Natural Selection 2 - Available for Pre-Order on steam

Bloodshot · August 11, 2020, 9:13am

Figured I’d post this here since it just went up on the steam store for pre-order

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4920/

Pre-ordering from here gets you the digital deluxe edition:

Pre-Purchase Natural Selection 2 and receive a free upgrade to the Digital Deluxe Edition! The Digital Deluxe Edition includes:

Official Soundtrack

Almost 1 hour of tribal, industrial music composed by David John and Simon Chylinski. This includes all the music from our trailers and videos.

Digital Art Book

40+ pages of concept art by Cory Strader, including environments, creatures, weapons and more. Cory discusses the process behind designing the unique technological/animal look in the game.

Exclusive Wallpapers and Avatars

Community artist Rantology created some of the best and most unique views of creatures in the NS universe. Custom Steam avatars complete the package.

Exclusive in-game marine model

A new marine model with custom visor and equipment makes you look distinctive in-game. Existing owners of the original “Black Armor” marine will be able to choose between any models they own.

Note If you have pre-purchased Natural Selection 2 previously, you will receive the upgrade to the Digital Deluxe Edition.

It’s also $10 cheaper then when it wasn’t on steam, though I’m okay having payed for it since my original purpose was more to support the devs than anything, as well as getting into the beta which is now locked (since it’s coming out soon).

Media:
NS2 Exosuit reveal

Docking Reveal

Natural Selection 2 ‘Gorilla’ Trailer

preview screenshots of current build:

Deluxe edition marine armor:

I highly recommend this to fans of competitive and teamwork-oriented games (and fans of AvP-styled games), as well as RTS fans if you can stomach the pressure being a good commander requires at $25, you can’t really go wrong, especially for how rewarding it is to play this game (at least IMO)

Navitas · November 25, 2018, 2:08am

Thanks! Pre-ordered it as soon as I read this

Both links resolve to the Docking Reveal video.

PlausibleSarge · November 25, 2018, 2:08am

Apart from the shocking performance, this game is awesome.

I am surprised this thread has not derailed into a “LUA Sucks” thread

Bloodshot · November 25, 2018, 2:08am

I’m sure performance will be fine in the full release.

This last build alone has made this game fully playable at max settings for me.

Fixed

BahamutBBob · November 25, 2018, 2:09am

I’ll consider this next time I get paid. Even though the alien FPV bothers me, it does seem like an interesting game.

Bloodshot · November 25, 2018, 2:09am

Update 218 was just released for anyone in beta. Performance has improved some more, but its mostly just bugfixes and balance changes.

saivert · November 25, 2018, 2:09am

JavaScript has blazing performance these days. Wonder why not Lua could get in on the same action. Also there is nothing preventing games developers from using JavaScript in their gamecode.

Bloodshot · August 11, 2020, 9:16am

Just had an awesome game on the docking map today, and our commander was one of the devs and he did a great job.

He actually recorded it:

https://www.twitch.tv/naturalselection2/b/331521071

Starts at 57 minutes

darkone · November 25, 2018, 2:11am

I think I set the bar for min requirements 5 fps… got asked by some one if I was running the game on a toaster.

Bloodshot · November 25, 2018, 2:11am

Were you?

darkone · November 25, 2018, 2:11am

no if a toaster could run NS2 that would be one good toaster… na I was running it on the coffee maker

In all truth I have been trying to upgrade or get a new computer for a few years now, sunk 100 dollars into this thing to get a new power source and graphics card. this comp may suck but It can run hl2 on high so not much to complain about.

Zuul · November 25, 2018, 2:11am

vote BM