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Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: fatty on October 01, 2004, 05:53:35 PM

how did you "discover" ns ?

my cousin came over for a thanksgiving and said, "i've been playing this game for a while lemme show you." and installed ns 1.04 on my comp.


roommate? sibling? other forums? reviews?

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: GrayDuck on October 01, 2004, 06:08:25 PM

My coworker showed me the light.  Everyone in my office was getting bored with DoD, and he had heard about this UBER COOL new mod coming out, so as soon as it was released we installed and started playing   <3

I can still remember the first week of complete nubiness we all had, not knowing anything about the game but too stubborn to read to find out how exactly to do stuff!

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Necrosis on October 01, 2004, 07:12:29 PM

Bored, was looking for a teamplay mod that wasn't as stale as UT was getting. Yes, the original UT.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Doobie Dan on October 01, 2004, 07:37:48 PM

Last year, in the peak of my Warcraft 3 obsession, me and 3 other guys lived in a house near campus and partied all the time.  We had put all of our computers in one big room and would game together during weeknights, playing 4 on a team in Warcraft and other games.  One of them had been into NS for a while and got another into it, and they would stay up late into the night playing NS, guzzling beer, and shouting like drunken fools over the voicecomm.  Pissed me off when it was 4am on Wednesday and I had class the next morning, but eventually I had to try it.  And I loved it.  Been playing obsessively non-stop for over a year now.   :lol:

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Tooky on October 01, 2004, 08:25:55 PM

Mr.Bill showed me the light during a little dine at his domain.
 <3

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Mr.Bill on October 01, 2004, 08:30:44 PM

I have spread the light to many around me.

I found ns when it first came out, from PHL< back in the day, then I went inactive forevar, then wabbit brought me back.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Magmatron on October 01, 2004, 08:33:45 PM

My TFC clan posted about it (and S&I) the summer of 02'. I read up on it, decided it sounded like ass, and played some more TFC and S&I. I was given a copy of it on a CD by a buddy at a Halloween LAN party that year, installed it, and quit for two weeks after having the worst 3 games I've ever had. Came back later and resumed play when a friend bugged me to.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Satiagraha on October 01, 2004, 08:33:50 PM

My brother played it a long time ago. I remember the circular building sprite, it was cool :D . Then he stopped playing and like 6 months later I remembered this cool mod that he was playing (don't ask me how I remembered the name :huh: ) and so I go and download it. I got hooked and have been playing it for about a year now.

Funny thing is, I 'introduced' NS to him about a month after I started playing it and he got hooked. Apparently he had no recolection of ever having seen the mod before and claimed that I was, and I quote, "full of ****". So I guess I got to intoduce my introducer to Natural Selection :lol:

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Dark on October 01, 2004, 08:59:28 PM

heard about in one of the irc channels i own and d/led it back when it came out

i've loved it ever since  <3  <3  <3  <3

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Slink on October 01, 2004, 09:03:31 PM

Friend i had was keeping tabs on it while it was still under developement.  Tried it when it came out, but since dialup is t3h $P4\/\//|/ ()/= $474|\|, i only played for like 2 weeks till i went back to whatever i'd been playing before.  But i REMEMBERED it.  kept tabs on the ns website, and when college broadband came around, guess what i found my way to?  The LunixMonster.  Now i'm back on dialup, and was playing regularly till 3b5 came out.  155meg d/l is not friendly on dialup.  theoretically, supposed to get dsl by next week, so i should be back to play some time soon.  lurve...

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Malevolent on October 01, 2004, 09:54:52 PM

My friend, BlaqWolf introduced me to it, but at first I wasn't that interested. Then he showed me how to play (before I even played), so I started off knowing what to do pretty much.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: EmperorPenguin on October 01, 2004, 10:35:34 PM

I was just randomly cruising either the DoD website, or maybe it was cs.net, and there was a blurb in the news about a new mod called Natural Selection.  I went, read about it, downloaded, and never looked back.

There was a space of a few months directly after Steam came out that I stopped playing, but then 3.0 came out and I was right back on the train.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Mr.Ben on October 02, 2004, 07:20:55 AM

i saw a link to it on the VERC before it was released, i went over there, checked it out and then downloaded 1.0 when it came out.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Isamil on October 02, 2004, 07:26:04 AM

Someones sig on some random forum.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: sonic on October 02, 2004, 08:20:32 AM

Cant remember how I found ns...but I've been playing since 1.02/3.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Mouse on October 02, 2004, 09:10:32 AM

Back when i was in a CS clan a clan mate was trying to get a NS divison of the clan started. He was ranting and raving on how much better it was then CS because it was more teamwork involved/sensitive. You dont nesscaily have to be all that good to do good. Though I wasnt all that bad at CS my interest in it was starting to dwindle. So I gave it a shot and here I am... been playing since a release before 1.0 and I still suck at it...   <_<  :(  T_T

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: BobTheJanitor on October 02, 2004, 12:31:14 PM

Sancho did it. Back when I was active in an Action HL clan, he was in my clan's sister/arch-nemesis clan. So we played together all the time. We got a few folks together from the groups trying out random HL mods, and then we tried NS. I was basically hooked and Sancho taught me a good deal so that when I first started pubbing I didn't have to deal with a painful learning process in public. <3 Sancho. And now here I am about a year later so deeply involved in the game that I may never escape. Of course, the old mod club does yell at me every once in a while for not ever playing mods with them anymore.  :help:

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: That Annoying Kid on October 02, 2004, 02:47:00 PM

My friend Travinator showed it to us the day after halloween release, and said "OGM THIS GAME IS SO COOL YOU HAVE TO SEE IT" and we did, and it was, and I've been playing ever since

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Dirty Harry Potter on October 02, 2004, 06:04:08 PM

been playing since 1.0.

I found it through a school friend, who just briefly told me about it, then i tried it that weekend.....then i drew pretty much everyone in my school into LANing it.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Grimm on October 02, 2004, 07:37:18 PM

I was hanging out with a friend, who had a friend that wanted to show us some 'cool game' where we could play as some aliens, climbing on walls and biting some space marines. I absolutely loved how everything looked, and the idea of playing as this alien was too cool. At the time of NS' release, or at the time of this friend showing us the mod, I didn't have the internet (long story), but as soon as I got the internet back I searched for the mod and got into it. It's funny sometimes if I bring up NS in a conversation, the friend who showed us the game is usually confused as to what I'm talking about; I stuck with it, playing it as much as I used to play TFC, while my one friend played it every so often with me (enough to know the different aliens, how much they cost, how commanding works, etc), while his friend had only played it for a couple weeks.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: SgtFury on October 04, 2004, 06:32:15 AM

Found it on the front of PC Gamer magazine around the 1.0 version days I think. Read up about it on the NS forums and started playing. I remember getting lost in maps for ages since there wasn`t really a good map unlike today. You had to learn them off by heart.

 I started playing about March 2003. I hadn`t really gotten into online gaming before I had only played TFC really ( i only had a 56k modem) but this really hooked me. The atmosphere and the uniqueness of the aliens was great. Usually my attention span  (repeatablility) for a single game is low ( probably due to it only being single player) but NS really hooked me.

 Played mainly on the TheHavenNet server (this is where my [THN] tag came from) in UK and was admin there till it closed down last year and I have been looking for another good teamplaying NS server ever since. Till I found Lunixmonster  :D.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: That Annoying Kid on October 04, 2004, 03:02:46 PM

personally I think the big thing that hooked me into NS was the accompanying story line, the manual was like a story in and of itself

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Dark on October 04, 2004, 06:45:07 PM

i never read the manual  >:D

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: rad4Christ on October 05, 2004, 07:28:15 AM

I found it back when I first heard about a mod expo for Half-Life. I had been playing CS since beta 1, and since beta 7.1 I had begun to lose interest (I haven't even touched it since NS except two games on the LM CS server). I was really interested in the MOD's being showcased, namely NS and Polyfighter. Tried to follow Polyfighter as well, but it went the way of the dodo. Signed up immediately on the UBB boards at ns.org, began reading Humbaba's PT stories, talking about Bob's attack abilities, and commenting on concept art. Then, I basically followed it day by day (my homepage at work was the NS forums, actually surfed it so much they blocked it, but since I was in IT, I got it unblocked...) until release. PLayed it, loved it.

TBH, not to derail the thread, but since 2.0, it's been good, but not great. I think I'm finally starting to wane, but there aren't any games to replace NS...

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Owen on October 05, 2004, 12:47:30 PM

I first became aware of NS in a promo read of it in PCgamer UK in december 2002. I was intregued about the "aliens" like reference it was said to share, and got onto the site. At the time it was 1.04, and in my opinion the best release, though it was very marine biased, it didn't have as many newbs claiming to be elite and spamming mic. From there i progressed onto the forums, and have become a regular on the customization boards, specialising in making concepts for weapons, players, maps, and other items. More recently (within the last month) i've started playing on LM more and more regularly

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: -Lancer- on October 05, 2004, 02:36:13 PM

I found out through archi. At first I was uncertain because I was just starting to pwn in CS. But after I said that to him he relentlessly started calling me a nub and pretty much harrased the ^^ out of me.
So i downloaded beta3 and started playing. Been hooked ever since <3

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: SuicidaL MonkeY on October 06, 2004, 02:34:10 AM

Getting a little tired of DoD...a few friends Seth and Suri introduced me in the version 1.0 era  :) ....which in turn got me to basically blow my video/power supply/hard drive...... :blink: .......

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Uranium - 235 on October 06, 2004, 07:36:39 PM

I don't remember.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Sancho on October 06, 2004, 08:28:06 PM

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Sancho did it. Back when I was active in an Action HL clan, he was in my clan's sister/arch-nemesis clan. So we played together all the time. We got a few folks together from the groups trying out random HL mods, and then we tried NS. I was basically hooked and Sancho taught me a good deal so that when I first started pubbing I didn't have to deal with a painful learning process in public. <3 Sancho. And now here I am about a year later so deeply involved in the game that I may never escape. Of course, the old mod club does yell at me every once in a while for not ever playing mods with them anymore.  :help:

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Kekeke, we're still active ya know, except now its more random juarez games instead of mods.

Anyway, I can't remember where I heard about NS, but I posted on their forums for about 7 months before 1.0.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Niteowl on October 06, 2004, 10:43:42 PM

i used to always visit PHL, looking for the 'next big mod'. would dl all the silly and no so silly mods that came down the pipe. and more or less followed the path of NS being developed from teh time the first PR release came (summer of '02?).

so, basically salivated over it forever. er, then had mrs. owl download it while i was at work on halloween (i think she had the day off, or something). and the rest they say, is meeces.. i mean, history. no, wait, meeces.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Athena on October 07, 2004, 01:56:12 AM

My roommate, actually.  I used to play CS, then he got me into DoD - he then mentioned that this cool 'alien vs marines' mod had JUST come out (first public release ftw!), so I watched him play a bit and then got it myself.  I never learned the ins and outs and I wasn't much good at it so I didn't play it too much, then after a short hiatus got back into it... played a TON of 2.01, hours and hours at a time, then went AWOL again.

I don't remember quite when I got back into NS or became a part of the community (forums, #ns, etc) but anyway yeah, I blame my roommate :)

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Kodiac on October 09, 2004, 03:42:04 PM

i blame johnjacob.  Its all his fault for going off to college and then getting mom and dad tog et a high speed internet connectoin for "homework purposes".  We (asal, John, and i) promptly began to [play ns, john having brought it back from college.  Not sure when tho, around 1.04-ish era.........playted it since then

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Squats on October 09, 2004, 07:06:15 PM

My buddy Backleft (an occasional visitor to the Lunixmonster now, due to my always being here) first found it at 1.something. It ran on his comp but crashed on mine, so I gave up, as I didn't feel like tracking down the issue for one game. At the time we were cal-o CS, so my group didn't really have time for another game anyway. When 2.0 came out, I tried again, but even after a full OS rebuild I was still unable to make NS work. So, more CS, DOD, and Firearms for me, but Backleft dropped from the clan at this point so he could play more NS. Steam came out, I tried again with 2.1. Still crashes all the time. NS3b1 comes out, and voila! It works! I dropped the clan to play more NS. Since then I've been playing NS as my game of choice and mostly here, except when the res-slot kicks get me so pissed off I go to *******.***, ***.**, or *****.*** for a while. I always seem to end up back here, pissed off or no, because the games are just plain better, as long as I get to finish them. I've been gone for a while some recently too 'cause I just graduated and am now an elementary school teacher, and between the full time job and the full time school (I'm going on for a Masters at the moment), I have less time than I used to.

Peace
      Squats

PS- don't tell me to idle IRC to get a res-slot again, I won't. I made a promise to myself nearly 10 years ago that I wouldn't let myself get sucked back into IRC land again, as my addiction to it almost ruined my life....

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: TOmekki on October 10, 2004, 01:23:28 PM

i resisted my friends advice to dl 1.04 somewhere in summer '03. i was still too much into cs and dod i guess.

but 2.0 got me into this.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: lolfighter on October 11, 2004, 03:02:46 AM

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[...]don't tell me to idle IRC to get a res-slot again[...]

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Ok then... be ACTIVE in IRC! Just idling won't help one bit y'know. :D

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: tankefugl (in a tent) on October 11, 2004, 04:21:30 AM

I had the flu, and was extremely bored all alone in my apartment. Everybody I knew were out on parties, and I realised I needed a game to play.

So I randomly googled around for some free games, and accidentaly came upon NS .. on it's very release. Downloaded, searched for my old HL CD, and I've been fending off skulk rushes ever since.

 <3

Honestly, I miss those early 1.0 skulk rushes in ns_eclipse when we all couldn't aim and wished for a TF to save us.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Dark on October 11, 2004, 07:06:12 AM

except for the fact that in 1.0x a single skulk could remove a tf with fancy movement and come out unscathed :ph34r:

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Niteowl on October 11, 2004, 11:26:17 AM

OT : i miss slow, epic games. where i could actually chat with the other team.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Vitamin Lead on October 11, 2004, 07:47:44 PM

I basically just stumbled upon it on fileplanet while downloading DoD. (Needless to say, I didn't play DoD much after I found it  :D ) I remember one time when my brother had his friend over, and Officer Conspicuous (who some of u may know) was over and we convinced them to play this new mod. They were marines, and we were aliens. Now, they had never seen a skulk run up from the shadows and bite at them, nor had they seen a fade blink at them and rip them up. They were expecting aliens with guns or something... ...it was on Bast in atmospheric, and they were camping in the light under the big fan duct thingy. Officer lept out of the vent above the marine-side entrance and started biting... ...this naturally scared the crap out of them. After they had killed him, I blinked on in and made them wet their pants while I hacked 'em up.   >:D  , best introduction the NS evar!

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Temm on October 11, 2004, 08:36:23 PM

I was walking around my area when my friend called my cell to help him get his drunken pal home. So I walked to this net cafe and grabbed the dude as I looked past his shoulder and saw a bunch of marines spawning and I thought it was pretty awesome so I asked the player what the game was...and here I am playing ns...every day... <3

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: ANeM on October 11, 2004, 10:44:06 PM

Random Penny-Arcade news posts talking about the mod before it was released.  :)

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: E-Fonzarelli on October 17, 2004, 06:59:34 PM

my homeboy showed me in november of 02.  Been playing ever since.

But I miss babblers the most.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Cartman2b on October 18, 2004, 08:44:59 AM

X_Stickman gave me a link on the night of release.. missed my friends halloween party just to download it. Surely wasnt dissapointed when i got it. I was on AOL 56k dialup back then and well.. yeah.. it sucked due to my ping.

Still fun though.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Squats on October 20, 2004, 02:28:35 PM

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[...]don't tell me to idle IRC to get a res-slot again[...]

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Ok then... be ACTIVE in IRC! Just idling won't help one bit y'know. :D

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Ok, you win, I said it badly... ;) I won't use IRC in any way except for to call an admin or such as neccessary. (I've done this twice since I came here)....

The point is that like a junkie who needs to avoid his heroin, I need to avoid IRC...

Squats

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: DynamicPerformance on October 21, 2004, 03:09:35 AM

zerwalter...

ns rocks

that is all

Dynamicman out...

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Vitamin Lead on October 27, 2004, 10:09:29 PM

I remember zerwalter... he always kicked my butt when I first started playin', but I loved it when he commed in 1.04. Whatever happened to him?

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: CorvusX on October 27, 2004, 11:55:00 PM

zerwalter's still around... I think.

Anywho, Mr.Bill was the one who got me into NS.  LM is what really got me hooked <3

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Malevolent on October 28, 2004, 04:23:59 AM

Yeah, zerwalter still plays every now and then.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: ThoraX on October 28, 2004, 09:01:08 AM

a friend of mine on my MSN list had his name saying something about Natural Selection being out, so i asked him what it was. Thats when i remembered it was that cool looking mod i've seen banners for on other sites, so i went and downloaded it and played it a few days with a few of my friends from schol. They all stopped playing within the week (they were CS nubs), but I've been playing since 1.02

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: X-S-Z on October 28, 2004, 09:43:52 AM

Before NS, I was a regular on Firefalls -V- TFC server. One day, someone came in and started talking about this new mod that involved aliens versus marines with all these different systems, resources, tech trees, evolutions, hives, and so on and so fourth. It was enough to pique my interest, and since TFC was becoming slightly tiresome, I decided to give it a look.

I d/l'ed NS, swiped patch 1.03, and never looked back.  :)

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Black Mage on October 28, 2004, 09:59:53 AM

jefe got me in, the fft server got me hooked

story:
jefe and bm were in the same math class, jefe and bm played cs together.
jefe found ns and decided to tell bm about it.
jefe: "well, it's like an rts. you have the marines and aliens"
bm: "rts + fps?"
jefe: "yeah, the marines have a commander that drops guns and units and stuff"
bm: "no alien commander"
jefe: "no, they do their own stuff, they start off with only a bite attack but can upgrade"
bm: "so you have aliens chomping on the marines' units?"
jefe: v_v

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Doobie Dan on October 28, 2004, 10:00:45 AM

Kudos to you, sir, for actually spelling pique correctly.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Sydney Carton on October 31, 2004, 11:46:05 PM

I was just starting up my freshman year of college and this kid down the hall told me a new HL mod was coming out. I decided to give it a spin and was instantly hooked. The problem is, my college had some crap wireless line to feed the entire campus and it wasn't rare to spike to the max ping consistently.

I guess the first time I really got addicted was the following summer when we got a cable connection at home. I began playing on this pretty neat server Free SunnyD which culminated in an incredible series of games with Flayra, MonsE, LB, TommyD, etc, pretty much every mapper/dev/influential PT you can think of (I'm hesitant to name more names since it's been over a year, hehe). I think it was for the 2.01 release... but it's been a while, hehe.

Anyways, I got slotted up sometime the next couple days, and then unfortunately had to leave for evil college world where the pings were even worse than the previous year. Fortunately, the college wised up and got some new equipment for the next semester, so now I'm back in action and getting almost no res kicks, which is nice :D

And thus ends the Ballad of SydneyCarton (he's Sydney, Sydney Carton, greatest lil' hobbit of them all).

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: TychoCelchuuu on November 01, 2004, 07:09:40 AM

Narby's site (waaay before release) when he was working on an NS map.

Title: How Did You Find Ns?
Post by: Quaunaut on November 02, 2004, 10:27:40 AM

PCGamer April 2003. I first played on March 20th, 2003. Watched the flash slideshow tutorial. Played, loved the atmosphere. v.1.04 ftw