NS 2.0 Release date: 7/31/03

[personman]

YAY!!!
All I can say about this update is its going to kick! I love NS its like the best mod for HL ever! I havent been playing lately but the update is gooing to be sweet!

Features

- Simplified resource model and fundamental game re-balancing for faster, more varied and more intense gameplay.

- New alien upgrades allow aliens to detect human pheromones, be silenced while attacking, and build structures that cloak all nearby players and structures. New abilities allow the Onos to stun enemies with Stomp and Devour them whole.

- New visuals mean Skulks rotate to align to walls when running along them, sentries puff smoke when firing, and alien structures explode in a burst of slime when destroyed. Many new sounds lend a slicker sci-fi feel.

- Four new maps and tweaked and balanced existing maps for all new gameplay. Take a ride on a lost colony ship and get a view into space, or take the battle to the rock tunnels of a deserted and "re-colonized" mine shaft.

- New commander mode makes commanding easier than ever. Hotgroups, squad support, a "select all" button, the ability to locate marines in need of orders, ammo or health packs, and re-bindable hotkey support.

- Full support for competitive play through tournament mode, handicapping, VALVe's Anti-Cheat support (VAC) and large-scale match broadcasting through Half-life TV (HLTV). Big server improvements mean fuller servers with less CPU usage. First-person view is now supported while playing or spectating.

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what is NS

[MaChu]

ditto

[Archangel Kid]

natural selection... a mod for Half-Life the computer game

[personman]

Yea, Natural Selection.. the best mod out for Half Life that I have played (and I have played a hell of alot of them)
Its basically Aliens Vs. Marines and the marines try to kill all 3 of the alien hives, and the aliens try to kill all the marines and their spawn tihng (I already forgot what itsw called)

[MaChu]

Cool, whats their website?

[Roofles]

Natural Selection was decent, but it was hard to find balanced low ping servers, everyone was a fricken alien and the humans got pwnd all the time

IMHO Cs > Ns, 4 life

[FutureMagOwner]

they have a problem along with most half life games(including cs) where when one team takes a quit lead you dominate unless complete idiocy some how ruins it which is hard to do when the person is really an idiot and not a llama

[Brak]

im downloading 1.0 now, it better be worth it!

[cris8762]

it is!

but your best bet is to start out as a marine, also remember that you cant just go off on your own, you gotta work with the team and do what the commander says

[FalconGuy016]

Roofles, NS is nothing like CS, you cant compare them

I remember I played NS when it first came out, it was teh greatest thing. Best teamwork in a game I have ever experianaced

[_Spork_1]

lol, if they don't allow aliens to go against aliens and marines against marinens i will not download that game again


i rember when they stated that they were going to impliment that in the next patch or update, and if they don't do that a huge let down will occur.

[FutureMagOwner]

i dont see where the let down is it doesnt happen in any other game nor should it because it doesnt fit the story of the game. i wish they would use some maps that arent all inside and stuff and had some outside or atleast an urban setting

[Roofles]

Sure you can compare NS to CS they are both First person shooters, and they are both mods for Half-life, i did say imho.

But play a scrim(clan match) in Cs and you will see great teamwork.

What I meant by balanced was that you had to have more marines than aliens,in the beta ( which i played), this never happened, atleast in cs if you play 5v5 its skill that shines through, not mad rushing or numbers. But yes sometimes teams get quick jumps and then the other team has a huge hole to dig out from, and can get screwed.

[FutureMagOwner]

what happened is the first couple days is that it was massively over balanced towards marines pretty much then they quickly smashed out another version to balance it out which tipped it towards aliens and then they did another patch and now its some what balanced(however its impossible to beat the marines once they have siege cannons heavy armor and weapons effectivly)