Love Starcraft
Liked Team Fortress
Hated CD
Found out about NS from the truthmedia review on somethingawful.com
It's getting a bit redundant right now but with 1.1 I have high hopes. Congrats on a great game.

Hi ppl!

My name is Dino and I live in Slovenia. Im leet in Q2 and im very good in CS but im n00b in NS. I like this game alot, its the best (if we forget the freezing thing )!

hi ya guys,

i'm a n00b in this game, but i intend to play it as much as i can,
i also play ut on-line, ctf on face
ns however is the best mod i ever saw in my hole life,
i'm 15 and live somewhere in holland (like it would matter if i added the place,
you guys probably don't even know holland )
i first saw ns two weeks ago, at a friends place, he's addicted to.

o yeah, the kidc manual RULEZZZ

hi u all

im from germany
i first heard of NaSe in november
a friend told me about it
i played a fiew times but the i didnt play till january
it was then when there were the first good german servers where my ping wasnt above 300 ^^
since the i stopped playing cs ( i dont wanna hear a single thing ) nearly completly

i am 23 yrs old and live near the french border
my real name is simon

Hi All,

been playing NS for about 2 months, buddy of mine who plays CS turned me onto it. Thought I would finally post something.

I'm a Network Engineer by trade, and have been computer gaming since I played my first game of Sea Wolf. Anyone remember it? I purchased my own Atari 2600 at age 11, played Hack and ADV forever, and really loved Wizardry on my Apple IIE.

I put NS up there with CS and Diablo II, as recent games that I think are significant, and uniquely playable. I think many developers worry too much about making amazingly realistic graphics, and not enough about game creativity, uniqueness, and re-playablity.

I love the way NS forces people to play as a team (even the aliens), and still allows punks who are kill counters to run around and contribute (or not interfere too much). I don't even play CS these days, mainly because I enjoy the team/comraderie aspects of NS.

I've done a good deal of software testing in my career, and will see what I can do to post some helpful, quasi-formal suggestions on the appropriate forum.

Thanks for creating a great game, and I hope the player base continues to expand.

-- Shrike

Name's Savage, or Tjeerd, and quite a decent player already, so I thought I'd introduce myself. I really can't remember when I started playing, things are rather fuzzy since I got out of my egg last week. Anyway, expect to see a little thing from me to the community, a keybinder. I've already released a first version at ww.keybinding.com, and I'll be adding NS support asap

Adam "amckern" McKern

I am from Sydney, Australia

Found NS through the mod data base ( www.moddb.com )

find ns rocks

I make maps, check out ns_edan, i also enjoy technial writing, so check out http://amckern.actionrealm.com for my site, with my mods, maps, and "books" (technical writing for making ,maps, and mods)

amckern

there everyone ,
the Mod of the Year gamespy poll (sadly !) drew my attention to Natural Selection after I voted for Thievery (Thief mod , best UT mod of course) and tried it as I just reinstalled Half-Life. The title sounded good , the manual interesting , but the gameplay was beyond any expectation.

While I openly despise any hitscan(firearms) only mod , its unique game strategies somehow transcended that , machineguns were finally compatible with more subtle tactics (though I still greatly prefer the alien side btw)

The dream mixture of games. StarCraft and Half-Life merged.
I played Brood War for ages , but it became too predictable , games being more and more similar. FPS mods were fun , wacky or thrilling , but quickly boring as innovation was eventually depleted.



This , justifies the unthinkable sacrifices to real life many of you had (I'm late on chemistry homework atm) and the insane addiction starting at the very first game played. So far , ThieveryUT held me playing it instead of any other game. But Natural Selection just sucked me into its marvelously rich universe.

Sign that you played NS for too long already , #n+1 :
You feel your greatest duty on this world is to honor a mod's greatness on its forum at all costs , instead of working for incoming exams.

Stakhanov.

Matt Miner-
Redmond, WA
2 Blocks from Microsoft and Nintendo.

Heard about it from some classmates at school (we're all gamers).

Technically, I've been playing NS for the past 5-6 months, but since I've never actually posted to the forums before I figure that this is a good place to start. I mostly play on large servers (16+) and am on around 7-11 pm weekdays, 3-Late weekends.

Hi folks, Magnus from Sweden here!

Tried NS the week it was first released, but somehow I didn't find it as exciting as I'd expected. When 1.04 came out I gave it another shot and BANG, I loved it. Been playing a few hours each day ever since, but I still have problems finding my way around the maps

No big deal, I love it anyway

Te he... not really new. More of a "back from exile." Seems I lost my e-mail where I could revalidate my old account... so I changed it to this.

Anyways, howdy folks. Some of you might remember me, if not, then hi... go and consider me new.

EDIT: Oh yes... reason for my exile: Moved up north like I said I was going to, and I didn't have internet or a decent computer for about 3 months. But I do remember vaguely me having a T1 connection for 2 months before I moved to the new house.

Hi! I'm lick_its_babe. I've been playing CS for a little over 2 years with my hubby (lick_it_dot_com: hence my name). We've been regulars on a Seattle server "Seattle Vaginal Exuberance".

A co-player set up a NS "Elastical Gomez"server a few months ago and ever since we are both hooked. I'm not a noob to the game, yet still one to computers.. I can shoot, I can bit, I can build..

I've come here looking to learn other stradegies and more about what to look forward to in the game.. Also I use gamespy, yet would love to find other servers to try out. Lots of stuff to look at! Thanks


BABE

Hi. Grey_Area here. After much comments from associates of mine I decided to check out the game. Fan-tastic. The bakground is solid, well written and informative, the game itself is so close to what I have been looking for as makes no difference. I'm currently having some issues getting into servers but I think I have it sussed.

Very pleased to be here.

I'm Moltar. I'm really handsome.

im not new to the forums, or NS, but i may as well say hello, as i havent already soo...


hello



there we go


i came across NS from a mate

welcome all!!! (I'm bored...)


The NS Community Welcomes You All



hey.. My first post is somewhere in there... god can't find it

anyway I'm not new but...

what else to do at 2 in the morning and some insomnia hitting me

i cant play bc only game i can filter for is half life...how the hell do i play online?

QUOTE (da sAUCE @ Apr 11 2003, 08:53 PM)

i cant play bc only game i can filter for is half life...how the hell do i play online?

Your using the shortcut. Make a new shortcut for NS...


Anywho, welcome to the forum (and the community).

Greetings. Name is Kat. I am a moderator at GameFAQs, and I play regurlarly with the 'CE Crew' there.

You guys should post some FAQs there, it is currently lacking.

Oh, and I apologize for my poor English.

I am Chuchumanquiq Lord of Xibalba, and when the Quake 3: True Combat team releases 1.0 beta I'm supposed to have my tag in a map for doing some exploit testing there (hit: the news archives)... I've written stuff for Quake & Quake3 and some shareware apps but I'm burnt out on modding, so that's all you get to know about me.

3 years experience Java/C++ developer trillian pro user and Debian Linux fanatic.

I play pretty much everything, and I have to say I'm impressed with the forced teamplay in NS... even ravenshield pales in comparison to what you have to do to work together. NS is the kind of teamplay needed in a game, it's better than Allegience in its coop mechanics and more compelling than starcraft because of the great human factor.

After becoming an ok gorge I'm waiting for 1.1 with baited breath. The only other games I'm waiting for are doom3 and possibly a solid distance fog update to Q3TA and q3radiant that will expand the possibilities of huge maps and epic gameplay in a quake 3 mod.

PS: I first heard of natural selection as an April 1st sidenote, but didn't play it until someone told me about it word of mouth at a PC gamer event.

the NS community is a nice place to live

Hallo, I just found and dled the Natural Selection mod as I had seen it mentioned in a website I came across (Oldgames.nu) and after seeing the graphics I went immediately to my closet and pulled out my HL cd.

Im somewhat new to the community so I dont know much, but Id like to find a nice niche to fall into...

hope to see you all around,
-BlueSprite

Hey guys, i just downloaded this mod after many years of playing Half-Life, and i must say its excellent My name is Nathan, and im from Scotland. Im a web designer, at university, studying...web design. I play a lot of games in my free time, but the one i play mostly is America's Army, but Natural Selection looks like it might take up its fair share of my gaming time Good work to the developers!

You all look like a nice, happy bunch, so i figure ill enjoy being around here

-Ice

Hey guys, the names Jefe, pronounced with an H (it's Spanish) I just played ns for the first time in a few months, (for some reason I didn't like it the first time, go figure.) I'm a 6-month veteran of counter-strike and I'm glad to see that NS isn't riddled with idiots like that mother mod we all hear to much about.


WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello Jefe. Nice to hear that you like NS

Hello all. Please bear with me as I've been on the net for a week. I would like to start playing NS but not sure what to do. Not even sure what my nick etc is even. I went into an internet cafe and saw NS being played and decided then and there I had to play. Is there a place for newbies to go and get started/help. I'm over 50 but love HL and would love to try this mod. Thanking you in advance for your advice, not sure how long before I should check back here to see if an answer has been posted, as I said very new/green at online stuff. Alright by posting / sending then looking at this post found my nick what a relief. I feel so dumb.

Hi fellow NS gamers. My name is Clifford (17 yrs old) and i am an expert Counter-Strike playa (been owning in that game for over 2 years now) and one of my friends introduced me to NS. At first, i didn't quite understand it so i didn't like it, but then i decided to get on it again and i almost figured the aliens out perfectly (still don't know what some of the upgrades do, though, like celerity, etc...). I still don't know much about the marines, so if anyone can give me a heads up on them, that would be nice. And opinion wise, which is better: marines or aliens?

Celerity increases your speed, Psycondar.

Heads up on marines:
Work as a team. Pleeease. You may not have needed to work "as a team" in Counter Strike, but you HAVE to work as a team on marines, since a skulk will kill a marine in two bites and 1.5 additional bites for every armor upgrade you have. But hey, im sure you knew that already, didn't you? Well, if you go it alone you'll end up like all the other marines that go off alone.

Dead.

Not to mention you'll really make the Commander mad, and you may not get any weapons. Comm drops everything marines need to win, fyi, that includes: weapons, health packs, ammo packs, upgrades of all sorts, buildings, and other equipment; ie: Heavy Armor (95% damage absorb AND about 100-175 defualt additional armor).

and imo, aliens are nice to play if you like to stealth it up, and marines are better in the "covering eachother to get the job done" aspect of play.


Welcome one, welcome all, watch out! a skulk's down that hall!

Hey I'm Tugger. Converted (sort of) from about 4 years of TFC.
I have yet to actually play this game, but the SS got me interested. Sounds and looks like a lot of fun, so I hope to be playing you soon.

Hey All,

Name's Thomas and from Brisbane, Australia. I'm a member of a clan as you can see bWo and I found NS through a mods page and though i'd check it out and give it a go. I tried downloading NS from a webpage and ended up with a corrupt file to my dismay. Tryin again through another page to see if that works.

The whole basis of vs. reminds me of films such as aliens although the fact that you can build a base is pretty neat and makes things a little more refreshing compared to most of the other HL mods.

Are there bots accessable for this game or is it purely online only ? It's just that with only a 56k modem there are not many games/locations that I can join in and it would hugely dissapoint me to miss out on such a worth while game.

Anywayz Drop A Post.

T

Welcome to Zombocom!

*cough* er...

I mean

Welcome to the Forums!

Welcome to everyone who has joined since my last welcome (a very large amount of people I would think )

Remember to check all the FAQs and check out The Readyroom for all the latest NS news and updates!

Hey everyone, I'm new. My name is Leaf and I'm ready to play some NS. I don't really know what else to say, except I'm very active on forums.

Just for my information, could someone tell me what all of the alien's upgrades do? I know celerity increases speed now, but the others i just pick one and hope it does me good (and of course cloaking gives me cloak when i'm still).

The Name's KBTKaiser, didn't get around to introducing myself until now. I use the name Shadow|MsM when I play

Hi, I'm fairly new to NS. I am from Los Angeles and I also like playing DoD, BF1942, SimCity 4 & RPGs (if I can get my hands on any). I used to play Baulder's Gate back in 99.

I like NS because of the "creepy” factor I love ambushing an unsuspecting marine, and being ambushed myself! (Haha, good one skulk player!)

I hope they keep on working on the creepy factor with darker stages, stranger noises, and maybe a personal motion tracker like from the AVP2 series. I’m all for stat and counter measures, and right now I’m having a tough time trying to figure out how to counter a pair of Heavies and the early shot/jump hive rush. Wish they would fix this. Hope 1.1 get released soon!

TankBuster,
because I hate heavies with HMGs >=)

Hey guys was up? I'm new here so keep an eye out 4 me.

QUOTE (Psycondar @ Apr 29 2003, 07:24 AM)

Just for my information, could someone tell me what all of the alien's upgrades do? I know celerity increases speed now, but the others i just pick one and hope it does me good (and of course cloaking gives me cloak when i'm still).

This kind of information is contained in that wonderful document we like to call the manual. But I'm feeling uncharacteristically charitable today...

DEFENSE UPGRADES:
Carapace: increases your maximum armour capacity, and increases how much your armour absorbs damage.
Redemption: teleports you to the nearest hive when your health gets low, after a slight delay.
Regeneration: give you automatic self-healing

MOVEMENT UPGRADES:
Celerity: increases your movement speed
Adrenaline: increases your energy recharge rate
Silence: silences movement noise (and as of 1.1 will also stop the random alien noises AND silence attack sounds)

SENSORY UPGRADES:
Advanced Hive Sight: makes marines and marine structures light up when you activate your alien flashlight (usually just highlights friendly units)
Scent of Fear: makes any injured life-forms show up on hivesight for a period of time. Does not distinguish between friend or foe.
Cloaking: renders you partially invisible. You will uncloak if you move or attack, and a scanner sweep will decloak you.

I mentioned in another post I found out that a gamespy server was time dependent (by accident), this should be pointed out to newbies, so they don't think they have done something wrong. (where's the panic button). I didn't see this in the manual very important I think.

Hi, the names Will im from VA (yawn)
Im on my last year in High School and currently learning how to become a bowyer. I came accross NS by dumb luck lol. I was researching a biology paper on Natural Selction and i put .org than .com. So i decided to check it out. Im a veteran CS player, for about 3 years now, and since i saw this game i decided it was time to get a new game rather than play CS forever.

Got like 33 pages or so of people who have come to NS to play thier hearts out until it turns black and shrivels up... It is sure nice to be here and all but one thing that brought my rating down... The almighty annoying voice spammer... HOW do you mute those b*ggers?

QUOTE (VALVe guy @ May 18 2003, 08:05 PM)

The almighty annoying voice spammer... HOW do you mute those b*ggers?

Go to your Natural-Selection folder and find the file autoexec.cfg. If you do not have it, create a new text file and name it autoexec.cfg. Open autoexec.cfg with notepad (or any other text editor) and paste this into it:

CODE

alias fixmute "toggleeditps; alias -scores scorestogon; bind mouse1 +attack" alias scorestogon "toggleeditps; alias -scores scorestogoff; -showscores; -attack" alias scorestogoff "bind mouse1 +attack; -showscores; -attack" alias +scores "bind mouse1 fixmute; +showscores" alias -scores "scorestogoff" bind tab +scores

After you do this, you should be able to mute players by pressing tab, clicking the mouse, and clicking on the speaker icon next to their name.

I see... i have that file and i will do what you said but i couldnt click on the speaker icon because it was caught as the Primary Attack command.... now i know

Or bind a key to "toggleedtips" and open up the scores screen, hit the key you bound to "toggleedtips" then click on the name you want. That also works fine.

REMEMBER: HIT THE BOUND KEY AGAIN TO DISABLE TOGGLEEDTIPS OR YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO USE YOUR MENU THINGY

I am a nublet

I come from Australia

I heard about NS from NewName...

Anyway yea this mod looks like it ownz0rs and yea i recently got straight into half-life mods cos i can actually RUN them on my bad computer yea anyway i am now going to become an NS junkie

I'm surprised I could connect with my crappy ISP, once the ping got so high I thought I could smell somethin' burning...

(Fire in background "Who was playing on-line again?!?")



...oh come on, there's only one...



--OH MY GOD!!!

Hello, My name is The_Turk and i come from Tasmania, Australia. I found out about ns in a local pc magazine.
I'd have to say it is the best hl mod i've every played, and a perfect escape from the tedium of cs. Can't wait to see what you guys do in futre updates.

I can't wait for 1.1
Yeah I'm a noob to the forums, but I have been playing for a long time!
I normally go under the name HAX, but i'll be updating to match my Forum name soon!
Look for me playing close to home servers (canadian servers).
I am a very defencive player, as a Gorge, I like to make a perimeter, I find it works very well.
See ya around

Hey im Rob, bit of a newbie at Ns.

i'm sjoerd (goerdje on NS and CS) and i live in weurt, the netherlands. I've been playing three months of CS (i had just recently cable internet connection so) but CS is getting boring so i was looking for something else and... i think i found it