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On November 09 2012 18:10 shindigs wrote:
it seems like a lot of servers have people using voice chat and cooperating. there are some servers that blow, but the ratio of good servers with teamwork to bad servers is surprisingly high. makes the game that much more fun
I played NS1 for a long time, then stopped with almost every FPS and only played MOBA and RTS.
Coming back to NS with NS2 I was kinda shocked: There still are people on the internet with brains and manners.
Tho the community is kinda small people in general are really mannered and nice.
Sure you will have sometimes a guy flaming others but no where near as when i log on to SC2 or HoN.
If you want intense teamplay I suggest you try to join some servers from Clans. In general there are more people continuesly playing on that server and you will get to known to the names and the players.
The officials are as allready been said pretty random in terms of skills.
Btw. going to start to get some video material ready for youtube. If anyone can get me some infos on competitve play and where to maybe get contacts infos, please leave it here or PM me 
Would like to cast some NS2 and show the folks (especially sc2 folks) how awesome and strategic a FPS can be.
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If anybody wants to play in a competitive setting, you should make an account at ensl and participate in a gather. You'll see that the game plays a little different with only 6 players per side and everyone working together.
http://www.ensl.org/
If you already have a team, you can register it to this site to participate in the first ensl NS2 Season. Will start in 2 weeks i believe. If you want to practice, try #ns2.search @ irc.quakenet.org to find some opponents.
Also, if you have a team, make it known by making a thread in the competitive section of the official forums:
http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?showforum=109
If you'd like to cast, you can also go there and tell people to add you on Steam if they want their game streamed, and also look into this irc channel: #ns2.search @ irc.quakenet.org
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On November 09 2012 21:09 bluQ wrote:Show nested quote +On November 09 2012 18:10 shindigs wrote:
it seems like a lot of servers have people using voice chat and cooperating. there are some servers that blow, but the ratio of good servers with teamwork to bad servers is surprisingly high. makes the game that much more fun I played NS1 for a long time, then stopped with almost every FPS and only played MOBA and RTS. Coming back to NS with NS2 I was kinda shocked: There still are people on the internet with brains and manners. Tho the community is kinda small people in general are really mannered and nice. Sure you will have sometimes a guy flaming others but no where near as when i log on to SC2 or HoN.
This is very true. i have yet to connect to a server where people have raged at each other amazingly as that sounds.
It is either a server where nobody uses voice and those are a bit messy, or allot of people that use voice and are friendly and cooperate very well.
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On November 09 2012 22:31 3del wrote:If anybody wants to play in a competitive setting, you should make an account at ensl and participate in a gather. You'll see that the game plays a little different with only 6 players per side and everyone working together. http://www.ensl.org/If you already have a team, you can register it to this site to participate in the first ensl NS2 Season. Will start in 2 weeks i believe. If you want to practice, try #ns2.search @ irc.quakenet.org to find some opponents. Also, if you have a team, make it known by making a thread in the competitive section of the official forums: http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?showforum=109If you'd like to cast, you can also go there and tell people to add you on Steam if they want their game streamed, and also look into this irc channel: #ns2.search @ irc.quakenet.org
Sounds like a lot of fun but me and all my mates are in Australia TT
Does anyone know of any NS2 leagues or competitions in Australia?
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What I like the most about NS2 is that it's community seems to be really mature. You can actually use the voice chat and communicate with people like a human being.
Buy it! It's not expensive, requires about the same specs as SC2, and is overall a great game so far. If you don't know anyone playing it, get a team together asap through forums or whatever because it's one hell of an experience playing organized in a team.
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On November 09 2012 22:31 3del wrote:If anybody wants to play in a competitive setting, you should make an account at ensl and participate in a gather. You'll see that the game plays a little different with only 6 players per side and everyone working together. http://www.ensl.org/If you already have a team, you can register it to this site to participate in the first ensl NS2 Season. Will start in 2 weeks i believe. If you want to practice, try #ns2.search @ irc.quakenet.org to find some opponents. Also, if you have a team, make it known by making a thread in the competitive section of the official forums: http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?showforum=109If you'd like to cast, you can also go there and tell people to add you on Steam if they want their game streamed, and also look into this irc channel: #ns2.search @ irc.quakenet.org
Jesus i totally.forgot about IRC. Now a lot of.good old memories are coming back :D
For all the newer guys. Ill Start by recording pub Games and Talk about whats going on.
For sc2 players this game is the right fps to apply General rts concept to a lot faster paced game
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ESL Tournament today!
Live from Cologne, Germany, Exertus and Archaea are going to duke it out for all the glory.
It's starting at 2000CET, 1400EST, 1100PST, 1900UTC.
http://www.twitch.tv/esltv
Im so hyped for this!
and here some sales facts for the giggles
![[image loading]](http://www.unknownworlds.com/cache/thumbnails/PostLaunchStatsRelease_800x450.jpg)
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whoaaa thank you for reminding ... had forgotten !
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Damn Archaea has played so good in the first game. They put so much pressure on Exertus the whole game!
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i missed that esl thing, there are no vods at http://www.twitch.tv/esltv/videos
are there english vods anywhere? that guy on youtube i was watching isnt doing any new vids for a few days T_T
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I just managed to win two games in a row as rine comm. That shit is so stressful. Had quite a few helpful people talking with me and giving me tips or pointing out things I missed, which was great and probably made the difference; the second game lasted around 45 minutes and consisted of so much back-and-forth. At one point in time the alien team had four or five onoses and I was pretty sure we were going to lose, but they overextended and we managed to kill them through attrition and come back in the game.
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If you missed the finals here is the vod http://www.twitch.tv/esltv_pov1/b/339101420
All these games were so close in this series.
@dronebabo: teamplay is the biggest problem at the moment because there are so many new players. Just talk with them over voice chat thats helps a lot in most cases.
If someone needs help or wants to play my steam name is "Sicion". I will gladly help/teach you if im online.
Which i do most of the time anyway. :D
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Yeah, the community is pretty good for the most part. Occasionally you get people complaining about shitty comms or players, but if you vocalize stuff, generally everyone else is forgiving.
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On November 11 2012 13:04 carraway wrote:
Yeah, the community is pretty good for the most part. Occasionally you get people complaining about shitty comms or players, but if you vocalize stuff, generally everyone else is forgiving.
Yeah thats a problem. People call out coms or especially new players really quick which is really bad and scares people away from these positions. Everyone has to start somewhere and if you cant let them gain experience they WONT get better or nobody wants to go com at some point. So i encourage people to go com and guide them as much as possible when i play.
I think its just a problem with the mindset at the moment. Teamplay and tatics is everything and you lose as a team not because of a single person !
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RTS + FPS in one game I am going have to buy this also it looks so much fun and strategic to play as the commander.
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On November 11 2012 13:21 Sicion wrote:Show nested quote +On November 11 2012 13:04 carraway wrote:
Yeah, the community is pretty good for the most part. Occasionally you get people complaining about shitty comms or players, but if you vocalize stuff, generally everyone else is forgiving. Yeah thats a problem. People call out coms or especially new players really quick which is really bad and scares people away from these positions. Everyone has to start somewhere and if you cant let them gain experience they WONT get better or nobody wants to go com at some point. So i encourage people to go com and guide them as much as possible when i play. I think its just a problem with the mindset at the moment. Teamplay and tatics is everything and you lose as a team not because of a single person !
On the other hand, there is a Training mode in which anyone can familiarize himself with the basic commander controls, there's even tutorial videos in-game.
I've never seen anyone get angry at a commander who does mistakes, but then again, if it takes you 10 minutes to build a single extractor, there are other options to learn the basics without ruining the game for your team.
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