Overly Chatty Penguins
The Ready Room => General => Topic started by: Temm on April 26, 2004, 12:21:58 PM
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don'cha hate it when ur a skulk go around a corner and BLAM! killed by one shotty bullet?
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no that doesn't bother me at all what bothers me is people who complain about being killed by a shotty every time they get killed by one in one shot, but hey to each his own <_<
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I really hate when noone is welding when you have a HA train going, and everyone gets killed by a couple of skulks.
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I hate being the bait, well i don't hate the bait part in total, the part I hate most is that the marines behind me dont GET that im Bait, and in return dont give me any cover... at all...... ever. :)
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people complaining about the beta patches in game..
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just stupid marines in general
sometimes it gets so bad i feel like getting outta the comm chair and gunning a few of them down
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I only complain for 2 things
1. Your a skulk and you bite the marine and like 6 bloodspurts come out and he doesnt die...
2. When everyone is saying OMG GET THROUGH THE PHASE GATE WE CAN WIN, and people just hump the armory v_v
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-the phrase 'i win'
-'elite' players who just want a high K : D score, and will go to any lengths to do it (not follow orders, go off and rambo, reswhore to fade all the time)
-ppl who jump in the cc, spend all the starting rez, then say "OK! WHO WANTS TO COMM? i SUCK AT THIS"
-young'uns and their reflexes
-everyone asking for Owl CommRage, but insist on going to waypoints, doing everything i ask, showing initiative, and basically, all the stuff that makes me mellow out. ;)
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No armorys, whole team of res whores saving for onos, leap doing less damage than parasite, exploiters, llamas, voice comm spam, steam errors, poor map layouts, slow and noisy doors, glass which takes 15 bites to break, handgrenades, people with welders ramboing, sunglares on my monitor, gamma "0", uhhhh I could think of a lot more but this is good :D
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leap does ALOT more than parasite.
try going on top of a marine, then look down and leap. his health will go down like a madman on crack.
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Ah, a place to put my annoyances:
INPROPER COVERING
Ya know, when you are building an RT and your teammate says he'll cover you, then goes off to a corner.
To properly cover someone, you need to be RIGHT next to him, so that the skulk is running at both of you and you can hit him, rather than just at your partner, and sort of at you at an angle which is very hard to hit. In this case, usually the marine, on purpose or unintentionally, uses you as bait while you build.
What really comes to mind is south loop on ns_eclipse, where no skulk should EVER make it to the RT when you have someone covering you, because there is a good 50 FEET HALLWAY THE SKULK MUST PASS THROUGH. Nonetheless, my teammates always "cover me" on the far wall away from the RT and let the skulks run up and chew me down EVERY SINGLE TIME!
COVERING INSTEAD OF BUILDING/KNIFING A NODE
If you have 3 or 4 marines at a node. There is NEVER a good reason to cover, because if all 3/4 marines build at once, the RT will be done before a skulk has a chance to get halfway to your squad anyway. Seriously. And it doesn't take that long to stop building/knifing and pull your gun out anyway. In fact, the only time when I can see it proper to cover is when you are setting siege up outside of a hive.
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-the phrase 'i win'
-'elite' players who just want a high K : D score, and will go to any lengths to do it (not follow orders, go off and rambo, reswhore to fade all the time)
-ppl who jump in the cc, spend all the starting rez, then say "OK! WHO WANTS TO COMM? i SUCK AT THIS"
-young'uns and their reflexes
-everyone asking for Owl CommRage, but insist on going to waypoints, doing everything i ask, showing initiative, and basically, all the stuff that makes me mellow out. ;)
Noes! I missed Owl's commrage today. :(
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-everyone asking for Owl CommRage, but insist on going to waypoints, doing everything i ask, showing initiative, and basically, all the stuff that makes me mellow out. ;)
I know! Every commander would hate that situation. :p
Yeah, I think you know what I hate (hopefully high-speed net will get here some day).
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I hate when LA marines chase after me as onos, there SUPPOSED to piss thier pants when they see an onos. <_<
oh wait, i almost forgot this isnt 1.0 anymore :o
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Gorges/Lerks blocking your way as onos while being hammered on by hmgs/shotguns.
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-'elite' players who just want a high K : D score, and will go to any lengths to do it (not follow orders, go off and rambo, reswhore to fade all the time)
Thats 99% of the vets then ^^ :p
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I resent that, 99% my ass it has to be more like 99.5%. (Theres my try at some humor today) Anyway maybe if you didn't stereotype vets we might not act like kills are the only thing that are important. Besides if ns vets ever want to get kills they have CS to play.
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leap does ALOT more than parasite.
try going on top of a marine, then look down and leap. his health will go down like a madman on crack.
Yes, and if you happen to find an AFK marine just sitting about in a convenient corner so you don't slide off his head like a butter, then GG you get a leap kill. Be sure to save a screenshot for some silly webpage. ;)
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I hate it when I have 2 OCs going up in a choke, a marine comes around the corner, hops over while taking OC fire, chases me a few feet, kills me, then gets killed by my OCs. That means that I have to spend an extra 10 res to go gorge again when I could have used it to drop another OC somewhere or something. (yes, I'm an OC whore when I can afford it)
oh, and I also hate people who INSIST on reloading everything from their LMG to their knife before going through the phasegate where we really need another marine there... oh, and people who try to set up 'truces' early-mid game and run off into hives and dance around with gorges leaving us short another man when the teams are stacked in favor of aliens.
One more thing... I hate it when we start off with the no-comm strat which pretty much forces me to comm to give us some chance at all at a decent game. I don't like doing that... I think i've only commed 2 winning games on LM, and both were flukes or I had a good team of regs on.
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Rounds starting with 3 people on each team whilst everyone else jumps around in the readyroom, when i'm comming i don't want the 5 minutes to be me reiterating my starting orders to people who are slowly but surely joining. It's hard to start a round as a comm when in the first 3 minutes the 3 aliens who bothered to join all get 50 res very very quickly and by then your 2 folks have finished building base the entire map is llamed up, fades have turned up and we stil haven't got out of base and got any nodes. Jebus people, JOIN THE ROUND PEOPLE.
ooh, actually, there is a pluggin that autoassigns people to a random team when the round starts so you can avoid that sort of crap. :D
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1. My mouse cabel
2. Touching a marine and not connecting bites
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A bit off-topic, but I was wondering how leap was "exploited" back in 1.04, which forced flayra to reduce leap damage. Anyone know? I miss the old leap :(
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wasnt it he old "bind a key to impule so and so to make a hive 2 skulk jet around at super speeds"
i dunno if that was the reason, but that exploit allowed you to spam leap very fast without energy usage and killing any marine you fly into.
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I hate when LA marines chase after me as onos, there SUPPOSED to piss thier pants when they see an onos. <_<
I didn't.
I chased the bugger. Then got hugely irritated when all my bullets did NOTHING!
Oh that and I hate all the people in general discussion because they all seem to play aliens and want to nerf all the "useful" marine stuff even though its mainly the aliens that are unbalanced.
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1. Not understanding what the comm is trying to make me do.
Believe it or not, it annoys me to no end when I can't do my job v_v
2. Getting RS kicked.
Well...every non-regular hates this, i'll bet :D
3. Emptying a full shottie clip close up of a fade in Combat and then getting slashed to chop-suey.
Admittedly, this has so far only been a beta 4 problem, but it still makes me whiny like a widdle girl when I get my ass kicked as a marine in co maps. Incidently, I haven't seen a marine win in combat yet...
4. Spawning, and then getting munched. Continously.
Yes, I know. It's a part of the game. It still makes me pissed each time it happens :D
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Oh that and I hate all the people in general discussion because they all seem to play aliens and want to nerf all the "useful" marine stuff even though its mainly the aliens that are unbalanced.
You're kidding right? Aside from the Lerks movement exploits, Aliens are kind of at a disadvantage - to stand a chance at all, they need to get a 2nd Hive up and at the same time chew down enough nodes to disallow marine teching. And while they're at it, save enough of their own nodes (which with some basic knowledge are relatively soft targets) to field enough lifeforms against the amount of tech marines will inevitably field, node-chewing or no.
In public games, marines even have an organisational advantage. In competitive gaming, admittedly organisation is the aliens saving grace - delayed Skulk rushes, organized ambush spots near RTs and all that increase their chances at getting a good first 4. But they're still pretty weak.
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1. People.
2. Can I go home now?
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when i'm commanding, and THREE vets, all go to subspace array, when i SPECIFICALLY give orders to attack mother hive with EVERYONE ELSE, even after i've beaconed.. uhm.. no, not thinking of any game in particular, nope, nuh uh. on the plus side, george, rayden, fatty and some other LMers got to see pure, uncut, Owly Grade Commrage.
they should understand i'm willing to sacrifice one hive position (pg and an rt) to take down one of their hives :S snap.
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I hate when the comm tells you nothing except "move to your waypoint, soldier"
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New versions of maps with broken RTs :angry:
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People that whine and complain on every aspect of the game.
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1. Bite knockback
2. "Oops is ff on?" people
3. Seth :rolleyes:
4. Yo-yo lerks (the ones that bind +jump to mousewheel)
5. Comms who build turrets in holoroom
6. People who join the server just to be assholes
7. Hearing the phase gate in the hive your team is destroying go silent, then having the comm tell you that base is gone.
8. The fact that my lunch break is over, damn!
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7. Hearing the phase gate in the hive your team is destroying go silent, then having the comm tell you that base is gone.
That one really made me laugh. Another one is when you're assaulting a hive with a heavy train and suddenly you see the upgrade icons on the right disappear. You look on your minimap and there's 4 red blips in MS, and you say "uhhh comm, is base alright?", and he's like "Oh shi-, get back to base!", and then you say "the phase is down, beacon!", and he's like "NO OBS!", and you're like "BUILD ONE!", and he's like "NO RELOC!", and then he tries to build CC/IPs/armory/arms lab with 50 res, and fails to build the proto before the adv armory is destroyed, and on top of that, the whole heavy train dies while building the IPs. YES, it has happened MORE THAN ONCE :D :D :D
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I'm prety sure that happened to me the other day! In my defense i didn't start comming till about 4 minutes into the game so the fact we manage to even get one hive and HA was in itself quite a feat.
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Quitters, especially the ones who give up when I've been on a team that has come back from worse. <_<
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When you jump and start evolving in mid air, but your poor Fade egg lands on a steep angled piece of map geometry and gibs 2 seconds later.
Plus all of the above.
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Going onos in an unbuilt hive and some res-happy gorge drops it along with dc's so when i "hatch" i can't get out due to the unique way the oc's are placed and the map terrain....a very specific event, and also very annoying ;)
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Going onos in an unbuilt hive and some res-happy gorge drops it along with dc's so when i "hatch" i can't get out due to the unique way the oc's are placed and the map terrain....a very specific event, and also very annoying ;)
At least with FF on, an onos can plow through a wall of lame with a little bit of effort. Haven't tried it with a hive healing it though, must be a real pain.
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Going onos in an unbuilt hive and some res-happy gorge drops it along with dc's so when i "hatch" i can't get out due to the unique way the oc's are placed and the map terrain....a very specific event, and also very annoying ;)
At least with FF on, an onos can plow through a wall of lame with a little bit of effort. Haven't tried it with a hive healing it though, must be a real pain.
didn't resort to that, the apologetic gorgie dropped me a movement. ^_^
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didn't resort to that, the apologetic gorgie dropped me a movement
Good to know not everyone is an ass hole
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A bit off-topic, but I was wondering how leap was "exploited" back in 1.04, which forced flayra to reduce leap damage. Anyone know? I miss the old leap :(
Leap used to be FPS dependant. People with 99 fps actually could cause damage with leap, and charge.
Flaynub decided that this wasn't fair and that both abilities should blow.
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Flaynub decided that this wasn't fair and that both abilities should blow.
In terms of the damage they deal, I would assume you mean. Leap and charge are both enormously powerful abilities, but not for their damage.
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OK... bear with me. Lets see.....
-How about when Comm drops a HA/HMG train, and ALL the noobs get in back so they can hide behind the entire team, and then as soon as one skulk shows up, they spray everyone standing in front of them... Yeah I've been told to stop that.. :p
-Or how about when Torque2k7 goes Fatty right at the end of the game and drops 20 OC's in MS. Torque... plz... at least give us a death thats not humiliating.
-How about when people are talking over the mic while apparently EATING it so all you can hear is "KSJBDKJ SKJDBK KSJBFK JSNKSJ, FKJSBFK KFJBSKF AKJDSFJKHEN ASDUJF DKJBFKSDJF KSDFJK SDFB!!!" which winds up translating into "Hey guys, can you hear me ok, or am I eating the mic?"
thats good for now....
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Flaynub decided that this wasn't fair and that both abilities should blow.
In terms of the damage they deal, I would assume you mean. Leap and charge are both enormously powerful abilities, but not for their damage.
Leap can still kill in one click, right? (assuming that constant contact is made)
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Leap can still kill in one click, right? (assuming that constant contact is made)
According to the manual it deals 80 damage per second.
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Leap can still kill in one click, right? (assuming that constant contact is made)
According to the manual it deals 80 damage per second.
Yeah - because I remember that if one leaps directly downward at a full-health marine's head and keeps constant contact,the marine will die in about two seconds (probably dependant n armor level)
So no, Uranub, if you can properly use it, leap can be quite powerful indeed. :)
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I hate it when fades hit you. Run away. Jump back in base. Seees a swarm of marines and knows who exactly is damaged enuf to get a kill.
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So no, Uranub, if you can properly use it, leap can be quite powerful indeed. :)
The damage really isn't the reason leap is useful. It does 80 damage per second, whereas bite does about 180. It is useful because of the speed it provides.
Charge is also useful for that reason.
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A single leap doesn't last for one second. And leap is simply not a powerful damage dealing ability. If you can find an AFK marine in a convenient corner so you don't slide off you can get a leap kill, that's about it. Like civ said, leap is useful because it allows the skulk speed. It's a 'ranged' attack of a sort, turning you into a projectile so you can get to the marines before they can shoot you.
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I demand a cannon mounted on the Onos named "Skulk-gun"!
*fits carapace* "Alrighty, Bertha. Let 'er rip!"
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On on the contrary - I've gotten many leap kills after biting a marine once or twice. Leap usually disorients whoever it hits and makes them spray around wildly to getitiff. It's not an offensive powerhouse (quite obviously) but can be very helpful in finishing off a straggling marine who may just have turned tail and run from you. And on top of that, it's totally demeaning because of the infrequency of a leap kill :lol:
And of course it's awesomely useful for locomotion :)
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wasnt it he old "bind a key to impule so and so to make a hive 2 skulk jet around at super speeds"
something like that
if you bound a key to the leap impulse it let you leap with no energy and no sound.
leap damage was nerfed for a different reason I believe
oh and things that frusturate me?
1) no teamwork
2) people who don't listen
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I demand a cannon mounted on the Onos named "Skulk-gun"!
*fits carapace* "Alrighty, Bertha. Let 'er rip!"
This and the way people were asking on LM whether FF allowed you to devour teammates has inspired me to request Voogru's next project: the skulk launcher!
Devour a skulk, run into marine spawn, and spit him out at hyper-leap velocity! Perfect for xenociding, and kids love 'em!
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A single leap doesn't last for one second.
The duration of leap may be longer than you think. I have damaged hives with it long after I thought it had expired.
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A single leap doesn't last for one second.
The duration of leap may be longer than you think. I have damaged hives with it long after I thought it had expired.
But have you damaged marines? I havent done more than 10 damage to a marine while leap-biting them with leap since 1.04 :p. I think its the fact that leap doesnt stick to marines ever. I miss the days of when two skulks could fly together :(.
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leap just plain blows because u cant control it very well. Charge u can atleast keep control of. Thats why u see many onos's getting charge kills and no skulks getting leap kills. I also have had a point where there was an afk marine but wasnt in a corner. and omg i could not even stay on his head using leap, i dont even know how much i hurt him either. The leap thing also with the hive, i leaped so far away, and like even with the hive, i was falling downwards and i still hurt the hive apparently. then everyone started to scream COMPUTER CORE, and im like ITS OKAY. lol. I got a friend who i can test with to see exactly how sucky or good leap is. Actually i can do it myself, i got 2 computers at home, and so i can find an empty server like combat, and find out. :) >:D
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leap just plain blows because u cant control it very well. Charge u can atleast keep control of. Thats why u see many onos's getting charge kills and no skulks getting leap kills. I also have had a point where there was an afk marine but wasnt in a corner. and omg i could not even stay on his head using leap, i dont even know how much i hurt him either. The leap thing also with the hive, i leaped so far away, and like even with the hive, i was falling downwards and i still hurt the hive apparently. then everyone started to scream COMPUTER CORE, and im like ITS OKAY. lol. I got a friend who i can test with to see exactly how sucky or good leap is. Actually i can do it myself, i got 2 computers at home, and so i can find an empty server like combat, and find out. :) >:D
I think it is ~25 or something lower than that.
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A single triggering of leap lasts less than 1 whole second, so although it does 80 damage per second it totals up to 64 damage (damage inflicted in doses of 8, 8 touches per leap) Normally only 1-2 of those touches will ever reach the marine because of the sketchy game physics :(
Considering how difficult it is to get on top of a marine's head just to aim straight down and leap to do 64 damage, i think you're better off just leaping toward him and biting :)
As for what upsets me... People who play on a team but think that team's goals aren't their responsibility, e.g. the gorge that sits off in an inane corner of the map while your hive dies, or the skulk that sits there biting down a marine RT (which is easily replaced) as the marines kill one of your RTs (Which isn't). Equally bad is the marine who walks off down a random hallway ignoring teh commander who has given him orders to do something else. ACK! These things make baby onos cry.
I also hate myself. I sux at NS and i die too easily.
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Well since i've become known to be quite a whiner, here's The List.
- People that scream down the mic. I f**king hate this. Stop it.
- People that blame you for stuff that's either their fault or the other team's.
- People that team damage for "fun".
- The shotgun being the NS equivalent of the RC2 bulls**t cannon. A hive should NOT be taken down by the time you hear the first "Your hive is under attack" sound.
- Being on a team with bad players.
- Res whores. Yes, this includes people that go Lerk with their starting res. Guess what guys, we need upgrades, a second hive and resource towers. Unless you're god-like with a Lerk (Which is beyond being just rare), don't do it.
- Players oblivious to what's going on. Yeah, great, you're killing an enemy RT, good for you, but since you're the only Fade alive and our hive's under attack, how about f**king helping!
- Smacktards. (See most of my points)
- People breaking the rules and getting away with it.
- People that can't learn to aim and decide to spray a HMG in your direction. And if they do kill you, they don't apologise.
- People that say "Oh, i didn't know FF was on" when it states VERY CLEARLY in both the MOTD and on screen when you're playing that it's on.
- Most players.
- Skill stax.
- Vets.
- People that constantly stack marines just because they're better at that. Yeah, that means all the sh***y players are on aliens with me. Really makes for an unbalanced game.
And that's about it... for now.
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Pretty much everything on your list esuna.
And i came up with one more thing, when everyone is in the RR stacking Marines.
Don't you really hate it when you go alien and let one of the stackers go marines?
God i really hate that.
Also, getting the resbewt and right after you've got te boot you see that there is 15/17.
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I was reading your post, Esuna, and felt almost as if you could be a threat to the great temptation, to drink deeply from the cup that is my manifest of a pure energy of corruption and evil, to be one with the demons that reside within; the demons that fuel the forge of raw evil, of such that one may use to craft a weapon of unimaginable power out of the shards of despair and agony, fragments of fallen hopes and withered dreams, slivers of fear and torment, craft them into a weapon with which to wield and lash out; smite the inferior creatures that dare call themselves of the same specie as yourself, while you sit high upon your throne of your slain enemies and drink only the purest living virgin blood from the skull of the mightiest of those that oppose you, and when you're ruling dominion over every subservient creature on this desolate uncaring rock, looking down upon all from the mountain of sacrafices you've reaped in your righteous thirst, knowing they are but peons in your chaos-twisted corrupted game of metaphorical chess, aspiring to become to the divine creature of arcane energy that is your birthright, when I realize that while you are cantankerous... you are no bard!
Hmm and for the record, all should have learned by now that I vindicate all when I have an HMG, and I very clearly warn that if you're being a f***cawk and hop in my way while trying to exploit game physics, I don't give two f***s if I kill you or not.
As for what pisses me off most in NS:
- Bunnyhopping marines abusing the game's physics.
- Shotguns. Face it, we all know they're overpowered as :Ding sin.
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[/li][li] People that constantly stack marines just because they're better at that. Yeah, that means all the sh***y players are on aliens with me. Really makes for an unbalanced game.
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*cry*
I almost always go aliens... well im sorry that im sucha disapoint me to you esuna[/sarcasim] :p
for a couple of reasons: 1) generally i don't like being on a team where most of the non-reg don't know how to f*****g listen to the **** **** commander. 2) Having to listen to a commander that doesn't know how to f*****g comm/manage his marines (this isn't always the case but happen enough to piss me off to no end). 3) Getting screwed over because no one takes the comm. I'd comm if a) people would acutally listen, B) give me useful advice/information while comming, c) I didn't **** more as a comm then I did as a marine. 4) I generally f*****g **** as marine. At least as alien I can do stuff generally do stuff on my own... kill rts, build important structures, *scratches his head* that about as all im good at :p but it tends to be more fun. o_O :blink:
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What frustrates me the most while playing NS?
Playing NS would have to be the most frustrating thing about it. At least, anything after 2.01.
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People that scream down the mic. I f**king hate this. Stop it.
ah, sorry, ain't gonna stop this, :p
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...manifest of a pure energy of corruption and evil, to be one with the demons that reside within; the demons that fuel the forge of raw evil, of such that one may use to craft a weapon of unimaginable...
boinking buddha on a bipartisan train! teenangsting to the ubarest eh uranub?
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[...]The shotgun being the NS equivalent of the RC2 bulls**t cannon[...]
I invented that weapon! w00t!
Oh, what annoys me about NS is that I'm outta it for quite a while still. Oh, and people swearing incessantly on forums, as if it'd make their posts appear more threatening or something like that. But that's got little to do with NS.
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People that scream down the mic. I f**king hate this. Stop it.
ah, sorry, ain't gonna stop this, :p
I don't mean scream as in shout, i mean scream like a goddamn banshee, piercing any eardrums. Temjin, i'm looking at you.
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...manifest of a pure energy of corruption and evil, to be one with the demons that reside within; the demons that fuel the forge of raw evil, of such that one may use to craft a weapon of unimaginable...
boinking buddha on a bipartisan train! teenangsting to the ubarest eh uranub?
Well it started out with a one-line reply, and kinda escalated from there into that Tapestry of Terror®...
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just stupid marines in general
sometimes it gets so bad i feel like getting outta the comm chair and gunning a few of them down
I bet you felt like that today with 'Captain Planet the UBER FADE' didnt you seth :)