How were you exposed to ns?
humbaba
That Exciting Tales From the Frontline Guy Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 86Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
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<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. . .
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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-->
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
Around my birthday (Early March) i saw a link in my favourites folder. and went and joined the forums
then i joined
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...
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!<!--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.
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
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.
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.
<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
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