Build 249 is now live on Steam! - Natural Selection 2

System · June 2013

Build 249 is now live on Steam! - Natural Selection 2

This one is a real doozy. Thanks to the oustanding work of Thomas ‘fsfod’ Fransham, Natural Selection 2 now runs a whole lot faster. That man is a true genius, and everyone at UWE is very thankful for his efforts!

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Hugh · June 2013

Bumpity bump for comment thread!

shriike · June 2013

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elfprince13 · June 2013

Might finally be able to play with a non-zero FPS! Looking forward to trying it out.

YMICrazy · June 2013

Thank you based fsfod.

Robotix · June 2013

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

You ruined my favorite map!! </3

phoenixbbs · June 2013

I'd quite like to see a "versioning system" for well known maps, so instead of replacing docking, call it "docking station 2", so at least you have an "extra" map to play

Ghosthree3 · June 2013

The still image for the video is gold.

EDIT: "Disabled Whip Grenade whack"
I'm confused at what exactly whips are meant to do then...

GISP · June 2013

Best screencap ever!

MaLuS · June 2013

not happy about the whip nerf, the aliens now have exactly what defense against nade launchers? harsh language maybe?

moultano · June 2013

MaLuS wrote: »

not happy about the whip nerf, the aliens now have exactly what defense against nade launchers? harsh language maybe?

Skulks. Kill the nader. They are juicy and soft.

Ghosthree3 · June 2013

moultano wrote: »

MaLuS wrote: »

not happy about the whip nerf, the aliens now have exactly what defense against nade launchers? harsh language maybe?

Skulks. Kill the nader. They are juicy and soft.

Yeah but now all it takes is 2 grenaders, 3 shotgunners, and anything short of 3 fades or an onos will be unable to stop the pain train that's killing all their hives.

BoBiNoU · June 2013

So rather than trying a nerf , whacking nades is just disabled, interesting.

Locklear · June 2013

Robotix wrote: »

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

You ruined my favorite map!! </3

IronHorse · June 2013

moultano wrote: »

MaLuS wrote: »

not happy about the whip nerf, the aliens now have exactly what defense against nade launchers? harsh language maybe?

Skulks. Kill the nader. They are juicy and soft.

You want the soft fragile life forms to make it through the wall of exploding/spammy/no FF/high ammo capacity GLs?...
"Anti structure weapon" isn't exactly an accurate descriptor of this weapon..

0ni · June 2013

MaLuS wrote: »

not happy about the whip nerf, the aliens now have exactly what defense against nade launchers? harsh language maybe?

Well you see, UWE doesn't think the arc was very useful as a full on defense buster.

I mean, I get it kinda. GLs were pretty weak as a support tool. Why not just make them better then instead of removing one of the aliens most important defense tools?

As for Docking, it needed a change. Stability was just too vital of a room, it was almost more important to hold stability then it was to hold a tech point. I'm not a big fan of the four tech point thing. They really should have just made a new map to fill that role, but it's not like they can't add that back in if people really don't like it. I think everything everyone should keep in mind is that these changes make Docking more of a WIP then it was before. I'm sure nothing about it is final now, but the author won't really know what to change without people giving feedback on it.

statikg · June 2013

Have barely seen anyone use the nade launcher since they last buffed whips. Would be nice to see them again.

IronHorse · June 2013

statikg wrote: »

Have barely seen anyone use the nade launcher since they last buffed whips. Would be nice to see them again.

BT mod says hello.

rox · June 2013

Amazing job, previously I used to get FPS dips all the way down to 35 in late-game scenarios on a 20 slot server, now it never goes below 80 and the game+input just feels smoother overall. Hopefully people with lower end rigs get big improvements as well, going to get some of my friends who put the game down because of performance issues to try it again.

When trying out the new docking I found a small bug in east wing though, MACs consistently go through the floor in the area by the power node (seems to happen in the staircase just to the right of the power node). Also when i built macs in terminal and way-pointed them to departures they took that path and got stuck. http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/6699/2013061200002c.jpg

Zek · June 2013

Grenade whacking just was never a good idea. Why should the counter to structure spam be hard countered by a structure? That's silly. If it ends up being imba there are other ways to make GL users more vulnerable.

Squeal_Like_A_Pig · June 2013

BoBiNoU wrote: »

So rather than trying a nerf , whacking nades is just disabled, interesting.

It wasn't disabled for balance reasons, it was disabled because grenades were changed to be predicted client side. This makes them much better to use, but causes technical issues with the Whip whacking, because it is not a predicted action. Given more time and effort there might be some workarounds, but considering that GLs are already so underused, it doesn't seem to be worth the effort at the moment.

nirvanaXO · June 2013

haven't been on in a while here because i've lost my pc that can play ns2 and now im just playing the original natural selection, but judging from the last time i've been on, the changes are beautiful. I can't wait to play this because last time I tried fps was shaky.

Runteh · June 2013

Deleted a big rant after seeing Cory's post.

Basically, just introduce the BT mod's version of the Whip. But I would change it so that the grenades cause 75% less (or thereabouts) damage and explode when the Whip hits them.

turtsmcgurt · June 2013

i wish i was cool enough to call people by their first names

Venatos · June 2013

sounds very interresting, downloading now.
i dont expect much performance boost on a 4ghz octocore but we will see.

wiry · June 2013

Good work

Venatos · June 2013

hmm, tryed 2 servers, both times stuck on authenticating.... maybe servers arent updated yet?

edit: 3rd time is the charm, after 4minutes of authenticating it startet loading and im in!

CrushaK · June 2013

turtsmcgurt wrote: »

i wish i was cool enough to call people by their first names

Get to the next level by calling them Mr. Strader and Mr. Jeremy.

Industry · June 2013

Venatos wrote: »

hmm, tryed 2 servers, both times stuck on authenticating.... maybe servers arent updated yet?

The steam authentication servers went down for a second, but seem to be back up.

Neoken · June 2013

Again, wonderful job.

YMICrazy · June 2013

Squeal_Like_A_Pig wrote: »

BoBiNoU wrote: »

So rather than trying a nerf , whacking nades is just disabled, interesting.

It wasn't disabled for balance reasons, it was disabled because grenades were changed to be predicted client side. This makes them much better to use, but causes technical issues with the Whip whacking, because it is not a predicted action. Given more time and effort there might be some workarounds, but considering that GLs are already so underused, it doesn't seem to be worth the effort at the moment.

Personally I think the whips should have been given a free upgrade to bombard at maturity like in the BT mod to compensate and pose at least somewhat of a threat to marines.

Build 249 is now live on Steam! - Natural Selection 2

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