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Title: Natural Selection 2 dumps Source, now using custom engine
Post by: idolminds on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 02:39:54 PM

Linky (http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/)

Apparently the switch was announced back in July, and the actual switch happened 5 months before that. Today they released a video to show off what they have done and it looks great. It'll be really interesting to see how it develops. Gameplay stuff is in LUA so modding should be easy, since the lighting is realtime maps no longer have to compile so editing them will be easier, since they are no longer constrained by the Source engine they can go ahead and make all sorts of custom changes.

Title: Re: Natural Selection 2 dumps Source, now using custom engine
Post by: MysterD on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 02:40:47 PM

Okay.

Title: Re: Natural Selection 2 dumps Source, now using custom engine
Post by: Xessive on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 03:34:46 PM

Cool. These guys did an impressive job with the original mod. If their quality is up to par, I expect they'll eventually develop this one as a full multiplayer game and sell it.

Title: Re: Natural Selection 2 dumps Source, now using custom engine
Post by: idolminds on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 03:37:41 PM

Well, that is the plan for NS2.

Title: Re: Natural Selection 2 dumps Source, now using custom engine
Post by: Xessive on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 08:23:23 PM

Quote from: idolminds on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 03:37:41 PM

Well, that is the plan for NS2.

Oh hehe I was not fully aware of that :P I wish them a lot of success! It is a very creative multiplayer endeavour.

Title: Re: Natural Selection 2 dumps Source, now using custom engine
Post by: scottws on Thursday, October 16, 2008, 07:54:27 PM

NS was an interesting premise, but I felt it was too unbalanced.  The more ground you held, not only were you more powerful, you were 10x more powerful.  If one of the teams had all three points it was pretty much over.  It was just frustrating.

Title: Re: Natural Selection 2 dumps Source, now using custom engine
Post by: idolminds on Friday, October 30, 2009, 04:46:52 PM

First screenshots shown (http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/news/2009/10/ns_7th_anniversary_progress_and_first_ns2_screenshots)

Title: Re: Natural Selection 2 dumps Source, now using custom engine
Post by: Xessive on Friday, October 30, 2009, 06:27:13 PM

It's looking pretty good so far!

Title: Re: Natural Selection 2 dumps Source, now using custom engine
Post by: iPPi on Friday, October 30, 2009, 10:05:26 PM

I've only played NS once or twice and can't really remember it at all anymore.

Title: Re: Natural Selection 2 dumps Source, now using custom engine
Post by: Quemaqua on Friday, October 30, 2009, 11:34:58 PM

Dumping Source is always a good decision.

Title: Re: Natural Selection 2 dumps Source, now using custom engine
Post by: gpw11 on Saturday, October 31, 2009, 12:23:56 AM

Those screens kinda look like mockups....or at least not ingame.