*** I confess: I was a n00b ***

[Kaleo]

i was never a noob.

yeah... well.... umm.... i was playing Trem before timbo was even born...


Ha... cocksuckers!

[jackForward]

In Summer 2007 i got a recommendation from a friend. I asked for a free/opensource 1st person shooter running on linux and he said "tremulous". So i installed the game, read some info (wikipedia, bit of the manual, ...) and got started.
No single player mode? Ummm, okay, so i connected to a server (Penguin chill server or something like that. hey, i'm on linux!) I managed to start as human, i had a gun and i was surrounded by a swirling blue thingie. Suddenly my character made some "arghh, arghh" noises and i died. I tried again with the same result. And again. I was pretty irritated and managed to switch to spectator mode. Right beside that swirling blue thingie sat a fat black spider. On a green box in the corner sat a smaller red spider. On top of my screen some infos popped up, saying "lol, n00b" and stuff like that. I quit.
After some reading (more of the manual, this forum, tremwiki) i connected to some other server and spawned as a dretch. But i could not get out of the base, the entry was blocked by a black plant - ehh, barricade. I asked in  chat for help and some nice guy told me to press "c" to wallwalk. I did and lurked along some walls until i got shot.
After some more reading i decided to spec other players on several servers. I bought a lasermouse and a new mousepad. i adjusted my monitor and bought a new graphic card. I discovered the "/devmap" command and practised a lot. I got some neck stiffness from all that wallwalking.
Ant then i was geared up to do battle and connected to some server. I jumped right into the action, yeah, wallwalk ftw! I know how to headbite those battlesuits, i read the damn manual three times! If only these damn fat ass tyrants would step aside and let me through to finish my job! OMG waddayamean votekick reason blocking wtf F1 F1 F2 you have been kicked black screen game over.
[...]
Today i'm an average dretch and tyrant and i try to improve my aim on [T]Arena. And i still enjoy the game.

[==Troy==]

Same here, Somewhere around the Summer 07 I was tired of WolfET and just after the release of MLB StarBase, someone mentioned "Would be a nice idea to port it to Trem" and gave a link for the game.

I checked it out and asked myself "Why not?". The most interesting part for me was RTS rather than FPS, since I played quite a lot of it before, started with manual, also thinking "hell, shotgun 150 cred, I will just HAVE to stay alive", imagining Trem as a slow-pased strategic game.

First server join wasnt that bad, Alien builder, watch other builders and do the same tactics worked out quite well. Somehow the "trappers on floor are not effective" prevented me from building even a single trapper on the floor, but I did not know that it had a FOV. I had only a vague idea of what the buildings that I build do, but once I got to the point of "acid tube hurts, booster makes your teammates happy", my main tactics was to build a forward bases, which wasnt such a good idea at 100bp.

Worst base was at karith, under stairs near H default, 3 eggs OM and 4 barricades... its funny now, before it seemed to be a fortress.

My first ban was at the Corbina server, for OM move during a planned rush. That was actually the only ban that I have gotten in my whole Trem playing experience.

After I had enough fun with building, I switched to SST and took a rifle. At that time SST just set unlagged to 1, and some "Commmon its easy, see the dretch? See your crosshair? now make them coinside and press a button" helped me a lot, and Q3 experience refreshed the reflexes. First time being called a lasgun whore. Stg. Duck was a good teammate to play with and one of the uVache (DoorKnob? cant remember) even suggested me to join their clan, which I denied. I still remember when I was playing with Duck against Paradox, and it was hs3 vs as1, and he forces the stages to 3, accusing us in hacking but not yet banning. After that SST put their unlagged back to 0.

Well, then a sweet unlagged R Unlimited satisfied all my building experiments and helped with a bit of shooting, but by that time my newbiness ended

[Fragged]

I discovered the game from a friend and then played LAN (not fun) with noobs at school.

At that point i played a game of trem here and there (but i still sucked) and it wasnt untill 3 months later that i realized both teams were good and started to think of strategy to the game.  Then i discovered USA and decided to try and join.  I joined and that is when Bug, JBomb, Bull, War, and several other people "raised" me to be about 3/4 of what i am now and then the other 1/4 was from expierence.

That is my story.

[Eyn Xaeyn]

i was a noob on WOW...

[ShadowNinjaDudeMan]

No Shit.

You played WoW.
Ergo, you were a noob.

[Kaleo]

Why do people hate WoW so much? I mean as if you've even played it.

And if you have played it, you can't have played it for long.

[Knowitall66]

People hate WoW because it is just Runescape with SFX and click to kill is not really most peoples style.

[+ OPTIMUS +]

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let's talk about Tremulous please, there were many cute stories about Trem newbieness from many people.
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[HamStar]

click to kill is not really most peoples style.

How the hell do you kill in Trem then?

[Knowitall66]

Sorry should have been more clear you aim and click where as RS/WoW you click and it auto walks up to and attacks opponents.

[Kaleo]

Sorry should have been more clear you aim and click where as RS/WoW you click and it auto walks up to and attacks opponents.

What WoW have you been playing? That is totally off!

Yes, you do select yourtarget, but then you MANUALLY walk up to it and MANUALLLY (to a certain deggree) attack it!

And PvP is totally different to that, with jumping and everything...

[+ OPTIMUS +]

Here I open my humanskin-cover Necronomicon, and summon H.P. Lavacraft's minions, the outer gods! Nyarlatuple, Azatothcinante, Tsattotughivor, AI! AI! AI! AI!
Separate this thread with the WoW crap to the tunes of the whistles of the mad goat!

[KamikOzzy]

My first 8 months or so were played on a trackpad, with no right-click button. I didn't know how to pounce or charge, and had no idea using a mouse would be easier.

I played for almost a year before I knew dretches could kill turrets, longer before I knew they could kill teslas.

This being my first online game...I didn't know what half the little e-symbols meant, which I now use every day. <3

I thought a wallhack let you go through walls, until I saw the video on youtube.

I knew sprint was there;I didn't use it.

[+ OPTIMUS +]

***I confess: I am STILL a noob***

DRETCH VS TESLA....? <.<

[Taiyo.uk]

I once thought that the DC increases the power of turrets, in fact I used to build bases with two DCs for uber-powered turrets. Also, it was quite clear that two turrets would take a tyrant out in about two seconds if we have 3 DCs.

[player1]

Here I open my humanskin-cover Necronomicon, and summon H.P. Lavacraft's minions, the outer gods! Nyarlatuple, Azatothcinante, Tsattotughivor, AI! AI! AI! AI!
Separate this thread with the WoW crap to the tunes of the whistles of the mad goat!

It was a dark, deep, dank, dreary, depressing, deadly dungeon, rank with the foul odors of nameless abonimations, and rife with shambling, cursed things who very existence was a slap in the face of Providence.

ON TOPIC: It was January of 2007, and I had just bought a new Mac...

[Kuszja]

I started playing the game when Godmil posted a thread about it on map-center.com. I downloaded it, read the manual, and started playing the game. I got the basics down in my first game including how to buy weapons. After that, I can't say I played with any real strategy other than kill and not get killed. Now when I play, I try to work with some strategy, but I don't know the best ways to take on swarms of tyrants.

[Shadowgandor]

Swarms of tyrants? Best bet would be a luci or maybe a lucky nade, but a single tyrant can be solo'd with a Lsuit+helmet+shotgun.
Chainsuit is effective as well though more costly

[Revan]

I still suck at goon -- the other day I had my first successful pounces on Nexus in a hummie SD base-camp

[jackForward]

... Lsuit+helmet+shotgun...

Umm..., Lsuit=Leather suit? Like this one: http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/31872.jpg ?

[mooseberry]

Maybe it is actaully a Lightning suit, like this one: Go Electro!

[your face]

I thought adv granger was an attack class because of its slash capabilities.

UM!  YES IT IS!!  infact, it ownz the rant and goon...

[Ryanw4390]

I remember I sucked at goon for about 6 months because I failed to realize that they chomped, so I stuck with mara early on.

[mooseberry]

I remember I used to suck at aliens because I would listen to classical music while I was playing.

[player1]

What do you listen to now? (Finnish Death Metal, FTW!)

[mooseberry]

Yeh, something like that. 

[player1]

[toastisgood]

i started in august 07,bieng constantly pwnt by everything.I only figured out how to make a name about a month later,after my friend(Butters,he pwns,but never plays)mistook me and banned me.I never even thought of building until recently.I EVEN thought hives were good! I learned the extremely hard way...i went on the same servers as Butters...2k per macth(gerr how do you spell that?) but from that I learned quickly,(this forum!) and here i am today...oh,btw some times i play on djl10's comp so if u see him and i dont let you know its me,put him in specs PLZ!!!he sucks BADLY!!!but dont worry ill teach him.

[whitebear]

Started the day stand-alone version came out on moddb news. Started by reading manual to check if this game was even worth my time. While reading the manual got excited and started the download when I read that you can pwn humans with a spider like alien that can wall walk. Joined random server and only played alien cause my aim sucked (still does but not as much). Well since I read the manual I knew most of the stuff except sprint (witch I found after few months of playing -.-''). Back then killing humans was easy since  they were worse skilled and I had long time been playing AvP2. Back then you could kill base where humans still were in with mara. But of course novice humans would be fed with my aliens without fail. First (25) games as humans were... just another failure. But I found my self loving building as human so I spent most of time camping and improving our defenses. Mostly because human buildings were lot more interesting than aliens.

Now I've become (self proclaimed) adapt over all builder, novice human and adapt alien.