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The Ready Room => General => Topic started by: Doobie Dan on September 23, 2004, 10:28:02 AM

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Doobie Dan on September 23, 2004, 10:28:02 AM

Topic says it all.  Vote on your favorite map!!!

(forum mod that gets to this first gets a chocolate chip cookie)

1. Altair
2. Agora
3. Ayumi
4. Bast
5. Caged
6. Eclipse
7. Hera
8. Lost
9. Metal
10. Mineshaft
11. Metal
12. Nothing
13. Origin
14. Tanith (my fav)
15. Veil

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Clashen on September 23, 2004, 10:57:56 AM

Either Nothing or Tanith.
Nothing is so pretty ^_-
Thanith is so ugly, but plays awesome.

Hard to decide >_<

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: fatty on September 23, 2004, 11:11:33 AM

eclipse. it was my first map ever. i also like how small and easy flowing it is.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: -Lancer- on September 23, 2004, 11:40:39 AM

Origin all the way!!!

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Satiagraha on September 23, 2004, 01:29:04 PM

Eclipse No contest.

Second place, Hera and Origin

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Niteowl on September 23, 2004, 01:49:23 PM

oh alright, only because that picture of you with your porkchops melts my knees!

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Niteowl on September 23, 2004, 01:52:24 PM

CRAP! only allowed 10 choices,if your fav map isnt on the list, we can debate taking one of the current ones out.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Doobie Dan on September 23, 2004, 01:54:35 PM

Hehe, Metal on the list but not Ayumi?  Ayumi is number 2 for me.  But then everyone else seems to hate it for some reason.  :(

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: BobTheJanitor on September 23, 2004, 04:20:05 PM

Bast = prettiest

Eclipse = best playing

I voted for Eclipse, but it's really up in the air. We'll have to wait for the remade version of bast to finalize before I'm sure. Maybe they can make it into something that plays as well as Eclipse! Kekeke!

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Malevolent on September 23, 2004, 07:31:48 PM

I am into ns_marineris (or however it is spelled along with what version it is). It's such a nice change from other maps. Too bad we don't play it more. :(

If I can't pick that, tanith is good along with eclipse. I dig some origin too.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Dark on September 24, 2004, 07:16:55 AM

i like origin and eclipse the most but voted origin for a little change in the number of votes for eclipse

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: SgtFury on September 24, 2004, 09:00:05 AM

I was torn... Hera was good..... having to weld to get through cargo ahhh i remember.... and Nancy when the hive was called noname..... remember getting lost in that for ages.....but for now I got to say Lost.

Some really unique areas like temp control and the weldable siege room. Plus the atmosphere is brilliant and no brightly lit corridors for marines to rampage down....
 :D  :D

Maybe thats it more maps need important weldables to make things interesting.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Clashen on September 24, 2004, 10:56:40 AM

Voted Tanith, cuz of it's awesome gameplay \o/.
I don't like Eclipse cuz it's so friggin hard to hold resnodes >_<

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Necrosis on September 24, 2004, 12:21:04 PM

By Bast do you mean Rotating-Door-Pwn Bast, or Guts-Ripped-Out Bast?











Please note the new Bast is nice, its just not the old one.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Doobie Dan on September 24, 2004, 01:09:56 PM

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By Bast do you mean Rotating-Door-Pwn Bast, or Guts-Ripped-Out Bast?

What about the Relocate-To-Engine-Room-And-Win Bast?   B)

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: BobTheJanitor on September 24, 2004, 01:42:19 PM

More like relocate to engine room and turtle for two hour long games bast... It took me a long time to ever comm on bast again after THAT game...

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Diablus on September 27, 2004, 03:15:51 PM

Alright, who's the douchebag who voted their favorite map as ns_lost?  :blink:







and if it was an admin please dont crush me superior one! o_O

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: BobTheJanitor on September 27, 2004, 03:53:41 PM

Lost is awesome, go die in a painful yet humorous fashion.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Dark on September 27, 2004, 05:51:42 PM

i like lost and have always liked it

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Doobie Dan on September 27, 2004, 06:30:09 PM

Lost used to be my favorite map when I used to play on servers without good aliens.  :)  Relocate to Temp Control FTW.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Malevolent on September 27, 2004, 07:56:50 PM

Wth does the purple icon mean for this thread? I haven't seen it before. Yay for lost, I guess.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: BobTheJanitor on September 27, 2004, 09:06:27 PM

It's the new 'vote' icon with the new forum software.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: TOmekki on September 27, 2004, 11:42:32 PM

lost is "the" map. every hated it in 2.01 because it was so alien-biased. now its like the balanced map around. (because of the changes)

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: BobTheJanitor on September 27, 2004, 11:49:42 PM

It wasn't too alien biased, it was mainly a bit too dark, especially MS. Although moving the los res node to beta deck definitely is a plus for marines. Kind of sad, though, I'll miss all the relcations to good old los paranoias.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: SgtFury on September 28, 2004, 01:55:26 AM

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Alright, who's the douchebag who voted their favorite map as ns_lost?  :blink:







and if it was an admin please dont crush me superior one! o_O

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IT was ME!!!   :D

Its one of those things when something is kept away from you for too long (like Nancy) when you go back it has a silver lining  :D  After lost crashing all the time  it was good to have it back.

Lost still feels like I think NS should feel. Its not a map where marines can rambo as easily as say Eclipse. Means Marines have to fight for it more.

Plus as aliens there are at least a few nodes that feel "safe" to put down.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Malevolent on September 28, 2004, 04:06:49 AM

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It's the new 'vote' icon with the new forum software.

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Oh, I thought green was good, but maybe that was me. And if you want a dark map, play altair.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Dark on September 28, 2004, 06:57:18 AM

argh not altair

i've yet to have a good game on altair cause no one seems to listen on aliens whan i'm just typing 'GET TO (insert hive name)" over and over again.

i guess i'll just have to get a mic and pray it works :blink:

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Doobie Dan on September 28, 2004, 10:09:57 AM

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It wasn't too alien biased, it was mainly a bit too dark, especially MS. Although moving the los res node to beta deck definitely is a plus for marines. Kind of sad, though, I'll miss all the relcations to good old los paranoias.

One of the reasons I used to love Lost so much was the relocatable goodness.  Paranoias was my personal favorite, only because Temp Control was too risky to pull off usually (though I often relocated to the hallway between Temp and Equilibrium).  Turrets on top of those crates FTW.

The worst thing about relocating is that, no matter how often it wins, you'll get double-blamed if you relocate and lose.  A few days ago I jumped into the chair on Bast and had everybody rushing to double.  I screamed at them to relocate to Engine, and eventually got them all to go there, but they were convinced that doing so would mean we would have no chance of winning.  And that was all they could talk about for the first 3 minutes.  We ended up completely dominating... no faith!   :)

Oh, and Dark, no Texans on the voicecomm, read the server rules.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Niteowl on September 28, 2004, 10:13:53 AM

i haven't even PLAYED the new lost. but the old lost was where i honed my commrage and my every cerebral and well thought out RUN AND GUN AND DON"T BUILD TURRETS AND SIEGE AND SHOOOT AND OMG RUN AND RUN ADN GOOOOOO technique.

hm.. i think i might have made up my mind then.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Dark on September 28, 2004, 02:00:38 PM

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Oh, and Dark, no Texans on the voicecomm, read the server rules.

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very funneh doobie <_<

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: BobTheJanitor on September 28, 2004, 02:53:48 PM

I don't recall anyone ever complaining about my drawling oklahoma accent.  :p

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Satiagraha on September 28, 2004, 04:43:09 PM

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I don't recall anyone ever complaining about my drawling oklahoma accent.  :p

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It's so horid that we prefer not to speak of it. evar.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: BobTheJanitor on September 28, 2004, 10:22:10 PM

Y'all go to hell now, y'hear?

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Dark on September 28, 2004, 10:48:20 PM

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Y'all go to hell now, y'hear?

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seconded though my drawl would be more southern than bob's :p

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Doobie Dan on September 29, 2004, 10:56:04 AM

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Oh, and Dark, no Texans on the voicecomm, read the server rules.

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very funneh doobie <_<

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Oh c'mon man, I'm from Kentucky, it should be a piece of cake for you to fire back at that   :p

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Major Chrome on September 29, 2004, 12:31:11 PM

Bast!

Great map.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: That Annoying Kid on September 29, 2004, 01:13:55 PM

hear hear!

back in the 1.xx days we pretty much only played on Bast, and thats where I pretty much learned to play NS

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Malibu Stacey on October 01, 2004, 09:03:19 AM

Origin for the win because Cadaver is the man. Although Tanith comes a close second because tommyd is also the man. (re-release ns_delta plzkthnx)

P.S 3.0 beta 5 bast is horrendous.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Anarki3x6 on October 03, 2004, 10:05:40 PM

i vote bast... the old versions tho, b5 one is crapola :p

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Dark on October 03, 2004, 10:33:29 PM

ya the old versions of bast were great, but this one has drastically gone down the drain <_<

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: LochNess on October 03, 2004, 11:05:18 PM

what is this crap, you completely left out THE best map evar!  How can no one apreciate a perfect meld of great NS atmosphere with good balance and map design that is the great work of mineshaft!

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Doobie Dan on October 04, 2004, 09:57:34 AM

Oh, don't even start about maps left off when Ayumi isn't on there!!!

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Slink on October 04, 2004, 10:48:16 PM

um, my favorite map is NS_


actually, if i had to pick one, i'd say ns_agora.  I'm not really sure why, i just like it.  I think my gamma got adjusted up a while back though, but i'm not sure.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Grimm on October 07, 2004, 12:07:51 AM

As much as I really really really don't like the doors in marine start, ns_eclipse is still a very solid map. It isn't so large that it's a pain to traverse for either team, but it isn't cramped so close together that there's no room for movement without confrontation. Two other very close maps are ns_hera and ns_tanith, and the only map I don't really care for on the list is ns_metal.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Malevolent on October 07, 2004, 04:22:38 AM

Yeah, eclipse is good, but too bad they didn't take out the do doors like they promised. :(

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: BobTheJanitor on October 07, 2004, 09:06:08 AM

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Yeah, eclipse is good, but too bad they didn't take out the do doors like they promised. :(

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Blame Mr.Ben for not making a version that compiled right early enough for it to be released with b5. And if you see him on IRC, be sure to harass him about fixing the vents in veil to be big enough for skulks to fit in. I'm sure he doesn't know about it and would appreciate you pointing it out to him.  >:D

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Uranium - 235 on October 07, 2004, 11:51:59 AM

It might not be the best for gameplay, but Agora pwns me.



Ayumi? OVERATED. Gameplay is horrible, the corridors are mostly boring and lifeless... ugh.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: BobTheJanitor on October 07, 2004, 11:58:17 AM

Lies, ayumi is pretty. It's just pain on fades and JPs because of all the little details. And it's a bit alien sided. Needs to be updated and have the silly gorges hideout res node removed.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Sancho on October 07, 2004, 01:00:18 PM

Yeah, what bob said...ayumi would have gotten my vote if it had been there.  I don't care that it kills the super overpowered fades or the jetpackers that can get on top of every hive...and even build on one.  It has PLENTY of res nodes near MS, marines easily have a chance even with the vast spread of the map.

I haven't played the new lost, but the old lost was EXTREMELY unbalanced.  Marines have 2 nodes near MS, and no others without a very long jog.  Even with the best comms, they could never win without a relocation...which usually ended in a long and drug out game.  I did love relocating on that map though...especially to the siege room, but now that the glass is breakable...meh.

I'd like to review every map, but I'm not going to.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Niteowl on October 07, 2004, 03:07:48 PM

hm, i honestly though ns_nothing would get more votes :( er, maybe i should redo the vote with all the maps getting 1 or less votes taken off?

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Grimm on October 07, 2004, 03:45:16 PM

I've had a lot of great games on ns_nothing, and it's the most fun for me to perma-gorge on it. Granted it is a large map, and the elevators hinder movement more than help, it's still very solid.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, we have ns_ayumi. I honestly don't beleive anyone enjoys this map for the gameplay; It has a few pretty hallways, like the snow between marine start and AE35 hive, and it has the "OGM CATBUS!!11oneleven!" secret room. I think the gameplay is horrible; Marines have too many easily-defendable seige locations outside of hives (A skulk spawning in AE35 has a 0% chance of survival because of that long hallway), movement around the map for an Onos is a pain because of the many small corridors, and most of the vent systems that could lead to a possible ambush location against marines are weldable. Plus, if the marines set up the node in the gorge's hideout and electrify it, they've effectivly cut off movement through that vent for any passing skulks.

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Malevolent on October 08, 2004, 10:46:06 PM

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Yeah, eclipse is good, but too bad they didn't take out the do doors like they promised. :(

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Blame Mr.Ben for not making a version that compiled right early enough for it to be released with b5. And if you see him on IRC, be sure to harass him about fixing the vents in veil to be big enough for skulks to fit in. I'm sure he doesn't know about it and would appreciate you pointing it out to him.  >:D

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Oh, I forgot about veil. Silly people don't fix the vent in over several builds. Psh...

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Squats on October 09, 2004, 07:35:43 PM

I voted eclipse, but I'm not sure why. It just seems to have good games and it looks pretty good. Very within the scope of good NS "Look and Feel". I like all the maps though, it's nice to have so many base maps in the rotation that I don't get so burned out on any one of them. Why quibble too much about best when the average quality is so good, that 10 choices for best map was not enough? Thanks to the LM members involved in the mapping (2 by my very unofficial and ill-informed count) for all the great variety the dev team as delivered for maps! ;)

Squats

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Satiagraha on October 09, 2004, 09:52:20 PM

ns_eclipse was the first map that I ever played NS on. Some of my best games have been played on that map <3

Title: Favorite Map?
Post by: Crispy on December 22, 2004, 10:02:00 AM

Mine was either Eclipse or Hera, and one of them got my vote bigtime.

If you're gonna redo the vote at least wait for people who browse a little less often to vote. My second vote would've gone to Lost or Nothing. I think for a map to get my vote they have to have an immersive atmosphere (that comment immediately gives away which map I voted for).

Anyway why isn't Richmond on there ;)