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...
Admiral Odin Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 I thought Jabba posted this a while back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted January 8, 2003 Author Share Posted January 8, 2003 If he did, then I didn't see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 If he did, then I immediately wrote it off as something stupid and forgot about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 I am undisputed lord and master of the Quik Stop and hereby banish you for spelling it wrong. be gone from my sight@! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 I think I need a new avatar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold leader Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 I concur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba The Hunt Posted January 9, 2003 Share Posted January 9, 2003 Yes I did post about it, and is still a great game (im creating a clan in a few weeks time if anyone wants to join please email me (it will also be for DoD, CS, UT (2003) and any other games anyone else wants to suggest, very casual scheduel, turn up to practise's if you can sort of thing) This is a far better thread though, way better exlained. Although I was told it was old news? Guess others missed it aswell. Oh and i think its gone a bit off topic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted January 9, 2003 Author Share Posted January 9, 2003 UT2003 blows. Play UT instead. And I'm [aPooH]Angus Walters when I play NS. A Part of our Heritage... Annoying Canadians since 1994. Our members include Molly Johnson, Patrick O'Neil, Mr. Marconi, Mr. Naismith, Dr. Penfield, Sitting Bull, Sam Steele, Mr. Clarence, and Pooh Bear. Any Canadian will instantly recognize these names, and the annoyance associated with them... Also, every time we take out an alien hive, one of us has an inukshuk(sp?) for a spray, sprays it in the base, and says, "Now the people will know we were here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 9, 2003 Share Posted January 9, 2003 I play UT. usually in utb.box or something and the play here if you suck at ut....gotta give those n00bs a challenge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted January 10, 2003 Share Posted January 10, 2003 It kicks ASS. (Natural Selection) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Beastie Posted January 14, 2003 Share Posted January 14, 2003 Originally posted by Nitro Also, every time we take out an alien hive, one of us has an inukshuk(sp?) for a spray, sprays it in the base, and says, "Now the people will know we were here. Nice touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted January 14, 2003 Share Posted January 14, 2003 Aliens are cheap. stupid fades....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted January 14, 2003 Share Posted January 14, 2003 Originally posted by Nitro UT2003 blows. Play UT instead. dont you hate it when games remind you how terrible your favortie game looks............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba The Hunt Posted January 14, 2003 Share Posted January 14, 2003 I really enjoy it when the fades are seiging the marine base and I'm on the marine side, I just go out there with a lmg and waste a fade, everyones always really suprised that you can kill a fade with a lmg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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