Like the title says, I am excited for Natural Selection 2. Its roots as a Source mod makes me wonder if there are any NS/NS2 fans on this here web forum.
Now is a great time to check out the NS2 project while we wait for Black Mesa to be released - NS2 has been dropping new updates and screenshots almost every week, as they are getting close to release! As said in title, very exciting. Check it out and post in this thread if it is your wont to do so.
It does actually look really good, I enjoyed the first one for a little while but it got boring; hope this will be good until AvP game.
I never played the first one, actually. Thats the only reason I haven’t pre-ordered NS2, because I have no idea if I’ll like it. The concept is fantastic tho. And the art is GREAT for an indy game.
If you never played NS1 then you missed out, it was an amazing HL1 mod…I was a big fan and am very excited for NS2, it’s looking great so far.
Don’t know about their new custom engine. If they will release SDK for it, and how it compares to source (both graphically and technically).
They are releasing the sdk and all of their internal tools to people who pre-order. Just from what I’ve seen on their dev blog it’s way more advanced than Source in terms of shaders and lighting. Apparently they are integrating Lua scripting to make it easy to modify. Don’t know about stuff like physics or AI… We’ll see when it’s released, I guess.
It has some interesting rendering tricks that preclude the need for the vis compilation step, meaning mapping is much faster. It also has a Doom3-like lighting model by the sounds of things.
Its hard to believe that this just started out as a source mod.
Looks good. LOL, I only looked at the front page. Hope it WILL be good.
Yeah it really impressed me how easily they can make things looks awesome with a fairly small amount of effort.
There’s one developer video blog where they are showing the original halfilife 1 NS models in the new engine, and they look sick and next-gen because of the crazy lighting model they are using.
Oops new NS2 media update, this one’s pretty cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G3amfulHoo&feature=player_embedded
Oops, NS2 just updated their site to say they are no longer releasing this year. Very sad news indeed.
Natural Selection 2 is delayed. It excites me!
haha turns out highly ambitious hl2 mod not coming out in 2009. Who woulda thought lol
:hmph: I see what you did there.
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