How were you exposed to ns?

humbabahumbaba That Exciting Tales From the Frontline Guy Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 86Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
<div class="IPBDescription">I just wanna know.</div>Personally, I came into contact with it early. Before the first movie came out, I saw a link to it on some site. Maybe PHL, not sure . . Either way, I looked at it, thought it was cool, but this was early early in developement. I forgot about it for a while and became a DOD fanatic. Than, one day, I on a whim remembered natural-selection.org. I typed it in, and Huzzah! New stuff. About a year or a half a year had passed since I had last checked. I joined the forums (first forum I ever joined, sigh) and, ta da. End of my exciting story. . .
Cough . .

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  • RhoadsToNowhereRhoadsToNowhere i r 8 Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 33Members
    Heh, this has been asked a lot, but hey, why not answer <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

    I found out about NS around October or November of 2001.  I saw some screenies either on Planet Half-life or the Valve ERC.  (Probably both, although VERC's news posts were a bit more in-depth.)  I thought the maps looked awesome, and I got a warm welcome in IRC for a while, so I signed up for the forums <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
  • ComproxComprox *chortle* Canada Join Date: 2002-01-23 Member: 7Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
    I first caught whim of it in mid 2001, finally joined the community in september 2001 when PHL posted some shots of the NS_Bast readyroom <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
  • Imperial_SyndicateImperial_Syndicate Join Date: 2002-06-13 Member: 762Members
    Valve ERC covered the NSTR releases and had a lot of praise for NS, and I followed a link to ns.org from there at the end of 2001. Came back a few months later, and... you get the idea.
  • C0nan_The_LibrarianC0nan_The_Librarian Join Date: 2002-07-31 Member: 1039Members
    i just remember my brother telling me about it, so i went to the site and looked at it and then a couple weeks later the movie with the l337 weather effects and stuff came out. so i dont know how long ago that was, i didnt register then tho...dont know why <!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo--> ARG i just looked at the members list and i had registered April 2002 and i just forgot my PW no wonder i couldnt have my reg name...dangit
  • Terawatt_99Terawatt_99 Join Date: 2002-02-09 Member: 188Members
    i think i saw a few spamming some of the CS servers with an NS Spray, and i though what the hell, if they're bothered enough to have a spray campaign going, they might be worth a look, and here i am <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
  • JediYoshiJediYoshi The Cupcake Boss Join Date: 2002-05-27 Member: 674Members
    Relic25's site. Saw the update the day it was made(it was fate). I was skeptical bout joining the forums though.
  • KidzeldaKidzelda Join Date: 2002-06-25 Member: 819Members
    I was an Existence man when I remember Crinity pimping it much in the forums.I ignored it.
    I saw screens of his map for NS on PHL soon after.They were a bit blurry. I ignored it.
    I saw some new screens on PHL and thought "Damn, those look nice! And I remember that name from somewhere too..." clicked the link, and here I am.:D
  • BattousaixBattousaix Join Date: 2002-06-25 Member: 822Members
    a friend told me about this mod on october 2001 i saw it, and i loved the idea, but there werent many screens but i fell in love with the game idea..... so i joined the forums as dark_predator or somthin like that....... but i didnt posted a lot, then i thought about forgettin this mod, and come back after some time to avoid gettin mad while i waited for the release....... but i couldnt avoid ns for long.... so i came back on december.... saw some new screenies and then i realized this was goin to be big..... so i totally lost contact with the mod coz i was really excited after watchin the screenies.... and now, after all this time, i heard that ns was gettin close to the release, so in june of 2002 i came back and this looked even cooler and now i cant forget this mod, and i joined the community and now im prayin for the release <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->
  • MouseMouse The Lighter Side of Pessimism Join Date: 2002-03-02 Member: 263Members, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    I saw Relic's article on using additive brushes with texture lighting. and in it he mentioned that he was using the tecnique in one of his maps, ns_Bast. The map looked really purty so i did a bit of looking. I think that was back in october. then I got bored because the site never got updated.

    Around my birthday (Early March) i saw a link in my favourites folder. and went and joined the forums
  • alius42alius42 Join Date: 2002-07-23 Member: 987Members
    I posted in the forums a few times a long time ago after finding a link who knows where then like a few others remembered about it on a whim and joined up.
  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    I was first exposed to NS when NS was standing in front of me wearing nothing but a pair of boots and a smile...
  • NecroticNecrotic Big Girl&#39;s Blouse Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 53Members, NS1 Playtester
    I got a link off MrBlonde either late last year or early this year
    then i joined
  • ShinseijiShinseiji Join Date: 2002-08-04 Member: 1063Members
    I learned about it at lovable ol' PHL. Don't remember when I first heard about it, just know thats where.
  • NovakoalaNovakoala Join Date: 2002-07-17 Member: 962Members, Constellation
    A friend of mine said 'look at this website, it's got a really cool flash intro'.

    Hmm.

    Once I'd looked around the site, I couldn't leave. I'd seen it mentioned on PHL previously, but I'd never looked at NS before then...
  • SentrySteveSentrySteve .txt Join Date: 2002-03-09 Member: 290Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--DOOManiac+Aug. 06 2002,03:00--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (DOOManiac @ Aug. 06 2002,03:00)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->I was first exposed to NS when NS was standing in front of me wearing nothing but a pair of boots and a smile...<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I think that was Mart dressed up as NS.  He does like to dress up as women, games, and cartoon characters from time to time.

    I was first exposed to it a very long time ago but forget how.  I looked at the site, shruged ( At that time I could not logg too many hours in the computer, there was a leach on it all the time ) then saw an article in PC Gamer saying "These are four cool HL mods" It listed CS (ick) DOD (yay) NS (woohoo&#33<!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo--> and Existence.  I looked at it, then decided to go to the site.  About 2 weeks later I was in Computer Apps class.  I got bored, went to the site, saw a link to rr.org and read.  After that read, I was addicted.
  • SmokeMastaSmokeMasta Join Date: 2002-04-13 Member: 430Members
    seen NS first on PHL and i decided to check it out.
    then there was nothing to to @ NS the IRC channel still was less than 35 ppl. so i came back 3 weeks later and joined the IRC channel 2 weeks after that i joined the forums
  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    I saw a short blurb on PHL in June 2001, saying that NSes "backstory has been updated.". The idea of a <i>story</i> behind a <i>mod</i> was something absolutely unexpected (remember what mods were announced around summer 2001...), so  I followed the link.
    The writing was good, the design documents interesting, so I posted on the forums. Haven't managed not to visit the forums for longer than a week since then.
  • Us3rUs3r Join Date: 2002-03-29 Member: 360Members
    Hmm, I heard about NS on some TFC clan's forums. I was posting about Wizard Wars and someone replied with info about NS, I checked out ns.org, read up a lot, watched the movie, looked at a bunch of screenies on rr.org and was hooked. Never went back to that clan's forums, NS stole me. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
  • InsaneInsane Anomaly Join Date: 2002-05-13 Member: 605Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts, Future Perfect Developer
    I saw some screens on PHL a long time ago, checked the site every now and then.  Don't know why I didn't bother to join the community though, but I've been in love with NS for  <b>ages</b> <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->
  • Right_Behind_YouRight_Behind_You Join Date: 2002-04-23 Member: 501Members
    I believe it was the bright sunny day of 1976, we froliced in the sun and make sweet monkey love in the shade under the trees. (PHL)
  • MooMoo_the_SnowCowMooMoo_the_SnowCow Join Date: 2002-08-03 Member: 1057Members
    I think I found a link on phl sometime last year and been keeping track of it on and off sence then.
  • JasonBostwickJasonBostwick Blossom Join Date: 2002-04-14 Member: 444Members, NS1 Playtester
    Well, I still consider myself a newbie. I signed up in early-mid April or so.

    Hmm. Back in about February or so, I caught a link to a post in the mapping forums from Ken Bank's page. I was scared off by the level of professionalism the mod showed in the mapping forums, I was a newbie mapper and at the time it didn't seem like that friendly of a place for people of my skill level. Everyone talking about plane usage and Ken's excellent use of spotlights and such.
    I left, I'm not even sure if I checked out anything about the mod besides the mapping forums.

    I knew I was starting to get tired of the #dod community in about late March or so, and when I noticed the April Fools post about "Natural Selection decides to drop Aliens" and realized I had never really checked out this mod that "had aliens." As I looked through all the faqs and found out about the RTS style play and all, I was hooked. I decided to hang out in the IRC room, downloaded the NSTR, started a bit of mapping (not very good mapping of course) and then a few days later decided to sign up for the forums.
  • Raptor091288Raptor091288 Join Date: 2002-07-15 Member: 955Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    let's see here.... i found out about it from...
    <a href="http://www.planethalflife.com" target="_blank">Planet Half-Life</a>
    at the time, i didn't really care... just thought, oh well, another mod to add to my collection, but now, i know i was wrong, i've never anticipated the release of ANYTHING before in my entire life... i even had 2 dreams of it being released and playing it... shouldn't start on that though, but that's where i found out about this mod
  • the_stalkerthe_stalker Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 49Members
    <a href="www.planethalf-life.com" target="_blank">PHL</a> i kinda think thats how most of us got here  <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
  • Sgt_VejitaSgt_Vejita Join Date: 2002-08-04 Member: 1069Members
    Its been so long!...it was almost back in the beggining...i was looking for a new challenge....suddenly this weird name showed up on my screen Natural Selection..sounded cool so i went in and looked a little...funny looking but FAR from done...so i bookmarked it...and forgot all about..then i found the page again..this time they where' allready way over done (if you know what i mean, most mods are 2 years of half their mod done...) so i book marked it and decide to return...and i did...cause im here now!
  • 007007 Join Date: 2002-01-27 Member: 116Members
    Some peeps at the <a href="http://www.svencoop.com" target="_blank">Sven Coop</a>Site posted a thread about it.. I clicked the link... here I am!
  • ScytheScythe Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
    I honestly can't remember how I found NS. I signed up for the forums in early November 2001. It may have been a feature on the Valve mod expo or something that caught my attention. I wasn't a regular of PHL so it's not likely I saw it there.

    --Scythe--
    the_only_scythe@subdimension.com
  • The_Wicker_ManThe_Wicker_Man Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1099Members
    i found out about NS tow days ago, when i saw the awesome pictures on PHL
  • GambloreGamblore Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1106Members
    Well i found out about ns.org about a month ago when i was talking to comprox and he said "well im going to play my NS test" i said "whats that" gave me a link followed and found it a cool mod with great detailed maps.
  • ElowindElowind Join Date: 2002-03-06 Member: 279Members
    i cmae across it in one of the pictures (pehaps the lvl5?) was posted at planet half life a day or so b4 i registered (during which i read the FAQs like a good lil boy :-p ) so what ever post was around then thats what caught me, using phl archive system, i could find the exact thing, but im too lazy
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