I'm an old player. Been around since, well, honestly, NS1 pre-release fan fiction. Now I play once or twice every couple of months for a solid night of 8 hours.
I'm confused. How do I know I'm playing a mod? I enter a game, and only after I've committed to a minute or two of loading time do I see what mods are attached. What are they? What do they do? No idea. How do I just join a regular, vanilla game without two minutes of sitting around? ARE there any vanilla games? I don't know.
Every game I've joined lately has taken about 5 minutes before working out who's won. I have no idea why. Did something happen? Did one person turn out to be really good with a shotty? But pretty quickly one side or the other starts dropping, and begging the remainders to quit. I've been on the winning side, the remainders, and the quitters. None of them are fun.
Is there a setting I've missed that says I'm casual? Is it a UI thing, or a dopey-me thing? One of the servers I joined tonight where teams were rolled, and rolled, and rolled, was a newbie-friendly server. What else can I do to find a game?
I'm not even bad. I score highly, or, just as good, I work for the team and score terribly. I'm ok with that. But I see teams lose or win and I can't see a reason.
Well except: if marines are good shots, at least a couple of them, they win. If there aren't enough marines who are good shots, they lose. Everything else seems like sponge and padding, fire and noise. The game was already decided by that mix.
I don't know the game well enough to offer any solutions. I can only say that, lately, it's no fun for me. And I want it to be fun. This is my kind of game. Seriously, *this morning*, I told a friend about a scene where I'm covering a buddy with a welding torch, trying to fix the lighting, and in the flashing, intermittent light, I can hear the tick tickah tick of something moving in the shadows. Memorable scenes, strong emotions, that's what gaming is for.
But tonight I saw game after game where one side got rolled. Everyone was bored, resigned, frustrated. It's not fun.
Maybe it's not worth fixing. I *love* a game I can sink my teeth into, and maybe I just have the wrong expectations of NS2. Maybe its FOR the people who can spend hours researching. But I *used* to love it. And I hope I can love it again. Maybe it can be for all of us?
So maybe other people have suggestions. I don't. I wish I did. I don't know anything, other than what I feel.
So there it is.
I'm confused. How do I know I'm playing a mod? I enter a game, and only after I've committed to a minute or two of loading time do I see what mods are attached. What are they? What do they do? No idea. How do I just join a regular, vanilla game without two minutes of sitting around? ARE there any vanilla games? I don't know.
Every game I've joined lately has taken about 5 minutes before working out who's won. I have no idea why. Did something happen? Did one person turn out to be really good with a shotty? But pretty quickly one side or the other starts dropping, and begging the remainders to quit. I've been on the winning side, the remainders, and the quitters. None of them are fun.
Is there a setting I've missed that says I'm casual? Is it a UI thing, or a dopey-me thing? One of the servers I joined tonight where teams were rolled, and rolled, and rolled, was a newbie-friendly server. What else can I do to find a game?
I'm not even bad. I score highly, or, just as good, I work for the team and score terribly. I'm ok with that. But I see teams lose or win and I can't see a reason.
Well except: if marines are good shots, at least a couple of them, they win. If there aren't enough marines who are good shots, they lose. Everything else seems like sponge and padding, fire and noise. The game was already decided by that mix.
I don't know the game well enough to offer any solutions. I can only say that, lately, it's no fun for me. And I want it to be fun. This is my kind of game. Seriously, *this morning*, I told a friend about a scene where I'm covering a buddy with a welding torch, trying to fix the lighting, and in the flashing, intermittent light, I can hear the tick tickah tick of something moving in the shadows. Memorable scenes, strong emotions, that's what gaming is for.
But tonight I saw game after game where one side got rolled. Everyone was bored, resigned, frustrated. It's not fun.
Maybe it's not worth fixing. I *love* a game I can sink my teeth into, and maybe I just have the wrong expectations of NS2. Maybe its FOR the people who can spend hours researching. But I *used* to love it. And I hope I can love it again. Maybe it can be for all of us?
So maybe other people have suggestions. I don't. I wish I did. I don't know anything, other than what I feel.
So there it is.