Natural Selection 2 News Update - NS2 Build 158 released

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PsiWarp

Appreciate the hotfix UWE! Hopefully the black screen has been eliminated :P

McGlaspie

TY for the hotfix! Spontaneous black screen kind sucks mid leap. ;)

I'm confused why the patch notes says one thing, but the Progress page shows another. A few undocumented bug/fixes perhaps?

googleeyes

I for one would like to say thank you to the Devs for being so dedicated to releasing quick patches, and fixes to patches within a day after a patch has been released.

There are very few if at all any other beta's i have played where patches come out that fast.

tk-421

Thanks so much UWE for working these bugs out before the weekend!

Kouji_San

"First-person flamethrower effects and on-fire flamethrower effects (today, not yesterday)"

Wait what? Can we now see when on fire or looking at the flamer? I honestly don't get this sentence :D

Soulzz

Wow, that was quick! Thanks guys!

trinity.ns

nice!

Slickk-

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Wait what? Can we now see when on fire or looking at the flamer? I honestly don't get this sentence :D<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I'm guessing they mean it wasn't included in build 157 by mistake.

Which is why everyone was saying its still the same.

Great work UWE on another lightning patch.

Any chance you could let us know about where the patches are going and what you see as a priority next?

GaidinTS

You guys are working like machines. Great stuff.

whoppaXXL

Wonderful!

Crispix

Awesome work! Was about to head to bed shortly but now I have an excuse to stay up for a tiny bit.

PaiSand

Great work!
I was about to report the first person problem you are in flames ;)

FocusedWolf

haha yes! hyra lag fixes so no more mysterious lag when marines research flamers :)

Typhon

Downloading!

Kouji_San

<!--quoteo(post=1813179:date=Dec 4 2010, 04:39 AM:name=Slickk-)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Slickk- @ Dec 4 2010, 04:39 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1813179"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I'm guessing they mean it wasn't included in build 157 by mistake.

Which is why everyone was saying its still the same.

Great work UWE on another lightning patch.

Any chance you could let us know about where the patches are going and what you see as a priority next?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ah, the last part were just a bunch of words for me and I normally am very able to translate weird English usage :P

Finally I can go out an kill silly Firebats!

PsiWarp

Hmm, that reminds me, Weapons Module Advanced Armory still needs fixing, can't access weapon buy screen..

porjay

Man I would love to playtest with these guys. Hope to help out if they pick me.

Plasma

Steam is updating for me right now.

riuthamus

Is there any hope of address the lag with turrets and hydra? can we just remove the ability to place them? servers are fine without them and then some ###### places down 2 and the entire servers take a ######. Would be nice to remove it until the netcode for it is more solid.

DJ Splendid

Building another armoury gets round it (cumbersome but keeps you in the game you've already spent 20 minutes in).

Kouji_San

Is it me or is it booting up faster?

PersianImm0rtal

Let me test! =]

JAmazon

Holy crap, 32 player massacre on the UWE test server! D:

quote of the day "Corners are OP!"

TrC

UWE stressing server hardcore with full 32 player server.

whoppaXXL

Damn Corners how do they work!

Well yes, the time Wolf started to make Hydra spam it crashed for me.. :D
But was nice to see some 32 lagplay in NS2 - Gased the heck out of the rines.

Most people got about 20-35 FPS, ping was good, too. Engine still lags furiously.

PersianImm0rtal

The net code should be the most important thing on the to do list. If we can not play online with out lag spikes and FPS issues its no fun, no matter how great the gameplay. I have faith in you guys! Keep up the work!

porjay

<!--quoteo(post=1813199:date=Dec 4 2010, 04:03 PM:name=riuthamus)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (riuthamus @ Dec 4 2010, 04:03 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1813199"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Is there any hope of address the lag with turrets and hydra? can we just remove the ability to place them? servers are fine without them and then some ###### places down 2 and the entire servers take a ######. Would be nice to remove it until the netcode for it is more solid.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

It is a BETA. Keeping them in will help unknown worlds work out the issue and fix.

Wheeee

32-person server = lols

spellman23

kewl.

Too bad I don't have the copious free time to be a NS2 dedicated tester.

Kouji_San

Stresstest server just wont die, even with loads upon loads of hydra/turret spam :D

I manage to kill 2 hives due to lag issue though. Axe and shotty