NS installer file not found

Gelfling

I showed one of my friends the game and he wanted to install it.
Clicking on the download link went to a 404 not found page for the exe installer. Somebody goofed big.


Details:
On the instructions page "http://unknownworlds.com/ns/download-files/" Step 2 says:
"2. Download and install the latest Natural Selection from here (156 megabytes). Now close and restart Steam or it won’t appear in your games list."
The link at the word "here" points to "http://www.unknownworlds.com/files/ns/ns_install_v32.exe"
Clicking that link unexpectedly returns a page that says "404 — File not found." instead of just downloading the installer as it has always done.

Hopefully someone has a backup file and can make the download work again with a quick and easy fix.
Thanks in advance.

Kouji_San

It downloads the file for me from that "here" link. Seems to be pointing to http://www.unknownworlds.com/files/ns/ns_install_v32.exe and it works, so that's quite odd...

Also here's a mirror graceliously still hosted by Bry after all these years

http://www.brywright.co.uk/downloads/files/index.php?dir=natural-selection/install/

Gelfling

IE9 works. I'm in Vista 64-bit
Firefox 25.0 didn't work. Just upgraded to 26.0 and that didn't work either.

Here this might help... its the log from the LiveHTTP Headers firefox plugin:

http://www.unknownworlds.com/files/ns/ns_install_v32.exe

GET /files/ns/ns_install_v32.exe HTTP/1.1
Host: www.unknownworlds.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Cookie: _ga=GA1.2.681086060.1390805107
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=0

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: WP Engine/5.0
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:58:15 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=20
X-Cacheable: CacheAlways: forever
Cache-Control: max-age=86400, must-revalidate
X-Cache: HIT: 21
Content-Encoding: gzip

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I figure your browser detection failed somehow and doesn't know what to do with Firefox(or recent versions).
I additionally started FF in safe mode (all plugins disabled). That didn't work either.
I hope its as simple as adding another if statement to existing server code.(a never-ending battle)

Hope this helps.

Zeitgeist

This link should work: sllegacy.unknownworlds.com/files/ns/ns_install_v32.exe. It would be nice to have a zip version for mac and linux users.

Gelfling

Zeitgeist wrote: »

This link should work: sllegacy.unknownworlds.com/files/ns/ns_install_v32.exe. It would be nice to have a zip version for mac and linux users.

Ah, this link actually works. Please update the one on the "Files" page ( https://unknownworlds.com/ns/download-files/ ) as its probably one of the reasons a lot of people haven't been playing it as much. (Through windows upgrades, replacements, clean installs, and they can't get the download from that page)

Thanks a bunch.

tschumann

http://www.moddb.com/mods/natural-selection/downloads/natural-selection-v32-installer should still work too.