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Post by sovietstu on Dec 21, 2010 13:13:20 GMT
Natural Selection was, in my opinion, the greatest HL1 mod there ever was. It's on steam for HL1, 2002. Vintage. It changed the gameplay so much and was incredibly unique. In a nutshell, you played as either the marines or the aliens. The game had 2 ways to play on each side, you could either be the commander/hive mind or be the grunts. The commander/hive mind was played RTS style, built structures, weapons, etc and gave out orders to the grunts and objectives. The grunts were played FPS style, whether alien or marine. The marines were more motion sensors, guns etc, think Colonial Space Marines from the Alien movies. The aliens were biological monsters of varying classes, each having their own unique attack method, that coupled with other classes could be completely imba (think special infected in L4D, well before L4D was even a thought in some developers mind). It worked really well, it was brilliant. And it was a free mod.Anyways, these guys made a game studio, an independent one, built their own game engine and are releasing it very soon, not through any major publisher or anything. The lead dev guy made some Sudoku game and made a fair bit of money from that just to fund Natural Selection 2. True story, bro. Anyways, it looks fun and it's come a long way. I'll be buying it. www.gametrailers.com/video/official-gameplay-natural-selection/708720www.naturalselection2.com/
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Post by BtizeF200 on Dec 21, 2010 13:31:39 GMT
it will be interesting to see how balanced the 2 sides are this time round.
think i'll get a copy too. some good multiplayer potential there. any idea for the release date? web filter is blocking the sites.
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Post by sovietstu on Dec 21, 2010 13:55:54 GMT
it will be interesting to see how balanced the 2 sides are this time round. think i'll get a copy too. some good multiplayer potential there. any idea for the release date? web filter is blocking the sites. Not sure about release date, however if you pre-order now, you get immediate beta access (beta has been running since november 19th) and they're currently doing a 2 for 1 holiday sale! So the game costs $35 (£22) and you get 2 copies of the game. Wanna go halves with me? £11 each?
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Post by BtizeF200 on Dec 21, 2010 15:21:52 GMT
no monies right away BUT if you get it tonight i can do a bank transfer tomorrow, if you don't mind?
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Post by si on Dec 21, 2010 16:05:03 GMT
I was gonna say you're a bit late to the game.. You could sign up for FREE beta testing AGES ago (limited slots though).
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Post by sovietstu on Dec 21, 2010 16:13:01 GMT
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Post by BtizeF200 on Dec 22, 2010 11:41:40 GMT
I IS GONNA BUY THIS GAEM 2NIGHT LULZ.
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