Bests And Worsts
Nil_IQ
Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
<div class="IPBDescription">I've just had mine, post yours</div> Today I have had the unique experience of having both the best and worst games of NS I have ever played.
I'll describe the worst first, since it happened first, and I want to end the post on a positive note <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
This post was longer than originally intended, so the impatient of you may want to skip ahead to the last paragraph.
I was marines. The comm was a f-ing moron. No-one wanted to go comm, so in the end this guy who obviously didn't want to comm got in. He plops down the basics, 2 ips, armoury, tf but no turrets. He sends the team out to cap the nearest res node. Because of the team's reluctance to go comm, the aliens not only have the resnode, they've also lamed it up. So he sends the entire team to the nearest node on the other side of the map. Also lamed.
So he hands out shotties and sends the team to clear out the first WOL. This takes a while, and in that time the aliens are out capping every single node, and expanding the mini-WOL into a full blown OC farm, with DCs healing.
So he finally decides enough is enough, we're going to siege it. So he puts down a TF in the WORST possible spot where it immediatly gets spored to death and everyone who tried to build dies, despite his pitiful attempts at medspam.
By this point he is asking if he can recycle the base (which is against the server rules). This is immediatly greeted with a chorus of "NO"s and "OMG HE'S RECYCLING, BAN BAN BANZ0R!!!!!". He actually DIDN'T recycle, and got pretty p****d afterwards when people accused him of recycling.
But do you know what really made the game the worst i've ever played?
I was that comm.
Moving swiftly on to the BEST game, it was Tanith, I was marines (for about the 5th time in a row... yeah, "random") and someone who actually knew how to comm got in the chair (a clanner). This was several hours later, and most of the regulars were on.
We started by relocating to West access, that's the coridoor between Waste, and just outside RR. We secured RR, and began to move on Waste. It was a tougth fight, with constant barrages of skulks, but the commander obviously knew what he was doing, and was sending another squad around the other side.
So we had Waste, the aliens had started in Satcomm, and were moving on Fusion. The comm had been sending squads out all over the place (calling the marines by name works wonders) so we had quite a lot of resnodes. The comm decides to use some of this res on excessive turretspam, both in Waste and in West access.
I can see where you think this is going, no I WASN'T the comm in this game, I had taken a vow never to comm again at this point.
So with West Access and Waste secured, we move on cargo. With most of the res spent on shotties and HMGs, there isn't much left for a tf, so we have to hold cargo from the doorways (GLs work wonders).
While this was happening, the aliens began to move on RR (they had marine start and were going around that way). They had 3 oni, a fade a lerk and a gorge attacking, and a few skulks.
I was on base defence <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->
I did have Heavy armour however.
So the first onos comes along. I perform a beautiful every-shot-hit-because-I-know-where-it's-hitbox-actually-is manouver, and take it down in one HMG clip. The lerk-fade duo enter the scene. The fade was a tricky little git, but my shotty-armed squadmate made short work of him, while I took down the lerk, again, using my knowledge of hitboxes to my advantage (aim BELOW the lerk, BELOW!).
Then the 2nd and 3rd onos arrive with the gorge and another lerk. I have 40 ammo at this point. These oni arnt as dumb, and instead of taking the long route around the RR railings, they jump over and attack via the water. At this point the comm is saying "Um, Roadkill (me) you should probably get out of there" but alas, I was stunned already. Reactor room fell, and I became one with the onos's digestive system.
Comm decides to forget putting RR rts back up (the aliens sensibly decided not to try to build rr), and focusses on the cargo battle, which is still going on. I get GL and welder, but no HA. I arrive to find the commander executing another excellent two-pronged manouver on Fusion, and I begin the GLage.
I acheived an impressive number of grenade kills, before the lerks began sporing. I was taken down to 10hp when it happened; "Roadkill killed self with grenadegun" A chorus of "lol"s ensued, but I thought it was quite funny myself.
So the battle for Satcomm was upon us! The comm is ordering me to build more turrets at base, but we've almost won and i'm not going to be sat at the back when it happens <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
So I head for Satcomm with my light armour and lmg.
I look at the minimap and see satcomm go down, but the game isnt over! The aliens had put fusion (which we didnt secure) back up! So I arrive in Satcomm to find only an rt, a dc, and..... an onos. The onos had evidently just taken a beating from the HA squad, because it ran to the DC for healing.
Then the ping of death begins, slowly counting down to the alien's inevitable demise. I empty a clip into the onos, and it sees me. It comes towards me. I empty my pistol into it. The comm says "Um, I would run if I were you Roadkill".
Upon realising the commander was watching, I came over all heroic. Out comes the knife and the rest is history. Slash slash slash, dead onos, the hero is victorious, wheeeeee!
Ok, so maybe it wasn't the best game ever, but it was certainly up there with the best i've played. It was close fought; the battle for cargo which lasted for about 10 minutes and could easily have gone either way was the decider
I took down 3 oni (im sure I killed 2 in RR but exactly when I can't remember), and ended up knifing an onos with the entire alien team watching.
Now I need something to justify posting something as long and (pretty much) pointless as this post; post your own best and worst games! What went wrong? Were you comm? Have you taken a vow never to play as "X" class because of how much you sucked? Or was it a stunning victory in which you killed 17 oni and all of the hives single handed?
Thank you for reading this crap. I am tired and must sleep now.
I'll describe the worst first, since it happened first, and I want to end the post on a positive note <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
This post was longer than originally intended, so the impatient of you may want to skip ahead to the last paragraph.
I was marines. The comm was a f-ing moron. No-one wanted to go comm, so in the end this guy who obviously didn't want to comm got in. He plops down the basics, 2 ips, armoury, tf but no turrets. He sends the team out to cap the nearest res node. Because of the team's reluctance to go comm, the aliens not only have the resnode, they've also lamed it up. So he sends the entire team to the nearest node on the other side of the map. Also lamed.
So he hands out shotties and sends the team to clear out the first WOL. This takes a while, and in that time the aliens are out capping every single node, and expanding the mini-WOL into a full blown OC farm, with DCs healing.
So he finally decides enough is enough, we're going to siege it. So he puts down a TF in the WORST possible spot where it immediatly gets spored to death and everyone who tried to build dies, despite his pitiful attempts at medspam.
By this point he is asking if he can recycle the base (which is against the server rules). This is immediatly greeted with a chorus of "NO"s and "OMG HE'S RECYCLING, BAN BAN BANZ0R!!!!!". He actually DIDN'T recycle, and got pretty p****d afterwards when people accused him of recycling.
But do you know what really made the game the worst i've ever played?
I was that comm.
Moving swiftly on to the BEST game, it was Tanith, I was marines (for about the 5th time in a row... yeah, "random") and someone who actually knew how to comm got in the chair (a clanner). This was several hours later, and most of the regulars were on.
We started by relocating to West access, that's the coridoor between Waste, and just outside RR. We secured RR, and began to move on Waste. It was a tougth fight, with constant barrages of skulks, but the commander obviously knew what he was doing, and was sending another squad around the other side.
So we had Waste, the aliens had started in Satcomm, and were moving on Fusion. The comm had been sending squads out all over the place (calling the marines by name works wonders) so we had quite a lot of resnodes. The comm decides to use some of this res on excessive turretspam, both in Waste and in West access.
I can see where you think this is going, no I WASN'T the comm in this game, I had taken a vow never to comm again at this point.
So with West Access and Waste secured, we move on cargo. With most of the res spent on shotties and HMGs, there isn't much left for a tf, so we have to hold cargo from the doorways (GLs work wonders).
While this was happening, the aliens began to move on RR (they had marine start and were going around that way). They had 3 oni, a fade a lerk and a gorge attacking, and a few skulks.
I was on base defence <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->
I did have Heavy armour however.
So the first onos comes along. I perform a beautiful every-shot-hit-because-I-know-where-it's-hitbox-actually-is manouver, and take it down in one HMG clip. The lerk-fade duo enter the scene. The fade was a tricky little git, but my shotty-armed squadmate made short work of him, while I took down the lerk, again, using my knowledge of hitboxes to my advantage (aim BELOW the lerk, BELOW!).
Then the 2nd and 3rd onos arrive with the gorge and another lerk. I have 40 ammo at this point. These oni arnt as dumb, and instead of taking the long route around the RR railings, they jump over and attack via the water. At this point the comm is saying "Um, Roadkill (me) you should probably get out of there" but alas, I was stunned already. Reactor room fell, and I became one with the onos's digestive system.
Comm decides to forget putting RR rts back up (the aliens sensibly decided not to try to build rr), and focusses on the cargo battle, which is still going on. I get GL and welder, but no HA. I arrive to find the commander executing another excellent two-pronged manouver on Fusion, and I begin the GLage.
I acheived an impressive number of grenade kills, before the lerks began sporing. I was taken down to 10hp when it happened; "Roadkill killed self with grenadegun" A chorus of "lol"s ensued, but I thought it was quite funny myself.
So the battle for Satcomm was upon us! The comm is ordering me to build more turrets at base, but we've almost won and i'm not going to be sat at the back when it happens <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
So I head for Satcomm with my light armour and lmg.
I look at the minimap and see satcomm go down, but the game isnt over! The aliens had put fusion (which we didnt secure) back up! So I arrive in Satcomm to find only an rt, a dc, and..... an onos. The onos had evidently just taken a beating from the HA squad, because it ran to the DC for healing.
Then the ping of death begins, slowly counting down to the alien's inevitable demise. I empty a clip into the onos, and it sees me. It comes towards me. I empty my pistol into it. The comm says "Um, I would run if I were you Roadkill".
Upon realising the commander was watching, I came over all heroic. Out comes the knife and the rest is history. Slash slash slash, dead onos, the hero is victorious, wheeeeee!
Ok, so maybe it wasn't the best game ever, but it was certainly up there with the best i've played. It was close fought; the battle for cargo which lasted for about 10 minutes and could easily have gone either way was the decider
I took down 3 oni (im sure I killed 2 in RR but exactly when I can't remember), and ended up knifing an onos with the entire alien team watching.
Now I need something to justify posting something as long and (pretty much) pointless as this post; post your own best and worst games! What went wrong? Were you comm? Have you taken a vow never to play as "X" class because of how much you sucked? Or was it a stunning victory in which you killed 17 oni and all of the hives single handed?
Thank you for reading this crap. I am tired and must sleep now.
Comments
Sorry bout this post just a loada crap but nevermind <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Anyway, I cant remember much from it, we had some constant push and push-back. All I can remember is it was pretty damn fun and he inspired me with his commanding style <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Well I did say it wasn't nessesarily my best, but it was definatly one of the best.
The Onos knife kill that ended the game was what really made it great for me <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
It was on Scott's House....something something, home of some clan named Ycsp.
I arrived about 20 minutes into the game, on the alien side, where the aliens were outnumbered 11-8, and had two afks on their team (Map was Ns_eclipse). So in reality, it was really 11-6. It would seemed the aliens were taking a beating; however, they had all three hives, but no onos or fades, mainly because everyone had spent their resources on building.
I thought we had this game, until all ten marines came into our eclipse hive and decimated it. No problem, we still had two hives. Two minutes later, ten marines came into computer core and decimated it. Then two another two minutes later, the ten marines came into maintence and decimated it.
First time I had ever seen hive three aliens lose. It was over, except for the fact, one of our 6 players went gorge and put up eclipse. We waited anxiously as the hive continued to build, the ten marines were coming to eclipse. The moment they arrived, we began to spawn. Some how, I don't know how, we were able to fend off their attack. But the marines, knowing the hive was weak, came back to eclipse with shotguns and unleashed on us. At this point, the six alien players were complaining and trying to boot some marines to even up the teams, but nevertheless, the marines all chose "no" to boot.
The hive was gone, we had lost, but surprisingly, one of our players had gone to computer core to put a hive. And again the marines came to computer core to attack, taking it down, and again one of our players put up another hive, and this cycle continued on for half an hour.
Until finally, we were able to hold a hive, then two, and finally three. We finally got our first onos at around the 50 minute mark (well at least the first onos I had seen in the game, remember I came in 20 minutes into the game).
All in all, the frustration of losing around 10 hives and having the teams stacked to the point of 11v6, was all forgetten when we stormed their base and spawn camped them. Those team stackers......
*no one phases in.I see 3 people walking around in base.Just...walking around.I dont know what for.
"alpha hive seige point is under attack!PHASE IN!"
*they keep walking.rest of the team is off trying to kill alien res nozzles.*
*Onos is doing some serious damage to the seige point now*
"PHASE IN!!!!!!"
*3 has managed to walk back to the nearest pg and phase in.They chase the regen onos away.Then they phase out.*
*Onos is back in 5 seconds whacking the seige base which doesnt have seiges anymore.*
"WTH!!!!!PHASE BACK YOU IDIOTS!!!!!"
*TF is down.3 marines still walking around in base.One of them is spamming taunts now.*
*HAs phase back.Onos retreats round corner.They phase out again.This time onos takes pg down first.*
*While this is happening the 2 HAs,one with a shotty,the other with a hmg,get owned by a couple of skulks,even though we have 3/3 upgrades and they were in a corridor.*
"WTH!!!!!!!WHY DID YOU PHASE OUT?!?!"
"Comm,its an onos"
"SO WHAT?!?!?YOU ARE A 3/3 HA/HMG!!!!!!AND THERE WERE 3 OF YOU!!!!"
"Comm,im scared of getting killed by the onos."
No im serious,HE SAID THE EXACT WORDS.
"What the ****!?!!?!?"
*Same situation occurs shortly later with equil seige point,you know,the room with the broken elevator?*
Needless to say,we lost.
Oh yea there was also this game a bunch of clanners get challenging the single alien onos to one on one duels.At 2 hives.Guess what happens.Full 3/3,ha/hmg btw.Tried to get them to stop.They proceeded to flame me.Interestingly,NO ONE tells them to SUYF as they are the idiots.....freaking herd syndrome.
Best game - Uh way back in 1.02 i think.Since my local community is overruned with idiots right now.
That makes me sad.
Arranged games amoungst people i know (whether i like or dislike them) are good players, have to be the best NS experiencies.