   Natural Selection MOD
  Has anyone played this mod? Is it any good? 
  It.  Rocks.  Best damn Half-Life mod out there. ;  Thanks. Right now the DL is at 99% ^_^ ;  Christ! NS is fun but it is way too fucking unbalanced... the Aliens are WAY too powerful. I know you''re supposed to take them out in groups, but it''s like the only thing that can kill an ONOS is a corridoor full of mines, and once they get to your spawners, you''re not going to play the rest of the game =/ ;  Good night Irene.  You should've been there when it first came out.  Everyone claimed the Marines were way too powerful.  Learn how to play.  It's not like Counter-Strike.  See if you can find a guy named Coil, one of the NS Guides if they're still around, or just anyone bearing an NSF in front of or behind their name.  They'll show you everything you need to know.Edit:And bow to Flayra.   [edited by - Hikeeba on August 2, 2003 1:53:39 PM];  They''re re-building the whole thing, so chances are it will end up being a lil'' more balanced. ;  Every patch, the balance goes to the polar opposite. First, marines wiped the floor with alien tentacles, because noone knew how to be aliens.Between patches, aliens got better (not good enough), and the marines just ramboed the fuck out in the middle of some pipe system with HA/JP + HMG.Patch. Aliens are buffed. Marines get cornholed. Thus, the patient alien players (I'm ALWAYS alien) who had been practicing were now Gods on Flayra's Earth. Marines were hunted down like Osama Bin Laden and ripped apart in as little as a few minutes after the round started.To counter those ebil alienz, the marines made massive home bases that could stave off even onos while a solo marine went and took over a hive, effectively nailing the aliens in the bawlz. But the aliens usually won.Patch. Marines got buffed... And so on, and so forth.Eventually, they're going to catch this cycle at a good spot and then this game will pwn everything. In fact, they might have fixed it up. Last thing I knew, Flayra was revamping NS to play much shorter rounds (rounds at the beginning of NS were HOURS long, like playing AoE AoK with 8 people). Twenty minute rounds, was the target. Which might not be good. The whole 'balance' of the game came from stamina. Who could wear the other guy down first. Hives swapping hands up to a dozen times... Sometimes, down to a single alien huddling in a corner until that HMG turned the corner...Exciting. A really good game. If you want to play with some strategy, you can be an alien. If you want your entire game to consist of pressing the W key and left mouse button, go marine. If you are a RTS titan, you could command the marine team (one of the coolest things in a HL mod I've ever seen)Not alot of idiots (unless there's a bug to exploit), the stoopad people get bored with the lack of gun-buying and nade-spamming.   [edited by - TSwitch on August 2, 2003 3:43:02 PM];  I need to download it again.  I miss that game now.  And one other thing to add:  If the Kharaa have Onos, you fucked up. 