Natural Selection
JamesK89
Join Date: 2011-10-25 Member: 129381Members
I've been on the fence about getting the NS2 Beta (Yes, I know, it's a beta but I'm that kind of guy; watching Minecraft grow up was fun) and I wanted to fire up NS1 and play some hardcore nostalgic action but it seems NS1 has reached a very low population, so have most players moved over to NS2?
If I get NS2 I'd like to know if there is a significant player base?
Thanks!
If I get NS2 I'd like to know if there is a significant player base?
Thanks!
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There isn't that much complexity to the game yet, but some big content patches are coming soon.
The community is still there, but due to performance and balance issues, many are waiting for the game to get further along before jumping in and playing regularly. This is not a typical beta release of a mostly finished product that many companies release to the public as a PR move, this is an ever changing and improving work in progress, that some people are enjoying participating in.
We also are not actively trying to build widespread awareness of the game just yet, as we want to wait until its closer to finish before we really kick into gear with the PR and marketing, and start giving demos to the press, etc. Once the game is mostly feature complete, the balance and stalemates are ironed out, it is running better on a wider range of systems, and we are doing more to promote the game, there should be a noticeable increase in people playing the NS2.
--Cory
The Community now is just about a handfull people who like to make love with UWE in their own dreams and are not able to get critique.
On your photo you look way to old for these kind of immautre articulations. I think your mum would be really disappointed if she knew about your bad manners...
Thx :P
You are welcome. :)
My system specs:
2.8 GHz AMD Phenom II 920
8GB DDR2 800 Memory
2x 1TB Samsung 7200 RPM SATA HDD's running in RAID-1
ATi Radeon HD 4870 1GB GDDR5*
Logitech G930 Headset
If there is a server with a good amount of people usually playing then I'd be more convinced to get it and I understand that this is beta in the truest sense; I'm running Firefox straight from the mercurial repository compiled by myself.
*I might be getting a pair of Radeon 6870's pretty soon to run in crossfire.
Probably more-so the memory. The CPU is a quad core so if NS2 is multithreaded (which I'm sure it is) then I should have a decent time.
As for the GPU's the PCI Express 2.x bus is more then fast enough if enough data remains on the onboard VRAM so if the NS2 dev's avoid enough CPU-GPU transfers (e.g. loading a vertex buffer or a pixel buffer and reading data) then I should be good.
CPU. yes.
Ram? Not so. Performance boost from DDR2 - DDR3 on people with AM2/3 boards is 3-5%, which as we all know isn't the biggest difference in the world. Probably around 3-5 FPS. So not a bottleneck there.
Which it's not at the moment.
NS2 actually has had multi-threading since at least <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/2011/1/ns2_build_162_released" target="_blank">build 162</a>, possibly even since the <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=114548&view=findpost&p=1867629" target="_blank">alpha</a>
From what I understand multi-threading support is pretty primitive, and is pretty low on UWE's priority list ATM. They don't seem to think it'll help optimize the game enough to justify doing it right now, especially since so many of the game's systems are being redesigned or haven't even been added yet. That's my perception of it anyways, correct me if I'm wrong devs