SSS | June 28 | 12n EST / 16:00 GMT Start | Natural Selection 2

[Egriz]

Super Spectacular Saturday - June 28th!

Clear your schedules. I mean it. Lock your kids in the cage, send your wife away to the spa. It's time to get down to business.

We are heading to the alien environment of Natural Selection 2. This game is on sale on steam, so pick it up!

Natural Selection 2 is a Humans Vs. Aliens strategic Shooter/RTS, where you can play as the aliens and suck people's faces off! It's going to be a blast.

When?
June 28th, 12n / 16:00 GMT

Teamspeak:
ts.testsquadron.com **Push to talk is REQUIRED**

Game Information:
Natural Selection 2
Server and grouping will be organized at the start of the event.

We look forward to having everybody be there! Make sure to stay active in this thread! X up if you're going!

If you have experience with Natural Selection 2, please let me know so we can get you set up in commander mode, so everything goes smoothly.

 

[Myugenlol]

YES! THERE IS A GOD! (he so happens to be shaped like a yellow stuffed bear! oh bother!)

edit: About commander mode and blah blah...

I'd recommend we play CO maps, to avoid the "strategy" portion of people getting antsy and just...kill rampage on weird made up maps like mario world pipes and such.

 

[Egriz]

YES! THERE IS A GOD! (he so happens to be shaped like a yellow stuffed bear! oh bother!)

edit: About commander mode and blah blah...

I'd recommend we play CO maps, to avoid the "strategy" portion of people getting antsy and just...kill rampage on weird made up maps like mario world pipes and such.

Sounds good! I don't have a ton of time in NS2. Do these maps not have the commander mode? That would be the best option.

 

[Myugenlol]

Sounds good! I don't have a ton of time in NS2. Do these maps not have the commander mode? That would be the best option.

Combat maps started as a mod back in the day, but because of the fast gameplay, they caught on and have a cult following, even more so than the original strategy one.

What they are is the teams are divided up evenly, and per kill or assists you gain experience. When you level you gain 1 point, that you spend in general upgrade (auto reload, an auto scanner, better weapons, better armor) and in either case, an evolve into a stronger form or a better weapon. What end sup happening is if you get good kills early on, you start snowballing, and becoming a decked out MONSTER. It's great fun, because you don't need to worry about being "bad". If you can shoot, you're pretty much guaranteed fun.

 

[Egriz]

Combat maps started as a mod back in the day, but because of the fast gameplay, they caught on and have a cult following, even more so than the original strategy one.

What they are is the teams are divided up evenly, and per kill or assists you gain experience. When you level you gain 1 point, that you spend in general upgrade (auto reload, an auto scanner, better weapons, better armor) and in either case, an evolve into a stronger form or a better weapon. What end sup happening is if you get good kills early on, you start snowballing, and becoming a decked out MONSTER. It's great fun, because you don't need to worry about being "bad". If you can shoot, you're pretty much guaranteed fun.

That sounds great. We definitely want a game mode that is most accessible to all players!

Is there anything required on the players' end to be able to join these modes? I'll hop ingame today and check it out.

 

[SeungRyul]

So hyped! I AM SO DOWN FOR THIS :D

 

[Roelosaurus]

DEVOUR HYPE!!!

 

[Myugenlol]

That sounds great. We definitely want a game mode that is most accessible to all players!

Is there anything required on the players' end to be able to join these modes? I'll hop ingame today and check it out.

I recommend we log in before time because some CO maps and the back-end might take a bit to download. That and servers aren't too large, so finding a relatively empty CO_ server to play in might be a good idea beforehand.

As to learning to play, we can help each other with the levels up and hotkeys and whatnot, it really is a get in there and just mess around.

 

[Jumanx.]

Damn! I was so looking forward to this game. I'm going camping this weekend but hopefully it goes well!

 

[Shaded]

I'll try and make it, I picked up NS2 probably a month ago and haven't touched it, this would be a good opportunity.

 

[TestBot]

I picked this game up during winter sale I think. After which I noticed I'm bad at it and then noticed that no one is playing with me and promptly quit.

I'll be happy to come back to this :D

 

[o-BHG-o]

Aww, wanted to be there for this....no computer where I'm going this weekend :(

 

[Egriz]

I picked this game up during winter sale I think. After which I noticed I'm bad at it and then noticed that no one is playing with me and promptly quit.

I'll be happy to come back to this :D

:D Whoo!

 

[halfsane]

cooooooool! Ive never played

 

[Egriz]

Get ready for tomorrow!

 

[SeungRyul]

HYPE TRAIN CHOOO CHOOO~