http://www.ns2hd.com
Natural Selection 2 is a first person shooter cross real time strategy game being developed by Unknown Worlds Entertainment, a small ~6 person team in California. It is a stand alone sequel to the popular Half-Life modification Natural Selection.
The game is currently in beta, and is available to purchase for US$35. Purchasing the game gives access to the beta and the full release when the game is finished. The beta is patched regularly, at a minimum every two weeks.
NS2 pits the human marine Frontiersmen against the varied alien Kharaa. The two teams, of up to 16 players each, vie for control of strategic points of large and small maps, with the goal of wiping each other out.
Each team has a commander, who views the game from a real time strategy perspective. The rest of the team plays from a first person shooter perspective. Players may seamlessly enter and exit commander mode throughout the game. Teams may build a large variety of structures to aid them in controlling territory, upgrading equipment, and unlocking new lifeforms, weapons, abilities, and support units.
The game is built on a brand new, UWE proprietry engine called Spark. Spark features fully dynamically lit environments (There is no static lighting at all), dynamic occlusion culling, and extreme modability. All game code is written in accessible Lua, and stands apart from the C++ engine.
A full suite of Spark tools, including level editor, lua debugger, cinematic editor, model viewer, and more is included with the purchase of the game.
The game may be purchased at http://www.naturalselection2.com/buy.
The development team maintains an active blog at http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2, including forums where developers post and converse with community members regularly.
The development team draws on the contributions of community members. Bug fixes submitted by the community are often included in beta patches.
Beta progress is tracked by 'build numbers,' which are visible in the NS2HD in-video titles, and in the top left corner of the game (red text).
I thought the 20 minute advertisement was going to be a dos eqis commercial about the most interesting man in the world bit. lolol
social3ngin33rin 3 weeks ago
hey i saw my server top of the list :D [gizmocraft]
gizmocraft 3 weeks ago
the best server is "ziegenfarm" :P
93Gamerz 3 weeks ago 2
@whoknowzTM It may be your steam, try going to offline mode then restart in online mode.
hope this works.
UnrealKillerx7 3 weeks ago
Dont get it, when I play NS2 all I ever see are 3 servers max. What is wrong?
whoknowzTM 3 weeks ago
Tried to play yesterday on a 300 ping server, it was awful, don't know how you do it
TobiasMakesNoise 3 weeks ago
This is really good news. Till now its been extremely difficult for clan to arrange a decent server on NS2, not much support for it with the bigger hosts as the game is still beta. Lets hope Endar does something similar for the Aussie players out there on his Pure servers.
MrLeeMako 3 weeks ago