Ns Will Become Its Own Game?

murphyt4murphyt4 Join Date: 2003-12-12 Member: 24297Members, Constellation
in NS General Discussion
<div class="IPBDescription">truth or fake rumors?</div> On this <a href='http://www.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=174542' target='_blank'>HL 2 Thread</a>, people talk about NS becoming its own game...

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<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->just_dont_ask- heard it wasnt happening. There going to make a real game now not a mod.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Huaja- Yeah, heard they were going to use their own engine or something for the next Natural Selection.
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Is this true? <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::hive::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/hive5.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='hive5.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::onos::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • LazerManeLazerMane Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2135Members, Constellation
    Man, this is gunna get stomped on... not as quickly as the NS:S threads, but soon.

    As to all this, the team hasn't made any official statements at all whatsoever about anything they're doing in their future at this juncture in time, so i wouldn't worry about it just quite yet.
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  • NaxoNaxo Join Date: 2003-04-10 Member: 15385Members, Constellation
    As far as I know:
    - NS might be ported on Source, depending on HL² success and playerbase. NS:Source would a free mod, like NS.
    - NS will have a sequel (NS2), which will be retailed, and on its own engine
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  • SkySky Join Date: 2004-04-23 Member: 28131Members
    Why go through all the trouble making a new engine when you can just partner up and use the Source engine?
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  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--QuoteBegin-Naxo+Nov 13 2004, 08:17 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Naxo @ Nov 13 2004, 08:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> As far as I know:
    - NS might be ported on Source, depending on HL² success and playerbase. NS:Source would a free mod, like NS.
    - NS will have a sequel (NS2), which will be retailed, and on its own engine <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Less on the success of HL2(as that is ensured), more on the way the SDK is built, to see if chaning is minimal. Hopefully VALVe did it smart <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • LazerManeLazerMane Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2135Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Naxo+Nov 14 2004, 03:17 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Naxo @ Nov 14 2004, 03:17 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> which will be retailed, and on its own engine <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Ooof. It's own engine? Built from scratch?

    Man, i've heard some whoppers in my time, but that takes the cake.

    I don't get why they would do that when they have tried and tested and flawless gaming engines out there... Quake IV, Unreal, Source, Monolith... it just makes no sense that they'd do that. Making a whole game engine takes too much work. HL2's been in development for more than four years already. Quake IV AKA Doom III has been in development for just as long.

    Why would they do that when all these engines can do what they want right now?

    PS: developing gaming engines (rendering, physics, lighting, ballistics, etc. etc.) takes a LOT of money. Tons. Like, a big concrete bathtub filled with pureed thousand dollar bills.
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  • murphyt4murphyt4 Join Date: 2003-12-12 Member: 24297Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Tons. Like, a big concrete bathtub filled with pureed thousand dollar bills. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> rofl... maybe the ns team has gone insane! I like the idea though lol
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  • CondizzleCondizzle Join Date: 2004-10-05 Member: 32107Members
    Okay, let's push Bill Gates off the Sears Tower so we can save his life! He'd have to give us lots of money!
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  • PseudoKnightPseudoKnight Join Date: 2002-06-18 Member: 791Members
    They did not say they would use their own engine built from scratch. What they did say approximately, IIRC, was that they were currently evaluating their options as to which engine to use.
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  • LazerManeLazerMane Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2135Members, Constellation
    Now that, sir, makes SENSE.

    OMG OMG OMG OMG PICK SOURCE PICK SOURCE OMG
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  • KaMiKaZe1KaMiKaZe1 Join Date: 2002-11-18 Member: 9196Members
    Natural Selection was first contact. Natural Selection 2 will be the war...
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  • KaliKali Join Date: 2002-07-01 Member: 858Members
    <a href='http://www.naturalselection.pexgames.com/games/halflife2/mods/naturalselection/overview/' target='_blank'>Natural Selection Source</a>

    <a href='http://www.naturalselection.pexgames.com/games/naturalselection2/overview/' target='_blank'>Natural Selection 2</a>
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  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Well researched, Kali, there's not much to add. Only that 'publishern' is not an English word <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • LazerManeLazerMane Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2135Members, Constellation
    Alright, then post a friggin' sticki with these links about NS:S and say plainly that if HL2 is very well recieved and a lot of it's community migrates to it, then you all probably would too as a sign of good fanservice. Then you'd move on to a more ambitious project.
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  • KaliKali Join Date: 2002-07-01 Member: 858Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Nemesis Zero+Nov 14 2004, 04:21 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nemesis Zero @ Nov 14 2004, 04:21 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Well researched, Kali, there's not much to add. Only that 'publishern' is not an English word <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Ups, fixed:

    I'm watching the game industry for years now, I have contact to many ( mod )devlopers and I've some ideas in mind how Natural Selection should keep on going. I'm very interested to see if my ideads become truth <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->.
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