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Title: How did the game end?
Post by: aeroripper on May 04, 2005, 06:54:11 PM

I got reslotted at 45 min but how did the game end? Aliens win??  That was a good game

(around 8pm CST)

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: CorvusX on May 04, 2005, 07:16:10 PM

If it's the same game, then aliums r winnarz.

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: confused! on May 04, 2005, 07:41:34 PM

if its the one i commed, yeah we lost.

After the anticlimactic "ha rush". We lost at just under 66 minutes.

i really thought we could win that one too:(

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: aeroripper on May 04, 2005, 07:45:38 PM

awwwwesome

I love those hour long games :(

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: Rath on May 04, 2005, 11:12:31 PM

Yea that was a really long game.  I really liked the attempted siege of forboding antechamber.  We had three gorges with a movement chamber healing the OC's.

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: Vinegar Ninja on May 05, 2005, 01:27:55 AM

hour long game and you think its long?
PFFFT!
we had battles for 3 hours! 3 FRIGGEN HOURS! for what? A SINGLE RES NODE!
those were the days of 1.04!
the glory days!

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: spinviper on May 05, 2005, 05:24:39 AM

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hour long game and you think its long?
PFFFT!
we had battles for 3 hours! 3 FRIGGEN HOURS! for what? A SINGLE RES NODE!
those were the days of 1.04!
the glory days!

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Exactly.... Epic epic battles.

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: TychoCelchuuu on May 05, 2005, 06:27:14 AM

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hour long game and you think its long?
PFFFT!
we had battles for 3 hours! 3 FRIGGEN HOURS! for what? A SINGLE RES NODE!
those were the days of 1.04!
the glory days!

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Exactly.... Epic epic battles.

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Although you never saw an Onos, so they were slightly less epic.

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: Dubbilex on May 05, 2005, 07:13:07 AM

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hour long game and you think its long?
PFFFT!
we had battles for 3 hours! 3 FRIGGEN HOURS! for what? A SINGLE RES NODE!
those were the days of 1.04!
the glory days!

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The only epic games in 1.04 were intensely drawn out two-hive lockdowns, where rambo marines flew around and killed whatever poor bastard of a skulk who had escaped the dragnet and was wandering around, aimlessly.  Or hell, maybe they went after that lerk in the vent who wouldn't stop spiking the turrets who only lerked because they had nothing else to spend resources on.  

O Lord just thinking about it makes me quiver with joy!

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: Mr.Ben on May 05, 2005, 08:47:23 AM

I liked it when everyone was bad at the game and couldn't finish a round off for toffee too.

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: Goldy on May 05, 2005, 09:02:51 AM

I like when people talk about the "good old days" as if everything was great. Perhaps they are blinded by nostalgia? NS is way better now.

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: Mr.Bill on May 05, 2005, 09:08:13 AM

...I like relocating...


And it seems to me that most epic games are just when both teams have un-managable amounts of lame or tf-farming, Like this said game.

Just because a game is an hour long, dosnt mean its epic

Just because you got jp first, aliens lamed up everywhere, then it was countered with a tffarm at every possible position dosn't mean it's epic either

....It just means it's long.

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: 2_of_8 on May 05, 2005, 10:30:37 AM

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I like when people talk about the "good old days" as if everything was great. Perhaps they are blinded by nostalgia? NS is way better now.

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Yeah. People don't seem to notice all the positive changes that have bene made in the recent versions...
If you like previous versions of NS so much, go organize a bunch of people and host your private server with an old version of NS. The new versions are clearly better, and chances are, they'll stay.

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: aeroripper on May 05, 2005, 01:38:14 PM

I think the best "epic" games is where its really back and forth between aliens and marines.  I was playing a game on LM once like that where aliens went between 1-2 hives (then shottie rushing 2nd hive but they kept fighting us back and managed to get a 2nd have back up again and again)

They finally one because newborn got tired and stopped trying :-P

that was a gg

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: Scuzball on May 05, 2005, 02:02:19 PM

I remember this one game where the marines holed up in Biodome hive in an 8v8. Dear god. They all had JP, they all had GL/HMG. Turrets and elect everywhere. They had IP's and armory up on the pillar, basically rebuilt their entire functional base.

And they were asses about it. They had GL tag team spamming both entrances, and HMG/JP gaurding the rest.

We tried mass gorge bile bomb. 4 onos, 2 lerks, 2 gorge. Fade rushes. Gas. Nothing worked.

I was going to win that game. I said to myself, "I'm not going to bed until these asses die under my iron fist of determination."

At 7:30am the next day, I quit. The base was hardly touched. Time: over seven hours. Of JUST me and random newbs flaying at this base.

Yea... the glory days...

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: SwiftSpear on May 05, 2005, 02:22:27 PM

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I remember this one game where the marines holed up in Biodome hive in an 8v8. Dear god. They all had JP, they all had GL/HMG. Turrets and elect everywhere. They had IP's and armory up on the pillar, basically rebuilt their entire functional base.

And they were asses about it. They had GL tag team spamming both entrances, and HMG/JP gaurding the rest.

We tried mass gorge bile bomb. 4 onos, 2 lerks, 2 gorge. Fade rushes. Gas. Nothing worked.

I was going to win that game. I said to myself, "I'm not going to bed until these asses die under my iron fist of determination."

At 7:30am the next day, I quit. The base was hardly touched. Time: over seven hours. Of JUST me and random newbs flaying at this base.

Yea... the glory days...

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How did you manage to onos rush them if they locked down biodome in 1.04?  I could see that going in 2.0x, as after about 30 minutes in that build a marine team could lame enough turrets to slay an onos in one hit, but in 3.0f it would never work.  Not enough turrets allowed in a base per Tfac range, and lerks are too evil a displacer of camping GLs in this version.

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: lolfighter on May 05, 2005, 03:13:33 PM

No, that must have been a 2.0+ game. 1.04 didn't have ns_origin.

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: Niteowl on May 05, 2005, 04:41:45 PM

Hive mc rush ftw!

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: Diablus on May 05, 2005, 04:43:31 PM

games were seen as "fun" back in the 1.04 days for a few reasons.

Blink - VERY buggy but great fun, also Fades were the "tanks" of 1.04, you were firing at a fade or two basically CHARGING at your team, instead of firing at something jumping acrss a goddamn room 300 mph

The "rare" Onos - Not just a tank, a basically unstoppable force which indicated Marine End game for sure, onos werent panseys like the 2.0 -> On ones, they can TAKE A HIT. People loved playing as them, and people loved fighting against them (mainly due to the no devour deal)
True Marine teamwork came to be whenever an onos was around, 7 Marines firing their hmgs and whatever else as they watch their teamtes get hammered instead of... eaten, then watching the Onos run away :blink:

Lerks had spike which was always great because it was one of the few goddamn far ranged alien attacks.

Babblers were available to gorges..nuff said there :D


So basically It was usually Marine clashing with Aliens head to head. And not having the Aliens weaken them as they move along to wherever the team is moving to (aka spore spamming, devour and running, fades blinking in, swiping then blinking out, etc) which I must say isnt *as* fun as seeing 1-2 fades (or an Onos) hording down the hallway at your team while you put many a bullets into them hoping for a Victory, or watching your teamates get totally slaughtered which was always fun to watch! and be a part of >:D


The final word is "Hardcore battle ready, Heavily Armored Aliens clashing with Marine High tech is always more fun than Hit and run weak aliens who cry to Mommy when the Shotguns come

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: CryForMe on May 05, 2005, 04:47:38 PM

yeah, i miss the old onos. they simply need to beef the res back up to 100 (since ups are free now) and make it massively harder to kill. simply put, theres no way in hell ONE HMGER should be able to take out an onos coming down a long hallway.

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: Manta on May 05, 2005, 06:19:06 PM

Agreed. I never played with the old Onos, but the current Onos is crap. Killable by one HMG? Bah.

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: Goldy on May 05, 2005, 07:20:13 PM

Speaking of game lengths.. people should really never give up, ever. Today I was comm on hera with the aliens starting in archiving. We got some upgrades, a phase in ventilation, but we weren't holding much res. Then our base got owned and I figured, oh well, game over. By chance a marine survived in processing. We relocated there, and since we still had a phase gate in vent, and since the aliens had not put the hive up, we were basically able to lock down both hives and then win.

A lot of times sudden comebacks occur, even in the worst scenarios. Teams should never give up!!

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: 2_of_8 on May 06, 2005, 10:24:13 AM

However, "never give up" does not mean "turret farm MS to no end, camping the entrances with HMGs". If it's clearly over, meaning you can't get out and there's absolutely no chance of winning, don't drag it out!
>_<

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: Manta on May 06, 2005, 02:50:47 PM

I half agree on that and half disagree. On one hand, it's so horrible to sit there and just wait to die, especially if the aliens are stupid and don't catch on, just going in and out to take free kills. Besides, most people just decide to fight it out to the end on instinct. On the other hand, dragging it out just results in this long, boring process.

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: sonic on May 06, 2005, 03:40:36 PM

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Yeah. People don't seem to notice all the positive changes that have bene made in the recent versions...
If you like previous versions of NS so much, go organize a bunch of people and host your private server with an old version of NS. The new versions are clearly better, and chances are, they'll stay.

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Free A1 is a "positive change"...?

When hell freezes over.

Title: How did the game end?
Post by: pardzh on May 06, 2005, 04:23:37 PM

I still think 2.01 was the best version in terms of balance, by a LONG shot.