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The Ready Room => General => Topic started by: rad4Christ on March 04, 2005, 05:09:30 AM

Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: rad4Christ on March 04, 2005, 05:09:30 AM: So, some official release... blah blah blah.... Reserve Slot Night blah... blah... blah... around the same time and blah... blah... blah... shoudl we have a RS only night of NS3.0 if released in time?

I will try to get a poll added, but in the meantime, should we have RS night still, but play NS 3.0 final and ONLY allow RS, or leave it open and let any regs or other pubbers in if space is available?

Oh, and BTW, I'm in the official announcement in the forums... http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index....0&#entry1402345 (http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=89418&st=0&#entry1402345)
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: Lightning Blue on March 04, 2005, 05:20:47 AM: I say no.

The last time a beta was released the mirrors were totally screwed up meaning it took me a few hours just to get the damn server files. So planning RS night around B6 would suck.

Also there's little point in saying RS only cause like EVERY release you'll have a bit more then 16 people from LM wanting in... half or more being admins :p

Also, chances are high that metamod won't work anyway...

Jhunz and myself might not be around either!

We'll just have to see.
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: SwiftSpear on March 04, 2005, 06:40:26 AM: If timing allows I'd love to try for it, but I really have to agree with LB for the most part... There is no guarentee that the NS release will go anywhere smooth enough to risk ruining reg night over it.
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: rad4Christ on March 04, 2005, 06:54:30 AM: RS night will be scheduled as described in the RS forum, however, if 3.0 interrupts, then, well, go hide by yourself on a listenserver, and have bots hunt you :p
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: SwiftSpear on March 04, 2005, 07:19:50 AM: Quote
RS night will be scheduled as described in the RS forum, however, if 3.0 interrupts, then, well, go hide by yourself on a listenserver, and have bots hunt you :p
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hey hey... you're the hide and seek nut, not me!
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: SlickWill on March 04, 2005, 07:48:32 AM: Anybody else crapping themselves with excitement that it is finally arriving?

BTW, can I get on RS night somehow? :help:
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: Necrosis on March 04, 2005, 04:37:04 PM: Again no RS night for me. Bummer that all my overtime means I can't get to blast through NS with the regs.

Still, I can just play MGS3.
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: duherman on March 04, 2005, 11:42:50 PM: Well for me no RS night so no matter to me, unless someone wants to illegally sneak me over the border to the lm server.
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: That Annoying Kid on March 05, 2005, 12:06:15 AM: I would be down for the cause

but the man is everywhere :ph34r:
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: LowCrawler on March 05, 2005, 11:12:16 AM: im kindof a non ns forums guy... and when i say kinda i mean ive never been there.

so where will i be able to go to get this mythical beta6?
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: Manta on March 05, 2005, 11:41:36 AM: Check back on http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns (http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns) in the files section every so often. Once they list the mirrors, you can go ahead and download.
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: 2_of_8 on March 05, 2005, 12:53:08 PM: Guess what. It's out - everyone's downloading!
I don't see why we can't have reg night today then with 3.0final. 16 slotters/admins will SURELY have it already, and the server might be updated in time - according to IRC, he is downloading it already.
/me waits
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: CryForMe on March 05, 2005, 01:00:54 PM: omfg where is it, i cant find it! its not on jarhedz or ns.com or surftown! gah!!!!!
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: Necrosis on March 05, 2005, 01:04:47 PM: Its out?

Where?

I'm on the NS site, can't see a thing.
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: 2_of_8 on March 05, 2005, 01:04:55 PM: Jarhedz (http://download.jarhedz.com/ns_beta/direct/ns_install_v3.exe)
Surftown (http://games.surftown.dk/ns/ns_install_v3.exe)
It was on #ns and #lm IRC.
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: CryForMe on March 05, 2005, 01:06:31 PM: bandwidth available is 0 lol...cant get a file transfer going on either yet.
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: Hesitation on March 05, 2005, 01:10:58 PM: I think I'll just content myself with hitting refresh every 20 seconds while I stare at the changelog and weep a little bit.
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: CorvusX on March 05, 2005, 01:20:50 PM: Kudos 1/4 <3
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: moofree on March 05, 2005, 01:22:30 PM: Jarhedz is working for me... got lynx grabbing it at home (at work right now)

Read 17571 of 143182 KB of data, 184 KB/sec, ETA 679 sec.

Anyhow, first post... um... hello lunixmonster forum
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: Hesitation on March 05, 2005, 01:24:30 PM: Wewt for JH! Finally got it started, seems to be coming in fairly quickly!

And of course, the server will be packed to the gills for the next week or so.... guess it's time to go pub surfing! *shudder* >_<
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: CryForMe on March 05, 2005, 03:10:13 PM: hesitation hit it right on the mark...friggin got 3.0 and not a single server has an open slot...i was on LM for about 30 secs before i got res slot kicked...making me angry.
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: Isamil on March 05, 2005, 03:29:45 PM: Want NS 3.0?
http://www.filerush.com/download.php?targe..._install_v3.exe (http://www.filerush.com/download.php?target=ns_install_v3.exe)
Use the torrent, it helps everyone.
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: SwiftSpear on March 05, 2005, 04:28:32 PM: Already we had the server full at 17/17 for a few games, and many of the regs/admins have already been on for short periods although they didn't end up playing more than a few games. We should have no problem holding the res night on 3.0.
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: moofree on March 05, 2005, 04:31:25 PM: I expect many a slotkick tonight. I'll keep coming back though.

I dare you* to try to keep me away

[size=8]*does not include people who could ban me[/size]
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: SwiftSpear on March 05, 2005, 04:33:47 PM: Quote
I expect many a slotkick tonight. I'll keep coming back though.

I dare you* to try to keep me away

[size=8]*does not include people who could ban me[/size]
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Well... If we do reg night the server will be passworded for about an hour and a half...
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: moofree on March 05, 2005, 05:01:13 PM: That would ruin my night. I wouldn't know where to go....
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: GrayDuck on March 05, 2005, 09:18:07 PM: Quote
That would ruin my night. I wouldn't know where to go....
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moofree - when the server is passworded, it'll typically be in the topic on IRC, just Join #lunixmonster to find out what the pass is...
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: Malevolent on March 05, 2005, 11:39:59 PM: Quote
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That would ruin my night. I wouldn't know where to go....
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moofree - when the server is passworded, it'll typically be in the topic on IRC, just Join #lunixmonster to find out what the pass is...
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But there will also probably be a lot of reserved slotters playing so he'll get kicked.
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: duherman on March 06, 2005, 12:29:31 AM: I didn't get a chance to join LM till late night around 11:30 PM. The server was busy and jam packed all day.
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: moofree on March 06, 2005, 10:58:30 AM: Nevermind... i figured out what to do last night- friend ran a D&D game.

Haven't even played but 5 minutes of 3.0 final. I'll wait for everybody to calm down before I get too hardcore into it

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I didn't get a chance to join LM till late night around 11:30 PM. The server was busy and jam packed all day.
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Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: Vinegar Ninja on March 06, 2005, 12:12:37 PM: we just played a HARDCORE game of 3.0
lasted an hour, and reminded me of the glory days of 1.04.
ahh the glory days :D
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: moofree on March 06, 2005, 12:15:07 PM: who won?
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: Vinegar Ninja on March 06, 2005, 12:16:35 PM: marines after much haxx0ring.
crazy game I tell ya, CRAZY game.
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: 2_of_8 on March 06, 2005, 12:30:15 PM: Insane. I joined at ~15 minutes, Aliens had 2 hives. We had sensories, 3rd hive was going up, 2nd hive had no chambers yet. They are making a major assault on the 3rd hive that's not up yet; everyone's there, defending. I went lerk, we had 1 onos, and a fade. Hive eventually went down, since some structure blocking occured and something happened... not sure what, but that something made us lose the 3rd hive, as I heard.
Later on, we lost the 2nd hive somehow, not sure. I went onos, and tried to defend our last hive.
We already has sensories and dcs at this point.
Redemption worked like a charm for me, and it saved me surely more than 20 times while I onosed. We saved the 1st hive from the first assault, but they just kept on coming. They had tonnes of res nodes, and I realized that the only way we could stop them from winning in by taking down their res nodes. That'ts exactly what I did for about 5 minutes. In the end, they were down to about 3 res nodes, same with us.
During all this, we put up about 10 hives in the other locations. They would never finish going up, but they served as an amazing distraction to the Marines who kept pressuring our first hive.
Eventually, after 60 minutes, about 8 onos, 15 hive attempts, and more redemptions by onos than I can count, the game ended with our last hive going down.
I just hope that this is how 3.0 will always be like! :)
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: duherman on March 06, 2005, 12:39:12 PM: What a epic battle. I hope I get a chance to play one of those.
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: 2_of_8 on March 06, 2005, 01:45:43 PM: Chances are, you will - and many times; these kind of battles are becoming increasingly more common. I love it.
Another 52 min game on hera, it's great.
Title: Natural-Selection 3.0 Final Release
Post by: Isamil on March 06, 2005, 02:19:33 PM: We had this awesome 52 miniute game on hera. I was on marines. We hit a lot of hives, and held vent almost the entire game.(well, once we killed the hive in vent) We had decent res most of the game; the aliens overpowered us in the end though. I killed 2-3 onos and # of fades(there were a lot...)