Cm's History

[TopHatPenguin]

wiki/History

Some of you may or may not know but there is currently a history page on the wiki that details some of Cm's history, however currently it is very much anything that isn't applicable to the current iteration of Cm jumbled onto somewhere onto this page.

The end goal of the page is to effectively be a museum page of sorts detailing the different 'eras' of CM along with features/sprites relevant to that era so that new players can go "haha the corroder, what a monster" and for old players to take a nostalgia trip.


In short this thread is for:

• Posting ideas for the pages structure and general layout.
• If any old Cm information is missing you can post it here so that it will be added.
• Old screenshots of a certain action(s) that are no longer present in Cm.
• Lastly if any you old players are willing to help out with information that'd be grand.

I may have missed something so If you've got any questions feel free to ask.

[Rahlzel]

Dec 16, 2014: The oldest image I have. This was the Virology room on "The Nostromo" (Baystation's Boxstation map). Apparently I enjoyed observing as a naked ghost.



March 21, 2015:



April 22, 2015:



August 9, 2015:



August 30, 2016: The day the Xenos killed most humans in the first few minutes of the round and had their own briefing


A few other nostalgic memories that I don't have screenshots for:
- Facehugger AI, and how Xenos would stuff 30 of them into a locker, run into a group of marines while pulling the locker, then open it. Instant Xeno victory!
- The massive long lines and endless fights at the Logistics Officers to get IDs changed into individual squads. I installed electronic flashers in the area so the HoPs could stun everyone
- We used to right-click > Kill on players that were misbehaving until I added the Sleep verbs later on. Apophis would occasionally give them diseases that they'd have to deal with for the rest of the round lol
- Probably not worthy of a universal history page, but I remember making a mistake accusing a player of something and apologized by giving them one of those infrared eye patches so he could see in the dark for the rest of the round.
- The shuttle landing never had a sound or alert of any kind, so players would get squashed by it almost every round

[Dumblike]

- The shuttle landing never had a sound or alert of any kind, so players would get squashed by it almost every round

lol'd hard.

[oprayx73]

At this time i had killed a deathsquad member, taken all their equipment.
I had also the mar-30 from the crashed ship, nagant revolver, and ppsh.
I personally have not seen deathsquad in a LONG time, and the crashed ship loot on LV has been neutered.

[MikeHdez97]

Alpha edition Req after fight because the commander denied attachments


Tanya and xeno-kun with a friendly PDA

[Deanthelis]

[stobarico]

Small Gallery: https://imgur.com/a/2Yeea
Or y'know, just see them here:

Nostromo:


- Fact: The Commander had an e-gun (Wich is extemelly OP because the aliens take 2x burn damage)!

Sulaco:


- Fact: The Commander had a Desert Eagle that could quickly kill a Queen!

Title Screen:

- Fact: That was probably the most used title screen for CM

[Deanthelis]

[Dolth]

I am terribly sad no one has a picture of the burning Sulaco when I made that phoron napalm grenade that almost crashed the server because melting everything. Including me.

OH and you forgot to talk about research making exosuits and throwing Chloral Hydrate Odysseus with syringe guns.

[Iatots]

No gifs of people opening the droppod's shutters during highpop?

[oprayx73]

Rummaged up through some 2016~ era CM videos i have lying around! glad i saved these.


https://i.imgur.com/GbEeW19.gifv
Crunk gets his head chopped off by Gahn & Ikthya.



https://i.imgur.com/gPSB6Gb.gifv
Somehow, for some reason, i had a DOUBLE ESWORD and used it to kill xenos.


Old big fat sentry sprites and the grey plasteel barricade sprites. People would actually use wood cades that blocked an entire tile & girders aswell.

https://i.imgur.com/3jTEtT0.gifv
I met my tragic end by the hands of a ravagers instant decap charge. Befitting of a double-esword swinging maniac.

]https://i.imgur.com/xTNF9Ej.gifv
Hangar defenses! and old xeno sprites!

[DarkSpeeder]

(I know this is not really that old, but it was around a year ago still, and it contains old sprites and shit, so i decided to post)

Me waiting for the Alamo (or rasputin, I don't remember if this was Almayer or Sulaco) as spec



Ice colony elevator massacre, here you can see the old wall and weed sprites, as well as the old white pulse rifle and shit.



I also have this extremely interesting gif.

https://i.imgur.com/hJPS5KZ.gif

[Lucyz]

Memories (: Nice to see how well CM has progressed over the years.

[NotSoAwesomeNation]

Alpha edition Req after fight because the commander denied attachments

Holy hell, I think I was CT that round! Thanks for bringing back that memory.

[KingKire]

(I know this is not really that old, but it was around a year ago still, and it contains old sprites and shit, so i decided to post)

Me waiting for the Alamo (or rasputin, I don't remember if this was Almayer or Sulaco) as spec



Ice colony elevator massacre, here you can see the old wall and weed sprites, as well as the old white pulse rifle and shit.



I also have this extremely interesting gif.

https://i.imgur.com/hJPS5KZ.gif

top pic is the almayer, you can actually probably find out which version it was by the art assets.
-shovels, racks right off the bat are the new ones.