Natural Selection 2 - MONDAY!

RootWyrmRootWyrm Icrontian
edited July 2010 in Gaming
Okay, I find it hard to believe, but I do believe there aren't any threads for this yet.

Natural Selection 2 Alpha goes out to Black Armor owners (NS2 SE) on Monday! (Yes, this Monday the 26th.) I can't be the only one around here who loves on Natural Selection. It's just too awesome a game for that.

So, who all's with me? :rockon:

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  • DeeTeeDeeTee New Zealand Member
    edited July 2010
    O_O! NS2! O_O
    i used to play NS back when it first came out. is this still done via steam as an addon?
  • RootWyrmRootWyrm Icrontian
    edited July 2010
    DeeTee wrote:
    O_O! NS2! O_O
    i used to play NS back when it first came out. is this still done via steam as an addon?

    No! Natural Selection 2 is proof that if you're passionate about your product, and take pride in it, you can do amazing things. It's an entirely new engine (Spark) written from scratch by the original NS team. So it's now a full fledged standalone game. The map and cinematic (!!) editors have been available to folks who pre-bought the game for a while now. The last chance to get the Special Edition is Friday, too, I believe it was.

    What amuses me most is that from what I've seen so far? The Spark engine runs much more efficiently than Source ever has. (AKA "lower end systems will see very playable frame rates easily.")
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2010
    It's a shame that it's not a mod. That virtually guarantees that it won't take off and become popular like the original.
  • RootWyrmRootWyrm Icrontian
    edited July 2010
    Thrax wrote:
    It's a shame that it's not a mod. That virtually guarantees that it won't take off and become popular like the original.

    Well, I'd disagree there. As did enough folks to fund the development. NS2 development was primarily funded through Constellation donations and people pre-buying the game before they had anything more than concept art. They raised over $200,000 in preorders by late last year, so at $30 a shot, that's over 6000 folks who bought it largely sight unseen. (They got an additional $500K in angel funding.)

    So let's call it a conservative estimate of at least 10,000 preorders by now. Figuring that preorders increase when A) special edition will no longer be purchasable, B) actual working product is available, like the map editor. So I'd say they're seeing some pretty healthy numbers thus far, in my opinion. That's no guarantee of future success of course, but they've definitely got a lot of loyal fans.

    Besides, they can always license out the engine to something more popular. :D
  • Gate28Gate28 Orlando, Florida Icrontian
    edited July 2010
    I'd buy it. I loved the first Natural Selection. There should be more fps/rts hybrid games like that.
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