Natural Selection 2

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Well 7years ago on the 31st of October NS1 was release as a half life 1 mod. To this day it is still being played. I still love this mod and ofc im still playing it today.

well NS2 comes out soon(tm) and the site can be found herehttp://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/.

if youve never heard of it before its a blend of rts and fps set in the future on space stations and planets. Oh and its Marines vs Aliens. heres some INGAME screenies of NS2

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i suggest you chek out ns1 for hl if you never have done.
 
How soon is soon?

I have been following this since Half Life 2 was originally released (I played the first NS on Half Life a lot, I loved the game) but I got bored of the steady stream of delays and gaps in communication from the folks making it and stopped awhile back.

Still... good to hear it is nearing completion (hopefully!).
 
Will it still have the same modes as the original? Didn't map name dictate gamestyle ... one of them was easier for new ppl ...
 
incredibly impressive for a custom engine.


I can see many people getting very well paid jobs from this :p


Engine programming has been going really well, although there's only so much a lone programmer (albeit, a programming genius) can do. So far Max has written about 80% of an entirely new engine and tool set from scratch. That includes the renderer, level editor, cinematic editor (used to make the teaser), Lua Debugger, networking, physics integration, animation system, auto-updater, builder and a whole bunch of smaller programs that tie everything together (not to mention performance and compatibility)
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especially max! :eek:
 
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Played a ridiculous amount of hours of the original, I've neglected it for a while though!

Couple of my mates have already pre-ordered this but I was gonna wait till it's a bit further along. :)
 
Please tell me you can actually play as a monster like in the second screenshot?! would be so cool to have that view point inside the mouth and go around chomping people!
 
You can play as the aliens, its a team game. You either play as a marine or as a kharaa

There's 5 or 6 different types of alien evolutions to choose from too, such as a flying one or a giant rhino type thing that can swallow marines. :D

Download it if you have HL1. :)
 
Dumb question: is this a multiplayer only mod? I'd look it up myself, but as previously mentioned the NHS has their filter set to exclude all fun. I'm not much of a MP gamer, so is there a single-player option?
 
Have had this on pre-order for a while. Never got round to playing the first one but have had it 'on my list' since not long after it came out. Oops :)
 
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Dumb question: is this a multiplayer only mod? I'd look it up myself, but as previously mentioned the NHS has their filter set to exclude all fun. I'm not much of a MP gamer, so is there a single-player option?
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Mainly multiplayer.

There are bots you can download to play the aliens, but they're not too sharp and you'd be on your own on the marines and its kinda hard to sit in the commanders chair (RTS view) and then jump out and build everything you want whilst staying alive. :p
 
Well they planned for a full release for Fall this year, but UWE had to push back the release date further. Which is fair enough i'd rather play a finished game than a buggy one.

So it should be released at the start of the new year or round abouts.
 
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Please tell me you can actually play as a monster like in the second screenshot?! would be so cool to have that view point inside the mouth and go around chomping people!
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If you get NS1 for HL, you can do that right now :D

Part of the appeal of the original was hiding on the ceilings and dropping on some poor guy's head and having a feast :D
 
I never did play NS1 but the whole formula now that it's been mentioned here sounds just great. I'll keep an eye out for NS2.
 
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