NS2HD[355] - Cyd v Team #156 G2/7 - Natural Selection 2 Beta

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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).

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[DragonGuard1337]

@ 3:15

One lerk. Ah Ah Ah...

Two Lerk. Ah Ah Ah...

three Lerk. Ah Ah Ah...

FOUR LERK!

[CharlieCleveland]

Wow, nice strat guys. Maybe that will need balancing, but not sure. It's pretty much an all-in for aliens on that. I think a sentry or two might stop it dead in its tracks.

[megamarsvin]

@swalken I think that might already be the plan, spikes will be light damage type when damage types are fully implemented I bet.

[swalken]

This is mostly down the the CC/Hive health nerf. Although it was already a problem before that.

No idea how to fix this other than making lerks do very little damage against buildings.

[ScardyBob]

We suspected beforehand that a lerk rush would be good, but we didn't think it would be that good. CS died in under 10s. It'll definitely needs some balancing.

[wonderboy2402]

Well, this is Beta and the players are testing the mechanics. Now NS2 is aware of that issue and it will be balanced.

[Agora2021]

That was a pretty pro move.

Though probably is op.

[156McGlaspie]

Aye, we've talked about it before and decided to actually try it this time. Definitely needs to be looked at for balance tweaking.

@NaturalSelection2HD Nice Count von Count moment at 3:15 ;)

[TheNoalott]

Yup that is definitely unbalanced. But we had to try it just to see it!

[Zuriki09]

I'd had my suspicions about lerk spikes being OP vs Structures. I think this pretty much answers all my questions.