Natural Selection 2

KoveN-

Australia503 Posts

May 28 2009 03:53 GMT

Some of you may be familiar with the original Half-Life mod Natural Selection, it's back on a new engine in Natural Selection 2.

Unknown Worlds have today released a teaser trailer and alpha/beta opt-in pre-orders over at http://www.naturalselection2.com/

If you haven't heard of or seen it before, it's a Marines vs Aliens FPS/RTS. You can see the original NS here http://www.naturalselection2.com/ns

I played this game competitively for 6 years and believe it's one of the best FPS of all time and it's so closely related to my favourite RTS of all time Starcraft ^^

crazie-penguin

United States1253 Posts

May 28 2009 03:58 GMT

Oh this was one really interesting and fun game to play, it combined RTS and FPS elements mainly, but had some of that RPGish (actaully more like Dotaish) elements if you played as the Aliens. I remember some thought it would eventually rival counter strike, too bad that didn't happen though and the mod kinda died down a bit.

Glad to see that a revival may be underway

DrTJEckleburg

United States1080 Posts

May 28 2009 04:07 GMT

!!! I LOVED Natural Selection, what a fun game, so much variety on both sides, fun maps, really just a great game when you wanted to have a change of pace from CS 1.6 or DoD.

I think I'll go re-install NS now.

Infundibulum

United States2552 Posts

May 28 2009 04:09 GMT

Oh man i'm a huge fan of NS. Super high learning curve though, at least to play well on ns_ maps (co_ is for nubs but it's fun too)! Definitely will be keeping an eye out for this.

koreakool

United States334 Posts

May 28 2009 04:13 GMT

haha i loved ns, can't wait to play this again
"o nos!!"

Ftrunkz

Australia2474 Posts

May 28 2009 04:44 GMT

Oh sick, i thought they gave up on it tbh... That teaser trailer is fucking baller too. ;o.
Is this what's sparked the NS community coming back again koven? I've noticed a ton of pugs lately...

cgrinker

United States3824 Posts

May 28 2009 04:54 GMT

Holy shit. This is going to be fucking awesome.

Wait just saw its standalone. Like is it on the Source engine? I'm a little confused

KoveN-

Australia503 Posts

May 28 2009 04:58 GMT

On May 28 2009 13:44 Ftrunkz wrote:
Oh sick, i thought they gave up on it tbh... That teaser trailer is fucking baller too. ;o.
Is this what's sparked the NS community coming back again koven? I've noticed a ton of pugs lately...

Yep, alot of the old schoolers have come back to it and http://www.nsplayer.net are even hosting a last send-off tournament.

Nadagast

United States245 Posts

May 28 2009 06:12 GMT

Natural Selection was amazing!

I hope NS2 will be as good but I have my doubts, new engines aren't always better

lokiM

United States3407 Posts

May 28 2009 06:39 GMT

#10

wow this is finally out? lol, i remember reading about the new NS like 4 years ago

Tekin

2711 Posts

May 28 2009 06:40 GMT

#11

Yah NS2

SaveYourSavior

United States1071 Posts

May 28 2009 06:49 GMT

#12

Natural Selection was a great game

Despite the extremely unforgiving skill gap I still had butt loads of fun with this and some buddies

Hope NS 2 turns out great

floor exercise

Canada5847 Posts

May 28 2009 19:11 GMT

#13

NS was awesome but they probably only put up this pre order thing because they were running out of money. I'll throw down $20 or $40 when there's a definitive timetable for alpha/beta

Xusneb

Canada612 Posts

May 28 2009 20:08 GMT

#14

Hrm, I was hoping for a game that allowed you to simulate evolution through Darwin's elegant theory. Now that would be fun!

parkin

1079 Posts

May 28 2009 20:52 GMT

#15

NS1 is awesome. My expectations for the sequel are high.

You think its worth preordering for $40 just for a black marine armor?

Nightmarjoo

United States3360 Posts

May 28 2009 21:42 GMT

#16

Awesome, NS was great.

trickser

Germany139 Posts

May 28 2009 21:46 GMT

#17

Wow i loved this mod. Basebuilding was so fun as a commander and playing with aliens after the last upgrade was super fun too. God i need to play this.

ShadowDrgn

United States2497 Posts

May 28 2009 22:46 GMT

#18

This fall is too loaded with awesome games. I was never very good at NS but I played a ton of it anyway.

TheMango

United States1967 Posts

May 28 2009 22:54 GMT

#19

I used to play NS1 competitively with team sYn, but gradually lost interest as each version came out. I'll definitely try NS2, but hope their dev/play testing team gears it towards competitive/skill based play and not just for the pub masses.

Nadagast

United States245 Posts

May 28 2009 22:58 GMT

#20

TheMango: 2.01 was the best version for competitive play!

TheMango

United States1967 Posts

May 28 2009 23:01 GMT

#21

On May 29 2009 07:58 Nadagast wrote:
TheMango: 2.01 was the best version for competitive play!

Yea, I liked 1.3/4 to 2.01... major imbalances in 1.3/4, but I liked the pace of the game then, 2.0 was better balanced, but gameplay slowed down a bit i thought.

floor exercise

Canada5847 Posts

May 30 2009 13:54 GMT

#22

Well I went back on my word and pre ordered the special edition. I played NS for a bit last night and was reminded how much fun I got out of it over the years, even if ns2 doesn't come out I feel like Flayra deserves my $40

JohnBall

Brazil1272 Posts

May 30 2009 14:57 GMT

#23

Wow, I liked NS a lot. Even more than CS, to be honest. I never quite understood how to play with the terrans, though. Alwasy thought it was so much harder for the terrans to win against the aliens.

nortorius

Canada1210 Posts

May 30 2009 15:05 GMT

#24

On May 30 2009 23:57 JohnBall wrote:
Wow, I liked NS a lot. Even more than CS, to be honest. I never quite understood how to play with the terrans, though. Alwasy thought it was so much harder for the terrans to win against the aliens.

Humans need more team work than aliens, making it harder for humans to win on random pubs. It's all about getting buildings up and resources at the beginning, and stopping the aliens from getting more hives.

TheMango

United States1967 Posts

May 30 2009 15:22 GMT

#25

On May 31 2009 00:05 nortorius wrote:

Show nested quote +

To elaborate, Humans need a good commander + people willing to listen to the commander, otherwise they are screwed. Playing commander in a pub can be one of the most frustrating things ever, especially after playing a game of sc where u have total control over your units

usually a lot of yelling over voice comm and spamming waypoints is needed.

Though I think most of the servers these days are combat servers... that's like fastest/ums/deathmatch mode where u dont build anything and its just a straight up frag fest.

Oddysay

Canada597 Posts

May 30 2009 15:28 GMT

#26

not sure if the game will be good , after all they are only a 8 man team .

but this will be probably decent .

TheMango

United States1967 Posts

May 30 2009 15:36 GMT

#27

On May 31 2009 00:28 Oddysay wrote:
not sure if the game will be good , after all they are only a 8 man team .

but this will be probably decent .

Its just a mod, and the first NS was coded entirely by one person with a very small team for probably maps/graphics.

r3dox

Germany261 Posts

May 30 2009 15:46 GMT

#28

i've played NS competively too (clan torment, nationcups, europe vs usa games etc.)

im looking forward to see the new game. but a new engine and better graphics dont have anything to do with the fun factor, skill levels or strategic depth of a game... i hope they worked on that too

lepape

Canada557 Posts

May 30 2009 16:17 GMT

#29

There was also Tremulous that was similar to Natural Selection. Both were pretty good, although I dont remember NS as being too newbie-friendly.

KoveN-

Australia503 Posts

June 02 2009 02:59 GMT

#30

NS wasn't newb friendly at all but then again neither is Starcraft really... and both are excellent games. After about 2 years of playing NS I felt I had mastered every facet of the game, which isn't too bad... been playing Starcraft for 9 years and probably won't ever master it :s

eatmyshorts5

United States1530 Posts

June 02 2009 03:29 GMT

#31

I heard this game is going to be showcased at E3

Azrael1111

United States550 Posts

June 02 2009 03:55 GMT

#32

lol, i'm so gosu at ns, I <3 this game so much and dropping like 10-15:1 ratios with alien fades :D

KoveN-

Australia503 Posts

July 04 2009 14:10 GMT

#33

New information and Onos video:

http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/100/1001060p1.html

ryuu_

United States1266 Posts

July 04 2009 14:19 GMT

#34

Natural Selection was an awesome game, can't wait

Xenixx

United States499 Posts

July 06 2009 22:49 GMT

#35

i know nadagast if thats the one from competitive NS, game just had a lot of flaws and the devs weren't very experienced with patching with competitive gaming in mind, every newly released version killed that game in one way or another

before left4dead i didnt think ns2 would do too well and now after i think its got a real shot at breaking that market thats going to keep it alive and evolving

dont know where all the old NS players hang out, meb, titanium, nerdy, some of those guys that kept that community running despite devs

floor exercise

Canada5847 Posts

July 06 2009 23:07 GMT

#36

Every version of NS was an improvement over the last. None of them killed the game, the fact that it was a small player base that never substantially grew was what "killed" the game. There is still a community and there are still competitive players in some capacity.

Underwhelmed

United States207 Posts

July 06 2009 23:18 GMT

#37

Lots of ex-CAL NS players in TF2 and L4D now. Xensity TF2 was from NS, Eximius L4D is from NS. The NA ex-competitive community now mostly plays on the GUD server, which is a little less fun than the NSA Vet server that was up a few years ago.

I'm looking forward to NS2 - I'm just afraid it'll get dumbed down for the casuals, like TF2.

Oh, and floor exercise is right. 3.2 (current) is probably the best balanced version.

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