I just had what I can officially and honestly say was undoubtably the best game of NS I've ever had.
(This recap is in brief. The actual game lasted well over an hour, with the HAs coming out roughly 1/3 of the way to give you some perspective. Furthermore this is all from my PoV and anything that crack informed me of, so it's missing parts
Our commander was 'crack', our team was almost 50% newbies ("What's a PG?" "Where's CC?" Yeah.). I immediately get sloted into squad 5 with a couple other guys ([JFF] Kirby, Anarki, myself, and Alucard2). We started up and I run out to grab some nodes, generally it's nothing exciting in the early game. Unfortunately we hit a few roadblocks. The other team vastly outskilled us and delayed the critical early-game expansion. We locked down eclipse and sieged down Computer Core, long long after we should've (Their main hive was Maint). Crack's successes usually rely on early game strategic victories (I might add I've never lost a game he's commed)
At this point we have level 3 upgrades, but not much else. We've got a decent res flow coming in. Then the inevitable happens: Onos. He beats down eclipse and they quickly take it. However, a gorge never actually found his way to build the hive at the time. Before we know what's going on our nodes are down and we're scrabbling for scraps. We lose CC, and the hive goes up. This is the end, right? The onos was literally at our door.
In desperation crack tells me he's going to trust the whole game on me. I get a shotty and jetpack and I'm sent to maint hive. I land on top and, unfortunately, the medspam came a second too late, and a skulk eats me. Fortunately I managed to pull the entire alien team away from our base: Victory in Death!
Crack pulls us through and we miraculously beat our way to eclipse where the hive is finishing. We're almost down and... xenocides around. Crack's sweating bullets watching us try to take it down with LMGs and I'm hiding behind a bunker of upgrade chambers (nyah nyah). We all die, eventually, and we're thinking this is it.
Enter Squad 5.
We sweep in in vanilla gear with stock ammo. Quickly neutralize the MC so they can't teleport to the hive and wipe out the opposition. Then we all stand back and fill the hive with a FMJ sandwich. It falls. (This is actually the part where I got my most fantastic kill chain. I killed a lerk with my full LMG clip, emptied my pistol into a skulk, turned, and knifed an escaping skulk out of the air
We have pretty much full tech now and our economy is recovering. Then... surprise! Another onos! Good god! We fight back to CC (Same place we sieged from last time) and trick the onos with a diversion. This gave us roughly a minute to get a PG up and Siege. After fighting back and forth the sieges went up, and the hive goes down! Woohoo! Now we're in a rut. Eclipse will not hold long, and we don't have time to get CC secure because there's an onos coming.
Wait... onos - hive 1 - no stomp
I dicker with crack and Squad 5 gets a suit of HA and HMGs. We march on maint hive and kill one onos. The second onos devours me, and squad 5 cuts it down, freeing me. We move into maintenance and set up a PG and get ready to siege when we get ambushed during a reload and lots of skulks wipe us out.
Little did we know we were fighting the Kharra equivilant of the US Army Corps of Engineers. These tenacious little gorges just would not quit. We find out eclipse is going back up, and we're back to swatting skulks out of the sky.
I hear briefly on voice comm something about onoses. I phase back to base and there's 2 onoses beating away at the base. I didn't score a kill for either as I ran out of ammo but they died just a second after I ran dry and another HA phased through. Squad 5 saves the base!
I move back (Gunning down even more onos along the way) and we retake eclipse... again. Then it's back to computer core... where we take it again. The aliens were literally rolling in resources: Computer Core had 8 DCs and OCs around it: Similar setups in Maint hive, at South Loop, and Horseshoe. We actually managed to lose eclipse, and Response Force 5 quickly responds and takes out the trash.
I actually managed to get devoured again and my buddies freed me.
We actively move into maint hive, and I'm chanting 'Ride of the Valkyries' over voice comm. We move in and we get cut down: It's just me, Kirby, and Alucard now. After a minute-long skirmish...
*Ping*... *Ping*...
Here's the scoreboard at the very end. The aliens were unhappily joking that it was Kharra vs. Uranium. Crack said he had almost died in the chair, and I was completely exhausted as well. He attributed the entire success to Squad 5
END:
We killed probably 6 or 7 hives (I feel like I'm missing a huge chunk of the game up there...).
My kills:
Skulks - Dozens... lots and lots of dozens.
Gorges - Probably 5 or 6.
Lerks - 5, I believe.
Fades - Surprisingly, Fades never really showed up in this game. I did see a couple but only managed the kill on one.
Onos - Christ we killed probably somewhere around 8 onos, 2 of which were my kills, and I take credit for the onos at base, so 3.8
Grats to crack, you are my new hero. Also, grats to the tenacious aliens, you fought very hard and had me thinking we had completely lost the game... three times actually
GG
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