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Isn't it 2 full level 2 shotties even with carapace to kill a fade?
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http://www.twitch.tv/naturalselection2 Some aussies playing on the official stream. e: cannot believe anyone thinks aliens are underpowered YOURFRIEND fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Dec 8, 2012 |
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Dec 8, 2012 03:21
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I've gotten into the habit of not being afraid of grenade launcher bearing marines. The worst thing to do is run away; the best thing to do is race right at them and bite the hell out of them.
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Dec 8, 2012 04:27
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YOURFRIEND posted:http://www.twitch.tv/naturalselection2 These casters are horrible, especially the fat American guy. I'm obligated to watch because a friend is playing and I've got it on mute most of the time.
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Dec 8, 2012 06:01
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Torpor posted:I've gotten into the habit of not being afraid of grenade launcher bearing marines. The worst thing to do is run away; the best thing to do is race right at them and bite the hell out of them. GL is expensive and sort of useless. It doesn't explode on alien contact anymore. They need to bring back hand grenades.
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Dec 8, 2012 06:25
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P.S. STILL COMPLETELY DEVOID OF MERIT
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Guesticles posted:GL is expensive and sort of useless. It doesn't explode on alien contact anymore.
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Dec 8, 2012 07:23
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I'd rather that I could buy like an ARC turret or something that I could carry and set up. It would be just as useful in combat, with the added bonus I'm unlikely to kill myself with it.
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Dec 8, 2012 07:39
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Why don't they explode on contact? They should add that back in the game.
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Dec 8, 2012 07:45
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Was anyone watching the tournament on the NS2 twitch channel? Judging from twitter something crazy happened and the game tied or something.
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Dec 8, 2012 08:39
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totalnewbie posted:Isn't it 2 full level 2 shotties even with carapace to kill a fade? A level 3 shotgun blast does a max of 220 damage. A Fade with carapace has 250hp and 100 armor, so 450 health. 2 perfect shotgun blasts does would leave a fade at 10hp, or kill him without carapace. 
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Dec 8, 2012 08:43
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Was anyone watching the tournament on the NS2 twitch channel? Judging from twitter something crazy happened and the game tied or something. It was a chair/hive race and both were destroyed at pretty much the same time. No "<someone> wins" text appeared and everyone just ended up in the ready room with no clear winner. The hosts talked about the possibility that both tech points were destroyed in the same tick and so it was the first draw. I don't know how long a tick is but although it was pretty close I'm certain that one of them was destroyed a good quarter-second before the other.
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Dec 8, 2012 16:59
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A tick is 1 frame essentially
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Dec 8, 2012 17:02
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What server do most goons play on now that NS2Goons went down? That one had great ping/performace/commanders.
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Dec 9, 2012 06:03
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Captain Beans posted:What server do most goons play on now that NS2Goons went down? That one had great ping/performace/commanders.
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Dec 9, 2012 06:12
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What happened to ns2goons? 
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Dec 9, 2012 06:55
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I'll get a new one up tomorrow.
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Dec 9, 2012 09:10
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Garfu posted:I'll get a new one up tomorrow. Only if you can Knife the Hippo should you bother  E: Knife the Rhino/Rat/Bat/Mantis are all still valid server names
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Dec 10, 2012 06:07
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Alright, NS2Goons is back up. You can direct connect at chi2.ns2servers.com Or just look for it on the list
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Dec 11, 2012 01:41
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Garfu posted:Alright, NS2Goons is back up. You can direct connect at chi2.ns2servers.com What are the mods you put on your server?
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Dec 11, 2012 03:47
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Given that there are 2 (3?) goon servers and about enough goons to populate one some of the time, why should we use use Knife over NS2 Goons and vice versa?
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Dec 11, 2012 04:10
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NS2 patched itself today. Anybody know what's up with that?
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Dec 11, 2012 04:14
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Garfu posted:Alright, NS2Goons is back up. You can direct connect at chi2.ns2servers.com The alien Christmas was hilarious. Bright white infestation, hives that look like christmas trees and funny colored aliens. Never did get to see what the onos looked like though.
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Metal Meltdown posted:NS2 patched itself today. Anybody know what's up with that?
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Dec 11, 2012 04:42
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Looks like no camo exploit fix.
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Dominoes posted:Looks like no camo exploit fix. Lol really ? I'll test it out , it's ridicolous and it's making playing in french servers terrible ( for some reason they like shade a lot )
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Ah man some of the best games today. Game 1 Marines on refinery where we took smelting and pipeline and with some good beacons, held both. Aliens, naturally, had double. A couple sneaky runs into containment to snipe upgrades and a couple overzealous onoses (this map has TONS of long hallways and is great for chasing with jetpacks, especially on the left side of the map between pipe and containment), and we pull out a victory. Game 2 Aliens on docking where we were held to courtyard/departures/generator while marines had terminal/cafeteria/locker. We were slowly losing the as marines were constantly pushing into maintenance and were pushing from east. Another lerk and I go into landing pad and start hitting the terminal power, like you do. 1 or 2 marines come back to deal with it, so I fly into terminal and start harassing the welders (luckily, we had celerity/regen), making use of the ledge above the power. The other lerk stayed out in landing pad to keep putting pressure on the power. 1 or 2 skulks come in to help, which helped IMMENSELY, and then the power goes out. This fight actually took quite a long time. Predictably, we roll over cafeteria, marines hold off in locker room for a little bit, but game over. Game 3 Aliens on mineshaft. Marines started in deposit and pushed into sorting and operations. Aliens tried to take repair but could not hold them off, as they would come in 4-6 at a time and the hives/tech points on that map are huge and really open. We drop repair repeatedly but can never keep it. Thanks to having double, we were able to get an onos pretty quickly and before we even managed to get a second hive location secured, much less grown, we hit sorting. I get the power down to half before they notice, but then the onos comes in and ends in short order. We take sorting. Aliens hold cave and sorting, marine start is deposit, and they hold repair pretty tightly (as well as operations). Since deposit is a bitch to attack due to long and narrow hallways, we focus on repair, which has a very exposed power node. We start harassing the hell out of repair power with lerks and the occasional onos, but can never keep it down. We take repair power down 2-3 times and they get it back up each time. Then finally, we manage to take repair down AND kill all the marines and we take repair. So now, marines have enough res for some exos. A lot of them must have saved for exos, because 1 walks by himself to repair (and dies after killing a skulk and a lerk, maybe). Then two start walking into repair with some backup, while another 1 is pushing sorting from deposit. We only have 1 onos at this point, I think. The exos going into repair are unstoppable, and they take it down and marines begin to push into cave. We abandon repair, take down the exo pushing from deposit, and bile bomb deposit. We take down the arms lab when the commander beacons, and everyone hightails it into cave to hit the two lone dual exos. We kill their exos without losing many (any?) higher life forms and take back repair. Two jetpacks with flamethrowers finish off cave hive, but by this point, we've got a ton of res from holding double and with marines not having exos or a lot of weapons+jetpacks, we win pretty quickly after that. This last game was amazing because we went from not having a second hive (though we did have double), to barely taking a second hive, to winning by exploiting pubbie  DUAL EXOS mentality.Moral of the story: dual exos are overrated.
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Didn't think marines could start at Deposit on Mineshaft.
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AgentF posted:Didn't think marines could start at Deposit on Mineshaft. I don't believe they can.
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Are any sales going on right now? What's the cheapest place to pick up NS right now?
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totalnewbie posted:This last game was amazing because we went from not having a second hive (though we did have double), to barely taking a second hive, to winning by exploiting pubbie I com'ed a game that was quite similar to that on mineshaft. Lots of back and forth on bases. They also had a hardon for exos. The real moral of the story: Exo's lose games, because if they had gotten jet packs and only used them they would have won. At 10 res a pop, they are a loving steal. One dual mini gun exo buys 7 loving lives of jetpacks. I have seen commanders refuse to research exos (for good reason) to force people to buy jetpacks. qwertyasdf fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Dec 11, 2012 |
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Dec 11, 2012 09:13
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Dave Mustard posted:Are any sales going on right now? What's the cheapest place to pick up NS right now?
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Dec 11, 2012 09:20
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Dave Mustard posted:Are any sales going on right now? What's the cheapest place to pick up NS right now? Give me your Steam details and I'll give it to you for free.
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Addict posted:I com'ed a game that was quite similar to that on mineshaft. Lots of back and forth on bases. They also had a hardon for exos. The real moral of the story: Exo's lose games, because if they had gotten jet packs and only used them they would have won.
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AgentF posted:Didn't think marines could start at Deposit on Mineshaft. Fine, they started operations. But drat it, it was good.
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This patch increased the FPS on my laptop by an easy 10-20 fps. Glad they're on the right track. Also, doesn't anyone else think this game would do well with matchmaking / elo rating system? Much like the way Dota2 or HoN handles it. I just think people would leave games a lot less if their w/l was being tracked and would see them through to the end. You could also have some sort of cosmetic unlock system like Dota2 has. I think that would really improve the longevity of the game and would attract a lot of new players. I'd love to be able to just hop into a match and be paired with players with a similar skill cap.
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I never liked that sort of ranking system. It really discourages players from playing with their friends. I've definitely had buddies blow off other buddies because they didn't want to ruin their rank in DOTA or whatever. I'd say leave all the ranking to the players themselves. If they want to set up matches among people of a similar skill level, that's their prerogative.
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Dec 11, 2012 16:57
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Am I imagining this, or is the early Camo for aliens way too drat good? Maybe I keep running up against coordinated pre-mades or something, but every time I go Marines my team is destroyed by this.
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It's insanely good because you can move around with it silently and marines won't know where the attacks will come from without scans. By the time they can react you've already gotten 2 hits in at least or possible 3 and killed them. The game having really lovely hit indication probably doesn't help (maybe it's just a problem for me). It matters on how early aliens get it & how quick marines are in expanding. If they get some poo poo set up beforehand they just have to put up obs and it is completely useless.
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You really just need a good com. Mines + scan + obs makes camo obsolete very quickly. Though of course right now, camo is exploitable so it is extra good.
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Strength of Many posted:Am I imagining this, or is the early Camo for aliens way too drat good? Maybe I keep running up against coordinated pre-mades or something, but every time I go Marines my team is destroyed by this.
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