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11 May 2016 - 18:05 UTC
#31
@Mephilles
I see, but I disagree with it.

Mephilles says

Also from a plsychlogical point of view people will probably always join the server with the highest playernumber btw.


This is true, and I'm wondering if it could be abused.

Imagine a 112 slot server, that functions as a match making hub that distributes players to 7vs7 games.
The hub wouldn't actually contain 112 players, but only those waiting for a match to start, but send false informations to the steam servers (players within the hub + players on each match server instance).

__________________________________________[Server Hub 60/112 (4 waiting)]
______________/________________________/________________________\________________________\
[Match Server Instance 1 (7vs7)] [Match Server Instance 2 (7vs7)] [Match Server Instance3 (7vs7)] [Match Server Instance4 (7vs7)]


The players would be like: "omg, a 112 slot server, that is exactly what I've always dreamed of", only to find out that they're going to play proper NS.
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#32
It's humorous to me that most of the people saying to finish out the season on vanilla didn't join the comp scene until after Compmod existed.

Have fun with lifeform eggs, 450 hp cysts everywhere and having everything you touch parasite you.
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11 May 2016 - 19:08 UTC
#33
I think next season, if it happens, will go very poorly. There's so much great non-ns coming out right now, then summer, then more non-ns.

Then maybe all the changes PDT are making may come together into something cohesive enough to do a small "re-release" or phase 3 "F2P 'wire-up'" to get people back. If you get over how terrible the changes are individually, you can see some kind of potential to have a fresh experience in a few months+ once much more is changed.

The way they're trickling features certainly lends to the end of NS2 competitive mindset.

Regardless, I'll still be looking to play Captains on Tuesdays, etc
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11 May 2016 - 19:32 UTC
#34
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I'm still wondering what the point of this thread is by an admin unless it's to consider shutting down the league due to lack of interest.

I'm just curious what games people are playing instead of NS2. Plain and simple. There has never been any talk about shutting down the league. In fact if you've been paying attention we've been working with the PDT to make Comp sustainable in the future. But let's not derail into another topic.
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11 May 2016 - 19:52 UTC
#35
@Mephilles
Oh I see, I totally agree with you but the devs are trying another path :s

@Golden ha man I miss the fast lerk egg meta. You had to be sure the lerk in your team was a hard carry and on a good day to make it worth it. But yeah, the fade spam was shit.
We need a topic with all the good'old strats :(
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#36
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@Mephilles
Oh I see, I totally agree with you but the devs are trying another path :s

@Golden ha man I miss the fast lerk egg meta. You had to be sure the lerk in your team was a hard carry and on a good day to make it worth it. But yeah, the fade spam was shit.
We need a topic with all the good'old strats :(

Good old season 1/2 :)
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11 May 2016 - 21:08 UTC
#37
I'm switching to overwatch. NS2 was a blast though. I had my fun. The competitive scene was great while it lasted. I've achieved nearly everything that I wanted to in NS2. Won multiple seasons with some great people. I'm hoping some of them may switch to overwatch with me. If not that's fine too. Peace.
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12 May 2016 - 07:49 UTC
#38
Didn't even play this season, been waiting for a good FPS game since ns1. Looks like Overwatch fits the bill. See you euro's on bnet. I hope i never have to play with you muricans/aussies ever again.

Peace & love o/
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12 May 2016 - 08:28 UTC
#39
Nope. Most of ausns is going to play overwatch. See you in cologne.
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#40
I won't be playing next season or finishing this one. It's not a surprise to me though and not really a direct consequence of the past week, I had always expected to have to give up playing once I had to go back to work.

However I really want to say one thing to all of you, if you either stay playing NS2 or move on to a new game, at some point or another you will run into mods again. If you are an admin or creating a league of some kind, please PLEASE insist on only using open source mods.

I know for many this sounds like some stupid hippie shit, but it's really not. I'm a developer and I work for companies developing proprietary software all the time, I'm not on a personal crusade for open source. It's really coming from a practical standpoint. For "community" mods, a community license makes sense....

If CompMod/NS2+ were open source, any developer (and this community actually has many), could contribute bugfixes or whatever without permission from the owner. We would not depend on the owner being around, its a ton of work to be the only maintainer of an actively used piece of software. And no owner can pull a 5-yearold screw you guys I'm taking my toys and going home move, this has happened at least twice in the last year.

In an ideal world, a single guy owning and running a mod used by entire community wouldn't be a problem, but in the real world of narcissists too many things will go wrong.

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12 May 2016 - 16:33 UTC
#41
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If CompMod/NS2+ were open source, any developer (and this community actually has many), could contribute bugfixes or whatever without permission from the owner. We would not depend on the owner being around, its a ton of work to be the only maintainer of an actively used piece of software. And no owner can pull a 5-yearold screw you guys I'm taking my toys and going home move, this has happened at least twice in the last year.


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#43
paddy says

If CompMod/NS2+ were open source, any developer (and this community actually has many), could contribute bugfixes or whatever without permission from the owner.


If people community were not so retarded and decided to ask the creators of the mods in the first place about fixes or whatever.
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12 May 2016 - 20:24 UTC
#44
sure, if there is another season i'll play.

paddy says
For "community" mods, a community license makes sense.

i agree with this 100%
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12 May 2016 - 21:01 UTC
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i'll miss ye o paddy.
one of the good guys to go
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#47
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i'll miss ye o paddy.
one of the good guys to go
ggs friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euWfTiYwRB0
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#48
NS2 can live on. It's one thing if you want to do something else, but if people are just going to play a different game - let's see if those games have the same appeal that kept you with ns2 so long. Seems like people can't wait to quit this game, and people have probably been waiting to do it, so now people can feel good about moving on. If this gives you your chance to quit, then you can take it - but why not see if the other games are really better.

When do we find out if season 9 lives on?
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#49
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When do we find out if season 9 lives on?

Officially, Sunday
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#50
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NS2 can live on. It's one thing if you want to do something else, but if people are just going to play a different game - let's see if those games have the same appeal that kept you with ns2 so long. Seems like people can't wait to quit this game, and people have probably been waiting to do it, so now people can feel good about moving on. If this gives you your chance to quit, then you can take it - but why not see if the other games are really better.

When do we find out if season 9 lives on?

Well and there are people who would like to continue playing NS2 but have no fun in seeing the game becoming worse and dumbed down. When the devs say that they do not care about the existing playerbase and only try to make the game more casual for new players. It is not very motivating.

It is also no fun when you are grinding a pg and God himself electrifies that pg so all your team loses health or dies. The only Chance I See for the game is if UWE would make an official comp mod what would basically be the current one without the terrible additions from the last Patches and they would Balance it for comp play. So they can continue to Ruin the game on Pubs but NSL and gathers maybe would not die.
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#51
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The only Chance I See for the game is if UWE would make an official comp mod what would basically be the current one without the terrible additions from the last Patches and they would Balance it for comp play. So they can continue to Ruin the game on Pubs but NSL and gathers maybe would not die.


I understand why the NSL is trying to have certain things from comp mod incorporated into vanilla ns2 so we aren't reliant on a mod every update. The problem is, not having a comp mod and playing vanilla is still not going to work perfectly. You can review by looking at the pdt trello , merge NSL balance requests, is under the 'doing' section.

I still think it's better to have some sort of comp mod get updated though. Cyst health for example is still going to bug people if we play vanilla and there's going to be lots of things that bug people. Your suggestion is decent, that UWE should make a comp mod so someone else doesn't have to do it. I just think it's going to be very difficult for comp players to enjoy playing vanilla even if all those requests are done - there will always be a bunch of other little/big things that annoy people.

UWE could work on it to make sure a comp mod (new or old) is working every ns2 patch. The comp mod has to be as important as the regular game every patch. It has to work, or the patch doesn't get released. We can't keep having the game not work competitively for days/weeks. It has to be done ahead of time,

So let's say you get the vanilla game changed, but the comp community shrinks. What is the point of incorporating those things into vanilla with no comp mod if the result is a community that doesn't play or shrinks? Wouldn't it be better to keep a comp mod, but find a better way to do it without the down time?
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#52
This is most of the community right now



why not just do a forum poll?
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#54
>Opened ns2 today
>Realised you can see enemy hp/hp bars
>Closed ns2 and never opening it again
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But spring, hp bars are not a bad thing. ARE YOU THEORYCRAFTING AND SAYING THEY'RE A BAD THING????? HOW ABOUT YOU TRY THEM OUT FIRST AND THEN JUDGE=!"==!!=!?!?!?
STOP THEORYCRAFTING
BECOME A PLAYTESTER TODAY
PLAY NS2 THE WAY IT IS MEANT TO BE PLAYEWDASDÖÄAS'D
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#56
IF YOU DISAGREE WITH THE PDT YOU ARE A TOXIC INDIVIDUAL THAT THE GAME IS BETTER OFF WITHOUT!!!!1111

That's what I'm getting from the people supporting these retarded changes.

Well then, have fun getting completely fucked over by the PDT while they try to keep their sorry ass jobs sacrificing anything they have to in order to reach some arbitrary goal set by UWE.

Sorry for being TOXIC.
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Wyz sent - pm
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#58
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Wyz sent


That scares me more than a simple PM. It's like UWE's Gestapo is coming to give you a visit.
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#60
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But spring, hp bars are not a bad thing. ARE YOU THEORYCRAFTING AND SAYING THEY'RE A BAD THING????? HOW ABOUT YOU TRY THEM OUT FIRST AND THEN JUDGE=!"==!!=!?!?!?
STOP THEORYCRAFTING
BECOME A PLAYTESTER TODAY
PLAY NS2 THE WAY IT IS MEANT TO BE PLAYEWDASDÖÄAS'D


I would actually love to become a playtester, and tell how fucking worthless they're fucking changes are :)
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