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General / Is This Spawncamping?

« on: October 08, 2004, 09:43:08 PM »

Earlier, I was on LM, map was ns_bast.  I was a marine, I didn't know which hive the aliens had and I happened to wander through engine hive with a teammate and discovered that it was their hive.  We were then told to kill the RT, so I checked to see if any aliens were dead/spawning (they were not at that time) and jumped down and merrily knifed away.

Inevitably, an alien or two died and spawned in.  My teammate (I'm not sure what he was doing or what his name was) and I would stop what we were doing and defend ourselves, then go back to knifing the RT.  I think we killed 3 or 4 skulks max before we died, and the RT was low enough that I then was able to run back from MS and kill it with less than one LMG clip.  One of the aliens, a reserve slotter, told me that this was spawncamping by the new rules, so I popped in to read them.

Now, the rules say that if you're unable to kill the structure fast enough then you should get out.  My question is, what is the limit at which it's simply not fast enough?  Is 3 skulks unacceptable, or 4?  This is a very gray area, I'd just like to see it cleared up.  I've always been willing to abide by the rules, but I have to know what to abide by first.

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General / Suggestions For Ns

« on: May 19, 2004, 02:52:22 AM »

Aliens
Bring Lerk spikes back
The alien team currently lacks any good long-range weapon.  They have spit and acid rocket.  Spit is on an alien not designed for fighting, and has a slow RoF/minimal damage.  Acid rocket isn't available until the third hive, and it is not very effective.  For the fade to use acid rocket, it has no ability to blick away, as all its energy is used for 3 acid rockets.

i disagree with aliens needing more / better ranged weapons. what defines natural selection to me is that marines = ranged, aliens = melee. to me both should dominate their area of expertise, if i wanted ranged vs. ranged, i'd play.... ANY other fps.

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all other suggestions pwnt and are deserving of pai  

Tell you what - replace the shotgun with an assault rifle of some kind, and we'll call it a deal.  Until then, the marines are still the masters of both long and short range combat.

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Off Topic / Van Helsing

« on: May 18, 2004, 04:31:49 AM »

I personally would give Van Helsing a "meh" on a scale from one to awesome.  I just found the whole thing a bit too silly for my tastes.  The action was there, and it was pretty good, but the story kind of got in the way.  I'd prefer that they just either go all-out mindless action or go all-out freaky plot, but not try and mix elements from both.

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General / Dynamic Crosshairs

« on: April 27, 2004, 09:01:26 PM »

Speaking of console commands, does anyone know the command for not displaying your weapon in NS? I have an odd tendency to shoot better when I can't see my weapon  :huh:

Also, if anyone knows the command for getting quickswitch to work in NS, i'd like to know ^_^;;

What kind of quickswitch are you talking about?  hud_fastswitch 1 style?  Or is there some other, more devious kind of quickswitch I don't know about?

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General / Dynamic Crosshairs

« on: April 25, 2004, 11:01:59 PM »

You can also bind a key to adjust_crosshair.

    Adjust_crosshair changes the color. It has nothing to do w/ Dynamic Crosshairs.

Well, that's good, because that's what he was talking about.   :p

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General / Lerkflight Costing No Energy

« on: April 24, 2004, 09:18:59 PM »

There is still an advantage to gliding though, it's silent.

Until Mr. Lork starts growling and screaming and making all sorts of disturbing sounds.  It's like as soon as you begin gliding he won't shut up.

Yeah, but it would be kind of stupid if the lerk wouldn't do that, since then the silence upgrade would be completely useless with the lerk.

No way, silence is so disturbing with the lerk.  There's nothing creepier than seeing something come rocketing around the corner and silently eat one of your teammates, and then disappear as quickly as it came.  Even if it wasn't constantly growling and hissing silence would still be way cool.

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General / Big Unannounced System

« on: April 23, 2004, 09:41:30 PM »

I don't know for sure, but I think it's going to somehow incorporate Koolio the beer delivery robot into NS.

Call it a hunch.

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Off Topic / Hello

« on: April 12, 2004, 11:30:11 AM »

Well, I don't usually make "Hello" posts, but seeing as there's a ready made thread for the purpose...  Hi.

Some of you may recognize me from the server or from IRC, I've been hanging out pretty regularly.  I've been playing NS since release, and been on the NS forums for over a year, only just now got around to finding a community to hang out with really.