Natural Selection 3 ?

majorpain

How would you like it to play out?

For me, maybe being a little ambitious with my wishes here, would need a new engine to make it a reality but......
I would love to see it play out on the scale of Planetside 2, think of the battle scenes from Starship Troopers. Oh Yeah.....

Martin7

What about Natural Selection 4?

Roobubba

majorpain wrote: »

think of the battle scenes from Starship Troopers. Oh Yeah.....

... and then imagine being a skulk in that fight.

Honestly, I'd just like to see the final pieces of the NS2 puzzle put into place before worrying about NS3. There's life in this old dog yet, provided we get some performance boosts (among some tweaks to stop gameplay getting stale).

majorpain

Yeah i know dude me to, would love to see it taken in that direction in a year or two.

Ghosthree3

It would be a prequel!

[Deleted User]

I'd like to see ns2 properly polished and its gameplay "finalised" first.

However if NS3 becomes a thing, I'd like to see a slightly larger, terrain based game with the same rts/fps principle. Instead of fighting over res points you'd fight over small bases/fort areas of strategic importance. They could be fortified by either side and of course could include a res point within it. I'd say 64 player max, which works well for other fps games that have open gameplay.

New alien lifeforms would be obviously needed due to the more open/larger playing field. Combat would still be very much player v player, gun v mouth, but each side could have some form of squad transport. Marines could have some kind of space jeep and aliens a large lifeform that could transport smaller/slower life forms (larger/faster lifeforms wouldnt need it).

joohoo_n3d

not like i have a history of doing so :P but i agree with reeke ...lets all continue to focus on NS2.

SupaDupaNoodle

majorpain wrote: »

How would you like it to play out?

For me, maybe being a little ambitious with my wishes here, would need a new engine to make it a reality but......
I would love to see it play out on the scale of Planetside 2, think of the battle scenes from Starship Troopers. Oh Yeah.....

Oh, god, make the pain stop. Have you learned nothing from the experience so far?

ezekel

If they make an ns3 I'd want them to abandon ns2 and just have ns3 be a direct improvement on the engine, but I don't think it will happen and don't want an ns3 to happen

Hamlet

A single player campaign would be great... but that's the stuff Activision and EA can churn out on a yearly basis because they employ teams of well above 500 developers...

kyliegirl

I think it is still far too soon for ns3. Ns2 wasn't in the works until 2006. NS had been out since 2002. I would rather they polish ns2 and hopefully branch into other games and show us what they are capable of while still maintaining support for ns2.

Bicsum

Fall 2019

Kamamura

Natural Selection 3 will be a point-and-click adventure game about a young and dedicated female marine frustrated by male chauvinism in the ranks of TSF forces. The game will feature hours of stimulating, masterfully written dialogue from the infamous Barbara Cartland, lush with romantic fantasies, clever metaphors and deep insights into the secrets of woman's heart. Without spoiling too much for thousands of eager players worldwide, our beautiful heroine will eventually win the heart of the handsome officer Heinrich, thwarting the elaborate plans of the traitor Gorzinsky together with his neobolshevik cryptocomrades who infiltrated the ranks of the TSF. Her pet gorge Theolonius will suffer only minor burns during the siege of Omicron Prime. The enamored couple will walk hand-in-hand through the explosion-scarred, corpse-littered battlefields of all corners of the galaxy (or whatever geometrical thingies galaxies have where they end) to bring peace, love and appreciation of all things fluffy to humans and aliens alike.

joshhh

Natural Selection 3 - MMORPG

2cough

Something for wii u...

Amirite?!

Joseppe

if they stick to their engine it should be a multiplayer game again. you cant speed map levels with the sdk, unless they improve it a lot.
right now there are only 2 games (as i know - ns1 & ns2, savage 2) with a real hybrid fps / strategy gameplay style,
so it would be probably a hybrid of this kind again.

maD_maX_

Aliens vs other aliens? Thinking Zerg vs protons instead... Maybe a prequal where the kaharra already destroyed an advanced civilization...

Bicsum

I'd like to see a pokemon / fps hybrid in the ns universe. You'd train your skulk and have him fight other kharaamon. With the fps apspect you could turn the tide of a battle by shooting the other skulk in the face with a shotgun.

Pretty cool, huh?

bERt0r

I'd like to see cookies shipped out with ns3, gorge shaped ploxx.

peregrinus

Would it be a bad thing if UW was bought and a much larger team developed - still involving UW guys - NS3 with an existing well functioning engine?

GISP

The next game UWE makes will be a new IP i believe.

Chikun

You play as a skulk Detective named John Danger McBadass and you've seen it all. From busting Gorge prostitution rings run by mafia hive minds, shutting down a resource sludge smuggling operation run by fades using oni as muscle, to stopping terrorist lerks from poisoning delicious humans to prevent consumption by orphaned baby skulks. The scum of the galaxy won't rest until you're dead and you're all too eager to leap into action and take a bite out of crime.

Coming way too soon, it's Natural Selection 3.

zeep

NS3 released late 2014. Finally done balancing mid 2018.

In the end the Marines jump higher than the Skulks, the Fade costs a lot and hurts a little, oh no wait that's NS2.

Geekavenger

NS3 should be a Casual game released on Mobile platforms utilizing Micro-transactions and Targeted Ads to shift the Big Data Paradigm to the Cloud to enable best of breed analytics and push holistic and Hyperlocal Value Add Solutions and move the industry into new revenue streams... synergy... umm... Brand... and so on.

zimzum

Sounds like Lucas's draft for the next Star Wars.....

2cough

I think there's really some solid ideas here, would like to see these fleshed out.

And @Chikun everytime I see your dang avatar I crack up, then get creeped out. Sometimes in opposite order.

Vetinari

Roobubba wrote: »

There's life in this old dog Skulk yet

Fixed that for you

@Kamamura ...Heinrich?


Also: Natural Selection 3D! Because that name is so creative!

jolonne5

a ww2 first person shooter please

clankill3r

I would prefer a new project untill ns2 is getting really old.
However if ns3 pops up soon then i would like it to focus on underwater world.
Where gameplay is vertical, marines start at the top of the sea and aliens at the bottom.

jolonne5

with xombies

Vetinari

clankill3r wrote: »

I would prefer a new project untill ns2 is getting really old.
However if ns3 pops up soon then i would like it to focus on underwater world.
Where gameplay is vertical, marines start at the top of the sea and aliens at the bottom.

Don't take the route xcom is going. We would have to wait another 15 years for a good game.