I miss the old NS with the 3 hour games with marines trying to break into ventilation on ns_caged and the 3 hour battles in generator on ns_nothing. I miss babblers, 2 hive acid rocket and walls of lame. The more "mature" NS gets, the more is starts to feel like counterstrike with aliens.
Counter-Strike with aliens is oversimplifying things. It's a different game with _much_ richer tech tree, better balanced gameplay and more options for teamwork, tactics and such. You'll just need to look a little deeper in to the game and its logic and think about it a bit.
Originally NS was like an RTS that you played inside. You needed a decent commander to have a good game, but this wasn't impossibly difficult to arrange.
But they decided to introduce NS Combat and make it all more pubber/noob friendly. It became like CS with a tech tree. No teamwork, no map depth, no strategy, etc. Just a bunch of players running around ramboing the other team so they can level up faster.
No one who played in the old 1.0x days would say what you did.
Back then the games were always using the same JP or HA tech on some versions. If you take a look at organised play at 1.04, you'll see how limited the strategies were.
Now its a lot more flexible and there's more teamwork than any team can master at this activity ns has. I miss the 1.04 epicness too, but it wouldn't have lasted much longer because the game structure was already being pushed to the limits.
How do I shot web?
baggedyman 7 months ago
anyone still play this?
bizzle187 9 months ago
@bizzle187
Yes, there are a handful of servers left that populate on a regular basis. BAD server is usually full everyday.
aeroripper 9 months ago
@aeroripper Can you play it with Half life Source?
cheezandtoast 3 months ago
Tremulos much?
skillzofatree 1 year ago
@skillzofatree Indeed, tremulous was released in 2006, this game in 2002. Also tremulous is a horrendous piece of shit.
wattuz 7 months ago
@wattuz didnt know about release date and that was an old comment of mine
skillzofatree 7 months ago
NOSTALGIA
lolpfhor 1 year ago
Nice fade ^^
megamarsvin 1 year ago
do u need half life 1 to get this game????
liukang1378 1 year ago 3
Yes, its a free mod for half-life. You can buy it off steam for a few bucks.
aeroripper 1 year ago
nadelaunchers are fucking lethal
Ullbritt 2 years ago
haha alien commander is such an annoying fuck tard
Pekeno201 2 years ago
Wth is a alien commander???!?!?!?!? Aliens dont have coms....
killerzompi 1 year ago
alien commander is the dude speaking, thats his alias, he was the marine commander
Pekeno201 1 year ago
@Pekeno201 Aliens do NOT have alien commanders...
killerzompi 1 year ago
I was playing a map and i had to download a loader? wtf is that all about
Chrisjouett12 2 years ago
thats xtcmen guy was raping wow =P
ih8skool20 2 years ago
is it possible to play with bots?
IsaaxTeddy 2 years ago
yeap
uruz88 2 years ago
No, you need the original half-life. It's only a couple of bucks to buy off steam.
aeroripper 3 years ago
can you play half-life mods without half-life? I have counter-strike.
26jess 3 years ago
can you play half-life mods without half-life?
26jess 3 years ago
my longest game was like 6 or 7 hours
scornwrath 3 years ago
ya games get pretty long... though longest I played was 2 hours and 40 mins :D
CorTheEnd 3 years ago
@CorTheEnd I played an 8 hour once LOL
bornburied 6 months ago
gorge rocks...and i agree combat mode is pathetic and boring..
DeceptiveWarrior 3 years ago 9
I once played a game on ns_hera that lasted a bit over an hour. Best game ever.
Spekkof 3 years ago
I miss the old NS with the 3 hour games with marines trying to break into ventilation on ns_caged and the 3 hour battles in generator on ns_nothing. I miss babblers, 2 hive acid rocket and walls of lame. The more "mature" NS gets, the more is starts to feel like counterstrike with aliens.
beerslurpy 3 years ago 11
i know.
hl2ep3 3 years ago
Counter-Strike with aliens is oversimplifying things. It's a different game with _much_ richer tech tree, better balanced gameplay and more options for teamwork, tactics and such. You'll just need to look a little deeper in to the game and its logic and think about it a bit.
Aggrobacillus 3 years ago
Originally NS was like an RTS that you played inside. You needed a decent commander to have a good game, but this wasn't impossibly difficult to arrange.
But they decided to introduce NS Combat and make it all more pubber/noob friendly. It became like CS with a tech tree. No teamwork, no map depth, no strategy, etc. Just a bunch of players running around ramboing the other team so they can level up faster.
No one who played in the old 1.0x days would say what you did.
beerslurpy 3 years ago
I've played more or less actively since 1.03.
Back then the games were always using the same JP or HA tech on some versions. If you take a look at organised play at 1.04, you'll see how limited the strategies were.
Now its a lot more flexible and there's more teamwork than any team can master at this activity ns has. I miss the 1.04 epicness too, but it wouldn't have lasted much longer because the game structure was already being pushed to the limits.
Aggrobacillus 3 years ago
i got NS for the sole reason of having a commander... thats not what i got.
Nspire3 3 years ago
you cant just download half life and add it to your steam account.. you need the CD-Key..
cania2010 3 years ago
What?
aeroripper 4 years ago
hey do u know where i can download half life 1 from coz ive got the game just not half life
aznpride3214 3 years ago
start listening at 25 seconds and and arounf 26 u will hear "is cyberkid the gorge?" and cyberkid is me!!!! but i am now and forever EdDi3!
demonboy175 4 years ago
at 35 seconds start listing and u will hear "is Cyberkid the gorge?" and that would be me Cyberkid but now i am EdDi3!
demonboy175 4 years ago
yeah, cool video showing a little-bit of the gameplay of Natural Selection... But no Marine-Commander view shown... :(
adam0509 4 years ago