear the opposite team talking over voice. I sat there thinking "This must be what NS is like on an acid trip". Fun stuff.

DarkFrost · July 2003

rofl, that explains when i went lerk from gorge, and could build, fly, spit, heal, umbra, spores, babbles, spike, bite and web :/... was on bast too, come to think of it....
and there was leaping eggs too.....

is it a bast thing?

BattleTech · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Lucid @ Jul 26 2003, 08:18 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I was pubbin on some random server yesterday. I was in the middle of the impossible task of taking down the hive in refinery with a jp/hmg (sarcasm ^_^). I got the hive down and started to go after the fades/skulks left over. But the fade I was shooting at turned into an egg! it was walking around shoting acid rockets at me! then it turned into a marine.... stilll shooting acid rockets at me... then a skulk. I couldn't see death messages or anyones typing. My crosshairs kept changing. My HUD kept disappearing and reappearing. what the fudge!?  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
The way you describe it, it's obviously lag. When player's first join the ready-room, you can see their models change from skulk-gordon-marine. Just a lag thing.

Witzner · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (fo sheezy my neezy @ Jul 26 2003, 09:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I saw jeff gordon models running around  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
What?!?! You saw Jeff Gordon in NS?! Did you manage to score from free race tickets from him, or at least an autograph?

SjN · July 2003

OMG Lucid!!
sounds like a Nightmare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trojan2 · July 2003

I was playing bast once and all the modles converted to Gordens. It was utterly wierd. I was skulking and found that I could allso build building as a skulk.
Bast has some WIERD bugs.

elim · July 2003

Hacker.

SinSpawn · July 2003

I'm sure this was a dream? do you remember going to sleep after NS? Too much NS makes reality seems weird lol

I bet you just ate something thats been expired for years, <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Rue · July 2003

While all this does seem very funny (har har) and altho it is hard to jam an oc in the door on any map, if you do this on purpose it can kill the server sometimes or even push pings into the thousands. Its not lagg its a bug that could be very dangersous(sp?)

Thansal · July 2003

hehe, I gota figgure out how to reproduce this (for personal servers and amusment sake:P)

mm, acid + NS == FUN!

(side note I have Eminem&D12's Purplepills playing in the background <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>)

oneshoe · July 2003

maybe your hacks were getting turned off and it caused a glitch and then you kept moving to different targets and you couldn't stop it then the computer ate you and you were like "PWNT!!"
and im like .....me > than you

Mouse · July 2003

I had something similar in an early 2.0 build.
I was playing on Eclipse (as a marine) with a couple of other PTs, then a lag spike hit. suddenly all the skulks became eggs, fades became gorges and gorges became lerks.

It was strange, but I could live with it.

I got a waypoint to maintainence and a HMG appeared at my feet. It already had full ammo.
on the way into maintainence a fade appeared. I killed it. When I reloaded I noticed I had no ammo in reserve. None, not even a little 0.
I dismissed it and killed the hive. No-one came to stop me.
I reloaded again. I got a full clip. Still no reserve ammo.
I went through to the other hives, killing any aliens on the way. I only saw two. Both were fades.
I got both Comp core and eclipse down with the help of my apparently magical HMG. No ping of death.
I hadn't seen a single team mate, chat text or heard any voice comm. I checked the scoreboard. They were all still there.
I asked over global chat where everyone was. My text didn't come up on the screen.
I went through triad. Killed an alien RT. It had no defences. There was no resistance.
I went into the marine start. It was empty. I noticed that there was no comm.
I went back to Maintainence. It was back up.

I quit the game. Went into IRC. The lag spike had caused everyone to disconnect. Everyone but me.
I was the only one on the server.

What about the Fades?

That really creeped me out.

I may share the story of the ghost marines later.

DEMIURGO · July 2003

Mouse that's creepy <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

Freemantle · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (fo sheezy my neezy @ Jul 27 2003, 02:43 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ...I saw jeff gordon models running around with HMGs....  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Best. Non-Hovaring, Typo. Ever.

Ezekiel · July 2003

who is jeff gordon?

Redford · July 2003

Believe it or not, this happened to me too.

The map: NS bast. The location: main aft junction. I was alone at main aft, having completed a res node, and was waiting for a little backup. Cue, the gorge. He was in the sliding doors in the left hand fork of the white hallways, building up a storm. He had allready created two offense chambers in the lift door to the left, and was apparently going to build in the right hand side as well, when I saw him and killed him with my knife. However, by that point, the chambers in the door were completed... there were two of them, stacked in the edge. the door was trying to close on them, but couldn't. However, the location of the door apparently kept the chambers from shooting at me. I did the most logical thing possible, and shot one with my LMG. The door instantly ripped off it's hinges and slid into the wall with the most horrible sound you could imagine. At this point, I backed up because the OCs were exposed and were starting to shoot at me. I tried to check my health, but I noticed my HUD was messed up. This was backed by the door repeadly making that sound as it tried to get out of the wall or somthing. Then a skulk came along and I died.

At this point, I was suffering numerous visual errors, and my HUD was displaying random numbers. After trying to fix the problem by throwing myself down the marine start lift a few times, I went back to main aft junction, and apparently the enterprising gorge was back, and he had build a wall of chambers. There was an egg gestating in front of the wall. Doing the most logical thing possible, I shot it. Repeadly. Almost instantly, the egg seemed to adopt a life of it's own, hopping around, and then it started throwing acid rockets at me. Wierd. After the marine team finished losing the game, I quickly quit and restarted my computer, all the while wondering what the heck just happened.

Mouse · July 2003

The Ghost Game

The map was ns_tanith, once again this was during the PT.
I had just joined the server. I went aliens.
First thing I notice. Two hives. Waste and Fusion. All three chambers.
I walked around the map. Phase outside waste. Phase in Cargo Phase in Sat Comm.
No turrets.
Some of the buildings aren't on full health. There must have been a battle.
I figured I had walked into the end of a game. I checked the score board.
I was the only one on the server.
I checked the console. No-one had left after I had joined.

ns_mary celeste <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

fo_sheezy_my_neezy · July 2003

for you chasmos that don't believe me, we got on a server (3 of us) and tried it again. I have 16 screenies, so brace yourself.

<img src='http://members.cox.net/fasheezy/bast.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

This is the culprit doorway.

<img src='http://members.cox.net/fasheezy/bast1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

Readyroom shot after everyone overflowed and we "won" the game. Notice the alien hud.....

<img src='http://members.cox.net/fasheezy/bast2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

Notice the alien hud, the pistol, the scoreboard that says we're aliens.........

fo_sheezy_my_neezy · July 2003

<img src='http://members.cox.net/fasheezy/bast3.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

The skulk with the lmg.

<img src='http://members.cox.net/fasheezy/bast4.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

skulk with lmg, marine with alien hud.

<img src='http://members.cox.net/fasheezy/bast6.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

That's a skulk, notice the RR model.

<img src='http://members.cox.net/fasheezy/bast7.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

The *AHEM* Gordon Freeman <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'> model.

fo_sheezy_my_neezy · July 2003

<img src='http://members.cox.net/fasheezy/bast8.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

Gordon building an OT

<img src='http://members.cox.net/fasheezy/bast9.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

Better shot of the same.

<img src='http://members.cox.net/fasheezy/bast10.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

RR model hiding to pounce...........

<img src='http://members.cox.net/fasheezy/bast11.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

What the..............

fo_sheezy_my_neezy · July 2003

<img src='http://members.cox.net/fasheezy/bast12.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

skulk with pistol.

<img src='http://members.cox.net/fasheezy/bast13.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

the mysterious HOVARING LMG

<img src='http://members.cox.net/fasheezy/bast14.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

Same, better shot.

<img src='http://members.cox.net/fasheezy/bast15.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

Sums it up, screwed marine view, that marine over there is a gorge, the O-chamber is blocking the door, Marine with a alien HUD. I want to see you all say I'm crazy now <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Misfire · July 2003

looks to me u migh thave switched models around in the models folder <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> and switched the sprites. Actually i don't know but thats pretty damn cool.

wlibaers · July 2003

Pretty extreme, also the view always appears tilted.

Stranger than anything I ever encountered in the game, though I've seen strange things too, like being a skulk that's totally invulnerable to mines (didn't even subtract one health point when walking over them).

Was It A Dream?

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