Natural Selection 2

[okiN]

I played so much AvP2 MP, seriously top tier game.

AvP2 had the most bad-ass gamemode of all - but i don't remember how it was called. Survival-something.

You had one team playing as either the marines or the corporates, the other team as aliens. Marines started out in larger numbers and had a minute to prepare. Then the aliens spawned and attacked, respawning after death. Whoever they killed, also respawned as an alien. The objective was for the human team to survive as long as possible.

Was freaking awesome, with all these random players working together, fortifying in groups in defensible positions, then waiting patiently, rifles at the ready...

Actually, you start out with humans only and it's deathmatch. When the first player dies, he spawns as an alien, and it goes on from there. The marines could actually get a team win if they beat the clock, otherwise the winner was the last man standing.

My other favourite game mode was Hunt.

>one or a few preds
>lots of humans
>only pred gets points for kills
>whichever human kills the pred respawns as pred, dead pred spawns as human

All dat stalking. Amazing atmosphere.

Hunt was also very fun as Preds vs Aliens. They can see you and they're fast, deadly, looking for melee, so instead of stalking you break out the big guns, all discs and plasma. Trying to find the right time and place to recharge your energy, or desperately fending off charging xenomorphs with your spear. Good times.

And yet 70% of the servers were always retarded 4-team DM or TDM. Pointless unbalanced bullshit.

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I played so much AvP2 MP, seriously top tier game.

Actually, you start out with humans only and it's deathmatch. When the first player dies, he spawns as an alien, and it goes on from there. The marines could actually get a team win if they beat the clock, otherwise the winner was the last man standing.

Naw, man, i distinctly remember the gamemode, it had a minute or so of preparation time for the human team, before the aliens appeared. The marines could win, yeah.

Hunt was a superfun gamemode as well

[okiN]

You've mixed up Survivor and most likely Overrun in your mind. Survivor worked as I described, Overrun didn't feature players switching teams.

Trust me, I wasn't kidding when I said I played a lot of this game.

[djavo]

This game is how AVP should be. Ofc if you have tard commander youre in problem, this type of game can be best or worst depending on amount of teamplay.
Hit me up on dumbass brits server, Im the one with big dildo.

[djavo]

Free weekend on steam, check it if you hadn't chance. Multiplayer GOTY IMH&SO!

[okiN]

Free weekend is the worst thing ever. 70% of commanders are froobs who haven't bothered to watch any tutorials and don't know how to do anything, so they either spend the whole round doing literally nothing or just build useless shit and don't listen to any advice. It's horrifying.

[djavo]

Free weekend is the worst thing ever. 70% of commanders are froobs who haven't bothered to watch any tutorials and don't know how to do anything, so they either spend the whole round doing literally nothing or just build useless shit and don't listen to any advice. It's horrifying.

Vote eject Okin

[okiN]

Well that's the other awful thing about it, when 80% of the team is green, it's impossible to get them to vote eject or vote concede, so every single time you have to wait and wait until the other team finally nuts up and stomps you. Of course sometimes it's froob comm vs froob comm, in which case the whole thing can take ages and just comes down to which one manages to be even more useless than the other, unless you can gather the whole team for a base rush.

[djavo]

Well that's the other awful thing about it, when 80% of the team is green, it's impossible to get them to vote eject or vote concede, so every single time you have to wait and wait until the other team finally nuts up and stomps you. Of course sometimes it's froob comm vs froob comm, in which case the whole thing can take ages and just comes down to which one manages to be even more useless than the other, unless you can gather the whole team for a base rush.

Well there are rookie "unfriendly" servers from what I've seen. I stick to them. But I understand, lot of games were ruined by bad comm. Well It's the attitude of those players who wouldn't even watch tutorial and train as commander first. But everybody has to suck first time they comm, there's no escape from it. Since it's free weekend lot of guys want to try every aspect of the game. Atleast there's one positive thing and thats good k/d ratio but in this game it doesn't really mean anything.

[okiN]

Atleast there's one positive thing and thats good k/d ratio but in this game it doesn't really mean anything.

In one round yesterday I killed more than half a dozen marines and personally ate four resource towers in the first couple of minutes of the game, but it didn't matter because the comm had done literally nothing in that time and the rest of the team had one kill between all of them. Frustrating as fuck.

[Logen]

Finally tried this; its surprisingly fun.

And yet 70% of the servers were always retarded 4-team DM or TDM. Pointless unbalanced bullshit.

I played a lot of those

[okiN]

Yes, NS2 is a lot of fun. Now that free weekend is over things are back to normal and we can finally have real games again. Just played some really tense matches, long battles where bases were broken on both sides and you couldn't tell for sure who was going for win until quite shortly before the end. That's what it's all about. And looks like the free weekend did get the game some new buys as well, so I suppose it was worth it. Fresh meat is good.

I played a lot of those

Seriously? With life cycle too I bet.

[Logen]

Seriously? With life cycle too I bet.

Nope, no one likes being faceraped every 15 seconds

[okiN]

But that's exactly what always happened in those 4-way clusterfucks anyway. They were so fractured with that setup that they were essentially DM even if they were TDM. Whoever came up with that idea was a moron.

[Weren]

Free weekend is the worst thing ever. 70% of commanders are froobs who haven't bothered to watch any tutorials and don't know how to do anything, so they either spend the whole round doing literally nothing or just build useless shit and don't listen to any advice. It's horrifying.

Well as I knew nothing about commanding I just assumed the role of the average soldier and kept spamming 'h'. Got into it and bought the game.  Haven't really played with the aliens yet, marines have kept me content.