Natural Selection 2

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Yah mine has been crashing all day, apparently they're working hard on a fix which should be out later today or tomorrow.

Canis Lupus wrote: »

ANyone having performance issues... ahem..

My pc runs BF3 reasonably well pretty much maxed but NS is giving me some headaches.. Is there any known settings causing trouble? (I'm surprised cos it's the source engine... There shouldn't be issues)

Its their own engine they wrote from scratch, apparently its very processor heavy. Things should get faster over time with more patches, but you might have to fiddle with the details a bit.

Canis Lupus wrote: »

It's turning fast that mostly causes a lag. I just hate turning settings down

As for the game itself. I think I'll need to sit and watch the tutorials cos I have the foggiest with what's going on

I haven't played the new one yet, but loved the old. On the marine side, you have to collect resources to get better stuff and bigger guns. Scattered around the map are resource nodes (you'll see them on your minimap), the commander places a resource collector on one of these, you build it.
The alien side are also trying to grab resource nodes (the same ones the marines want) which give them more resources to get new hives and access higher more vicious lifeforms - in order to overrun the marines.

The original is the best game I've ever played bar none, 3 hour titantic struggles, 10 minute shotgun rushes, hearing people yelling down the mic getting cut off and surrounded, one good fade turning the whole game around, no two games are the same and the marine side can have the best commander in the world, if the marines don't listen to him and start wandering off, the team gets torn to pieces. I haven't had a chance to play the sequel, but most are saying its very close to the original, if that's any way the case, then it should be just as good, if not better.

The win rate was released for the first two days, it's very close to 50/50, but they're still going to have to make a lot of small balance changes. Destroying commanders chairs and hives is key to winning the game. The marines can be all tooled up in exosuits and a small flock of skulks can run into main base and take the whole place down. Haven't played much of the new game, but have already had two total turn-arounds, alien-vision is so much better than the original, every life-form has such a high potential skill-ceiling, one good lerk yesterday definitely saved us more than once.