Please make NS2:Combat standalone DLC with same launcher of NS2.

MisterYoonMisterYoon Join Date: 2012-08-18 Member: 155747Members
in NS2 General Discussion
I know it has been discussed a lot and also that it would need kind of unexpected many works to do it but please make NS2:Combat a standalone DLC with the same launcher of NS2, so that everyone can just use same Server Browser to join in and join back between NS2 and Combat easily. Just like Company of Heroes or Battlefield 4.

The biggest problem of Combat was that it had big potential to split playerbase, which is already kind of small, and the fact is, how it is now, being a different game, has made that problem even worse.

So please, why don't you make both games have same launcher so that we can play both without unnecessary acts inbetween?
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  • METROIDMETROID Join Date: 2012-10-31 Member: 165171Members, Reinforced - Supporter
    The same launcher will not solve a server availability problem, you need to have a separate server for CO, either Standalone or just a mod.
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  • NordicNordic Long term camping in Kodiak Join Date: 2012-05-13 Member: 151995Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Shadow
    I recommend reading this thread. http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/136681/so-ns2-combat/p1

    As you will see in that thread, combat is done by FLG games not UWE which makes what you ask complicated.
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  • MisterYoonMisterYoon Join Date: 2012-08-18 Member: 155747Members
    edited February 2015
    I know that and why should it be complicated? Publisher is UWE and they can actually decide what is good for both games. And seriously, it's like 0 server filled all day. I can't think more about combining it as the only solution.

    Furthurmore, NS2 is anyway developed by community atm as UWE works on Subnautica.

    Probably the biggest problem is then 32bit/64bit issue, though.
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  • Anti_BosonAnti_Boson Join Date: 2013-07-03 Member: 185878Members
    This might be a very viable option, though both parties have to agree on it
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  • DecoyDecoy Join Date: 2012-09-11 Member: 159037Members, Super Administrators, Playtest Lead, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Playtester, Subnautica PT Lead, Pistachionauts, Retired Community Developer
    edited February 2015
    This is something that should have been planned from the beginning. It would take some work to try to merge the two.

    The CDT doesn't work on Combat and we have a lot of other stuff we're working on. At this point, I don't know that it's a viable thing. Maybe eventually? Hopefully?
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  • Anti_BosonAnti_Boson Join Date: 2013-07-03 Member: 185878Members
    edited February 2015
    Not merge the two, just add an option to launch and join a combat server with one touch.
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  • IeptBarakatIeptBarakat The most difficult name to speak ingame. Join Date: 2009-07-10 Member: 68107Members, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow
    It should have been just straight up dlc since the beginning.
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    edited February 2015
    Anti_Boson wrote: »
    Not merge the two, just add an option to launch and join a combat server with one touch.

    The issue with that right now is that Combat and NS2 are using a different version of Spark. So this would happen if it is a simple addition to the browser of each game, to include the other game NS2 <-> Combat:

    Start up NS2
    Open up the server browser
    join a Combat server from that list
    it closes NS2
    It relaunches Combat and joins the server

    And the reverse will happen if you join a NS2 server from Combat, which will get tedious real fast. As of right now there isn't a quick way to switch between the official NS2:Combat and NS2 from either game... So in essence they somehow have to be merged together, something as @Decoy hinted at should've been planned from the start and also requires UWE/CDT and FLG cooperating to achieve this. All parties involved are too swamped with other things, so don't expect to see this happen any time soon :/
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