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(Quote) It wasn't made for that purpose, but it was made with the fact that NS2 could not continue to financially support the company in mind. And it has most certainly been used to continue financing NS2's development.
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OP, your original post was retarded. I'm not even sure why people voted it up except for preconceived notions and elitism.
"Oh no, UWE is adding something new! Balanced games are going to ruin everything."
Just because a smal… -
I feel like you guys are playing an entirely different game than me. Yeah the balance and gameplay isn't perfect, but I still think NS2 does the FPS/RTS Genre WAY better than any other option out that by leaps and bounds.
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(Quote) Agreed. I wouldn't mind if the "meat shield" mechanic were removed completely, in favor of actually being somewhat useful in combat.
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(Quote) That isn't much of a consolation.
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(Quote) Gorge still sees significant use for early tunnel plays though.
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(Quote) Show me where they are used in competitive play.
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Good discussion so far. Here are the main two problems I have with the Babblers:
1. Even though Babblers have become part of a research package, and therefore much more difficult/timely to obtain, they have not been significantly buffed … -
My idea:
Add a third race to the game. If the Kharaa are aliens and the Marines human, then the new race would be something more like an advanced alien species.
The new race would walk upright like humans but their main weapo… -
(Quote) Just checked the NS2 reddit on Halloween night. Unless I'm doing something wrong I don't see any games starting there (I sorted by "hot" and "new"). http:/…
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It may not be dead but I certainly won't be playing again until there's some kind of competent team balancing or matchmaking system in place.
NS2 is an amazing game but I see no reason why any player would want to subject themselves to t… -
(Quote) As far as I know, I responded to your whole argument. Please let me know which part I've missed.
"1 player is good enough to sway the entire game."
-This applies to DotA as well, and is very often the case. All you're do… -
(Quote) You don't seem to understand how basic matchmaking works, which makes me wonder why you think you're even fit to comment in this thread.
DotA 2 for example has a mind-numbing amount of factors involved when deciding how skille… -
(Quote) Lol, a generation of gamers that was 1/8th the size of our current one, if that.
What do all the most popular competitive games (as in 100k player plus) in our current (massively larger) gamer generation have? Matchmaking. Per… -
I also want to point out that there's obviously a higher ratio of people in the forums who don't care about matchmaking or even games, because statistically speaking, most of the ones who did care already left.
I realize this isn't an im… -
(Quote) There is nothing wrong with the way the game is balanced. In DotA, as you so aptly mentioned, there is a huge skill differential between a new player and somebody who has played thousands of hours. Yet (when the MM isn't broken), the game…
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(Quote) Gmod is not a competitive FPS, it is not in the same category of what we're talking about in this thread. Many of the Gmods are co-op oriented, which means matchmaking is not necessary, because your opponents are not human beings, and you…
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(Quote) Because NO games had matchmaking back then. Unbalanced and team-stacked games were the norm. A gamer had no other choice!
Now that matchmaking has become the norm, good gameplay is simply not good enough when it's astride horr… -
Just so you guys know, the only real differences between CS:Source and CS:GO were minor graphical improvements and matchmaking. Yet the former game was considered a failure, and the latter game has been extremely successful.
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Even a built-in server balance system like BFBC2 or Rising Storm uses could be implemented into the game. I realize everyone doesn't want matchmaking, the point is balanced games overall.
Also I realize the playerbase is small, my point … -
(Quote) LOL, yes let's use pen and paper to organize our matches. Let's use ENSL which I waited on yesterday for 4 hours for a match to start (it never did by the way). The rest of your argument is simply filled with banter and logical fallacies.…
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(Quote) There are only 5-10 servers being used at any given time (out of hundreds available), and in all the time I've played this game, I've never seen admins specifically balancing teams. That's not to say that it doesn't happen, I've just neve…
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(Quote) In the Matchmaking Menu (which would be optional, of course), you could choose your side (Alien or Marine), and the MM system would give you the team you wanted. You could also choose both sides if you wanted to find a game faster obvious…
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I'm not blaming the game for anything. Our Commander hadn't researched Blink yet, so it was difficult to kite around him. I bring it up not because I'm butthurt about losing a non-Blink Fade (pretty easy to do), I bring it up because I still haven…
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(Quote) Uhm excuse me? He was standing in place. And what do you mean "massive rez advantage"? Nano Shield costs 5, med packs cost 1. Even if he dropped 5 med packs (unlikely), that's 10 resources to kill a 50 resource Fade.
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Agreed, Babblers should go for the target the Gorge attacks, or if he hits multiple targets (with Bile Bomb and such), they should go for the lowest Marine.
I don't really see the point on putting them as a Crag ability personally. Crag… -
Okay so apparently some people took my original post completely out of context, and starting assuming that I meant Babbler cost, in PR, would stay the same. I suppose I thought it was implied that such a radical change to Babblers (becoming a 2-Hiv…
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(Quote) ???
A Gorge's role early on is not to kill Structures, it's to defend key positions and assist building Hives. You don't go Gorge early game for killing structures, nor should they even be that close to the front lines until … -
(Quote) You don't need Gorges to kill Extractors in the first place early on. Skulks can do it just fine, do it much faster, and it costs no resources. By the time you NEED Gorges to kill structures, any competent Commander would have already r…
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(Quote) I have tried it.
You clearly haven't, because you have no idea what you're talking about. Babblers don't do 90 DPS against extractors, in fact I'm quite sure they don't even attack once per second, and that's not even factori…