One Of The The Things I Absolutely Love About Ns

Firedragon · February 2004

<div class="IPBDescription">Anyone else do this or has done it?</div> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif' /> One of the things I absolutely love when the game is 50/50 or whatever and marines are ripping the aliens,and there's about 4 or 5 HA in a hive or whatnot and I'm Onos.

I go Onos then into the hive with regen,celerity(for fast getaway),cloaking,I duck walking slowly towards the 4 or 5 HA and one HA is looking at me and the others turned away still walking slow not to lose my cloaking(hoping there's no observatory near) and pick off each HA until all gone.

If there's an observatory I try to stay cloaked as much as possible till I start blinking then I charge in switch to devour and pick the rines off,runoff with celerity,hide,digest,repeat.

What else I think is fun is hiding in a corner as Onos and cloaked is watch a train of about 5 rines passby they don't see me and think all is good until I decloak and start running right at them and goring to death devouring then dying lol.Personally I think that is fun <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif' />

BizZy_9mm_Messiah · February 2004

That's not fun! Fun was hiding in the vents spam chuckling the rines to death.

Ballisto · February 2004

Fun=blasting 4 skulks and finishing of the last one with your knife
Fun=paraing a marine to death
Fun=biting 3 marines to death and chuckling the whole time!!
Fun=silence
Fun=multi xeno kills
Fun=a pile of 8 skulks from your smoking sg
Fun=nade kills!!

Uh-Oh · February 2004

Not Fun= Grenade Launcher kills

Note, when the marines shoot 200000000 grenades in a SPACE SHIP, you'd think it'd do some kind of damage to the haul.. It's like going to war and nuking the planet... at some point... the 127th nuke is probably gonna be our armagedon...

Not Fun= Decloaking in the middle of a marine base because you forgot about a stair...

Not Fun= 13 marines vs 9 aliens
Not Fun= 12 marines vs 9 aliens
Not Fun= 10 marines vs 8 aliens
Not Fun= You get the picture....

Ollj · February 2004

fun=all new ns maps
no fun= all new co maps
<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

Namron · February 2004

<b>Fun</b> = stomping a lone marine until he types kill in console
<i>It's harder in 3.0 (b2) than in 2.01...</i>

<b>Fun</b> = hitting a moving target with a hand grenade
<i>Especially gorges!</i>

<b>Fun</b> = the lerks new way of flying
<i>It's the way to fly, I love it.</i>

<b>Fun</b> = as onos destroying endless amounts of turrets in a jiffy when the 'rines are somewhere else
<i>Well, perhaps not endless, but around five or so without any bigger problems.</i>

<b>Fun</b> = all the new Natural Selection (original/classic) 3.0 maps
<i>They look good and play good.</i>

<b>Fun</b> = having a grenade launcher (or a hand grenade) and motion tracking
<i>I almost feel sorry for the poor aliens in the vents.</i>

<b>Fun</b> = being <i>teh commando</i> and winning
<i>...and when the match is almost over, spamming the place with catpacks and at the same time typing "good job, drugs for everyone!"</i>

<b>Fun</b> = having a sweet combination in Combat
<i>For example catpacks, resupply, shotgun and heavy armor.</i>

<b>Fun</b> = pointing and laughing at people that haven't played Natural Selection
<i>At the same time it's a bit sad though (for them, yes for them, not me!)</i>

<b>Fun</b> = killing multiple enemies with shotgun blasts
<i>Easy when on catpacks and aiming at skulks.</i>

That's all I could think of right now. I deserve a medal. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' />

Zyndrome · February 2004

Fun = We win.
Not fun = We lose.

Fun = I've won 50 Million bucks on a lottery. I've got a lovely blonde supermodel.
Not fun = I realise it was just a dream.

Uh-Oh · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zyndrome @ Feb 2 2004, 09:25 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Fun = I've won 50 Million bucks on a lottery. I've got a lovely blonde supermodel.
Not fun = I realise it was just a dream.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Woa... Same dream man... That's some freaky ****.

Evo · February 2004

Ok this is fun in a cruel way... but yesterday we had a bit of a gullible player on our team. He cracks his mic, and goes "can anyone hear me?", so right away, like 5 people go "no". So he types "@*&#" in chat, and idles for a bit. So a few minutes later, he's back in game and goes "Can anyone hear me now?" and so now practically everyone on our team goes "no" into the mic, one after the other <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />. So he types something like "goddamnit!" and idles again. Few minutes later, he's back... "can anyone hear me?" - and again, pretty much every alien with a mic goes "no". So then the guy types "what the hell is wrong with my mic?!" At this point, one of his teammates took pity on the poor guy, and explains to the guy whats going on. After that, the mic was filled with laughter for half a minute as everyone laughed their **** off. The dude didn't say much after that, hehe. It was pretty damned funny. I wonder how long we could have strung him allong though? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

Anywho, one of my favorite NS experiences is chomping rines as a cloaked skulk. I had a great run a few days back in Atmospheric hive. First I started out by skulkivating a friendly gorge up the busted elevator so he could build a sensory chamber behind the glass. Then I snuck my way out into atmo where two rines were standing around waiting for orders. I hung on the wall for a bit, just watching the two. Finally, one of the rines goes downstairs towards the res node, so I sneak up behind the top guy and *CHOMP-CHOMP*, take him out. Scuttle off into the corner and cloak as the second rine comes upstairs to wonder where his buddy went. So now he's looking around the room all nervous like, and I sneak up on him too. I get close, he turns his back... *CHOMP-CHOMP*, rine 2 down. Suddenly I hear footsteps so I scamper up the roof and cloak. Three more rines come into the room and start wandering around like they're searching for me. One guy goes downstairs, and two are upstairs. Then my gorge buddy, cloaked behind the glass, goes "i'll distract em for ya". So he starts spitting at the glass and jumping to uncloak. One rine runs over to the glass, shoots it, realizes its bulletproof, and then starts trying to slash the glass with his knife. *CHOMP-CHOMP* - no more rine! (At this point the gorge laughed into his mic). The other rine, who was partway up the stairs, comes running back up only to see a bouncing gorge and his dead buddy. He backs up against a corner for safety, so I go look over at the other rine, whos standing like a **** staring down the lower hall. I crawl down the wall, leap on his head, and *CHOMP-CHOMP*, he's gone. By this time the gorge is roaring with laughter at seeing all this. I slowly make my way back upstairs, to see the last rine has moved away from the corner, and is spinning around with paranoia. My gorge buddy starts bouncing and spitting again - just long enough to make the rine look in his direction for a second. You can guess what I did next <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />. Unfortunatly for me, another rine was coming in to reinforce just as I bit the last dudes head off, and he filled me fulla lead. Darn. Oh well, I still had a damned good run, not to mention loads of fun phreaking the hell out of those poor rines. They had no clue where I was, if it was more than one skulk, nuthin. Completely clueless and terrified. Ripping into them one at a time while their buddies were looking the other way was awesome. Felt just like somthin out of the movies, It was great. I love those NS moments! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

Sarisel · February 2004

fun = celerity+charge+devour heavy armor marines from marine start before they realize what hit them

ZERG · February 2004

Fun = celerity + lerk

omg, i never knew what it was like to soar, but man now I know!!!

Last · February 2004

fun = #nspug
fun = scrimz0ring
fun = getting banned for hax
utlimate fun = first time ever playing ns. best hour of life. ever.

or at least until my honey moon.

Varsity · February 2004

Fun = knifing an Onos.
Fun = finishing off a skulk with a few well-placed pistol hits.
Fun = standing in a corner and mowing down every skulk that comes until one of them gets cloaking.
Fun = sieging the hive in full view from behind a unbreakable window with the entire alien team running around inside.
Fun = the general chatter when everyone in the game has a mic.
Fun = killing campers (or getting lucky shots at where someone is cloaked, if you prefer! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />).
Fun = seeing a cargo door slowly open to reveal five of six Onos about to plow though your base.
Fun = Welding hives in combat and the insults they throw at you afterwards!
Fun = leaping over a patch of OCs to take out the gorge healing them with a shotty.

Not fun = marines all travelling in a tight group and being all taken down by a single skulk!
Not fun = Lerks dodging round corners just long enough to spore, then running away again.

SlayerOfSkulks · February 2004

Actually my most recent game was both my most AND least fun...

The game overall was just fun. It was on one of the new NS maps (A really great one, I forget the name though.) We had an amazing comm in charge (I forget the exact name, MrSomethingNSomething.) The alines were smart, and basically, the whole thing was going incredibly well.

Then came the worst part.

We'd just destroyed a hive, and a few of use were just outside it, when I saw a MT blip coming closer, I started moving toward the area, and then it dissappeared. We knew they has Sensory, so I walked around the corner, looked along, and asked the comm for a scanner sweep.

A few seconds passed with me not seeing any movement, and then the local friendly comm gave me a sweep. Sure enough, a skulk was right ahead of me, I'd been looking straight at it. It tried to run at me, but my HMG took him out quick-sharp. All well and good, some excellent commander/soldier interaction, and a fun moment.

But then the accusations started. The skulk decided I must've been cheating. After all, he was cloaked, but I'd walked right to him, been pointing straight at him, even though he hadn't moved, right? I started to type up explaining what happened, the comm backed me up, but by the time I'd said my piece, the guy had left the game... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' />

I'm not upset that I got accused of cheating somehow, I just feel slightly guilty that the guy involved felt so bad about it that he had to leave, and I didn't even get a chance to explain things.

Oh well, who knows; maybe he'll read this and understand?

Varsity · February 2004

He can't have been a newbie if he knew how to cloak. I guess he just got angry at being so unlucky.

Namron · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Evo @ Feb 3 2004, 01:07 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Anywho, one of my favorite NS experiences is chomping rines as a cloaked skulk. I had a great run a few days back in Atmospheric hive. First I started out by skulkivating a friendly gorge up the busted elevator so he could build a sensory chamber behind the glass. Then I snuck my way out into atmo where two rines were standing around waiting for orders. I hung on the wall for a bit, just watching the two. Finally, one of the rines goes downstairs towards the res node, so I sneak up behind the top guy and *CHOMP-CHOMP*, take him out. Scuttle off into the corner and cloak as the second rine comes upstairs to wonder where his buddy went. So now he's looking around the room all nervous like, and I sneak up on him too. I get close, he turns his back... *CHOMP-CHOMP*, rine 2 down. Suddenly I hear footsteps so I scamper up the roof and cloak. Three more rines come into the room and start wandering around like they're searching for me. One guy goes downstairs, and two are upstairs. Then my gorge buddy, cloaked behind the glass, goes "i'll distract em for ya". So he starts spitting at the glass and jumping to uncloak. One rine runs over to the glass, shoots it, realizes its bulletproof, and then starts trying to slash the glass with his knife. *CHOMP-CHOMP* - no more rine! (At this point the gorge laughed into his mic). The other rine, who was partway up the stairs, comes running back up only to see a bouncing gorge and his dead buddy. He backs up against a corner for safety, so I go look over at the other rine, whos standing like a **** staring down the lower hall. I crawl down the wall, leap on his head, and *CHOMP-CHOMP*, he's gone. By this time the gorge is roaring with laughter at seeing all this. I slowly make my way back upstairs, to see the last rine has moved away from the corner, and is spinning around with paranoia. My gorge buddy starts bouncing and spitting again - just long enough to make the rine look in his direction for a second. You can guess what I did next <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />. Unfortunatly for me, another rine was coming in to reinforce just as I bit the last dudes head off, and he filled me fulla lead. Darn. Oh well, I still had a damned good run, not to mention loads of fun phreaking the hell out of those poor rines. They had no clue where I was, if it was more than one skulk, nuthin. Completely clueless and terrified. Ripping into them one at a time while their buddies were looking the other way was awesome. Felt just like somthin out of the movies, It was great. I love those NS moments! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Hehe, really great! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif' />

Arcadius · February 2004

Most fun I ever had in NS was during a 2v2 match. It was early afternoon and the server was empty except for 1 admin, myself and another reg, and one guy who was playing the game for the first time. Well, we decided to teach the new guy how to play, so myself and the other reg went aliends and the new guy and the admin went marines. We turned on all chat so we could all talk over mic and answer any questions he had. We declared a cease fire to not attack so he could learn the ropes. Myself and my teammate eventually got bored and decided to have some fun, we found the admin building an rt, went gorge, and proceded to web him repeatedly for about the next 5 minutes. I forget how long it took him to be able to move normally again but it was at least a good 10 minutes. We were all laughing so hard it was graet.

Ok, one real game experience I love, getting two onos on either side of a hive entrance and stomping the heavy train repeatedly as the rest of the team proceeds to para and heal spray the whole train to death. Hilarious for the aliens, ultra angering for the marines. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

Soylent_green · February 2004

not fun = mongoloids eating the hive just because FF is on and they can

wascally_wabbit · February 2004

Obliterating the marine base, then taking out their reloc spot, all in a gorge rush. Best, game, EVAR!

I had a really really really good game on mineshaft yesterday:

I went aliens, joined late. The marines had relocated to Sewer hive, and had cafeteria and marine start res nodes.

We built drill, and gorges created chokepoints all over the map. The part that made it fun was the teamwork involved. If a gorge said that he was having trouble in sleeping quarters, 3 skulks would head over there right away. Everyone communicated perfectly. A group of marines headed to marine start? Everyone knew about it immediately, and we'd rush and destroy them.

Once they got HA, no one could win or lose ground, and they were able to stockpile enough res to take back marine start.

The game ended (sadly) with them taking gen, then sieging Tram.

Best moment... Best moment... Being a silence skulk, and killing 3 marines in a group. None of them heard me coming, and I ate them in order <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

One Of The The Things I Absolutely Love About Ns

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