Nitro Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 Anyone here play it? It's a heavily team-based strategic Half-Life mod that's similar to StarCraft. Available from Natural-Selection.org, you can play as either Marines or aliens. As an alien, you can evolve from your basic form (Skulk) into a builder (Gorge), a flyer (Lerk), a fighter (Fade), or a massive beast of an alien, the Onos. You start with one hive, and must expand to the other two hive locations. These 2 extra hives are important, as the availability of upgrades and advanced evolutionary forms is determined by the number hives you have. Also, the more hives you have, the faster you can respawn the dead. To win, however, you must eliminate the Marines and their ability to spawn. Along the way, the builders can build various other buildings providing upgrades, resource gatherers, healing of nearby units and structures, and autonomous turrets to keep the bad guys out. Gameplay as a Marine is slightly different. The team has a commander, who views the action from a 3rd person RTS-type view, and is reponsible for spawning buildings, which a Marine must then weld together for it to become operational, giving orders (which come up as waypoints on the Marine's hud), and keeping troops in the field healthy and armed. The Marines must eliminate all alien hives, and do their best to protect the open hive sites. The dead respawn at a rate of one every ten seconds per spawn point. As an alien, each functioning hive counts as a spawn point. As a Marine, the commander can build Infantry Portals, each one of which counts as a spawn point. This may seem unbalancing, as the Marines can have as many spawn points as they can afford, but the Inf. Portals are just about the easiest thing in a Marine base to destroy, and go down rather quickly if an alien finds his way into your base. An example of the spawn system in question, would be if 3 guys on a team died at about the same time, but only one spawn point was built, then after 10 seconds, one would spawn, then the second in another 10 seconds, and a third after a further 10. Now, figure it again for 2 spawn points. After 10 seconds, the first two respawn, and another 10 for the third. As a Marine, you always want to have two portals up. More are a waste of resources early on, and only having one will cripple you if it goes down. The game is over when all the members of a team are dead, and have no spawn points from which to get back into the action. However, I've seen games where the aliens lost all three hives, and the lone remaining player evolved to builder, and built a hive. 3 minutes as the only player, waiting for the hive to finish, then a full team again, and Marines wondering what the hell happened. we came back, got a second hive up in about 10 minutes, and ended up winning. And don't be discouraged if you spend a lot of time dying at first... It happend to me, and if it doesn't happen to you, I'll be surprised, and declare you Complete Lord and Master of the Quik Stop. All in all, a great, addictive game, and a sweet-ass alternative to CS. http://www.natural-selection.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackDove Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 Half life sucks a nut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 I need to get half life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted January 8, 2003 Author Share Posted January 8, 2003 Originally posted by BlackDove Half life sucks a nut It might, but this isn't about half-life, so suck my nut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackDove Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 only one? oooook, you musta lost the other in one painful half life game of sheir stupidity besides, anything that is associated with half life sucks my nuts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted January 8, 2003 Author Share Posted January 8, 2003 Sure, it's not the best engine out there, but I haven't seen another one I really liked. UT was the only other I remotely liked... UT2003's just bothered me, and don't get me started on the myriad of Q3-based games. I did fall in love with the Refractor 2 engine (BF1942), and I'd swear by it if it wasn't so damned resource-happy. You just can't make mods for an engine no one can run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackDove Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 Yeah yeah, I know, I was just messin around. Although for me Half Life was a terrible game, there seem to be 80 000 other people dissagreeing with me, so if you say this thing's good I'mma take your word for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted January 8, 2003 Author Share Posted January 8, 2003 Hey... Hold up a sec... I never said I like Half-Life. I like the engine. And aside from having aliens, Natural Selection is NOTHING like Half-Life. Imagine playing StarCraft as a Marine, with someone else calling the shots, and you've got Natural Selection from the human perspective. The aliens, aside from visual similarities, aren't so much like the Zerg. There's no commanding "Overmind", but they do have a "hive sight", which places teammates, hive locations, structures under attack, and parasite-infected marines on the screen as circles. It's great, cause you can send in one Skulk to infect marines, and even if he dies, the marines still show up on your screen, so you can organize an all-sides assault. The game is incredibly strategic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackDove Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 Sounds good actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted January 8, 2003 Author Share Posted January 8, 2003 It really is... I was sceptical at first, having played CS for so damned long, but I just fell in love with it. Haven't played CS in a month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackDove Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 Cheater Strike is actually why I dislike Half-Life...it could have been good but then trolls started trolling and ruined it. After that patches came out but it was already ruined for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted January 8, 2003 Author Share Posted January 8, 2003 See, that's why NS owns to much... None of the BS HAX of Counter-Suck, and soooo much more fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackDove Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 Maybe I'll try it if I still have Half-Life around...and working... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted January 8, 2003 Author Share Posted January 8, 2003 ela2.eastlink.ca is the server I play on the most. It's passworded, though... Publicly available, though... Just to keep retards out. pm me if you want it, or check out the forums at http://games.eastlink.ca/forums/phpBB/ It's in the Natural Selection section, in an announcement at the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 I play Unreal Tournament. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynk Former Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 I play Unreal Tournament 2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted January 8, 2003 Author Share Posted January 8, 2003 You're gay, Lynk. UT2003 sucks the combined nuts of half-life, BD, and myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 One moment they are trying to rip eachother apart...another they are hugging....and then they are trying to tear eachother apart again. CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackDove Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 *disassembles The Master apart* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted January 8, 2003 Author Share Posted January 8, 2003 That was a tad redundant, wasn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted January 9, 2003 Share Posted January 9, 2003 Just trying to be a friendly mediator. But appearantly I'm not wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted January 9, 2003 Share Posted January 9, 2003 If i could FIND my half life CD, i'd play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted January 9, 2003 Share Posted January 9, 2003 I wonder if some of these people are even human sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrion Posted January 9, 2003 Share Posted January 9, 2003 Originally posted by The Master I wonder if some of these people are even human sometimes. They are not human. They are Aresen. They are one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted January 9, 2003 Share Posted January 9, 2003 WE are the Aresens. You will be assimilated and added to the Collective. Resistance is close to Futile, however, if you want to fight, you till have a good chance at kicking our ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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