Natural Selection 2

lego · 28 Jun 2011 at 13:50

Should see a "big" patch this week, heres hoping for more performance fixes! (serverside)

Gimpymoo · 29 Jul 2011 at 12:27

For anyone on the Beta, how is this shaping up?

Looks very tempting.

starfighter · 29 Jul 2011 at 12:30

Still a bit laggy for me but getting better every patch. This game is awesome.

FrenchTart · 29 Jul 2011 at 12:31

Any linux server support yet?

A[L]C · 29 Jul 2011 at 12:45

Not too bad. The last 2 patches have been a bit of a nightmare with several exploits popping up. I've still played it for 142 hours though

Noble-Kebab · 21 Aug 2011 at 11:51

any new news?

A[L]C · 21 Aug 2011 at 11:56

Up to 168 hours of gameplay now. Latest patch (build 184) is a bit unbalanced to the fades especially now with cloaking. If the marines can prevent a 2nd hive then they stand a good chance, if not their life gets very hard!

Noble-Kebab · 21 Aug 2011 at 11:57

wish it was finished by now!

A[L]C · 21 Aug 2011 at 12:05

Yeah, its still good fun though. Its only a small team, so inevitable that it is taking a while

rexehuk · 21 Aug 2011 at 12:06

Worth buying at this point in my opinion, I've been on it for a few months, each build gets better and better. Performance is now "good" unless people spam turrets / alien structures, then massive lag.

OH. NO.

I just saw this in their programming hire:

Bonus:

Console experience (we'll probably be moving to the 360 after v1.0)

I really hope they don't bastardise the game by porting to 360.

Noble-Kebab · 21 Aug 2011 at 13:03

It's being developed for the PC so shouldn't be a problem

Radiation · 25 Nov 2011 at 14:03

The game seems to be coming along quite nicely, it was just updated to 188, there's a new hud (soon to be 3D), atmospherics, anti aliasing and new areas to tram and summit among other stuff.

There's also a new map coming soon called mineshaft.

A[L]C · 25 Nov 2011 at 14:12

Bugs this patch are gamebreaking though. Played a clan match on release night and it was awful. I'll still play it though but MAC's are a must now.

Radiation · 25 Nov 2011 at 14:21

A[L]C;20647628 said:
Bugs this patch are gamebreaking though. Played a clan match on release night and it was awful. I'll still play it though but MAC's are a must now.

I haven't played it much yet, performance seems to be a bit worse for me in some ways but better in others, doesn't seem to matter what setting i use after testing so i have everything high with aa and atmospherics on, it's playable but i find it harder to get kills as marine now.

A[L]C · 25 Nov 2011 at 14:28

Yeah overall my performance has improved, but there are parts of summit that lag terribly.

I'm up to 231 hours playtime now.

A[L]C · 25 Nov 2011 at 14:38

Radiation said:
I haven't played it much yet, performance seems to be a bit worse for me in some ways but better in others, doesn't seem to matter what setting i use after testing so i have everything high with aa and atmospherics on, it's playable but i find it harder to get kills as marine now.

Also the new atmospherics mean the flashlight as marine is unusable. I've therefore switched them off

Destroyer^ · 25 Nov 2011 at 14:52

Do you need to pre-order to get into this closed beta?

A[L]C · 25 Nov 2011 at 15:44

yeah. Its not closed I don't think

Radiation · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:25

The new update seems to have fixed most of the bugs from the last patch, though there's still sound issues it's running a bit better, not sure what they did but it's smoother for me now.

lego · 3 Feb 2012 at 12:12

Thread had been a little quiet so here's the new build(194) codenamed Gorilla.

With added Onos & Jetpacks, as well as a long line of fixes and optimisation

Still amazes me what a small (6 - 8 people) independent games company can create.

So who's playing?