State of the Game: March 2013 - Natural Selection 2

SystemSystem Join Date: 2013-01-29 Member: 182599Members, Super Administrators, Reinforced - Diamond
edited March 2013 in NS2 General Discussion

imageState of the Game: March 2013 - Natural Selection 2

Natural Selection 2 development continues! Four and a half months since launch, we continue to add to and improve the game.

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  • HughHugh Cameraman San Francisco, CA Join Date: 2010-04-18 Member: 71444NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Onos, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
    Bump to get comment thread to show up
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  • Gunman121Gunman121 Join Date: 2012-02-04 Member: 143616Members, WC 2013 - Supporter
    You guys are geat! Thanks for such an awesome product!
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  • GISPGISP Battle Gorge Denmark Join Date: 2004-03-20 Member: 27460Members, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver, Squad Five Gold, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Onos, WC 2013 - Gold, Subnautica Playtester, Forum staff
    He is also writing a speech to be given at Game Developer Conference 2013, about how NS2 was built and what we can all learn from it.
    Please tell me, we get a video uploaded of this :) Or perhaps even livestreamed?
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  • HughHugh Cameraman San Francisco, CA Join Date: 2010-04-18 Member: 71444NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Onos, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
    GISP wrote: »
    Please tell me, we get a video uploaded of this :) Or perhaps even livestreamed?

    GDC has some strict rules on recordings, but we're going to do our best to make sure we can get @flayra's talk made public!
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  • TechnIckSTechnIckS Join Date: 2007-01-14 Member: 59616Members
    What!? Noone said FIRST!? :D
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  • LagLightLagLight Join Date: 2012-03-31 Member: 149708Members
    The comment on the final Photo "How About a Third race: Space sharks with lazOrs!"...

    The Third race has gotta be a machine race of rogue AI nanites. I mean common! Space sharks don't be silly.
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  • ExoskelettExoskelett Join Date: 2012-12-18 Member: 175509Members, Reinforced - Supporter
    jeah looking back ...

    build 236 very good performance .. lots of fun .. build 238 worst performance, 239 worse but stable performance, 240 worse performance 241 still worse...
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  • Rellik_ptRellik_pt Join Date: 2013-01-22 Member: 181205Members
    Exoskelett wrote: »
    jeah looking back ...

    build 236 very good performance .. lots of fun .. build 238 worst performance, 239 worse but stable performance, 240 worse performance 241 still worse...

    this is why i m stoping for a while because the game is terrible to play now for me. i realy hope they fix it because the game was fine until the last 3 updates that drop my fps ingame a lot

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  • Blarney_StoneBlarney_Stone Join Date: 2013-03-08 Member: 183808Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    UWE is awesome! I love this game so much and it's great to see that the developers are just as enthusiastic about it and working on improving it! You guys are the best, keep up the great work!
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  • WheeeeWheeee Join Date: 2003-02-18 Member: 13713Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    i would play a game with space shark lasers.
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  • YMICrazyYMICrazy Join Date: 2012-11-02 Member: 165986Members
    Rellik_pt wrote: »
    Exoskelett wrote: »
    jeah looking back ...

    build 236 very good performance .. lots of fun .. build 238 worst performance, 239 worse but stable performance, 240 worse performance 241 still worse...

    this is why i m stoping for a while because the game is terrible to play now for me. i realy hope they fix it because the game was fine until the last 3 updates that drop my fps ingame a lot

    Same here I actually decreased play time because of it as well as the un enjoyable skulk game play. 235 was best performance I don't what happened after that just kept decreasing. ~X(

    "This month is unusual because attention is focused almost entirely on the latter."

    But I thought performance was always the number one issue :-S

    Well Steve keeps mentioning performance in all his posts so it seems like he has something up his sleeve. Or it might not work and that's why he keeps it under wraps. At least they are actively trying so I appreciate it along with everyone else.

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  • CrazyEddieCrazyEddie Join Date: 2013-01-08 Member: 178196Members
    Wheeee wrote: »
    i would play a game with space shark lasers.

    They'll be released as additional content on Monday, April 1.

    (I wish!)
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  • rmbrown09rmbrown09 Join Date: 2012-10-17 Member: 162592Members
    It's this kind of transparency that wins over fans. Far too few games (not any really) post things like this. We are just left in the dark. Good to know all programming right now is going towards optimization as i feel that is the largest setback in terms of keeping the playerbase relatively small.
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  • CalegoCalego Join Date: 2013-01-24 Member: 181848Members, NS2 Map Tester
    CrazyEddie wrote: »
    Wheeee wrote: »
    i would play a game with space shark lasers.

    They'll be released as additional content on Monday, April 1.

    (I wish!)
    I see what you did there.
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  • stickybootstickyboot Join Date: 2004-01-29 Member: 25711Members, Constellation
    I would really like to see a video of the talk that Charlie gives!
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  • XariusXarius Join Date: 2003-12-21 Member: 24630Members, Reinforced - Supporter
    Excited to see where you guys are taking NS2 next, secretly hoping a lot of the stuff from Sewlek's mod will be implemented :p
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  • CarNagE1CarNagE1 Poland Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16298Members, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Supporter, Subnautica Playtester
    edited March 2013
    Great article Hugh i have translated it more or less to Polish.
    http://naturalselection2.pl/news.php?extend.328
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  • BoBiNoUBoBiNoU Join Date: 2007-12-27 Member: 63274Members
    tears of joy as we were all reading this !
    keep up the good work uwe !

    and let us know asap if you start a new project we'll be there to preorder it :D
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  • NeokenNeoken Bruges, Belgium Join Date: 2004-03-20 Member: 27447Members, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Playtester
    Great stuff. Looking forward to the next build already.
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  • CrushaKCrushaK Join Date: 2012-11-05 Member: 167195Members, NS2 Playtester
    I want a bean bag too. My productivity would skyrocket.
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  • CrazyEddieCrazyEddie Join Date: 2013-01-08 Member: 178196Members
    CrushaK wrote: »
    I want a bean bag too. My productivity would skyrocket.

    I don't really see it helping all that much, but okay, if you insist.
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  • NasderoNasdero Join Date: 2008-11-11 Member: 65423Members
    i really hope you do more customisation stuff that would ROCK
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  • SixtyWattManSixtyWattMan Join Date: 2004-09-05 Member: 31404Members
    Are female Marine models still on the way? I wanna stick it to the patriarchy.
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  • Smug_LobsterSmug_Lobster Join Date: 2009-06-22 Member: 67903Members
    Why can't I play as a female marine yet? Why are men always the default, whilst womyn are placed on the backburner. This is an injustice that many are blind to, but the patriarchy hurts EVERYONE - not just men!
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  • JuCCiJuCCi Join Date: 2011-08-08 Member: 114961Members, NS2 Map Tester
    SMUG IS BACK!
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  • Racer1Racer1 Join Date: 2002-11-22 Member: 9615Members
    It's great to see informative posts like this. I look forward to more. Any insights into how a game like NS2 develops are fun to read.

    P.S. Seeing stories of stuff that you decided not to do (and why) would be interesting as well.
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  • zealizeali Join Date: 2013-01-16 Member: 179986Members
    I really want to support UWE more and i'm willing pay for custom armors, marine/alien taunts etc. just for the support of a great game and company.
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  • nsguynsguy Join Date: 2010-01-03 Member: 69869Members
    Good job boys. Good game, needs more work, but still a good game.
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  • MaxMax Technical Director, Unknown Worlds Entertainment Join Date: 2002-03-15 Member: 318Super Administrators, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts, Future Perfect Developer
    CrushaK wrote: »
    I want a bean bag too. My productivity would skyrocket.
    That's the bean bag we won from IndieDB for best upcoming indie game.
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  • CrazyEddieCrazyEddie Join Date: 2013-01-08 Member: 178196Members
    zeali wrote: »
    I really want to support UWE more

    Outstanding!

    I recommend you buy an extra copy of the game and give it away to someone you think might be interested in playing (if you don't know anyone like that personally, consider someone on The Generosity Thread). Everybody wins!
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