NS2 on Mac

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• bobthesob Join Date: 2011-12-09 Member: 137195Members

  February 2012 edited February 2012

  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 =)

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• Tool8 Join Date: 2012-01-01 Member: 139405Members

  February 2012

  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.

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• Ironsoul Join Date: 2011-03-12 Member: 86048Members

  February 2012

  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.

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• Scared_Bunny Join Date: 2012-02-04 Member: 143560Members

  February 2012

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

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• Twiggeh Join Date: 2010-09-24 Member: 74165Members

  February 2012

  Meanwhile, you could always bootcamp your mac.

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