Natural Selection 2

It's getting really good now with all the recent updates, there's a new map, more stuff to play with, improved graphics and optimisations so its running a lot better, just make sure to play on a decent server, some still suffer from lag but that's changing all the time with each update.

Build 178 changes

 
Ah yes..got an email about this update the other day. I never got round to playing the beta due to being annoyed with them for giving earlier access to people that pre-ordered after me (I pre-ordered before the collectors edition became available). However, I guess I should stop being whiney and actually try it out.

Does it have linux server support? That would be a big bonus in my eyes :p
 
FrenchTart said:
Ah yes..got an email about this update the other day. I never got round to playing the beta due to being annoyed with them for giving earlier access to people that pre-ordered after me (I pre-ordered before the collectors edition became available). However, I guess I should stop being whiney and actually try it out.

Does it have linux server support? That would be a big bonus in my eyes :p
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Did you get the black armour?

I ordered when they had that two for one offer around Christmas, though i kind of want that black armour now. :p

I don't think they support linux servers yet but they should hopefully near release, at least im sure i read that on their forums.
 
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As far as I know, no. It was just the 'normal edition' as that was the only choice at the time.

Shame re linux server support. I'm pretty tired of having to mess around to get windows servers running (my dedi is a linux box) so it puts me off a little.
 
Is there a realise date for this? Every time i see videos it looks more alpha than beta testing which doesn't exactly fill me with confidence about the game. Want it to be good though as the first was great
 
Loved NS1, was a very good game. Only downside was that once the aliens got past a certain point (or indeed the marines) it was almost impossible to come back from, and was pretty much a landslide. Apart from that an excellent game (NS1). In fact, yesterday I got an email from my old NS1 clan, to come and have an NS1 evening :-) Just gotta see if I still even have the original Half life so I can play it!!!

Would definately give NS2 a go :-) Something very different to the usual shooters.
 
Scougar said:
Loved NS1, was a very good game. Only downside was that once the aliens got past a certain point (or indeed the marines) it was almost impossible to come back from, and was pretty much a landslide. Apart from that an excellent game (NS1). In fact, yesterday I got an email from my old NS1 clan, to come and have an NS1 evening :-) Just gotta see if I still even have the original Half life so I can play it!!!

Would definately give NS2 a go :-) Something very different to the usual shooters.
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Yo Clan?
I got one too
 
Nice one, though you might find 24 is at the limits of what most servers can handle at the moment, they are doing a lot of optimizations and plan to support 32 players eventually, if it's powerful enough it should work ok with around 20 i suspect.
 
What's this game like?

Rating out of 10?

Tempted to pick it up, is it like L4D2 in the respect of 1 team is aliens and 1 is humans? How does 1 team win? Different game modes? Etc etc.

Cheers.
 
Radiation said:
Nice one, though you might find 24 is at the limits of what most servers can handle at the moment, they are doing a lot of optimizations and plan to support 32 players eventually, if it's powerful enough it should work ok with around 20 i suspect.
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Currently a (well used) quad xeon 8gb mem soon to be an 8 core 16gb box.

some server issues at the mo. Server down :(
 
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Aedus said:
What's this game like?

Rating out of 10?

Tempted to pick it up, is it like L4D2 in the respect of 1 team is aliens and 1 is humans? How does 1 team win? Different game modes? Etc etc.

Cheers.
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It's quite good so far, you can tell it will end up being great once its properly optimised and released, the game play is different to l4d but a lot of fun and i can see similar game modes being created once modders get to work.

A[L]C;19415727 said:
Currently a (well used) quad xeon 8gb mem soon to be an 8 core 16gb box.

some server issues at the mo. Server down :(
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Sounds more than powerful enough for around 20, just watch out for server tick rate late game, if it drops below 10 things will start to lag and if it gets as low as 5 it a bit unplayable.

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Any news on its official release yet? I cant believe its taking them so long :(
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They said on their forums they definitely want it out by the end of the year and at the rate their updates are coming and the amount of features and bug fixes you see, it's quite likely.
 
Cheers Radiation.

Just waiting for the next patch. The issue we had is due to not being able to connect to non 27015 ports from the server list. Being a game server company, all of the 27015 ports are already taken.
 
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I tried to play the other day, it seemed really bad, the warping was unplayable. I can't wait until this takes off properly and we play like the old days.
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It's actually quite playable now, just make sure to find a good server, most performance problems are down to the servers at the moment, it's not totally their fault to be fair but some just aren't good enough until there's more optimisation.

Patch 180 next week should be good! :)
 
Well my server is up although cannot be connected via the game server browser lol. Currently called "connect 109.70.148.28:27025" as thats what you have to type in console
 
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