NS2 on Mac

Scared_Bunny

Hey guy's,
after checking the search but couldn't find information, I'd like to know if ns2 will also be available for Mac.
Can anyone tell me?

thanks

bobthesob

I'm on a mac right now too so i would like to know as well. But i really don't think they will end up releasing a mac client. They don't even have linux servers. We always get left behind... But u know what cod4 is on mac.. I'm gonna go play =)

Tool8

Well, they said they would bring it to Mac:

<a href="http://www.naturalselection2.com/faq/game-questions/what-platforms-will-it-be-released-on.html" target="_blank">http://www.naturalselection2.com/faq/game-...eleased-on.html</a>

I hope it's still planned, though, since that page was edited in 2009.

Ironsoul

I'll just clarify a few things.

First, they have stated they would love to bring it to the mac. But the game is currently using direct X as it's graphics API.

This means pretty much the same thing as what it means for the source engine games (portal, tf2, hl2 etc) on the mac. It took a while for the source engine, it's going to take a while for the spark engine.

Reason: mac doesn't support direct x, it uses opengl. Effects work kinda differently using different APIs. Which means, it's going to take time as the team is focusing on direct x at the moment.

I'd estimate 1 year at the fastest after version 1.0 of NS2 comes out before there is a mac version.

Scared_Bunny

Thanks for the information, hopefully they are faster, or maybe i will buy me a game pc or run it via paralells.

Twiggeh

Meanwhile, you could always bootcamp your mac.