i don't understand at all what emanon means by rush rush rush. wasn't that what 1.04 was all about? rushing to jp's?

although you guys are only playing on pubs, and that includes the TG server. A well thought-out plan executed flawlessly by a competent team of 5 field marines feels totally different than a haphazard pub rush. it's just like how pub cs is just random deathmatch with some minor objectives like planting bombs or rescuing hosties, but in league play the teamwork is radically different. i personally find cs a repetitive, boring, stupid game based on pub play, but that's cuz i'm basing it on pub play from an unskilled player's perspective. NS is the same thing.

rebuild everything you just built? didn't this happen in 1.04 also? i don't see how 3.0 made structures any different.

how is it not useful to protect things? where are you getting this from? if you're not protecting things you're doing something wrong.

Pretty confident, the fact about jp/shottie is known on small servers, but no one person on a 20 pluss server can win a game.

pub combat for me is only a warmup to real ns play. and i never go aliens unless i plan to only get one upgrade.

and about yelling orders, it's the whole premise of the marine side =\ you have a commander. it's no different from regular ns in 1.04, and there wasn't even combat back then. if you want a more laid back game, go play checkers or something.

speeding up the game was a good thing. if you look at warcraft3 or starcraft, competitive games move really fast. There is no sitting around on resources waiting for things to happen, there's always creeping, expanding, exploring, pressuring, harassing, all of which with the exception of creeping is available in NS.

Anybody remember when NS was about hives? God those were the days, when the aliens got their 3rd hive it was over. And I remember the huge battles the marines would have with aliens over control of the 3rd hive. Now its all about res, and during big games (5 on 5 plus) the aliens have a huge disadvantage since res comes in so slow in the beginning. And then there's the fact that before the aliens get 1 res node the marines could have 4... which I think really needs to be worked on.

Um... NS is still about hives, dummy. Like brad said above, it's all about armor values and second/third hive abilities. Stomp + metabolize = win. WHen the aliens get the 3rd hive in REAL games, not retarded pub games where half the marines do nothing but hump the armory and the other half runs into oc's and just knife them.

5v5 isn't a big game, PLEASE. #nspug <-- go there ender and play something close to real ns. the only reason aliens don't have nodes early is because guess what, no one in pubs responds to "Resource tower is under attack" except for maybe one person, who gets mowed down because he's alone.

IF there's anything to be said about game flow, it's the fact that aliens are maybe too defensive before fades. After fades make their appearance, the game is balanced.



i wonder what's the real reason behind everyone's general dislike of ns now. it seems like the "cool" thing to do now.