Natural Selection, hands down, was my most played Half Life mod. In fact, I still logged in from time to time and play it.

 

Today, I was thinkin' of findin' more HL2 mods. I remembered reading once that the NS crew wanted to bring the game to the source engine. So I logged into their website to see if there was new news.

 

I was gratified to see the game is still being supported. I was even more pleased to find that they do want to bring the game to the Source engine. And to boot, they don't want to just "port" the game, they want to take the time to do it right.

 

However, they have had setbacks, most of them in the money department. Those of us who played Natural Selection know that alot of their funding comes from the community itself. It's no different this time.

 

If you go to their website at http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/ you'll find their latest effort at fund raising, including selling a rather nice game of Sodoku that I myself have picked up.

 

If you are constallation member who has gone inactive, or just want to see the game go Source, please consider helping them.

 

That is all.

This game did completly owned. Good times with the standard bad. (you all have your bad days getting owned lol). I should update my NS and play some too if I can find a good non-laggy, no-bot server.

They are going to have NS:Source, in fact there is a movie out showing some sort of dynamic growth that happens, pretty cool stuff.

I had the same thought myself a few days ago and saw exactly the same thing, I'd really like to see this moved to source, the original was amazing. While I was on their site I was ethically required to re-download the original NS so I've been playing that a bit.

is this for Half life the first one ?

 

I have half life, but not sure if it right one .?

 

Slamr

The one that is out now is for regular half life... they are updating it.. NS 2.0 I belive it is.

 

NS:S is still a long way away I think.. they have that one promo movie that is pretty impressive.

i hated NS.

-G

The new news that has me intrigued is the effort to do a "dynamic infestation". For those who never played the game, the Aliens (Khaara they call themselves) have a tendency to "infect" the area around them with a bacterial ooze, very simular to the "Creep" from Starcraft. In the original game, this infestation was just a static texture put directly into the maps. In this newest installment, they want to make the infestation advance and retreat based on territory controlled by the Khaara and Marines. If they can succede in this, they are hoping it's presense or lack of can play a part in the game... such as certain objects working only in the presense of the infestation or what not.

 

I'm jazzed to see that these guys are doing everything in their power to keep themselves independent so they can make the game as THEY evision... and not in the vision of a bunch of money hungry publishers like Electronic Arts.

i hated NS.

 

-G

Kinda the same. I never really got into it.

 

I'm just waiting for Firearms: Source

i hated NS.

 

-G

I like NS! But need an expert Commander!Egidio.

firearms source hurra:D :question:

The Old NS had a much friendlier playerbase and community than FA did tho

 

I'm glad you guys like FA so much. Like you, I'm happy the game is coming and from decent peaple.

 

However.... if they make FA like it was in the final days where only the rushers have a chance to survive and peaple who like to defend (or as peaple like to quantly put it, CAMP) are compeltely hosed, then I'm going to much prefer NS.

 

Not that I won't play FA:S, I'm looking forward to playing it with the clan again. I just enjoy NS better. The gameplay is very unique, combining elements of an RTS into a shooter. My first games were RTS, but my favorite is shooters. Here I get the best of both worlds.