They've had VC funding for a while now.... They're not trying to solely fund this thing with game sales. I imagine they have some obligations and they're just trying to figure this stuff out.

If you folks are in the CA bay area you could talk to Flayra himself... last tuesday of each month at a bar

http://www.unknownworlds.com/postmortem

TheGiftedApe

United States1243 Posts

November 30 2010 02:24 GMT

#23

This game is going to be awesome, still 4-5 months away form release, but the beta is getting mroe and more fun everyweek. NS1 was great, and I understand why they didnt stick with source engine, The engine they have developed is much prettier, and will allow them to add some Sweet gameplay tweaks.(Dynamic infestation is like zerg creep, except in an fps shooter game)The New Fade blink(old fade blink) is awesome and addicting.

as to this floor exercise guy who posted above, I hope he realizes that they do have investors, and they are making improvments, and they do care about their customers. Just because people post negative things on the forums doesn't mean they wont buy/play the game. Have you seen the sc2 battle.net forums? it is 99% bitching and moaning in their about how crappy this or that is about sc2.....The game isnt even finished and you've written it off, why dotn u go back to black ops.

Cirn9

1117 Posts

November 30 2010 02:27 GMT

#24

On November 24 2010 04:57 Apexplayer wrote:
I dont believe people understand how close they are to release. It's almost done.

Is the beta playable? I tried the alpha every week or so when they released it to preorder people and it was never even close to playable

Logo

United States7542 Posts

November 30 2010 02:36 GMT

#25

It's getting there. Without the Onos in game it's not really worth playing though as it's not balanced (obviously). There's quite a few bugs, and either the engine still needs to be optimized or I need to turn my settings down. Overall you should be able to hop in, join a game, and get a taste of it though.

Artisan

United States336 Posts

November 30 2010 02:51 GMT

#26

I have been playing NS2 since alpha and it has come a long ways every patch fixes something and adds new things into the game. NS2 is going to be great just like the original was.

_Simulacra_

1 Post

December 13 2010 08:59 GMT

#27

wow new version is actually good. Think my next 12 months are covered between SC2 and NS2.

TrC

Finland1 Post

December 13 2010 09:20 GMT

#28

The game is definetly not ready for such a large public criticism, the game works for handful of people good enough to really say its playable.

It is most likely to take year or so to make a game fully accessable especially for competitive scene, currect gameplay is very limited to structure spam with no fast decisions or skillful movement.

Not to defend UWE's decisions but to correct few things, engine decision was not spontanious it was something that Max (One of the developers) had been working for a very long time as a solo project. Shortsightness was their bad but it will come along.

Not everything is looking grim though graphics are very well thought and made the engine has seen excellent FPS and server performance boosts. I wish everyone of you could join UWE forums check what going on and check out NS2HD videos (Not completely unbiast tbh) and if you like what you see pre-order.

http://www.youtube.com/user/NaturalSelection2HD

http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/

Redguard1966

10 Posts

December 22 2010 20:26 GMT

#29

Not sure if anyone has seen this deal they are offering on NS2 at the moment: http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/news/2010/12/merry_gorgemas

2 copies of the game for the price of one - looks pretty sweet.

Psyonic_Reaver

United States4338 Posts

June 09 2011 07:20 GMT

#30

This game is getting better and better. I love it. The reason why I'm bumping this is because Unknown Worlds just released probably the biggest and best patch to date to the NS2 beta. More news can be read or watched here

So what say you Marines? You ready for war?

keit

1584 Posts

June 09 2011 10:21 GMT

#31

Is the performance still in unplayable state?

geno

United States1404 Posts

June 09 2011 10:53 GMT

#32

I tried it out today after about 2-3 months of not playing it, and it really is a completely different game. Last time I tried it, it was stuttering every couple seconds and was completely unplayable, but today it was as smooth as can be (well, accounting for ping). I'm sure it will get more polished and playable for lower end computers as time goes on, but it's definitely very playable for me now (probably mid-end computer? dual core CPU + ATI 4870 512MB).

I actually played a couple full games with pretty much no gameplay lag and had a ton of fun. Wish there were more servers, but in beta its understandable. I started it just to test if its improved, but I may actually hop on some more tomorrow cuz it was straight up a lot of fun.

myopia

United States2928 Posts

June 09 2011 12:37 GMT

#33

yeah I'd love to play this but I never see a full server, I guess that changed with the patch?

Alethios

New Zealand2765 Posts

June 09 2011 12:48 GMT

#34

I absolutely loved the original. Might have to have a look once this is released.

To be honest, I didn't even know a sequel was on the cards.

Ganjamaster

Argentina475 Posts

June 09 2011 13:01 GMT

#35

NS1 was the illest, im really looking forward to this.

OriX

United Kingdom41 Posts

June 09 2011 13:08 GMT

#36

This thread rekindled my love for NS1. I just bought NS2 and the sooner it downloads the better.

Haemonculus

United States6980 Posts

June 09 2011 13:31 GMT

#37

Does anyone here still play NS1?

I'm on the ABLE.NS server at least every other day. Look for me as "Shiver". I play aliens like 80% of the time and i'm pretty bad, but I am sooo in love with this game.

As for NS2? It's very very very uh... "alpha"? Seriously I don't know why they insisted on remaking the entire game engine. It runs like garbage, even on my new, (and bloody powerful) PC. I can run SC2 and ME2 on max graphics settings with *perfect* framerate. NS2 on low/medium graphics gives me like 10 fps. I don't get it, lol.

I really want NS2 to be a good game, but it's basically unplayable at present.

myopia

United States2928 Posts

June 11 2011 03:43 GMT

#38

I've gotten a few matches in since the patch. This game is so good when it actually works. Lag and fps issues aside, Fades are pushing broken.

naventus

United States1337 Posts

June 11 2011 03:48 GMT

#39

I feel bad for them, they have spent so much time and money in their approach, it's really an allin.

I bought this back at the start for $40, but it's going to be at least half a year I would imagine before they have a playable game.

The original was never good because of the graphics or cute mechanics. It was great because of the pacing, the feel, and the combat. You don't need a new engine to do that. They should have gone with source, and maybe we would still have a community.

floor exercise

Canada5847 Posts

June 11 2011 04:06 GMT

#40

On June 09 2011 19:21 keit wrote:
Is the performance still in unplayable state?

It's still kind of a chore to play but it's slowly improving. Performance is still quite bad simply because the engine isn't optimized. The dynamic shadows I think are always going to cripple FPS. Netcode is the same, it's still just plain bad, with 300 entities in the game and 12 players you get like 300+ ms minimum meaning games are still guaranteed to reach unplayable states even with low player numbers. I really don't know if it's ever going to support decent sized pubs the way its going.

The problem is the development has become a bit of a joke, there are unpaid community members who have submitted 20+ optimization patches, that's how much is broken/flawed with the engine. I can't imagine where the devs would be on their own. By the time it gets to a point where the game is fun enjoyable enough to play I am not sure how many people will still care.