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The Ready Room => General => Topic started by: Lito on January 17, 2004, 06:59:04 AM

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Lito on January 17, 2004, 06:59:04 AM

after testing out the chair, i went aliens and climbed onto the hive and tried to get into the little opening in the hive to become the "alien" commander.

<Lito> How can i be alien commander?
<all> OMG! REWFLS! NUB!

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Grimm on January 17, 2004, 09:42:29 AM

Aside from the usual newbie things like "How do I make a turret" and "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT THING!!!?", etc, I don't recall any mistakes that were out of the ordinary.

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: BobTheJanitor on January 17, 2004, 10:53:06 AM

I had the great advantage of having someone who wanted to train me in every aspect of the game and several friends who would play on a private server with me while I un-noobed myself. (<3 Sancho) I can't recall any specifically idiotic mistakes being made. However, if Sancho appears in this thread I'm sure he can think of something embarassing to tell about me. ; )

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Malevolent on January 17, 2004, 10:59:01 AM

I haven't made any really stupid mistakes, but the reason is because my buddy Blaq went over the basics before I even played.

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Uranium - 235 on January 17, 2004, 11:46:07 AM

Lightning Blue and I did the same thing (not in the same server but... you know)


First game was ns_nancy. Within seconds, we both managed to fall down the vent that's under the broken grating.

You can't escape from that vent.

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Nuketheplace on January 17, 2004, 02:46:36 PM

Nuketheplace: Commander drop me a welder so I can build the IP!!!
...
Nuketheplace:Commander I can't build a IP with out a welder.

Yep that was the major mistake I made and I will always remember it.

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Satiagraha on January 17, 2004, 03:36:18 PM

lol, i remember somehow wandering my way into a hiveroom by myself (as a rine) and pulling out my knife and slashing the hive once. I then proceeded to empty my clips into the res tower that was next to the hive. I ran out of ammo just as like 5 skulks parasited me to death as i sat there going *click* *click*

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: crack on January 17, 2004, 06:08:59 PM

First game was on nothing.

I went aliens, then switched to marines. I was walking around then screen tip thing said "This is a commander chair, Press E to command the marines" So i did it after another marine jumped out to build. I got in and dropped alot of stuff then didnt know how to get out...We lost the game and i stayed in the chair till they killed it.

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Diablus on January 17, 2004, 07:49:35 PM

i asked for a welder a bunch of times in 1.04 (my first time as marine) and i stood as a unbuilt turret for about 4-5 minutes until someone called me a noob and told me how to do it, the whole server came crashing down laughing at me

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Spamcannonz on January 17, 2004, 10:10:57 PM

my newbies part was running in circles for 3 days figuring out what to do and i ran into comm chair. I had aim up durring playing ns(stupid me) and it popped up and frooze ns for me. i got it unfrooze like 5 mins later and they had just ejected me, a few seconds before. <3

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: crack on January 17, 2004, 11:08:14 PM

I also tried to build the base with a welder.

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Legionnaired on January 18, 2004, 09:33:34 AM

I didn't really make many newbie mistakes... I whored the forums for the better part of a year before launch, so I jumped right into the comm chair and was mistaken for a playtester a few times... Good times :).

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: BobTheJanitor on January 18, 2004, 01:17:58 PM

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I was walking around then screen tip thing said "This is a commander chair, Press E to command the marines" So i did it after another marine jumped out to build. I got in and dropped alot of stuff then didnt know how to get out...We lost the game and i stayed in the chair till they killed it.

And you haven't changed your strategy since. ; )

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Sancho on January 18, 2004, 04:44:02 PM

I started playing October 31st, 2002, the day v1,0 was released, after having read the manual and looked over the tech tree a week in advance.  I had been a registered forum user since April 2002.  Even if I had made some noob mistakes, everyone else was a noob too so no one knew the difference.  Although I did take about a month break and in that time everyone figured out that you could only have one gorge.  So when I tried it out again, I went gorge and starting putting up stuff and got insta-kicked. :(

Actually, Bob, you were quite a bright one and actually listened to me while I was trying to teach you, as opposed to the other 3 or 4  <_<  I can't recall anything too stupid you did, because my head had already exploded after all the other marines ran off. :blink:

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Niteowl on January 18, 2004, 09:18:15 PM

trying to use the welder ANYWHERE, in order to SEAL OFF THE ALIENS!! AHH!!

sending the rines to that hidden sorta rt in refinery on bast. having never actually PLAYED the map, i didn't know you had to go all the way around to build the rt :)

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Path on January 18, 2004, 10:05:14 PM

I would have to say my silliest mistake as a nooblet would have been on nancy. We relocated to one of the hives, but I was the only one there, my other team having ramboed off and died somehow.

So, I jump in the chair being the all knowing nooblet that I figured I was, and drop 2 IPs. Then I can't figure out how to get out of the CC. I eventually ended up freaking out, with the whole team yelling at me, and I just turned my computer off mid-game, still in the chair. Took a few days before I played again... Good times, eh?

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Uranium - 235 on January 19, 2004, 01:53:06 AM

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I eventually ended up freaking out, with the whole team yelling at me, and I just turned my computer off mid-game

Winnar :D

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Satiagraha on January 19, 2004, 02:33:56 PM

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I would have to say my silliest mistake as a nooblet would have been on nancy. We relocated to one of the hives, but I was the only one there, my other team having ramboed off and died somehow.

So, I jump in the chair being the all knowing nooblet that I figured I was, and drop 2 IPs. Then I can't figure out how to get out of the CC. I eventually ended up freaking out, with the whole team yelling at me, and I just turned my computer off mid-game, still in the chair. Took a few days before I played again... Good times, eh?

:lol: heheheheh, good times, good times...

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Sancho on January 19, 2004, 06:43:56 PM

Oh, now that I think about it, I remember asking people about a week after NS came out how you turn off the shield so you can get out to the satellite on Tanith :D

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Dark on January 21, 2004, 09:12:35 PM

i started Oct 31st as well and i hosted a server or too and only made a mistake once and that was dropping an oc on the rt thing  :blink:  ;)  <_<

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Black Mage on January 22, 2004, 06:34:25 AM

can't remember anything stupid
first game on ns_nothing went smoothly, i actually helped lock down powersilo

then we went to tannith, and there was a fade
"wtf is THAT? give guns! need big guns!"
"that's a fade, shoot it. guns on the way"
so, as we were waiting for our guns, i repeatedly suicided the fade, i think i even got a knife shot in before the *thunk*

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Keyser59 on January 22, 2004, 02:16:55 PM

I think everybody's first mistake in 1.0 was going gorge when the alien team already had one, and having the whole team calling you a noob while the admin slays you.

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Dark on January 22, 2004, 02:19:20 PM

it took  me a while before i got rather good at gorge and then i started being a battle gorge

man i remember the first time i took out 3 rines as a battle gorge. i miss babblers though but i still battle gorge with the best of them

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: DumbMarine on January 22, 2004, 04:47:04 PM

It was ns_nancy, I joined lategame marines, and two onos popped in and decided to eat our turrets. I thought this was like 3 minutes into the game, judging by the kills :\ (10 kills, 32 deaths or something)

Next game started, and I would not leave base 30 seconds in game because I thought there were onos down there. "No way comm, there are rhinoes dwn there." The sad thing was that the comm believed me... and said "Really?" Then he left. 5-10 minutes later of camping with no comm, onos really did come into our base. Next round I played aliens.

Marines got heavies. Repeated ad nauseam back and forth for about 20 games before I decided to start a LAN Game and realize my error.

Babblers were crazy  :D

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Black Mage on January 22, 2004, 08:28:34 PM

1.04 gorge was fun, people actually protected me
a 2 unit escort and redemption == battlegorge deluxe

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: DumbMarine on January 22, 2004, 08:40:32 PM

In 1.04, the gorge was the celebrity, you got escorts everywhere, everyone called for stuff to be put here and there, when a marine killed you there was 10 seconds of ridiculously loud marine voice spam, and you got all the res. :D

Gorges in 1.04 were easier to kill for some reason though... maybe because there was only one of them.

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Ulatoh on January 23, 2004, 12:33:13 PM

nubbiest thing i did in the beggining was as a rine, spawned in just as a skulk killed our IP, com gave me a shotty, I was the only rine sides the comm left, he drops an I.P. and when i see a skulk, i right click, trying to do the double-shot a la halflife on him... gg

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: BobTheJanitor on January 23, 2004, 12:43:24 PM

That's not even that nubbish. I still right click accidentally quite often when I'm trying to attack and whipping my mouse about. Most hilarious was when a group of HAs  were shooting up vent hive on caged. I leaped in as a skulk, intending to at least hurt them a bit before I got splattered. Went to left click and start biting, accidentally hit right, popped up menu, whipped mouse around and clicked again before I even knew what was happening and suddenly: EGG! All the HAs were laughing so much they almost didn't shoot me before I finished gestating into... whatever I hit. I still have no idea.

I'm considering just putting popupmenu on mouse3 and making mouse1 and 2 both for attacking.

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: a civilian on January 23, 2004, 08:05:24 PM

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Gorges in 1.04 were easier to kill for some reason though... maybe because there was only one of them.

Gorges in 1.04 were literally weaker than Gorges in 2.01.  A 1.04 Gorge took 15 LMG bullets to kill, whereas a 2.01 Gorge takes 22.

Title: Your Funniest Mistake When You Were A Newbie
Post by: Uranium - 235 on January 23, 2004, 09:00:19 PM

Oh there was that time I evolved to an onos right on top of the armory...



And got away with it.