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Me in Reverse posted:I got yelled at a bunch for loving around drunk last night: Yeah, wait, you get resources for parasite hits? Was there some kind of mod doing this? I mean, good on you for flagging creatures but still.
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Me in Reverse posted:I'll chalk it up to drunk goggles. I thought it was a great strategy at the time! Don't worry about it, this is one of those little nuances that you only learn about later. It took me a while to figure out why people could go lerk before I could. It is a pretty good incentive to not play a suicidal skulk.
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Volmarias posted:Yeah, wait, you get resources for parasite hits? Was there some kind of mod doing this? I mean, good on you for flagging creatures but still. He thought score == res, but it doesn't It's a widespread misconception
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Cowcatcher posted:He thought score == res, but it doesn't I know the difference but was confused by the high pres count.
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TheSpiritFox posted:New patch I can't even load a game. Screen goes black after 100% precache. Tried several times, can't exit without process killing. I would try deleting my cache folder next. C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\Natural Selection 2\cache Delete the whole cache folder, or if you want to go all out, you can delete the whole Natural Selection 2 folder (contains game settings and keybinds). Either will be rebuilt next time you run NS2.
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Fred Dawes posted:Disabling steam overlay seems to help my framerate a bit. You can do this by unchecking "Enable Steam Community In-Game" in the NS2 properties in your Steam library. This game is CPU-bottlenecked for the most part; I have a C2Q @ 3.0GHz and a GTX 460, and I have to play at 1024x768 minimal everything for an FPS I can tolerate (60+ ready room, drops sub 40 during mid-game firefights and later, gets worse on 20+ player servers) I read this earlier but wanted to make sure and test it myself but I have almost the same specs as you and my fps never dips below 45 on max settings at 1600x900. I have an amd phenom at 3.0 ghz, 8 gb ram, and an evga gtx 460. Maybe there is something wrong with your pc?
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Addict posted:Don't worry about it, this is one of those little nuances that you only learn about later. It took me a while to figure out why people could go lerk before I could. It is a pretty good incentive to not play a suicidal skulk. Still going to swarm people at the start of the match.
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Addict posted:Don't worry about it, this is one of those little nuances that you only learn about later. It took me a while to figure out why people could go lerk before I could. It is a pretty good incentive to not play a suicidal skulk. Haha but where's the fun in that 30/17 KDR all day every day!
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People playing skulks too conservatively is the worst. There's a nice balance to be struck between ambushing and rolling the hell in with your bros. Too often I see someone hang back from a group of 3 or 4 skulks.
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Opinionated posted:I would try deleting my cache folder next. C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\Natural Selection 2\cache Ok. I did this. Now it goes black after it says load finishes forever before it drops me in the waiting room. Like 10-15 seconds black screen before it loads the team choose area. And then it disconnects. Tried 4 different servers with sub 80 pings showing in the browser, connect to server and then timeout from lack of contact. I can play StarCraft and TF2 without any problems. It's only since this last patch that I've ever had a problem with this game. Don't know what the gently caress.
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Fallom posted:People playing skulks too conservatively is the worst.
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Apr 8, 2013 05:21
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Elitism has seriously ramped up over the past month or so, I don't know what's happening.  This game had such a great community when it launched.
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Bhodi posted:Edit: Just play more on goon servers. Speaking of which NS2Goons hasn't been updated for the new patch yet. 
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Limastock posted:I read this earlier but wanted to make sure and test it myself but I have almost the same specs as you and my fps never dips below 45 on max settings at 1600x900. I have an amd phenom at 3.0 ghz, 8 gb ram, and an evga gtx 460. Maybe there is something wrong with your pc? So I upped my resolution to monitor native (1680x1050) and I got similar frame rates. A month ago, this would have been unplayable, but I guess the optimizations recently boosted my performance more than I realized. I have 4GB RAM, my GTX 460 is the lower-end 768MB model, and my gaming HDD makes ominous clicking noises due to it's age; Looking forward to better performance in future patches still. VVV I sent this to tech-support@unknownworlds.com per their hacker reporting policies: quote:I was playing a late-night game (Midnight CST 4/3/2013) and a player named "inv. Joe!" joined (NS2ID = 148532) and ended up with 44 kills and 4 deaths before the aliens quit. His aim would snap to targets and not waver, which looked very suspicious versus stationary targets like the skulks he would spawncamp. It made for very unenjoyable gameplay, so I checked and found the real Joe's NS2Stats profile and it had a different NS2ID. He later admitted to hacking and belittled anyone who called him out on it for implying UWE would take any action against hackers. I also linked them my forum profile and ns2stats page. You can view a player's NS2ID via the sv_status command. You can use this to find their ns2stats page via Google. Their NS2Stats page links to their steam profile. UWE doesn't like name-and-shame on the forums, so send them an e-mail with any proof you have. Be ever vigilant! Every hacker banned is another 25$ until they can play NS2 again. Fred Dawes fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Apr 8, 2013 |
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Motherfucking troll commanders recycling everything everywhere tonight. I've also been called a friend of the family in two different servers. WOOO!!! e: Just jumped to another server, this guy is everywhere. Avoid inv. Joe! like the plague. Wish I knew how to get a SteamID on him. Visual Sneeze fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Apr 8, 2013 |
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I joined a game yesterday to find a fade camping the Marine IPs spawn-killing the all-green three man Marine team. When I destroyed the IPs he gave out to me for being a "spoilsport". What's the thread policy on naming and shaming? Because gently caress that guy.Koramei posted:Elitism has seriously ramped up over the past month or so, I don't know what's happening. e: Obviously there were elitist douchebags in the original community but it's harder to be a dick when everyone else on the server has no idea what they are doing or is telling you to shut the hell up; when there's other people more than happy to join in the pile-on it becomes much easier. Splicer fucked around with this message at 10:23 on Apr 8, 2013 |
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Visual Sneeze posted:Motherfucking troll commanders recycling everything everywhere tonight. I've also been called a friend of the family in two different servers. WOOO!!! Fred Dawes posted:I also linked them my forum profile and ns2stats page. You can view a player's NS2ID via the sv_status command. You can use this to find their ns2stats page via Google. Their NS2Stats page links to their steam profile. UWE doesn't like name-and-shame on the forums, so send them an e-mail with any proof you have. Be ever vigilant! Every hacker banned is another 25$ until they can play NS2 again. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198088004280/ That's his steam profile page.  That is from his steam profile if anyone can't see it. His ID for NS2 is 127738552 I had him on Knife the Hippo and got his info while he was still connected.
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Lol someone is impersonating Joe and hacking with his name? That's terrible! Joe is a good guy.
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In my experience, Joe is normally really quiet in pubs. The faker joe has been all over voice and text this weekend.
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http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198073658889/ is one of his buddies that rolls with him. Didn't appear to be aimbotting like the fake joe but they were both jumping into the chair/hive and spamming medpacks/mists all Saturday night.
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Garfu posted:Lol someone is impersonating Joe and hacking with his name? That's terrible! Joe is a good guy. He also impersonates ADHD and Jewbear from what I've heard
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Also woops I'll update NS2Goons when I get home.
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Splicer posted:When the game hit launch the only people playing the game were people who desperately wanted to see it succeed, and as such had a lot invested in not being cockbags to new players (and due to the big lead-in, long Beta etc there was a much larger established community than usual for a newly released game). The population has drastically increased since launch, a decent portion of whom were always going to be complete dickholes (as with all online games). One cause of the recent surge in elitism is due to the first big wave of new players reaching a level of experience with the game that they feel superior enough to those real noobs to let their jerk flag fly. So now the game is in that delightful stage of flux all newly expanded communities go through where we see if the portion of not-quite-new-anymore members who are elitist douchebags remains a minority (and ideally gets driven away due to ending up on blacklists/ignore-on-sight), or if the reverse happens and the toxic players end up driving away the new blood that are actually fun to play with.
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Bhodi posted:Edit: Just play more on goon servers.
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TychoCelchuuu posted:I half-agree: you're right about the new assholes, probably, but in terms of why people were so nice at first, part of it might be that they wanted the game to succeed, but I think a much much larger part is that the NS community has always been preternaturally nice. Except towards new commanders, in my experience. Every once and a while I would find a team that's OK with a newbie to the chair/station/hive, but the overwhelming majority of the games I've been in with a new guy commanding haven't ended well for said commander.
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apostateCourier posted:Except towards new commanders, in my experience. Every once and a while I would find a team that's OK with a newbie to the chair/station/hive, but the overwhelming majority of the games I've been in with a new guy commanding haven't ended well for said commander. If they do two of the three, with at least one of them being the last one, it'll probably go well pretty well. It's like upgrades, with "listening" being the Crag of the triad (knowing how the game works is Shade Hive). Fake Edit: Also have a mic. Having a mic isn't an upgrade, having a mic is, I don't know, harvesters. If you jump in the command chair, spam turrets, ignore your team, and ragequit five minutes in with a final "gently caress YUO IM NEW" into alltalk, well that's sad but what did you think was going to happen.
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OK NS2Goons is up and updated, sorry about that. Need more admins, just PM me your ns2id (it shows up in the console when you first start the game) and I'll add you. More people that can force random the better.
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Adorable/heartfelt video from Hugh/NS2HD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa_LLs9XD_w
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GenericOverusedName posted:I need to stop playing combat, but it is so hilarious at times Oh man, I was there, that was loving hilarious. I just went fast xeno on another combat server, this poo poo is overpowered and hilarious. Edit : this server needs better moderation, holy poo poo some terrible people join this server that I usually don't see on other servers. I really feel like it's the Reddit server sometimes. Ryen Deckard fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Apr 9, 2013 |
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Was nice to see ns2goons going again. I have lost my rhythm as commander though, how early should I grab gorge tunnels? I am guessing after leap but before blink and stomp and possibly spores.
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Addict posted:Was nice to see ns2goons going again. I have lost my rhythm as commander though, how early should I grab gorge tunnels? I am guessing after leap but before blink and stomp and possibly spores. I usually see it getting researched while the second hive is being built.
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Addict posted:Was nice to see ns2goons going again. I have lost my rhythm as commander though, how early should I grab gorge tunnels? I am guessing after leap but before blink and stomp and possibly spores. That one guy called you a "beta male human being." Jesus christ, we need more admins on that server, somebody named All In | Jewbear (probably not the actual jewbear) crashed the server by killing himself over and over. As for your question, whenever you want dude. It's up to your team's strategy really. I'm more of a shift first commander, but gorge tunnels are really good in certain situations and cheap enough to be the first thing you research now, with the right team.
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Ryen Deckard posted:That one guy called you a "beta male human being." Ha, I didn't know he was a troll at the time, so I stepped out thinking I was loving up the game. So I guess the troll worked. The round was pretty much over, they had pushed double and were making their way into both sides. I figured I would let some one else take a shot. Never get out of the chair I guess. Usually that type of poo poo comes from 4chan, so I don't really care what a person from /v/ thinks of me. It is pretty easy to gently caress up an entire round if you jump in the com seat, so I can see why NS2 is a target. qwertyasdf fucked around with this message at 10:50 on Apr 9, 2013 |
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Addict posted:Ha, I didn't know he was a troll at the time, so I stepped out thinking I was loving up the game. So I guess the troll worked. The round was pretty much over, they had pushed double and were making their way into both sides. I figured I would let some one else take a shot. Never get out of the chair I guess. The only thing that surprises me is that I barely see this on official servers or other servers I play on, but it happened pretty constantly on the NS2goons server while I was playing tonight.
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