The Wasteland Depot - OPENING EVENT & MAP

[Aether]

day 4 review

I logged into fighting outside of quarry town, when I got there it was over, but we were exchanging shots with the fort and I'm ngl, cause I moved into a new apartment in early December I don't actually have a desk and shit so I'm using my living room TV hooked up to my PC tower and tryna shoot pixels when I'm like 4/5 feet from my tv screen (at 5fps because looking at that fort is visually a kick in my balls, the floor gives me 20fps) isn't great so I decided to try and get closer to the fort so I could maybe surprise some people and get a better view, queue the following:

You mean to tell me had I stuck around I could've teleported into the lighthouse? I deadass ran myself over there on foot prior to the pulsing, my literal POV:

I charged up the fuckin pipe hoping to find a path onto the lighthouse area, and ended up fighting cops with rebels lmao

So I'm literally at the foot of this pulsing tower and initially I'm like "well I sure as shit can't get away in time and I think this thing isn't gonna give two fucks if I'm in cover, so... guess the path of the warrior is the only way" so I sprint my mottled green ass onto the pipes, run up to the top and try to find a way to get over to the tower (there isn't one) so I take refuge in some wooden shack while I go piss, come back to find some rebels have made it up and are now trading shots with cops but neither party has noticed me, so I decide to join in and start tryna pick off cops on the wall where I can with my windows slideshow gameplay, where one of the rebels ('Recon') sprints into my shack and then the next thing I know two cops run their asses in there after him (past me, standing in a dark corner of the doorway) so Im' just like "my time has come" and groundpound and actually kill someone and injure the other, and then another cop runs in the doorway and shoots me while my beam winds up and I get NLR'd and then watch everything from the camp.

tldr: 7/10, I'm not really sure what happened in the end (felt like it was a big final event kinda deal and that we'd be moving over to the next map in a HL2:EP1 kinda "IT'S GONNA BLOWWWW EVERYONE RUNNN" kinda deal but that didn't happen, and I missed out on the vort thing because I decided to take the manual route and it wasn't an option (Genuinely wish there had been a bridge that let me over there so that even though I missed the TP in bit I could've broken in and been like "teleporting is for pussies" and joined but oh well) but on the plus side cool visuals plus I got to have some cool solo RP where I thought I was gonna eat a singularly blast and so I decided to go out fighting, and then actually did do that by accident AND I got a kill with the most under-used weapon in the game, so yeah, 7/10, please new map tomorrow, cock and ball torture is more pleasurable than this please god, okay thank you

 

[Tinbe]

Cool to see a recounting from the other side. It was a little weird and shit for us on the CP side. We pull out, only to return to the Lighthouse during the climax. We find out we can't get in and not even Overwatch have charges so it sucked.

Planned on executing a coup though. Had a contingency of Officers on stand-by in case anything happened when the RL's were having a meeting of some kind.

THEY DIE! WE DIE!

Likewise, it's good to hear how things went from the Combine side. I was kind of expecting us to fight a brutal uphill battle through the lighthouse. What happened was that there was a super soldier synth that apparently didn't even consider six vorts a threat - only to get bodied by five of them while the sixth one ended up doing fuckall up top. Frankly, I expected an OTA sniper to come in from the upper exterior of the lighthouse and for us two to panic fire at each other.

 

[Provingmedusa]

Likewise, it's good to hear how things went from the Combine side. I was kind of expecting us to fight a brutal uphill battle through the lighthouse. What happened was that there was a super soldier synth that apparently didn't even consider six vorts a threat - only to get bodied by five of them while the sixth one ended up doing fuckall up top. Frankly, I expected an OTA sniper to come in from the upper exterior of the lighthouse and for us two to panic fire at each other.

I was injured REALLY badly at the very start of the event.

During daytime on the first attack, my PT were deployed quite far forward with almost no cover so we split into half and each covered areas about 10 second away from each other. Maybe even less.

Other two units were being shot at so me and my colleague went to assist. We both then take fire and fall into a very deep pit beneath a wooden bridge.

We were stuck there. Stranded. All we could do is radio for help. I could hear my PT members dying. Other units elsewhere dying. While we were stuck in a deep, dark hole.

After a very short time, we see a couple of people above, clearly not Civil Protection, or Combine for that matter. We hid quietly awaiting our rescue.

All of a sudden! A fragmentation grenade is thrown into the pit. From who? I still don't know.
In this tiny hole, I watch the grenade roll at our feet, it blows up. JUDGE-0 if that was his name, died. Immediately. He was blown to pieces just metres away from me.
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I am alive, barely. Thanks to my armour and health being at full and the grenade rolling to the other side of the hole.

I hear yelling. I desperately hide my pain, feigning death in the pit. A rebel comes by and shoots into the pit, just barely missing me.

I lay there. In the pitch black, looking up to the yellow sky, the radio sounding oh so distant...

Until I see something... no... someONE! An Overwatch Unit has arrived! My guardian angel stands at the top of the hole for a brief moment, looking down at me.

I plead for help, and help he does. He rapples down to me, immediately injecting morphine into me to ease the pain as he attaches me to himself as he grapples out of the hole with me in tow.

I managed to survive that, and all of the following events today. Not long ago he asked for me. I come to him. He gives me a stunstick. Not just any stunstick, but the one JUDGE-0 had in The Pit...

I almost cried irl.

I would've made this event into an RP doc but alas. I was too lazy.

 

[Revanox]

I was injured REALLY badly at the very start of the event.

During daytime on the first attack, my PT were deployed quite far forward with almost no cover so we split into half and each covered areas about 10 second away from each other. Maybe even less.

Other two units were being shot at so me and my colleague went to assist. We both then take fire and fall into a very deep pit beneath a wooden bridge.

We were stuck there. Stranded. All we could do is radio for help. I could hear my PT members dying. Other units elsewhere dying. While we were stuck in a deep, dark hole.

After a very short time, we see a couple of people above, clearly not Civil Protection, or Combine for that matter. We hid quietly awaiting our rescue.

All of a sudden! A fragmentation grenade is thrown into the pit. From who? I still don't know.
In this tiny hole, I watch the grenade roll at our feet, it blows up. JUDGE-0 if that was his name, died. Immediately. He was blown to pieces just metres away from me.
w
I am alive, barely. Thanks to my armour and health being at full and the grenade rolling to the other side of the hole.

I hear yelling. I desperately hide my pain, feigning death in the pit. A rebel comes by and shoots into the pit, just barely missing me.

I lay there. In the pitch black, looking up to the yellow sky, the radio sounding oh so distant...

Until I see something... no... someONE! An Overwatch Unit has arrived! My guardian angel stands at the top of the hole for a brief moment, looking down at me.

I plead for help, and help he does. He rapples down to me, immediately injecting morphine into me to ease the pain as he attaches me to himself as he grapples out of the hole with me in tow.

I managed to survive that, and all of the following events today. Not long ago he asked for me. I come to him. He gives me a stunstick. Not just any stunstick, but the one JUDGE-0 had in The Pit...

I almost cried irl.

I would've made this event into an RP doc but alas. I was too lazy.

OTA POV;


> 10 fps
> mag constantly empty
> fog covering my sight
> vortigaunt hits the edge of my shoulder, half way dead already
> grappling bugging me into walls but i am still hittable
> grapple not triggering
> getting stuck on terrain
> running down from lighthouse to the first cop at the semi-lowest rock, no cover
> save him
"there is a cop stuck in the pit"
> run in with the hunter, mfw no problem
> hunter dies straight above me where my extraction point is, i am still in the pit writing /me's
> grapple out praying to god they are not covering the death pit
> semi-sprint walk because carrying IC
> no reinforcements at my terrain, theoretical rambo rule engaged
> get out saving the cops
> arrive back at the lighthouse almost meeting god again to a pixel missed vortigaunt beam
> run up to RP the external console at the substation to engage the new parts that are mounted, running outside into the sights of snipers thrice
> survive

 

[Ond]

If I live through the gauntlet of green hellfire it is an act of God, if I die it is mercy shown by the creator

Bismillah

OTA POV;


> 10 fps
> mag constantly empty
> fog covering my sight
> vortigaunt hits the edge of my shoulder, half way dead already
> grappling bugging me into walls but i am still hittable
> grapple not triggering
> getting stuck on terrain
> running down from lighthouse to the first cop at the semi-lowest rock, no cover
> save him
"there is a cop stuck in the pit"
> run in with the hunter, mfw no problem
> hunter dies straight above me where my extraction point is, i am still in the pit writing /me's
> grapple out praying to god they are not covering the death pit
> semi-sprint walk because carrying IC
> no reinforcements at my terrain, theoretical rambo rule engaged
> get out saving the cops
> arrive back at the lighthouse almost meeting god again to a pixel missed vortigaunt beam
> run up to RP the external console at the substation to engage the new parts that are mounted, running outside into the sights of snipers thrice
> survive

 

[Tinbe]

OTA POV;


> 10 fps
> mag constantly empty
> fog covering my sight
> vortigaunt hits the edge of my shoulder, half way dead already
> grappling bugging me into walls but i am still hittable
> grapple not triggering
> getting stuck on terrain
> running down from lighthouse to the first cop at the semi-lowest rock, no cover
> save him
"there is a cop stuck in the pit"
> run in with the hunter, mfw no problem
> hunter dies straight above me where my extraction point is, i am still in the pit writing /me's
> grapple out praying to god they are not covering the death pit
> semi-sprint walk because carrying IC
> no reinforcements at my terrain, theoretical rambo rule engaged
> get out saving the cops
> arrive back at the lighthouse almost meeting god again to a pixel missed vortigaunt beam
> run up to RP the external console at the substation to engage the new parts that are mounted, running outside into the sights of snipers thrice
> survive

What a banger story. It's great to see what a wild time you've had on Combine's side of things as well.

 

[Deleted member 38]

today fun as fuck legitimately the most fun ive had on neb in years

things were tacky here and there but lets be honest there's a nostalgia factor there that i fucking love

the shit fps, the shit ping, the balls to the walls gunfights, the 'rule of cool' plotline and events, it was all just great for me

theres no greater adrenaline than running across the entire map with ur healthbar lookin like this;

cus a chopper fucking domed you and then kept spraying at you the entire way back, and then once ur back u get to rp COOL NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE EPIC INJURY (I WILL HAVE BASED SCAR AFTERWARDS THAT I WILL SHOW EVERYONE)

AND THE FUCKING PARTICLE EFFECT FROM THE LIGHTHOUSE HOLY SHIT THAT WAS SICK

this is what ive wanted pls don't change it

also sidenote ive heard cops keep saying they got nothing to do and uhhh i mean that sounds like a self inflicted wound to me

u guys are the enemy faction, ur the baddies, ur all fuckers on the brink of transhumanisation, so.. do something? make plans to escape, make plans to prolong ur transhumanisation, make internal factions, go out on patrol, disrupt rebel supplies, go attack rebel base, do SOMETHING that can inspire rp u dont have to sit there doing nothing

and when i say 'attack rebel base' i dont mean a fucking snoozefest run into the base's front gate as if ur life doesn't matter, spray everybody down 2016 ota sweep style and then book it (the attack on the rebel base that happened earlier is an amazing example of how the attacks should be done, the dropship during that was based)

i mean get out a fucking apc, bring portable barricades, throw smoke grenades, hit the base from afar and attack like you actually value ur life

also i really think both sides need to understand the value of losing just as much as winning. ive already seen so many people getting so angry ooc cus they're at the disadvantage or b/c they lost

its war its always lopsided

losing is amazing character dev; it provides even more chardev than winning does. when rebels hit the dropship earlier and then subsequently realised it meant nothing and the dropships just kept coming, it was this moment of sheer terror and amazing chardev because so many of us simultaneously realised "holy fuck we didnt even slow them down"

both sides are guilty of this so dont think im just targeting cops with this comment cus im not

rant over

 

[Numbers]

What do you guys think of modifying weapon crafting flags to just being that all you need to fix a broken gun, is the broken gun itself?

We would accept roleplay oriented crafters as a result, but just for guns atm

 

[avralwobniar]

What do you guys think of modifying weapon crafting flags to just being that all you need to fix a broken gun, is the broken gun itself?

We would accept roleplay oriented crafters as a result, but just for guns atm

less minecraft resource gathering is a good thing

 

[MaXenzie]

What do you guys think of modifying weapon crafting flags to just being that all you need to fix a broken gun, is the broken gun itself?

We would accept roleplay oriented crafters as a result, but just for guns atm

*puts ur gun back together like a lego*

 

[Numbers]

also i would like to remind the vortigaunts that you never checked the pods in the substation before sabotage, effectively dooming the ones trapped in there ic

but hey.... it was a necessary sacrifice, probably wouldve taken too long right? haha.. (also better than playing 4 event vort actors lol)

 

[Merlinsclaw]

and when i say 'attack rebel base' i dont mean a fucking snoozefest run into the base's front gate as if ur life doesn't matter, spray everybody down 2016 ota sweep style and then book it (the attack on the rebel base that happened earlier is an amazing example of how the attacks should be done, the dropship during that was based)

i mean get out a fucking apc, bring portable barricades, throw smoke grenades, hit the base from afar and attack like you actually value ur life

the dropship escape was based. 2 OTA and 3 cops and at least all of the cops survived. I was shitting myself and just kept saying "overwatch, advise" over the radio because we were pinned down so hard

but yeah agree. cops have internal groups, there's been infighting, coup planning, planning to delay transhumanization, and alot of good passive RP. the only problem is that we can't leave the fort / go on patrol / attack the rebels so we are essentially stuck in the prison

 

[Deleted member 38]

the only problem is that we can't leave the fort / go on patrol / attack the rebels so we are essentially stuck in the prison

cant because you're being told you cant or cant because its too hard to get down from the prison?

 

[Merlinsclaw]

cant because you're being told you cant or cant because its too hard to get down from the prison?

can't because we're being told we can't

 

['77 East]

cant because you're being told you cant

answered your own question.

 

[Deleted member 38]

can't because we're being told we can't

that shouldnt be happening and whoever's telling you that you can't really needs to backtrack heavily on that. this server's entire concept relies on you doing things like that, so it needs to be looked at and soon

if cops cant do those things unless theyre explicitly told to go and do it its gonna become a snoozefest incredibly fast. u need that freedom, with the exception of flat rules like u cant outright attack the rebel base full on hardcore without auths or something (but even then that should just be done so staff is aware its happening)

needs to be looked at asap

 

[florek]

less minecraft resource gathering is a good thing

I thought this was planned for this iteration either way? or was that with linntrix

 

[Raiden]

What do you guys think of modifying weapon crafting flags to just being that all you need to fix a broken gun, is the broken gun itself?

We would accept roleplay oriented crafters as a result, but just for guns atm

Why don't you make book scripts that effectively give you the flag to craft a certain item when used, and it can only be used once, almost like a skill book in skyrim? That way people can learn how to repair or make a particular thing? Just an idea I had, I'll make a full suggestion if people like the idea

 

[avralwobniar]

Why don't you make book scripts that effectively give you the flag to craft a certain item when used, and it can only be used once, almost like a skill book in skyrim? That way people can learn how to repair or make a particular thing? Just an idea I had, I'll make a full suggestion if people like the idea

cool idea but kinda limits you in regards to your character trade until you get a book

 

[Provingmedusa]

OTA POV;


> 10 fps
> mag constantly empty
> fog covering my sight
> vortigaunt hits the edge of my shoulder, half way dead already
> grappling bugging me into walls but i am still hittable
> grapple not triggering
> getting stuck on terrain
> running down from lighthouse to the first cop at the semi-lowest rock, no cover
> save him
"there is a cop stuck in the pit"
> run in with the hunter, mfw no problem
> hunter dies straight above me where my extraction point is, i am still in the pit writing /me's
> grapple out praying to god they are not covering the death pit
> semi-sprint walk because carrying IC
> no reinforcements at my terrain, theoretical rambo rule engaged
> get out saving the cops
> arrive back at the lighthouse almost meeting god again to a pixel missed vortigaunt beam
> run up to RP the external console at the substation to engage the new parts that are mounted, running outside into the sights of snipers thrice
> survive

Love u